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What David Warlick says about 21st Century Learning: Cybersafety • Info Lit and More • ALL FREE Breaking Down and Understanding Data TICAL Advanced Search FREE Resources  Free Office 2007 Tutorials Don't Pay For Typing Tutor Software

 

Creating the 21st Century Classroom (from eSchoolNews) Preparing today’s youth to succeed in the digital economy requires a new kind of teaching and learning. Skills such as global literacy, computer literacy, problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation have become critical in today’s increasingly interconnected workforce and society--and technology is the catalyst for bringing these changes into the classroom. In a 21st-century learning environment, all students are able to learn. Project-based learning allows students to acquire 21st-century skills in the context of real-world scenarios, and the integration of video and other media to support instruction links students with outside resources and enables teachers to address many learning styles at once. In fact, the 21st-century learning environment doesn’t just wait for teachable moments; it literally creates them at will. At eSchool News, we’ve seen schools transforming through the use of technology to meet the needs of a new, tech-savvy generation of learners. Now, with the generous support of AVPartners, we’ve combed our archives to assemble our best content related to the creation of 21st-century classrooms. We hope you’ll take a few minutes to peruse these resources and learn how other educators are defining 21st-century learning as you strive to implement this vision of education in your own schools.  The whole story...

Administrator Resources   AB430 Administrator Training www.ctap7.org/admin2.html Data Analysis Data Driven Decisions Technology Standards for Teachers Technology Standards for Administrators   District Technology Planning www.techguide.pbwiki.com www.ctap7.org/tech_plans1.html CA School Technology Survey http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/et/rs/techsurvey.asp For your district or school pin & password, please call: 559-497-3711 or averdialez@fcoe.org EdTech Profile Survey www.edtechprofile.org Tutorials: www.ctap7.org/edtechprofile CALPADS Information http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/c

 

What David Warlick says about 21st Century Learning:

 

 

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Like it or not, we are ALL Internet Parents

If you’re like most of us, parenting in the age of the

 

 

 

                           

 

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Free S-M-A-R-T K-8 Cybersafety & Info Lit Curriculum

  

The CyberSmart! Curriculum is non-sequential and is easily integrated, in part or in full.

Organized in five units, each teaching an important facet of Internet use, it consists of 65

original standards-based lesson plans with Activity Sheets. The number of lessons per

grade increases as students' reading and critical thinking skills develop.

 

Download Curriculum Fact Sheet (PDF).

Download Technology Standards Alignment Document (PDF).

 

Grades K-1 | Grades 2-3 | Grades 4-5 | Grades 6-8

 

 

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FREE Cybersafety Resources - for Grades 4- 12

 

 

 Cybersafety is the safe and responsible use of the Internet

and all information and communication technology devices,

including mobile phones, digital cameras, and webcams.

CTAP Region IV has crafted several resources for download

at the right including a classroom poster on Cybersafety

funded by AT&T Education, a PowerPoint presentation to accompany the poster, and other workshop handouts.

Find resources for each of the six CyberSafety areas.

 

CTAP IV CyberSafety PowerPoint

CTAP IV Cyberbullying PowerPoint

Nancy Willard's Cyberbullying Handouts (.pdf)

Online Survivor Game (.ppt)

Online Jeopardy Game (.ppt)

Lingo Bingo and Cheat Sheet (.pdf)

 

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Breaking Down and Understanding Data

 

Free, easy to understand data on every public school in California to help schools and communities raise student achievement.

 

The JFTK-CA School Improvement System does three things: Provides clear and accurate data charts based on publicly available information from the California Standards Test for Language Arts and Mathematics. Helps schools benchmark their performance against the top ten performing schools in the state, region and county that have comparable student populations. Connects schools to higher performing schools to learn what works as well as a Best Practice Framework and self-audit tool to help set measurable, attainable  goals for improvement.

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  When schools buy software - What are we getting for our money?

 

 

    FREE - Use the 10 question paper pen tech survey      Check out the Tech Integration tools and ideas for admins

 

      The Infinite Thinking Machine (ITM)  Through an active blog, an Internet TV show, and other media resources, the ITM shares a "bazillion practical ideas".

 

  Reaching young workers who think differently

 

  Free resources in all subject areas and the arts  

 

Free Office 2007 Tutorials

 

 Office 2007 Tutorials from Lynchburg College

 

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Don't Pay For Typing Tutor Software

 

Free and Web based for easy deployment • 12 stages and 4 levels • Worksheets available • Great for K-8 Typing

 

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Powertyping featuring Typing games

 

If you want to install software:

Teachers will find the new Tuxtyping to be a more moldable tool they can use in there classrooms. It is easier now (and will become even easier) to group the types of exercises, words and characters into a lesson! We need alot of help here, ideas for the lessons/tutorials seem to be few and far between. (tho Jess does have some good ones!) We'd still like more.