Digital Resources

The way people learn and access information is constantly changing. This is especially true as new information and communication tools are replaced by less efficient ones. What essential information literacy skills are needed for the always online learner? Consider how your school will meet the needs of learners while you read about current and future learning practices and technologies through the links below. To find curriculum matched learning resources search the digital collections where you will find high quality teaching and resources from around the world. Each collection is categorized by geography. Start by browsing local resources and work out to International collections.

Elearning 2.0

By Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities.

Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning

Online book, result of 15 years of thought, research, and development conducted by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST). Its mission: to develop and apply technologies that would expand learning opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Our premise was clear: Students with disabilities should be equipped with particular technologies-new tools and approaches-that would help them access a print-based curriculum. (UDL)

The Metiri Group

The Metiri Group serves the education community through a broad range of consulting services that empower educators and education institutions to: Advance effective teaching and learning, Use technology in powerful and meaningful ways, and Foster 21st Century Skills in students, teachers and administrators. Be sure to click on the presentation section and Resource section.

Effective Practice with e-Portfolios

"The publication explores good practice in the use of e-portfolios as a support for learning. It is being launched in conjunction with an e-portfolios infoKit4 which covers the main drivers, purposes, processes, perspectives and issues around e-portfolio use - created by JISC infoNet." Here's the direct PDF download. The document is light and breezy with good graphics, a useful '6 steps' near the end (pp. 35-36) and, for some reason, more pictures of women staring into computer screens than I have ever seen in a report. Via Derek Wenmoth. Lisa Gray,

Educational Resource Links

Kindergarten, Grade 1 - 12 and Professional Learning web Links

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Teaching Practice

Information about 21st century teaching practices.

Alberta Collections

High quality Alberta teaching and learning digital resource collections

Alberta Education

Alberta's Ministry of Learning Web Site

Canadian Collections

Various must see resource collections from across Canada

International Collections

Digital Resources from around the globe. Resource types include; text, multimedia, video, Flash, Java and much more.