I spoke at ieSonoma on 6/10/13 and here are some resources I wanted to share with educators and administrators.
Articles of Note:
- Don’t Leave College Without These 10 Digital Skills, Mashable
- US Schools need more bandwidth to manage new technologies, Desert News
- President Obama announces broadband for schools project, ABC News
- 10 best web tools for flipped classrooms, Edudemic
- Teens in Technology, Pew Internet & American Life Project
- How Teachers are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms, Pew Internet & American Life Project
- A Platform for Good, a project by The Family Online Safety Institute. FIOS is an international, non-profit organization which works to make the online world safer for kids and their families.
- TED Talks Education: http://www.ted.com/promos/TEDTalksEducation, Playlist on ReImagining School
- Affordable internet access is a public right, TIME
- UK teenagers without the internet are educationally disadvantaged, University of Oxford
- Training Social Media Marketing Pros, Sprout Social
- Engineering robotics program gives students hands-on experience, Center for Digital Education
Teaching Tools:
- Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/
- Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org
- Code Academy http://www.codecademy.com
- Google Apps for Education http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/
- ICDL http://icdlus.org
- Goodwill Community Foundation, GCF Learn Free http://www.gcflearnfree.org
- Light Up http://www.lightup.io/
Hello Kerry,
I am sitting in the innovate/educate audience listening to your panel discussion. I would love for you to come and speak at our school this fall. We are a small charter school that focuses on designing our program around creativity,rigor, and joy. We are a 5 th and 6th grade school, Santa Rosa Accelerated Charter School here in Santa Rosa.
Please let me know how we could arrange a visit.
Warmly,
Anna Williams