This page contains resources from my work with the Harlan (IA) Community School District. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any other questions about these resources.

November 3 & 28, 2011

• My landing page for educators and parents
• Video: Iowa, Did You Know?
• My slides (pptx)

Technology integration resources

• Technology and learning spectrum
• TPACK (see also handout)
• Technology integration matrix
• Learning activity types: wiki and mind map
• Web 2.0 that works
• Teacher needs in anticipation of the instructional use of technology

Problem– / Inquiry– / Challenge-based learning

• Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA) core values
• Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
• Instructional Practices Inventory
• Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
• College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
• Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
• Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
• Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
• EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
• Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
• Expeditionary Learning (stories)
• New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
• CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
• Online student projects

Standards you should know about

• NCTE 21st century literacy standards
• ISTE essential conditions (see also rubric)
• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Administrators, Teachers, and Students

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