links for 2009-10-29

• Knowclue – Tech Forum 2009
  "As educators, much of our focus is on teaching students to encode and decode written language. Shouldn't we be applying the same rigor to helping them analyze, interpret and critically navigate the imagery that dominates communication today?"
  (tags: knowclue literacy media_literacy)
• Curriki – Computingacrossthecurriculum
  "Social computing is essential to the lives of today's teachers and students yet K-12 curriculum rarely reflects this deep, interdisciplinary integration.[1] Engaging formally with pervasive computing enables a learning community to use a variety of frameworks to observe and explore the technological apparatus of their day-to-day activities"
  (tags: computingacrossthecurriculum computers computing)
• IXL Math
  "Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun. With unlimited math questions in more than 1,000 topics, students improve their skills and confidence and always have new challenges to meet. Click a grade below to get started! "
  (tags: Kids maths quiz elementary Math practice education interactive)
• NCTM Advocates Teaching Reasoning in High School Math | Edutopia
  "Critical thinking, which has long been relegated to the back of the classroom in favor of standardized-testing-friendly rote learning, should be the priority in teaching math."
  (tags: edutopia nctm math critical_thinking)
• lauren mccarthy
  "A wearable conditioning device that detects if you're smiling and provides pain feedback if you're not. Frowning creates intense pain but a full smile leaves you pain free! The first in a series of Tools for Improved Social Inter-Acting."
  (tags: mccarthy happiness)
• Retronyms
  Combine your iPhone's GPS abilities and spelling!
  (tags: itunes spelling gps)
• rosa.ly – Save your favorite images found on the web.
  "Save your favorite images found on the web.
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  (tags: rosa.ly images)
• 100 Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks | Teaching Tips
  "What would your classroom be like without your students cracking open their oversized textbooks everyday? Probably a lot more interesting, especially for the kiddies. "
  (tags: teaching learningwithcomputers technology resources textbooks education tools reference)
• Powerful Personal Learning Networks PLN
  "Creating and enhancing your personal learning network"
  (tags: pln twitter)

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