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Using Blogs as a Novel Approach to Engage Students by Andy Carvin, 9:45AM

John Moravec: Earlier this month, I interviewed Arthur Harkins on our approach to innovating in human capital development (Leapfrog!).

"Welcome to TwHistory. We believe that history is filled with exciting stories. We also believe that these stories can be told through Twitter; through the people who lived and experienced them. We go through journals, diaries, letters, and other original sources to deliver the day-to-day lives of people who lived through some of histories most exciting times. We broadcast this information through Twitter, and feel this is a new and exciting approach to understanding history."

Great article on the intelligence and learning capabilities of infants and toddlers -- has implications for how we approach pre-school learning with children.

Digital tools are an integral part of the Enquiring Minds approach. Here we provide some examples of the kinds of new technologies that we think may benefit learners and teachers

Hallelujah- at long last some common sense!!!

Finally - a common sense approach to learning in the 21st century- How to deal with firewalls ina school district. Please read!

In the context of helping parents with children who have personal access to the Net, I would hope that parents use a Big Mother, not Big Brother, approach.

a different approach to social bookmarks. allows to link a sequence of sites for future reference (or students to go follow a "trail")

"What we really need to help occur in classroom is differentiated "learning". This accomplishes the student ownership of the learning, allows for a passion-driven approach, shifts the responsibility for the learning to the learner (where it belongs) and changes the teachers role to what you consistently advocate."

"Is there a difference between instruction and structure? I think so, but am amazed that until now I hadn't discovered much appetite for exploring the difference between these terms, and these approaches, in the world of game design, media production and, vitally, teaching and learning/instruction/schooling/education."

In the classrooms of the future, students will use their phone as a computer and instead of raising their hand to ask a question, they'll simply send the teacher a tweet. Imogen Neale reports. Some schools demand students leave their digital devices at home, but Albany Senior High School, north of Auckland, has taken the opposite approach, BYOD. "That means, Bring Your Own Device," explains deputy principal Mark Osborne.

An interactive approach to the Constitution of The United States of America. Includes images, authentic language, common language, and links to other resources.

A San Jose, CA elementary school shows improvement on math scores with a blended learning approach. 

Isacco will be sharing how one approaches the development of a brand new education system in South Sudan which is the youngest country in the world - Part 3.

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