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Judges are now gathering to judge video artifacts created by high school students based on the flatteners in Thomas Friedman's book,…

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Expert Advisors are now gathering to advise high school students as they create their wikipages around the flatteners based on Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat. We are seeking adults to be expert advisors to high school students as they complete the FlatClassroom Projects this summer.

Each expert is asked to take at least two times to read and leave…

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The Flat Classroom™ Projects are global, collaborative projects which focus on the use of Web 2.0 tools to foster connections, communications, collaborations and creations. These award winning, international, wiki-centric projects include the Flat Classroom™… Continue

Save one bookmark dealing with one biome to Diigo for 7th grade -> http://ning.it/dlrUPJ

The biomes are:
    * tundra
    * taiga
    * temperate deciduous forest
    * scrub forest (called chaparral in California)
    * grassland
    * desert
    * tropical rain forest
    * temperate rain forest

“The culturally-constructed spheres of knowledge must bear some kind of relation to the kinds of brains and minds that human beings have, and the ways that those brains and minds grow and develop in different cultural settings”

(Gardner, 2003)

Does the way we organize our society affect the way our brains are organized?

 

 

Gardner, H. (2003, April 21). Multiple intelligences after 20 years. Paper presented to the American Educational Research…

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We all have epistemological, experiential, communicative, or political assumptions. Are Tyack & Cuban saying that when a disruption occurs in one of these assumptions, then a

crisis in our belief systems causes disequilibrium which in turn affects social

change in the public educational system? Disagree or agree?

 

The musings continue ....

I urge you all to…

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On the VoiceThread, use any mic or phone and tell the 1st grade at Broadfording "Merry Christmas" in your language, tell us your language and country. Merry Christmas!! http://bit.ly/hbqLYa

I would like to invite your students to participate in The Global Education Conference this November



15-19, 2010. This conference is held online in Elluminate over 5 days in multiple time zones. We are interested in participants, presenters and partners. The focus is on global collaboration and bringing interested parties together to explore best

practices in helping students and educators develop global competencies.

Students you know may be… Continue

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Are you interested in contributing to Earthcast 2010 on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, but you aren't willing to commit to a 30-60 minute time block? Here are a few VERY simple ways to get involved:

1. Leave a comment on our project voicethread. We will play… Continue

The P assionate Redheads invite you to attend our Purple Passion Masked

Ball on Thursday, April 8 from 6:00pmSLT to 8:00pmSLT at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Selby/67/204/56. DJ Shockwave will

be spinning the tunes at Club Cutlass for this event. This event is

formal, so please wear your tuxedos and…

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Every fall a global project takes place led by Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis. This year over 220 students from 5 countries will research trends in information technology and globalization, write a collaborative research report on a wiki, and produce digital videos about their topics. Sound impressive? Well it is! These students are not graduate level… Continue