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Corporation of New York: Transforming Teaching & Learning Through Technology by Kathy Seal Fourteen year-old Will Gomez leans back on his chair, stretching away from the black-framed computer screen in front of him. He wears a blue oxford cloth shirt and khakis, and his light brown hair is gelled up into spikey peaks. “Does anyone have a bunch of golf balls?” “If you convert the volume of the stadium into cubic inches, you would divide that by the volume of the golf ball,” answers Steve James, a tall slim boy with black hair combed back smoothly over his skull. The two teenagers bend over a piece of paper on a table, James talking excitedly as he sketches and scribbles formulas and calculations, Gomez watching. This bit of spontaneous theater and noisy problem solving, one of several conversations rumbling sporadically through the room, might disturb a teacher in a traditional classroom, but it’s fine at High Tech High, a charter school in the San Diego Unified School District that puts a premium on collaborative problem solving and creative thinking.

Sweet Search 10 African-American History Month Teaching Resources This week, we’re featuring ten learnist boards celebrating African-American history month . These boards showcase African Americans who have or are currently impacting American society, including one short board that argues against African American history month, stating that historians and the public should be attentive to African American perspective in all renditions of history every day–that a month should be unnecessary. Regardless, we will take this time to pay tribute to individuals and movements in African-American history that have helped shape the nation. Cory Booker Cory Booker Cory Booker is the Mayor of Newark, NJ, an inspirational leader whose mission is to improve the City of Newark as well as the state of New Jersey. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday Vivian Kerr made this tribute board to Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday . African American Artists in Film Black History Month Stokely Carmichael History of Republican Victories for Civil Rights African American Cinema

10 Resources For Getting Elementary Students Interested In Reading This week’s Learnist Top 10 is dedicated to material and experiences that develop or enrich elementary students in reading, writing, and research. It features several boards from elementary blended learning expert Carrie Sorenson, material from homeschooling mom Kimberly Charron, and boards that reinforce reading and writing through art, cooking, and other experiences. Integrating experiences into student’s worlds makes them more interested in reading and literacy. Learning Culture Through Food: China Carrie Sorensen’s series “Learning Culture through Food” is based on experiential learning. By bringing cooking into the equation, students learn lessons they’re not apt to forget. Hollywood/Movie Theme Patricia White features Hollywood cinema decor from the “Teachers Pay Teachers” website. Elementary Story Apps The term “story apps” refers to any apps that can help read stories to students. Elementary Literacy Apps–Phonics Carrie Sorenson also likes apps.

50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools

The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates. Bootstrap Remote PC access software. Remote login for remote desktop | Splashtop

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