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Students Turn Their Cellphones On for Classroom Lessons

CREST is a programme for schools run by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation that aims to promote Creativity. By adding creativity to our science lessons we can move past boiling water and encourage students towards serious scientific and technological discovery.

We do keep hearing about study abroad collaborations every now and then. Most of us just rub it off as "just another fluffy news". But, the truth is such collaborations for study abroad are very much a pro for students who are eager to study abroad. With Talent Xperts going for one such step with Anderson College of Health, Business, and Technology, Canada last month, there's all but good news for students who wish to pursue higher studies in Canada.

Partnership between college faculty, elementary teachers, and students.  Based on National Science Foundation 

Ice Breakers are the introductory norm for classrooms full of new students, but you can add interest and innovation to the getting-to-know-you process with manageable web tools.

To meet this challenge, teachers can use an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.

"special education, technology, reading, website, social media, reading activity, writing, sharing, collaboration, publishing, web-based activities, stories, storytelling"

Nice wiki providing instructional strategies that work in the classroom. There is a list of tools to engage students too.

Free online tool for collaborative discussions; includes voting tool, graphing of results, and participation reports

This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators.

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