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		<title>Advice for new teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advice (random and very incomplete) for new teachers: Please round out the list with your thoughts: Sign on to Twitter. Follow the smartest people you can find in your areas of interest. Build a great PLN &#8211; personal learning network &#8211; of the wisest and most helpful people you can find. Follow people with whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year in pictures</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am having a hard time saying goodbye to the year. I spent part of the day putting this rather long sideshow together. Already I can think of all the many people and events I have left out. A year in school goes so fast. This is some of what I saw in 2009-2010. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital literacy across the curriculum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not about the tools and the testing, it&#8217;s about the learning and the thinking. Digital literacy is an important entitlement for all young people in an increasingly digital culture. Every school should have an organized policy for language across the curriculum… Two documents, two eras. The first from FutureLab (UK) &#8211; a wonderful introduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science and technology heroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was Dean Kamen -  the inventor of the Segway and a version of the artificial heart &#8211; who established F.I.R.S.T.*  His vision was: &#8220;To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology heroes.&#8221; Last year we introduced lego robotics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can we have a bake sale?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“George, can we have a bake sale?” That was Wednesday last week, in the hallway, right at the start of school. And this afternoon we wired a check for $1124 to the Red Cross. It’s over a week now since we first heard the news of the catastrophic consequences of the earthquake in Haiti.  That [...]]]></description>
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