Web Stuff on SLA - AWESOME

What (& Where) Are the World's Most Transformational Schools?

My Problem(s) with EduCon

The 7 Golden Rules of Using Technology in Schools

No Laptop for You! (Until You Set Goals)

SLATE high school learning management tool soft launches, Jarvus Innovations pursues vision of education reform

SLATE

This is exiting for me because I know the developers John Fozio & Chris Alfano, my [foster] son, Jon, is working on it, a former student of mine, Anthony Harley is working on it, & I have put my two cents here and there during the development, along with other SLA teachers! SOOO COOL! Check it out!

Perspective 1pt. front

Perspective 1pt. front, a set on Flickr.

Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century - SLA on PBS

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He is a poor black kid....

If you felt a kinda way about the Forbes' article "If I Were A Poor Black Kid" by Gene Marks... then you need to read this post from Rashaun Williams (Twitter at @DJReezey)

I have taught in a school of 100% of "poor black kids" and I teach now in a school that has a lower percentage of this type of kid. This experience has taught me these "resources" that people think black kids have are a joke and even if they are there, the fact that these kids live in the lower tiers of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs means access does not help them in any way. What this perceived access does is let people with means, that don't want to visit or help these kids, think that everything is fine; and if the kid just worked harder they too could achieve the American dream. This simply is not true! There is an unwritten, talked about or documented system that keeps this population of kids uninformed. There is a reason Regan privatized the jails in the eighties and Bush pushed so hard to privatize schools in the two-thousands, and from my perspective it is to keep that flow of people coming in the doors so corporations can make money off a head count.

This Makes Me Sad

Pirate Wolf Awesomeness

Yes, I said pirate wolf! Quinn Platzer an art student at SLA mad

e this amazing mask from scratch. (link to how she did it is coming) In the art class at SLA students are asked to make an "Internet sculpture" Quinn found this tutorial online and went for it. There is also a much longer and detailed tutorial. Here is the 3/4 of the way finished view. MORE TO COME!

UPDATE: