Education & Tech News for Educators 12/25/2008

Stories on the recession and early childhood education.
Keep the human angle in mind. Every time you see a story about budget cuts, think about people and how they may be affected.

Classroom Management: Who Makes the Rules?
90% of your students will likely follow them. The 10% who don’t follow rules probably won’t follow rules set by you or set by other classmates without training and your consistency in enforcing them.

The New Digital Divide.
Whereas this divide used to refer to whether or not students had access to technology, now it concerns whether schools are using technology effectively to achieve results.

Got 12 minutes? What I Learn from Twitter.
The best news of all is this wealth of learning happened not only in 12 minutes, it is available and accessible to anyone twenty four hours a day, seven days a week! Ohhh did I mention this is all free?

The rest of my favorite links are here.