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Pink speaks of powerful ideas like how to teach problem-finding, how to create individual pathways to learning, how to put students in the drivers' seats so they learn what drives them, how they can be successful in learning and how assessing themselves can help.

"GREENE: And John, you wrote an introduction to this issue of Granta, and you said that literature asserts that the world, as it is imagined, is every bit as important as the world as it exists. Is that really the case? FREEMAN: Yeah, because if we only agreed with what the world is, there would never be the future. The world, as it will be, is partly imagined, and it's part entropy. And if we believe that we can have some sense of control of our destinies - whether it's how we educate children or how we write our own stories - part of that has to do with the imagining, and novels help us imagine more beautifully, I think, than almost any other art form. "

""Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place where visions of theory and praxis come together. The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know - to understand how life works" (hooks, "

Acceptable is also to provide title and photographer plus link to the location online in the image info so viewer sees when moused over.

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interesting look at how to make a truly effective trailer

Point that time to focus on what's important to us and make those connections which is the heart of creativity. Reminiscent of Pink's aptitude of meaning

The new NING? I don't know. Once burned. Maybe for teachers looking to try out the freebee for awhile to scaffold how the real Web might work.

how to frame your creative efforts

Good diagram, overall. I don't know where it comes from, exactly; I found it on Facebook. I'm not sure how "not restricted by age" is a 'skill'. I would say "shares" rather than "invites sharing". I would say "cooperates and communicates" rather than "collaborates". I would say "investigates new technologies" rather than "purposively..." (dropping the 'purposively' to reflect the idea of exploration over dedication to specific outcomes). I would say 'disregards hierarchy' or 'eschews authority' or some such thing rather than 'thrives in flat networks'.

Is she right? How to make the most of time f2f and virtually

beware how you use social media to shame others

"Learn to contextualize their art and investigate how it can reflect or aid social change by transgressing or breaking through personal and cultural barriers"

Cool, effective, efficient way to tell a story using social media.

Some tips on Flickr including how to create slide shows for your blog.

Science literacy is knowing how to ask questions.

breaks are good

Beginnings of a virtual teen museum. Offer to add galley for a group. Wonder if QRB would be interested?

Value of Storify for archiving and for curation