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As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. But in many districts, the one-computer classroom is not extinct. So how can we do a lot with a little? How can we best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology?

20 skills educator should have

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"Carol Dweck says colleges could improve their students' learning if they relentlessly encouraged them to think about their mental skills as malleable, rather than as properties fixed at birth" (David Glenn, May 9, 2010).

Might help create a blended classroom, even when you have to share the blender.  Common sense advise for the real world of underequipped classrooms and stretched thin teachers.

"People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at," Foldit's lead designer Seth Cooper said in a statement. "Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans."

For luddites who worry about computers replacing people, here is a great counterexample.

Should we pay schools to go to school? Should we pay them for getting good grades? Don't we send a wrong message if we don't - since work is all about getting compensated?

They tried this in Chicago a while back and it didn't have any long-term results, just an initial bump. I'm personally not against it, but I don't know if it will successful.

A good place to start a discussion on the 'efficiency' of technology.

Online paralegal courses are a relatively new concept in legal education, so it can seem a little daunting to enroll in a program taught completely online or through correspondence. The aim of this guide is to provide a better understanding of this alternative mode of education.

This article explains how to remove a fake/ rogue security application called TrustSoldier

Some teachers need to get a license in common sense!!!!

Research by Nate Kornell, Matthew Hays and Robert Bjork at U.C.L.A. that recently appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition reveals that this worry is misplaced. In fact, they found, learning becomes better if conditions are arranged so that students make errors.

Is a lack of PD a barrier? Professional development is a barrier, although I think they can teach themselves much of what teachers need to be learning to be able to modernise their classrooms. The worst thing a teacher can say is: "who's going to teach me how to do that?" Teachers are teachers and should be able to teach themselves what they need to know. If they can't then they probably shouldn't be teaching. You want a teacher who can keep up. There are networks of other educators out there that can connect you with new skills. Professional development doesn't have to be something that is done to teachers - it can be just ongoing conversations they're having with other professionals that they're learning from every day.