Jon Stewart interviews Diane Ravitch about her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How
Category: The digital classroom
Using video in class
These are some cool links to places where you can find videoclips to use in class From Larry Ferlazzo’s webpage
Banning Facebook – revisited!
How to deal with social media in school, or said differently, how to avoid dealing with it altogether! Application for
Connecting students
I use the net to connect my students to other students in different parts of the word, via Twitter or most
Education is broken
I was fortunate to be able to see Chris Lehman speak at the ISTE 2010 in Denver last summer. He
Valedictorian speaks out againt schooling
This video is not the best quality, bu if you liten carfully there is an important message here. Classroom aitivity
The King’s Speech – film education
Film Education is a charity funded by the UK film industry. It promotes the use of film within the UK
TED talks for use in class
In the “history teacher’s attic” I found a great list of Ted talks where the material has been sorted out making it
How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
Can a theory that explains why successful organizations fail and newcomers prevail help turn around America’s public schools? Michael B.
The difference between United Kingdom, Great Britain and England explained
Thanks to my colleague Liv Kristin for this informative video about a problem we have in understanding the countries in
Changing education paradigms
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates,
Snag Learning
Snag Learning offers free access to high quality documentary films from notable producers like National Geographic and NOVA. Snag Learning
New ways to learn intensive reading!
Florida Virtual School’s second online course / video game, Conspiracy Code Intensive Reading, appears to be ready. I found this
Free dictionary and translator
Image via CrunchBase Still on my morning RSS feed and found this interesting program for free called eType. As usual