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Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ: The ballot or the bullet A Martin Luther King, Jr. Lesson plan from my friend @teacherdude in Greece. This is what he does in his class. Make sure you prescreen movies and make sure that age appropriate films are selected. It is interesting how he handles the discussion in the oft tumultuous Greece. tags: education teaching martinlutherking Care of Magical Creatures This is from one of my favorite teachers on Tumblr - magical teacher. Here, she shares an infographic from AOL the "11 Days that Shaped 2011" to use as a writing prompt and suggests that you have students develop their own infographic for their life in 2011. What are the 11 days that shaped your life this year? tags: 2011 teaching ...

iPadApps-DigitalLearningFarm.jpg Incredible resource to find apps. This is from Silvia Tolisano as a digital apps farm for learning. It includes apps, websites, tools. Pretty ubiquitous tools but some specifically ipad/iphone. tags: education eduapp learning mlearning FutureMe.org: Write a Letter to the Future Email letters to yourself to remind you do to things. You can also write a letter to the future. All kinds of fascinating uses for this app and website. tags: education eduapp Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures Named a top website in education, academic earth aggregates open content of all ki...

I've been writing, working on my blog, experimenting, doing this for Flat Classroom but I'd like to share my favorite 5 posts for looking at yourself this 2012 in the common retrospection that we have this time of year. I don't make resolutions, I make appointments with myself to improve habits. Here are some of my favorite posts on this topic. Take time to consider what habits you need to put in place now. If you keep doing what you're doing, where will the normal course of human habits take you? Face it. Lack of sleep, overeating, and lack of exercise will take you to a heart attack. Assume no exceptions and deal with it. Face it. Not balancing your checkbook. Having no budget. Spending more than you make will make your situation worse this time next year. But there is hope, you can improve yourself. 1- Add to your life by subtraction " I want to determine the goals that my family and I have and focus on those. I want to focus on my family. I want to do ...

iPadApps-DigitalLearningFarm.jpg Incredible resource to find apps. This is from Silvia Tolisano as a digital apps farm for learning. It includes apps, websites, tools. Pretty ubiquitous tools but some specifically ipad/iphone. tags: education eduapp learning mlearning The Best Sites For Getting Some Perspective On International Test Comparison Demagoguery | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… Larry Ferlazzo can curate some sites. If you are interested in international testing, these are some good sites to review. tags: edreform learning assessment education Microsoft Working On Social Network For Students Microsoft not going f...

Importance-Of-Happiness-At-Work-1.png (1000×3022) Principals and administrators should print out this infographic and discuss it around tables. This is a link to an infographic about happiness at work. Interestingly, the 3rd happiest job in the US is a "teacher" (although I bet this has changed.) Also, those who have security in their jobs tend to be happier. Also, if you have highly engaged and satisfied employees you have a better organization. Is that a surprise? tags: education news administrator Firewall Law Could Infringe on Free Speech - NYTimes.com The New York Times oped that opposed SOPA and said it would take censorship in America to a new high. Maybe we'll be the ones buying VPN's like my friends in China do. the biggest point of this article is: "Adding to the thr...

Task Management for Teams - Asana A website that is for teams and is free for up to 30 members in a workspace. We are looking for work flow software for Flat Classroom so this is a neat one to try out. Lifehacker mentioned it as an underhyped app of 2011 because they think it is so great. It is definitely something for those who are interested in global collaboration to test out. tags: education flatclass Challenge 8: Collaborate and Communicate - Flat Classrooms Having an interesting conversation about collaboration versus cooperation. Here, Cynthia Sandler reflects on the difference: "before this project I would have said that of course it matters, collaborative being superior to cooperative.  After the project, however, I am wondering how significant the difference really is.  I see that there was more ...

Improve Your Learning and Memory.: Your Kid May Be Smart. Just Don’t Tell Him So Too Often Every kd isn't smart but every kid (and adult) needs a "growth mindset." Please read this article. "Research by Carol Dweck and colleagues at Stanford demonstrated that the students who are most likely to learn from their mistakes are those who don’t think of themselves as smart as such but smart enough to get smarter. They have a “growth mindset,” a belief system that they can get better if they will just invest the time and effort." "In one of the group’s experiments, half of the students were repeatedly praised for “being smart,” and these students were not good at learning from mistakes. It is not clear why. Maybe they thought the problem was in the learning material, not in them. The other half of students were praised for effort and improvement and these students got better and made fewer mistakes. Several months later, al...