Summary: Wow! Many thanks to Rushton Hurley for joining us this week! This show’s roundup includes: - Our discussion on the controversy over opting out of state tests. - Chris Lehmann’s thoughtful post on teacher’s unions and our comments regarding teacher solidarity. - Career counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? We ruminate on the educational philosophies of each of these important figures. - We have a new segment- “Comment Corner,” where we discuss the Khan Academy feedback from my Khan Academy post from Monika Hardy, Daniel Fiore, and Dan Thompson. Finally- we end things on out Twitter talk, where we highlight a couple of great hashtags to look for like #PBTechConf11 and #WEMTA, where you can find some great new educators and ed news to follow. This week’s On The Radar Tools: VuSafe m86vusafe.com (Epcke) http://www.animalsandearth.com/ -Really awesome appropriate place to find images of animals. (Rezac) SpringPad - http://springpadit.com/ (Jay) http://goanimate4schools.com/public_signup (Scott) http://www.algogeom.org/ – Also … http://www.androidtablets.net/ (Rushton) – for those following Android news http://teach12.com (Rushton) – not free, but great lectures! And do check out the NextVista 90 Video Contest: http://nextvista.org/contests/nebraska90/
