EDUCATION

Resources for Urban Educators and Parents
This page contains hyperlinks to a variety of web-based resources. I will be adding to this list periodically, as I find new sites of interest. Please feel free to suggest sites in the comments.

Education faces a ever changing landscape, new technology makes the changes happen even faster. Yet the ways we educate our children have not changed in decades---especially in URBAN schools. Urban kids are the first to adopt new technology and the last to learn with it and we wonder why the dropout rates are larger in inner cities. Systemic change is needed-- and fast, before Western economies implode for lack of workers who are qualified to work in a information driven economy. Countries like China and India are currently filling the void. Watch this video to understand why. Here is a great article on the subject of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.

Teacher Resources
How To Shoot Great Video for the Educator

Social Networks, Web 2.0 and Collaborative Learning

Barking Robot- Baird Fisher's Blog: Resource List for "Mashup Edu's Bookmarks from "Pedagogical Mashup: Gen Y, Social Media, and Digital Learning Styles," to be published in the Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges, by IGI Global.

Top 100 Education Blogs- RSS Links (XML): Education-Blogs.xml Download this XML file and import it into your RSS feed reader or a RSS aggregator like Google Reader for the top education blogs on the web. If you don't understand RSS feeds see this BBC Guide.

Teaching Skills: What 21st Century Educators Need To Learn To Survive NEW

Parent Resources
PBSParents.com

Scholastic Parents
Social Networks for Parents

Parents Connect.com (Nick)
Minti.com

Summer Art Programs and Camps for Kids

Kids Websites
Nickjr.com
MyNoggin.com