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Learning and play are one and the same to kids; it’s we adults who have been conditioned to believe that play is the opposite of work, a time-waster. In fact, the opposite of play is not work but depression

Joy is a much a sign of learning as concentration. Look for how much joy is involved in what they’re doing

On the other hand, I work with teachers now that are often running scared – very scared at times. They are blocked from using much technology, teachers that use drill and skills based software are praised, those that ask about doing anything online are scoffed at … they have to go out of their way and jump through 5 hoops all the time knowing that if things aren’t 100% smooth they will be questioned about safety, educational value, whether they have their students best interest and safety in mind and on and on. They are told (in error) that they will lose the district their e-Rate funding by having student work online or even have students working online … COPA laws will be broken, … in some schools and districts its not about making teachers integrate technology, its making administration, politicians and others see it as having value and creating an environment where it is at least OK and at best encouraged and supported. I never thought I would write such a comment, but believe me it is very ugly in places … I support 6 school districts, about 100,000 students and 8-10,000 teachers … some districts and some schools are very open and supportive of tech integration, others are extremely scared of all the things that they’ve heard of, more so than I would have thought. Good news is we are starting to make real progress … much too slowly, but progress. Yes, tech integration should not be an option, but there are still many places where it is not an option really. That’s the thinking we still need to overcome.

in their personal lives

due to concerns about negative repercussions

only 18 percent said they had integrated social media into their own classrooms

3. Multitasking Is CrucialMultitasking is crucial, and being able to juggle multiple balls without letting many drop is critical to being considered indispensable. Make sure to follow up as promised.

5. Growing Your Network

Personalized Learning Network

many established thought leaders develop PLNs to maintain relevancy, following good ideas, rich discussions and resources. PLNs accept people for their ideas, not their titles.

The PLN is a mindset

Entrepreneurs

disrupting an industry

K-12 isn’t working

Students who behave inappropriately in digital spaces misinterpret the digital space as private, when it is, of course, public. This misunderstanding leads students to believe that the regular rules of public behavior don’t apply in digital space, and so they behave in ways online that they never would in public. The fundamental error is in thinking that digital spaces are different, with different rules from the real world. They aren’t.

They don’t need a new set of rules, just to apply the rules they already know to their digital behavior.

Students don’t need more rules; they just need to apply the ones they’ve already got. The same ones they learned in kindergarten.

The people who concentrate wealth don't do things just out of the goodness of their hearts for the most part, but in order to maintain their position of dominance and then extend their power.

One can at least be suspicious that skyrocketing student debt is a device of indoctrination. It's very hard to imagine that there's any economic reason for it. Other countries' education is free, like Mexico's, and that is a poor country.

There are a lot of factors. And one of them, probably, is just that students are trapped.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

The phone didn’t make me avoid the human connection, but it did make ignoring her easier in that moment, and more likely, by comfortably encouraging me to forget my choice to do so.

The more distracted we become, and the more emphasis we place on speed at the expense of depth, the less likely and able we are to care.

“Spaced repetition” is one example of the kind of evidence-based techniques that researchers have found have a positive impact on learning.

Eighth-grade history students who relied on a spaced approach to learning had nearly double the retention rate

“retrieval practice,”

“It says: ‘This person is not a drone. They can use this skill set and apply themselves in other parts of the job.’ ”

everyone is creative, and can learn to be more so.

clarifying, ideating, developing and implementing

“Ultimately, flipping a classroom involves shifting the energy away from the instructor and toward the students and then leveraging educational tools to enhance the learning environment.”

This allows students to spend time problem solving, creating, critiquing, and synthesizing in class with their peers and with their instructor. Students are more active in flipped environments which add a new level of complexity to the classroom.

Instructors focus on higher level learning outcomes during class time and lower level outcomes outside of class