Resources

[|Technology: The Wrong Questions and the Right Questions]
[|Why You Need To Fail]

**Skills, Competencies, and Forward Thinking

[|NETS Implementation Wiki]** [|Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow - Today] [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills] [|AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner] [|National Educational Technology Standards] [|Edutopia] [|ACPS Framework for Quality Learning] [|Measuring 21st-century skills] [|VDOE Career and Technical Education Course Competencies] [|Education Competency Wheel] (from Microsoft) [|Career Forward] [|The Case for Working With Your Hands] [|Defining Critical Thinking]
 * Other Resources

[|ACPS Delicious Account] [|Critical Thinking Competencies] [|Backchannel basics]**
 * **[|Tinychat] free, with accountability ** for names and changes of names; can save chat **THIS IS THE ONE WE'LL USE JUNE 25**
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 *  [|Chatzy]

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For only $9, you can activate Chatzy Plus. Chatzy Plus is: No advertisementSecure connectionsComplete chat history  [|21st Century Confusion] [|Reflecting on the Journey] [|Great Teachers] [|World class schools for Iowa: Focus on 'survival skills,' such as critical thinking] [|Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?] [|Building the 21st-Century Mind] [|Best Teacher I Ever Had] [|The Essential Skill of Crap Detecting] all you ever want to know about Google Search for Educators: http://bit.ly/EVCDm [|Great Quotes About Learning and Change] [|The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade] [|several different literacies from Noodletools (Debbie Abilock)] [|Students on Teaching & Learning in the 21st Century] [|Ten Principles for the Future of Learning]
 * [|Today's Meet]- limited to 140 characters, like Twitter.
 * [|Zooming in on Primary Sources]**
 * [|No Right Brain Left Behind]

Video Collections** [|IDEO Part 1] [|IDEO Part 2] [|IDEO Part 3] [|TED Talks]

Grading: ===[|Grading and Differentiation: Paradox or Good Practice?]===

Other Rubrics:
[|Language Arts rubrics] [|Student self-assessment of critical thinking skills] [|Holistic scoring rubric]

[|Assessment Toolkit] [|Project Based Learning Online Resource] [|New Tech Foundation Collaborative Learning Environment] [|Inquiry Based Learning]

[|Wiggins on Assessmen]t [|Assessment for Understanding] [|Working in Groups]
 * Interesting Articles**