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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Leveraging Ideas, Experiments and other Google goodies

Leveraging Ideas, Experiments and other Google goodies | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"If you haven’t taken a look in a while, you will be amazed by the goodies Google offers to support learning across grades and content areas.  They are spread across a variety of platforms, among the major portals are..."

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Joyce Valenza provides a brief look at many of the amazing goodies provided by Google. A partial list is below, but when you click through to the post all of the sites are hot-linked, so you click and arrive quickly at the site. Have fun exploring!

* Build with Chrome (think LEGOs)

* Google Earth Tour Builder

* Zygote Body

* Google Cultural Institute, that now includes Google Art Project, Historic Moments and World Wonders

* Google Ideas Projects - Valenza states that these projects "seeds technology-driven initiatives by connecting users, experts and engineers around critical issues that people face in times of conflict, instability or repression."

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SpeEdChange: Textbooks and Encyclopedias and Lectures, Oh My

SpeEdChange: Textbooks and Encyclopedias and Lectures, Oh My | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Through a combination of text, videos and images Ira Socol explores the issue of how we might envision a world that moves beyond textbooks, asking "are there better way to do things than textbooks, like free ways for teachers, or better, students to assemble information. And these should be allowing us to fundamentally consider new ways to assembel infomation, rahter than a pre-cooked, pre-arranged text." Ira Socol posts always challenge me to think, to scratch my brain...perhaps he will do the same for you.

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TEDxGlasgow - Donald Clark - More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years

Search, links, media sharing, social media, Wikipedia, games, open source etc. are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn, says Donald Clark. Unfortunate...
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