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Resources

Recommended Reading

I highly recommend the following books:

An incredible book on how the brain works and how it can have an effect on how we teach and how children learn.  The book explores topics such as: sleep, music, exercise, memory, and many more. Watch a quick video with the author by clicking on the image above.

This is a review on the chapter titled,  "Stress", from "Brain Rules".  You will learn how stress can affect our brain and bodies.

Author Ken Robinson explains how our current school system is dysfunctional and needs to change to allow for creativity. To see a summary of the book made by myself and a colleague click on the image above.

"The Flat World and Education" is a must read about how we must begin to make change to our education system in the U.S. in order to respond to 21st century learning needs.  It's an eye opener! Watch a a video with the author, Linda Darling-Hammond below.

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Links

Websites With Relevant Articles Related to Technology in the Classroom:

• Ed Surge - This is a website with trending articles on education and technology. Read this article titled: "How to Take Digital Citizenship Schoolwide", to see how one school got all teachers on board and trained all staff on digital citizenship.
• Edutopia - a fantastic educational website with current articles and videos related to technology/21st century skills in the classroom.  Read this article, "Tech Literacy: Making it Relevant Through Content Learning? to learn how one school demonstrates how to use technology to be useful through the content areas.
  
• Link to my personal resources page that I developed while working on my Master's of Education

Interesting Educational Blogs to Follow:

• Lisa Nielsen The Innovative Educator - she's an administrator from New York City and blogs about how to be innovative and bring technology into classrooms
• My Paperless Classroom by Sam Patterson - blogs, video, articles, and podcasts on exciting ways to use technology in the classroom
• Edudemic - features current educational articles for teachers and students on using technology
• Kidblog - Teachers blog about their experiences with their students using kidblog

Inspirational Educators:
I highly recommend that you read their books or listen to their TED talks, you won't be disappointed!

• Sir Ken Robinson - click on his name to see a ted talk on, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
• John Hattie - Professor, researcher, and author of Visible Learning
  

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