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Many school buildings are in a terrible state. Even in seemingly advanced western nations many old schools resemble architectural catastrophes that, along with post-war urban tower blocks and the shopping malls of the 1950s, have largely been left to the crumble of rust. In the last few years, though, there has been a renaissance in school building design based on a reimagining of learning spaces (pdf) that has mirrored the advance in our understandings of education-oriented information and communication technologies (ICT)

Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West's reigning education superpower, Finland. Trouble is, when it comes to the lessons that Finnish schools have to offer, most of the discussion seems to be missing the point.

Teaching Channel is committed to showcasing effective and inspiring teaching in public schools across America. Since our "beta launch" in early June, we have reached thousands of teachers in all 50 states. We thrive on your feedback as we rapidly grow our collection of videos and tools for online collaboration. Our mission is your mission: to improve the outcomes for all students in America.

The flipped classroom, as it is currently being described and publicized, is simply recording the didactic content information via video, having students view these as homework, and then using class time to further discuss these ideas. Harvard Professor Chris Dede stated in his Global Education 2011 keynote in response to a question directed about the flipped classroom . . .

The BBC has excellent educational games, activities, and resources.  The BBC Science Clips are a collection of science related activities and games for students who are 5 to 11 years old.  Students can grow virtual plants, experiment with pushes and pulls, hearing and sound, forces and movement, electricity, rocks and soils, simple machines, light, solids and liquids, friction, habitats, life cycles, changing states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes, forces, and much more. 

Not sure about the above comment, but this is a GREAT site with lots of USEFUL ideas for incorporating digital storytelling into a classroom.

The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project is a two-year study of the student research process.  The project is funded by an LSTA grant awarded to Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) by the Illinois State Library.  The goal of the project is to understand how students do research, and how relationships between students, teaching faculty and librarians shape that process.  ERIAL is also an applied study-that is, research pursued with the purpose of uncovering, understanding and addressing social problems.  As such, its goal is to use the results to develop more user-centered library services.

Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing current and future challenges. The United States' position in the global economy is declining, in part because U.S. workers lack fundamental knowledge in these fields.