Weekly Tech Tips: Student-Centered IWB Strategy - Centers

Weekly Tech Tip:


Related Links:

• Whiteboards—A Modest Proposal by Gary Stager on Tech&Learning
• 33 interesting ways to use your interactive whiteboard

Video Festival:

• The Future of Public Education, featuring Diane Ravitch
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Link Stew:

• Arts education declines for US youth, worse for minority children. NEA survey results
• Recording posted of FutureofEducation.com interview with Kevin Kelly on his book What Technology Wants (Future of Education)
  
• State wants online charter school shut down: BlueSky Online School, in hot water because of alleged violation of graduation standards, says it will fight to remain open. (Star Tribune)
• Generations and their gadgets (Pew Internet)
• Why schools should try things not "research-based" (Washington Post)
• Most schools could face 'failing' label under No Child Left Behind, Duncan says (Washington Post)
• Budget repair bill passes Senate, Thursday vote set in Assembly (Wisconsin State Journal)
  

Blog Carnival:

• Writing without the Blocks by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
• Big Lies (Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four) by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
• Arts education declining, especially for minority youth by Sylvia Martinez on Generation YES Blog
• "But I Need to Assign Homework! Look at All I Have to Cover!" By Alfie Kohn on Huffington Post
• Can't we just "integrate it everywhere?" by Vicky Davis on Cool Cat Teacher Blog
  

Retweetable Tweets:

Thanks to WI for waking up the nation about efforts by super-rich to privatize education and de-professionalize it.less than a minute ago via webDiane Ravitch
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"What if school was the best seven hours of a kid's day?" -Gary Stager #edchat #abed #ecsd #inspiringedless than a minute ago via TweetDeckBrandi Clark
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I want to create a network of citizen journalists per district in Egypt, to help avoid rumors and have immediate eye-witness accounts.less than a minute ago via YoruFukurouSarahngb
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How did the budget crisis -- brought on by a recession caused by Wall Street -- end up in the laps of America’s schoolteachers?less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPadJoe Bower
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RT @debbiec1230: I love this quote! "Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners."John Holtless than a minute ago via TweetDeckCindy Brock
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"... are we giving weight to things merely because we''ve measured them?" Seth Godinless than a minute ago via webDarcy Moore
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"Google before you tweet" is the new "Think before you speak" I'm not very good at either.less than a minute ago via TweetDeckDean Shareski
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