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The Doo's we need to tell our students to do in school instead of the Don'ts. How can we challenge students with these doo's?

Great article that paints our current educational direction toward trivia vs. deep understanding

iPad vs Android tablet. Which one?

groups vs networks in learning environment

Comparación entre Moodle y Edu 2.0 (en inglés)

includes study re intro statistics; problems and promises for mobile content delivery as "information dissemination" of a book vs interactive, collaborative work by students around selected texts

Advantages of using group-sized whiteboards over chart paper for student collaborative work: the "power of the eraser," students more likely to take risks, etc.

An alternative schema to the "digital native" vs. "digital immigrant" dichotomy. Emphasis is placed upon one's own adaptation to technology-rich culture using the axes of "access" and "participation" to form a classification quadrant.

You make some very good points but I think you could go further. The reason we put so much emphasis on "originality" is because we were preparing students for a world in which they would have to prepare written and oral presentations individually. In the modern workplace, very little is done that way anymore. Authorship is not what it used to be. Now, everything seems to be collaborative, generated at "stand-up" meetings of the whole "team". I'm not sure the end result is better, but it's clear that the very concept of plagiarism needs reconsideration. What if we created exercises around the task of correcting other people's work? Wouldn't that be more useful and "creative"?

Great for ten page paper

Finland recently made the news for its decision to shift away from a focus on handwriting. Beginning in 2016 students will not be required tl learn cursive handwriting and instead will be taught typing skills. If this was anywhere other tan Finland the decision might be ignored or ridiculed but the Finnish Education systems reputation for producing quality learning backed by innovative practice makes this hard to ignore.

Fixed mindset vs Growth Mindset. A reflection on how it affects education. (with a little homage to 'Coach Carter')

Info on essential questions.

In a time where much of the debate around education is linked to performance on national and international assessments such as PISA, TIMMS, PIRLS and in Australia, NAPLAN combined with calls for market-driven reforms there is a danger that a climate of competition between schools and systems will grow.

"At its inception in the Victorian era, mass education in the UK focused very much on conformity, based on the prevailing 'factory production' mindset on the age. But how much has changed? With top down curricula and a rigid exam system testing the merest fraction of what is actually important, has education really left the production line behind?"

Do you like your learning 'home delivered' or do you prefer it to be 'home cooked'? Is learning something that you are the driver of or is learning something that happens to you?