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Promethean Learning US

via prometheanlearning.com Be a Super Teacher… 🙂 sounds nice… Posted via web from the material mind 0

2 July 2009 at 07:45 - Comments

Prezi – The zooming presentation editor

via prezi.com Going beyond the old-fashioned out-dated slide-projector metaphor behind powerpoint & co. — think different! Posted via web from the material mind 0

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HippoCampus – Homework and Study Help – Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework

via hippocampus.org Free online multimedia material for learning Posted via web from the material mind 0

2 July 2009 at 07:45 - Comments

Becoming a Teacher: A cognitively complex task

Shulman believed that teaching was no less cognitively complex than medicine, and that teachers, like doctors, engaged in acts of decision- making and professional judgment that informed their practice. via leeshulman.net I’m quite happy to see that I’m not the only one who thinks that there are certain analogies between becoming a medical doctor and […]

2 July 2009 at 07:45 - Comments
bob at 07:58 on 2 July 2009
Lee Shulman has also developed another interesting concept about "becoming a teacher", the pedagogical content knowledge concept: http://www.leeshulman.net/domains-pedagogical-content-knowledge.html

Educational Technology: It’s not about technology! It’s about the transformation of Teaching & Learning!

A Special Focus on Where and How Technology Can Transform Teaching and Learning Technology is changing how we live and learn and will surely transform how we educate going forward. New developments in this domain hold great promise for supporting a more efficient and purposeful educational system, for enhancing the quality of those who teach, […]

2 July 2009 at 07:45 - Comments

Essential Learning Outcomes

Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students should prepare for twenty-first-century challenges by gaining: Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World Through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts Focused by engagement with big questions, both contemporary and enduring Intellectual […]

2 July 2009 at 07:40 - Comments

ISTE | Learning & Leading with Technology

ISTE’s membership magazine, Learning & Leading with Technology, is one of our best! Learning and Leading is more than just the name of the magazine—the simple phrase encapsulates ISTE’s philosophy that technology is essential to school transformation and future opportunities for the 21st-century learners around the globe. via iste.org This is a really cool online […]

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Pixton™ – Comic Strip Creator – Make Your Own Web Comics Online

via pixton.com This is so cool! Online Comic Creation… and it’s free! Check this out! Posted via web from the material mind 0

2 July 2009 at 07:40 - Comments

SMS acknowledgment messages and the iPhone

I’ve always asked myself why I could not get those acknowledgment messages when sending an SMS on my iPhone… It’s so nice to know that an SMS has gotten through to someone, even if that doesn’t mean they’ve really read the message. And this function seemed not to be available on the iPhone… But, at […]

2 July 2009 at 07:40 - Comments

Humans prefer cockiness to expertise – life – 10 June 2009 – New Scientist

via newscientist.com “Moore argues that in competitive situations, this can drive those offering advice to increasingly exaggerate how sure they are. And it spells bad news for scientists who try to be honest about gaps in their knowledge.” (Aldhous, 2009, para. 2) Maybe this explains why pre-service teachers and educational sciences students prefer advice from […]

2 July 2009 at 07:35 - Comments