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August 16, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
August is Connected Educators Month. I started writing this post on the last leg of a flight home from Australia*, where Gwyneth Jones (the Daring Librarian) and I met with the fabulous librarians of Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. Sometimes it really hits you hard that things have changed. It hit me hard on this trip. […]
August 14, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
One of the things I am getting ready to do in September is to help a growing number of interested teachers flip. Just in case you’ve missed it, many educators are thinking about flipping. What is flipping? Flipping the classroom changes the place in which content is delivered. If the teacher assigns lecture-type instruction–in the […]
August 10, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
A couple of years ago, while our students were engaged in a Middle East peace simulation, we discovered that Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted. In fact, we discovered that at least three folks who called themselves Benjamin Netanyahu were tweeting. Once we distinguished the real Bibi from the imposters, the students representing him were golden. They were […]
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August 5, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
If your kiddos are creating and publishing digital content at the rate mine are, you likely want to lead them to select a CC license to apply to those digital stories and posters and music videos and works of art. Just as it’s important to teach about the value of using Creative Commons materials, we […]
August 1, 2012 by Joyce Valenza
It used to be I could type any equation into a Google Search box and right below I’d see the answer. (That is, if I could figure out how to express the equation in my search box.) You now get way more than your result. And you get some support for expressing your math problem. […]
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