Useful Links

• The Paradigm Shift: 4 Goals Of 21st Century Learning In this context of trying to make sense of exactly what progressive learning was, in 2009 I sketched out a graphic that visualized 9 Characteristics of 21st Century Learning, and recently created a follow-up framework, The Inside-Out Learning Model.”

• Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media | The MIT Press “The authors argue that five key issues are at stake in the new media: identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, credibility, and participation. Drawing on evidence from informant interviews, emerging scholarship on new media, and theoretical insights from psychology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, the report explores the ways in which youth may be redefining these concepts as they engage with new digital media.”

• Symbols.net This is a search engine with a difference as it only provides access to symbols (signs and flags). Those who designed it have done quite a good job. The search options include the usual search box, an alphabetical list and a category approach.

• Free vectors, photos and PSD Downloads | Freepik Freepik is a search engine that helps anyone who is interested in graphics and web designer to locate free photos, illustrations, PSD and vectors for using in websites, banners, presentations, magazines and advertising. There is a good range of images that are quite interesting. You need to check further for the copyright status of individual images, which is a bit annoying, but still good for ideas.

• Niice. A search engine with taste. Niice is a search engine for anyone interested in design. It draws in images from a very small number of sites at the moment, but some of the images it finds are really high quality and unusual. Neither the search engine nor the page that you land on explains the copyright situation for each image but it does offer a lot if you are looking for inspiration.

• 10 Ways To Decorate Using Book Pages – Blissfully Domestic Some of these are lovely but I always find it so difficult to cut/tear out book pages to begin the process.

• The Power of Quotes for Inspiration | Senga’s Space A great idea for using inspirational quotes and how you might involve the wider school community

• 17 Tech Terms Connected Educators Must Know – Edudemic – Edudemic Infographic. 17 tech terms connected educators must know. This useful visual highlights things that truly connected educators should probably know before the upcoming school year. We all need to update our colloquial vocabulary. We are losing some quite commonly spoken words as technology changes.

• Teach Robert Frost’s Poetry With Multimedia A range of ideas about how to teach Robert Frost’s Poetry using multimedia

• Huzzaz – Content Curation – What Is It? A collection put together by Robin Good. They are great resources that would help anyone trying to explain content curation.

• Nextly – Curated Browsing A free web app that allows you to create collections of web pages that can be easily navigated as a tour on any device. This tool could assist with organizing the content of specific sets of articles and allow them to be distributed in an easily accessible format. Via the integrated Add Page feature or the accompanying bookmarklet you can add just about any web page to one of your collections, as well as content coming from Twitter, Facebook or RSS feeds and other social media.

• Digital Documentation of Art workshop and fighting bit rot | HASTAC A useful cheat sheet synthesizing the best file formats to work with, provide access to, and to permanently archive digital artworks.

• Top 10 Search Modifiers: Why They Matter, What They Are & How To Use Them A useful post that give a lot of good advice about how to get the best from your Google searches. Google has become very good at understanding and providing relevant results for many popular queries, so there are a lot of people getting into bad habits and lazy with their searches and simply taking the auto-selected results. As teachers we should be teaching our students to explore more deeply and critically appraise all their results before coming to any conclusions or using the information. Students need to learn to use Google search modifiers. These manual commands can be used in any search queries and will allow you force Google to bring you the results you want.

• Pushing and Pulling Tacit Knowledge | Harold Jarche

• Why You Should (And Shouldn’t) Use Digital Textbooks – Edudemic – Edudemic One person’s simple analysis of the choices that schools make between keeping traditional exercise books and going fully digital content.

• Critical Search Skills Students Should Know – Edudemic – Edudemic Holly Clark talks about a new digital divide that is on the horizon. “It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not.  Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide”. Holly has taken 4 of them on board -the ones she felt related to searching- and  discussed them further

• John Kuefler Is “content curation” fair use under copyright law? Five useful guidelines are listed at the end of the post. These are excerpted from a post on Content Curation Marketing, written by Pawan Deshpande, the founder and CEO of Curata.

• A quick guide to reading books on Samsung Galaxy Tab A helpful post that discusses e-reading options for android device. Things are explained simply and some good advice is offered.

• 5 Great Tools for Student Spreadsheets and Charts Offers some interesting education technology tools that can be very useful when you may want to display data in the visual way. These online tools may assist students (and teachers) make the best possible spreadsheets and charts to present findings.

• Teaching Writing with Google Docs One teacher discusses in depth how they use GoogleDos to teach their students about writing and how beneficial it is to have the shared aspect of a GoogleDoc for the whole educational process.

• 36 Core Teacher Apps For Inquiry Learning With iPads 2 infographics that suggest a number of apps that allow classes to be student-centered and inquiry-based. “These apps follow a constructivist approach to learning, one that requires critical thinking, and benefits from technology, collaboration, resourcefulness, and other modern learning skills that never seem to fall out of favor themselves.”

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.