100 tools for learning.

Jane Hart is a UK educator who has polled "learning professionals"  (by which I think she means teachers and trainers of all sorts) each year for the past 6 years to learn what their top 100 tools for learning are.

Game Design & Coding

I'm going to use this as a holding spot for software that might be useful for teachers interested in game design or coding.

Game Design:
Gamestar Mechanic (for Teachers)
ARIS Editor (ARIS Community on Google)  (ARIS Manual) (ARIS Game Jam Oct 23 / 24)
Game Salad (Game Salad Tutorial)
GameMaker Studio

 Sample Game Design Rubric
Game Design Tack at Elementary Tech Fair

Game Based Learning
What Game Based Learning Can Do For Student Achievement
The Minecraft Cell:  Biology Meets Game Based Learning


Coding
Code Academy
Code.org
Scratch
Tynker 

Hour of Code
Teaching Code without a computer
Unplugged Hour of Code
Unplugged Code: Computational Thinking Without a Computer  

Reports
From the Computer Science Teacher's Association

The New Elite School

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has built a new school. Ad Astra for his (and some of his employees') children.  Ad Astra has done away with traditional barriers of classes and students are taught at their abilities.  It sounds like it's based pretty strongly in constructionism... but there is little more news about the school, yet.

http://nextshark.com/elon-musk-created-his-own-secret-experimental-school-for-his-kids/

Getting Ready For TEP 519A Fall 2015

In thinking about class this Fall, this video is a nice place to begin.  :)