Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/16/2012

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  • Are we putting too many non-content related grades in our marking systems that are causing disorganized children to think they aren’t college material and to cause entitlement among those who do homework and turn things in thinking that just because they work hard that they deserve a good grade? This family circle article coupled with some of the entitlement research has me thinking. Read: Making the Grade: When Do Kids Deserve A’s It is also an argument for standards based assessment. Take a read. 
  • There are some fascinating things you can do with Kinect in the classroom. You can download these files and hook up a Kinect to your computer to allow motion capture (against a greenscreen), painting with gestures, and all kinds of things. There are people using kinect in powerful ways with special needs children as well. Here’s the official webpage for Kinect in Education.
  • Here’s a listing of our current projects. Follow the link to apply. Flat Classroom Project – Deadline September 1, 2012  APPLY NOW! Digiteen Project – Deadline September 15, 2012  APPLY NOW! ‘A Week in the Life…’  – Deadline September 1, 2012  APPLY NOW! NetGenEd  – Project based on the Horizon Report published in January each year – Deadline February 1, 2013 – APPLY NOW! K-2 ‘Building Bridges to Tomorrow’ Project – Deadline September 15, 2012 – APPLY NOW! Eracism – Information and Applications available August 15, 2012
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

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