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You Tube channels for the school, faculties & classes are easy to implement, easily accessible anywhere, anytime. Great for performing arts, science experiments, media, etc

Why Learning Should be Messy. The following is an excerpt of One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of School, by 17-year-old Nikhil Goyal, a senior at Syosset High School in Woodbury, New York.

I extracted this excerpt summing up the excellent points made In a summary published on Edutopia, Brigid Barron and Linda Darling-Hammond reviewed numerous studies and found that: : Students learn more deeply when they can apply classroom-gathered knowledge to real-world problems, and when they take part in projects that require sustained engagement and collaboration. Active-learning practices have a more significant impact on student performance than any other variable, including student background and prior achievement. Students are most successful when they are taught how to learn as well as what to learn. As the old adage goes, "Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand." Harvard Professor Howard Gardner said to me that schools should incorporate the best of two models of learning: a hands-on children's museum, which encourages open-ended exploration, and an apprenticeship, which provides a more structured environment for practicing meaningful skills in an authentic, real-life context.

"as a parent, when I got up to say a few words I simply acknowledged that for many the whole technology thing is overwhelming and the audience's heads nodded in agreement. And, I didn't speak about iPads or how they could be used. I simply said that I had seen the number one reason why for this school and for our children a 1:1 iPad program was the way to go. That reason was because the teachers believed it was the way to go. And, we should back them."

Never mind the digital divide, it is the distraction divide from which we need to protect our students.

"A Beginner's Guide To Setting Up An eBook Library On Your iPad"

Please go to this site and add the digital resources you couldn't do without. The ones you really love, the tried and tested sites that really bring about learning. This could be an amazing resource for us all. Once on the site double click on the wall, give your resource a short title and paste the URL after clicking on the link icon.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how much time I spend on the Internet, and worrying that it's too much.

"From Moodle to Edmodo to Inquisiq r3, there's a lot of tools you can use to manage, track, and deliver courses and training programs in your school. They're called Learning Management Solutions (LMS) or sometimes Learning Management Systems. Either way, how do you pick which is the best? A new infographic from Capterra spells it out in simple stats."

Excellent points here.

"Coming up with the right question involves vigorously thinking through the problem, investigating it from various angles, turning closed questions into open-ended ones and prioritizing which are the most important questions to get at the heart of the matter. "We've been underestimating how well our kids can think." "We've been underestimating how well our kids can think." Rothstein said in a recent discussion on the talk show Forum. "We see consistently that there are three outcomes. One is that students are more engaged. Second, they take more ownership, which for teachers, this is a huge thing. And the third outcome is they learn more - we see better quality work.""

Slide Presentation (102 slides) from Schools of the Future Conference in Honolulu Oct 24 2012 on E Portfolios & learning.  A lot of information but much is very good