"Good learning starts with questions, not answers". Guy Claxton, Professor in Education and Director of CLIO Development University of Bristol. Questioning enables teachers to check learners' understanding. It also benefits learners as it encourages engagement and focuses their thinking on key concepts and ideas.

When I'm doing math homework, I just really go fast and crazy, and in the end I still don't understand it, really. It's just a lot of pressure. And it shows: I'm always tired in class, because I spent all my night doing my homework! Teachers don't see "Vivian totally understands that." They see "Vivian did her homework." - vivian (Fires in the Mind)

Martin Burrett 11 Sep 11 04:15:52A YouTube Page guaranteed to make all but the youngest of us feel old, by showing technology that is obsolete. Great for showing the iPod generation the wonders of cassette tapes and vinyl records. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

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Possibly the first app by UK students in Apple's iTunes Store

Gaunt and frail, cancer battle takes its toll on Steve Jobs in first picture since he left Apple  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031100/Gaunt-frail-cancer-battle-takes-toll-Steve-Jobs-picture-left-Apple.html#ixzz1XB3XdRBI

Yet another study shows that "digital natives" suck at searching

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What Facebook Does to Kids' Brains REBECCA GREENFIELD AUG 08, 201119,832 ViewsComments (9) People love to sensationalize the deleterious effects of new-fangled tech on the impressionable brains of children. Psychologist Larry D. Rosen's presentation to the American Psychological Association is a little more nuanced than "Facebook Rots Kids' Brains," but it still has plenty to be concerned about. (His title: ""Poke Me: How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids.") 

25 Myths About Homework Posted by David Wees on Oct 23, 2010 Last night I asked people for help with my presentation on Myths about Homework which I am presenting today at Skeptic Camp in Vancouver. Within 15 minutes, we had 20 Myths, within another 15 minutes we had a total of 26 myths about homework with one duplication. Thanks for your help, I've turned these myths into a presentation you can view below. I think that homework may still be something which has value, but which probably needs to take a much different form than what it looks like now. Here's the pretty plain version using Google Docs.

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Kelly Faulkner 02 Sep 11 04:02:52service that will convert blocked websites to plain text so you can read them. if your school blocking service blocks blogs you wish to read, this could help you.

We're calling this new feature Projects. Whenever you have a particular assignment or activity, you can create a project for it, then define teams of members, each with its own unique pages, files, and permissions. Team content (that is, pages and files) are grouped together, separate from the main area of the wiki. That way, students in teams can do their group work completely independently from other teams.

A good presentation to kick off work on avoiding filter bubbles and an interesting search engine to try out.

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