Lead by Example

• LearnNowBC – CyberSafe with Steve Dotto

  LearnNowBC is pleased to present CyberSafe with Steve Dotto – Protect your kids in Cyberspace: A how-to guide to being CyberSafe.

  This collection of short videos, hosted by computer guru Steve Dotto, demonstrates how kids use the Internet and explains the responsibilities of being an effective parent in the Digital Age.

  Tags: cybersafety

• Copyright for Educators SlideShare with Audio » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  Tags: copyright

• Wiki Reading List

  Tags: wiki

• SMaRT Education Initiative – 1 to 1: My Fear? A feeding frenzy….

  This is an absolutely incredible blog post regarding the influx of stimulus money for 21st century classrooms and how it will (or won’t) impact student learning without attention paid to instructional practices.

  Tags: stimulus, edtech, EETT, technology, professionaldevelopment, pedagogy, bestpractices

• YouTube – SLA @ 100: The future is in our hands…

  I just thought to share this because I find this a kind, wise & hopeful video.

  Tags: video, change, crisis, hope

• SPOTLIGHT: Glogster – Iditarod

  Tags: Iditarod

• digitalmediamath » home

  It would be great to get a set of collective resources that can be used. Props to Dan Meyer.

  Tags: math, wiki, digital, media, artifacts

• Gustavo Dudamel leads El Sistema’s top youth orchestra | Video on TED.com

  The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra contains the best high school musicians from Venezuela’s life-changing music program, El Sistema. Led here by Gustavo Dudamel, they play Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, 2nd movement, and Arturo Márquez’ Danzón No. 2.

  Tags: ted.com, music

  • I watched this broadcast live and when it was over I stood and applauded. I just watched it again and I stood and applauded again. This youth symphony from Venezuela will make YOU stand, too. Watch BOTH pieces! – By James Gates

• dy/dan » Blog Archive » The Woman Who Didn’t Swim Across The Atlantic

  Tags: math, reasoning, application

• dy/dan » Blog Archive » A Framework For Using Digital Media In Math Instruction

  When we teach math we are helping our students establish a framework for interpreting the world. One of the worst ways I know to help them establish that framework is to print an illustration of a real-world scene in a textbook, write in only the relevant measurements, and tell the students in the text of the problem which formula or strategy to apply. This leaves a student helpless and unprepared (in the mathematical, analytical sense) should she ever encounter the world that exists outside the pages of her textbook.

  Tags: math, digital media, artifacts

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