blending video tutorials about complex concepts into a high-quality project-based curriculum has its place in the learning process.
Years of research have proved that an individual's ownership of new knowledge comes through constructive, productive, creative activities, not through passive consumption of instructional tutorials or reading textbooks.
Check out Google's new tool for taking data (i.e. coffee growers world wide) and turning into a map. Very interesting. Nice follow up to the Gapminder video.
This is one of the schools we visited, and was one of my favorites. I have some footage of their language class. All these little ones have iPads and it is just amazing to watch them use them.