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For those of you not familiar, O2 Learn is a free, moderated video lesson sharing website that celebrates the UK's best teaching. It has over 3,000 curriculum focused video lessons for UK students aged 13-18 years old. All the video lessons are moderated by our Learning champions (expert teachers) to check for any inaccuracies. Each week O2 Learn awards £2000 to the best lesson, split between the teacher and their school department. This also qualifies them for the O2 Learn Annual Teaching Excellence Awards will be presented in December with £45,000 prize money for the winning lesson. The power of peer-to-peer learning to engage In recognition, that the best lessons are usually those created in collaboration between teachers and students. O2 Learn asked their teaching community how effective they found student led peer-to-peer learning and the answer was unanimously positive. Changes to the competition So, to encourage great peer-to-peer teaching, O2 Learn has changed the rules of the competition. Secondary students are now able to upload lessons, giving them the chance to win the weekly Best Lesson Award worth £2000 for them and their school. We think it's really important that teachers are involved in this process, so all student entries will need to be approved by their teacher. A free app to help your students get involved To help make film-making more accessible, they've also launched the free 'O2 Learn' iPhone App which makes it easy to film, edit and upload lessons in minutes. You can create title-cards, crop and re-order film footage, and even add a voice over or soundtrack. Then upload your film straight to the O2 Learn website or export to your camera roll. No need to waste time searching for the old school video camera and its missing charger! Simply decide which lesson you want to film, be creative and let the O2 Learn app do the hard work. At the touch of a button it'll enable you to easily; tap to inse

"The badge system, moreover, isn't just a transcript, CV, and work portfolio rolled together into a cool digital package. It's also a way to structure the process of education itself. Students will be able to customize learning goals within the larger curricular framework, integrate continuing peer and faculty feedback about their progress toward achieving those goals, and tailor the way badges and the metadata within them are displayed to the outside world. Students won't just earn badges-they'll build them, in an act of continuous learning."

This is an excellent example of a Level 3 class.  It has multiple subject areas, organized into gradebooks with student work submitted, assessed and handed back to the student.

Education is caught in no mans land - between an education suited for a unpredictable  but potentially exciting future where students will need all their gifts and talents identified and all the learning power  they can muster to thrive or an ideology that seems determined to conform teachers and students by standardized approaches tied to National Standards and league tables. Mass standardisation or transformational personalised learning? To be or not to be....

In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Rigorous projects help students learn key academic content and practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking).

Creators of game-based learning curriculum and the game Historia "Histrionix™ Learning Company provides interactive, game-based curriculum (and teacher training) to public, private and home schools that improves student achievement by engaging all learning styles, enhancing critical thinking skills and encouraging creative problem solving, which are the building blocks of thoughtful, twenty-first century students - and citizens."

"The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities."

"Fund for Teachers provides educators, possessing a broad vision of what it means to teach and learn, the resources needed to pursue self-designed professional learning experiences. FFT grants are used for an unlimited variety of projects; all designed to create enhanced learning environments for teachers, their students and their school communities. We believe that supporting teachers' active participation in their own professional growth, positively impacts student learning and achievement."

I show this website to my students so they can gain more information about the Apollo 11 mission and it gives them a visual of the launching and landing of the shuttle.

I show this website to my students so they can gain more information about the Apollo 11 mission and it gives them a visual of the launching and landing of the shuttle.

Outlining the motivation for ePortfolios

I especially like how they report that the "world view" of students is changing!

A very simple, clear and informative video that explains how connected students work today.

I enjoyed reading this article...it states the importance of giving our students the opportunity to using technology during the school day and at home....the students are lucky to have access to so many free resources...we need to start tagging the websites to highlight and share them!!!!

Two Stanford professors leave to start another MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).  Higher Ed implications are significant as traditional academic content becomes commodity-like: it can be delivered any time any where.  Same goes for secondary/high school content. The MOOC approach will hopefully provide our students with greater access to computer science.

Great Residency artist. Both Nick and Diane work well with students.

Here are the Paul Taylor Videos. This would be a great residency for students of any age.

Great printing project for Middle school Students.

Great mandala for younger elementary school students.

Great two minute journal to show Middle School Students.

This sample site for setting up a Level 2 Haiku Class.  It provides several different ways to layout units or modules in a class. It uses discussions and assignments to engage students.