Thinking of applying to the Google Teacher Academy? Join or watch a live Hangout on Google+ with past participants... at 12:30 PM Pacific time today. Catch it on your lunch break... or catch the recording after the event.Google in Education originally shared this post:Thinking of applying to the Google Teacher Academy?Join or watch a live Hangout on Google+ with past participants this Wednesday 8 February at 20:30 UK time (3:30pm EST). Instructions for joining here (and it will also be recorded). Add +Tia Lendo to your Circles.The GTA is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. It will be held in London on April 4, 2012 (with an optional unconference on April 5, 2012). The application deadline is 16 February. +Wendy Gorton +Ian Addison +Danny Silva +Dana Nguyen +Mark Wagner +Becky Evans+Molly Schroeder +Ross Mahon +grainne phelanMore photos from Google in Education

Storybird - Math Strategies for Students

I've made the first post on a new blog titled "What Do You Want To Learn?" The blog is an effort to aggregate resources and empower learners. It is also a place to explore the concepts of a social learning aggregator, and a physical learning studio.Here's a key excerpt from the first post:In short, leaners no longer need schools for access to information. They no longer need schools to provide a network of people to learn from - and learn with. They no longer need schools to provide quality curriculum. However, they do need new tools (and mentors) to help them aggregate the open educational resources and distributed learning opportunities now available to them. And, they do need places to go where they can meet peers and mentors face-to-face... human spaces conducive to learning and creating... spaces where they can share their excitement, where they can participate in physical pursuits (such as dancing or building anything), and where they can build a sense of local community.Feedback is appreciated, here or at the original post:http://www.wdywtl.com/2012/02/social-learning-aggregator-and-learning.html

The iPad for Educators workshop at the California League of Schools Annual Conference in Northern California went well today (despite only 2.5 Mbps bandwidth for the entire "lab" in the hotel). The updated resources are freely available (under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license) here:www.edtechteam.com/workshops/2012-02-24Please feel free to share these resources with your colleagues (and students). Please comment here if you have any questions (or have anything to add).Image courtesy of nooccar via Flickr.

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Is Curriculum a Living Organism, or a Fixed Machine? The world is changing rapidly. Just think about how we have moved from an Industrial revolution, to a knowledge economy that requires new skill sets. Knowledge is being built and re-built and changed on a daily basis. Facts can be looked up on the internet. Therefore, […]

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The EdTechTeam has just finished a busy week at the Computer Using Educators 2012 Annual Conference. Many of our workshop resources are available for free online (under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless otherwise noted). We hope you'll use these, and share them with your colleagues and students.www.edtechteam.com/cue12Let us know in the comments if you have any questions about these workshops - or anything to add to the resources.And, of course, contact us or fill out the online request form if you're interested in bringing these workshops to your organization or your region.

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I have been a Teacher-Librarian for approximately 8 of the last 14 years, and I also teach AQ courses in Librarianship. I am very passionate about the philosophy behind the Learning Commons. That is why this year, when I decided to move back into the classroom, I wanted to transfer the Learning Commons philosophy over […]