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Recently I have been thinking about the role I play in encouraging my students to think and to trust in themselves as capable learners. This is largely due to the topic of our Term Four Unit of Inquiry.

Great article about how to use iPad:s in projects, with useful tips about apps.

new study with some interesting findings. the trouble is always, putting all these study/findings into our head and synthesizing it into some kind of workable framework. It is never just one thing that impacts student achievement.

I am really confused by this abstract- it calls the assumption into question but then seems to assert the very same assumption??? Researchers and policymakers often assume that teacher turnover harms student achievement, but recent evidence calls into question this assumption. Using a unique identification strategy that employs grade-level turnover and two classes of fixed-effects models, this study estimates the effects of teacher turnover on over 600,000 New York City 4th and 5th grade student observations over 5 years. The results indicate that students in grade-levels with higher turnover score lower in both ELA and math and that this effect is particularly strong in schools with more low-performing and black students. Moreover, the results suggest that there is a disruptive effect of turnover beyond changing the composition in teacher quality.

According to a recent study, inbox placement rates (IRPs), a key metric in email deliverability, have decreased to 76.5% in 2011. Return Path, an email certification company, attributes this decline to tighter screening measures by ISPs and an increase in the number of companies engaged in email marketing.

Content materials that offer "practical advice" are what technology buyers, like those in your IT contacts list, want to read the most, among other things. This is according to a recent study cited by the Content Marketing Institute where the respondents consisted of both vendors and buyers in the tech sector.

A recent survey conducted by SendGen reveals that transactional emails are helping expand theB2B leads database of many companies while enabling them to better retain existing clients. The study closely follows the correlation between the increase in email-triggering web apps and the sending rates for transactional emails which have now topped 600,000 per month.

The study closely follows the correlation between the increase in email-triggering web apps and the sending rates for transactional emails which have now topped 600,000 per month.

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'Embodied learning' blends lessons with student-computer interaction In an Elizabeth Forward Middle School classroom, students in an eighth-grade math class spent a recent morning getting into their lesson-literally. Standing in their socks on a 15-by-15 game board that was projected onto a foam mat on the floor, they waved wands to move brightly colored virtual balls around the space.

"Though many devices enter our classrooms for different reasons -- they are not neutral. Some are used to reinforce the authority of formal teaching; some engage students in the process of imaginative discovery. By balancing conventional and subversive academic possibilities, these latter objects show us the real potential of learning technologies. Not as sterile knowledge-delivery devices policed by authorized educators, but as boundary objects between endorsed educational utility and creative self-expression gone rogue."

According to a recent article on Huffington’s post, the U.N telecom agency stated that there are more than 6 billions mobile devices. Out of them, 1.2 billions users use web-enabled mobile phones worldwide & this usage of mobile is growing at astounding rate, being adapted by every family. We have seen a significant increase in the mobile users in the past three years & this global trend is surely continuing to see growth in upcoming years. What does this mean to a web designer & site owner? It underlines the importance of a company to have a mobile version of their business website.

Schools like any large organisation by and large run on meetings. Recently we have implemented two very different styles of meeting that target different needs and have allowed us to be effective, reflective and creative.

Recently I read 'Good to Great' by Jim Collins a book that describes the processes and structures that allowed eleven companies to transition from good to great and outperform the market by a factor of three for sustained periods. One story stands out as a metaphor for a growth mindset.

In technology circles the importance of the 'platform' is important and well understood. The companies that have had the most success in recent times are those that have become the platforms upon which great ideas are built. But what would it look like if a school imagined itself as a 'platform' in this model?

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Recently I have found a number of ideas on the web that were particularly interesting and together paint a compelling picture of education's future. Each fits into a model where the focus is on developing skills, dispositions and habits that will last into the future - long life skills.

A must-read: "Although we find ourselves as travelers in the age of over sharing, it turns out we remain quite adept at avoiding the really tough topics."