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creative teacher at work

" The right to be teachers In an online environment, teachers no longer need to be sole authority figures but instead should share responsibility with learners at almost every turn. Students can participate and shape one another's learning through peer interaction, new content, enhancement of learning materials and by forming virtual and real-world networks. Students have the right to engaged participation in the construction of their own learning. Students are makers, doers, thinkers, contributors, not just passive recipients of someone else's lecture notes or methods. They are critical contributors to their disciplines, fields, and to the larger enterprise of education."

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.

Burned In: Fueling the Fire to Teach by Friedman and Reynolds English Ning Summer Book Club Really supportive community of English teachers! Not to soon to become a member!

creative teacher

How might this effect creativity?

Chad is one of the most creative teachers I know. Call it "test prep" or "test-taking skills," test-takers have to learn the culture of testing. They just don't have to live there.

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.

Cool teacher remixes pop music with educational lyrics for teaching. Looks like transformational to me.

free for k-12 and for HE

Mindomo -- multimedia mindmap

Glogster prez mode

Google Apps for LMS

After writing all of this I realize that I am not leaving my profession, in truth, it has left me.

Or to create which will draw attention to themselves?

Possible sub for Diigo, collaborative bookmarking

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