"What might “connected teaching” or “connected learning” — that is, using technology to build communities and share knowledge — look like in practice?
Describe one recent example, small or large, from your own classroom or organization, or from work you have heard or read about, and tell us why you chose it."
Go to the archives to see the next steps on the student generated rubrics
"This course is to prepare educators to use Google Apps for Education in their classroom with students. The course utilizes Google training materials and digital based learning theories to explore the power of the Google Apps suite of tools as well as cloud-based technologies in the K-12 settings. Educators will be exposed to all of the major Google Applications as well as create a final project and presentation on their implementation of the tools in the classroom setting."
"Google is working on an online course solution. Same story with Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, and … you? If you run a website that uses WordPress, you can now easily (relatively) build your very own online school.
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A helpful first step is to deconstruct the curriculum so you know exactly what needs to be taught, what the evidence of learning could be, what samples and models you might use to support learning and how you are going to evaluate.
As the educational community is moving toward implementing the Common Core Standards, I have been publishing tools and strategies to support that effort (see below). Recently, I published the Top 10 Characteristics of Effective Vocabulary Instruction and The Top 10 Characteristics of a Literacy-Rich Classroom. Both support the Common Core State Standards since the requirement to use more nonfiction and informational text in our teaching will result in increased demands for effective vocabulary instruction and a literacy-rich classroom to support and enrich student learning.
"Evaluating the information you find is a key critical thinking skill. This page introduces specific criteria that you can use to go beyond a gut feeling that a website or article is "good" or "bad." The memorably named C.R.A.P. test (Currency, Reliability, Authority, and Purpose/Point of view) is a tool for backing up your judgement with a clear explanation of WHY a source is good or bad depending on what you'll use it for.
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We use this as the landing page in Edmonton Public Schools (EPS) to provide easy links to the Apps resources for staff and students. You will need to modify the links and replace "Share.epsb.ca" with your own EDU domain.