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Richard Culatta identifies 3 major challenges with our current approach to education and suggests how a shift to personalized learning is the key to the future of education in America. To make this shift, we must close the digital divide between those who can leverage technology to reimagine learning and those who simply use technology to digitize the status quo. A teacher by training and innovator by inclination, Richard Culatta works to leverage technology to reinvent learning.

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This is a great video site showing the life and careers of famous scientists. Find out about Richard Feynman, Rosalind Franklin, Gregor Mendel and even Mister Spock in interviews with scientists in their field today. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

My reaction as a Secondary / high-school teacher to a lecture by Richard Stallman in Trinity College Dublin this week. Stallman is President of the Free Software Foundation.

Richard Byrne shares six ways students can create and publish videos. These include slideshow voiceover ideas. Teachers will like using these creation tools as well to engage learners and demonstrate how students can share their learning.

Richard Byrne demos the updated version of Padlet. Some nice new features to an already great tool.

Richard Byrne shares his updated list of six timeline creation tools and provides a comparison chart in a Google Doc.

A free guide from Richard Byrne & Technology for Teachers. FreeTech4Teachers.com

Total English Book Series by Jonathan Bygrave, Mark Foley, Diane Hall, Richard Acklam, Araminta Crace, Antonia Clare and J.J. Wilson. LongmanPearson. Find English Teaching resourses here.

The open source version of Google Body. Many thanks to Richard Byrne (@rmbyrne on Twitter) for this great find.

Tips on how to avoid scams on facebook - written by Richard Byrne

This article gives some points on how to avoid scams and how not to pass on these scams. This deals with information literacy as students need to learn how to analyze information that is found.

A short tutorial for using Thinglink from Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers

Richard Beaudry reviews the issue of net filtering in Canadian libraries.

"A new study from the University of Western Ontario identifies six types of IT learners. Richard Ivey professor and co-author of the study Deborah Compeau reveals some surprises about how people learn technology in organizations. "

I don't totally agree with everything Richard Rose writes here but all the points are worth thinking about and discussing.

Slideshow by Richard Byrne presenting his "Best of the Web" for 2012--most are tools that he used for the first time this year. Includes screenshots.

"Polls, chat tools, and interactive quizzes provide good ways to hear from all of the students in a classroom." Another great list of resources for getting feedback from students by Richard Byrne.

Great summary by Richard Bryne + video of Adobe Spark - which includes Post, Page, and Video creation

"In this episode we explore some research published by Dr Stephen Earl from the University of Kent in England that is expected to help teachers identify specific reasons for different types of pupil withdrawal in the classroom. Read more about the research at ukedchat.com/2017/04/26/teenage…ive-psychological/ Also, Richard Rogers shares some great classroom activities and ideas about differentiation - The accompanying blog post is at ukedchat.com/2017/04/25/differe…iation-magic-tool/ Get in touch with us via podcast@ukedchat.com and follow us on Twitter @UKEdPodcast, or Direct Message us via the @UKEdChat  accounts on Twitter or Facebook."