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Professional Development Page 2 toc

**Priceless Education**
There are some things that the traditional way of teaching can't buy... for everything else there is a connected teacher. media type="youtube" key="v3ZFr7pY48w" height="405" width="500"

Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the thoughtful examination, evaluation and analysis of a topic - everything described in this video. Often, this can be observed or assessed by the questions students ask rather than the answers given. media type="youtube" key="6OLPL5p0fMg" height="405" width="500"

Build your PLN on Twitter
In this brief presentation Shelly Terrell explains how to build a personal learning network using Twitter media type="youtube" key="HuB8Zu9VQEs" height="385" width="640"

Charles Leadbeater:
Education innovation in the slums. Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become. media type="custom" key="6583563"

PLN for Educators
[|The personal learning network for educators] - very comprehensive site.

Your PLN and Twitter
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Edutopia
[|The George Lucas Educational Foundation:]
 * Our Vision:** Kids today -- no previous generation has experienced anything like the current pace of transformational societal change. Yet, in light of extraordinary advancements in how we interact with each other and the world, our system of education has been frustratingly slow to adapt. The George Lucas Educational Foundation was created to address this issue. Our vision is of a new world of learning. A place where kids and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve, all are empowered to change education for the better. A place where schools have access to the same invaluable technology as businesses and universities -- where innovation is the rule, not the exception. A place where children become lifelong learners and develop the technical, cultural, and interpersonal skills to succeed in the twenty-first century. A place of inspiration, aspiration, and an urgent belief that improving education improves the world we live in. We call this place Edutopia. And we provide not just the vision for this new world of learning but also the leading-edge interactive tools and resources to help make it a reality.

What Does It Mean To Teach in the 21st Century
This video would be great to show at a staff meeting! media type="youtube" key="RmskHM0V2Ig?fs=1" height="405" width="500"