by Sandy Phillips | Jan 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Digital Immigrants Unite! an article by Bill Ferriter the Tempered Radical Let me start with a borderline heretical confession: I believe that the terms “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” have done more harm than good in shaping the...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Young people from around the world are invited to enter the 2013 Goi Peace Foundation – UNESCO International Essay Contest for Young People. The theme for this year’s contest is: “THE POWER OF CULTURE TO CREATE A BETTER FUTURE.” Every part of...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Creativity is widely accepted as being an important outcome of schooling. Yet there are many different views about what it is, how best it can be cultivated in young people and whether or how it should be assessed. And in many national curricula creativity is only...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 11, 2013 | Uncategorized, Web 2.0
Within the wide expanse of social networking, educators appear to be gravitating to more protected and exclusive spaces. While teachers often use such popular mainstream social networks as Facebook, they are more likely to seek out and return to less-established...
by Sandy Phillips | Jan 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Starting the year off with ideas on the best ways to use technology to support learning, Larry Ferlazzo collected an invaluable list of criteria last year from educators, to which he added more resources in his recent blog post for EdWeek.Other posts in the series...
