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Generalizations that label these schools as elitist, tradition-bound and homogenous probably aren't based on a recent first-hand look.

A Skype call with a school far away may represent good exposure to different places and cultures, but without integrating it into a learning plan, it's more of a memory than a skill-building endeavor, and divvying up topics for a group presentation fall short of collaboration if problems aren't being solved together.

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videos for flipped classroom

There are games appropriate for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. The games for younger students appear at the top of the Active Science list and the games for older students are at the bottom of the list.

Students can create movies right inside the Chrome browser.  Students can upload movies as well as photos to add to their projects.

Still, class rank has real consequences. While colleges and universities are often more interested in course rigor than class rank in their applicant pool, there are instances in which class rank is quite important. For example, the University of Texas at Austin provides automatic admission (1) to students graduating in the top X percent of their class (X varies annually based on the percent needed to fill 75 percent of available Texas resident spaces).

Guskey points out that some schools are adopting a Latin honor system similar to that of colleges and universities, in which students meeting certain requirements can graduate cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude, and that other schools name multiple valedictorians based on rigorous academic criteria.

understand that being an adult doesn't mean the end of reading for business or pleasure, just the continuation of a lifelong series of opportunities.

set a standard of reading for children is to take advantage of any opportunity within your school or city where adults read to children.

According to the latest data, video for homework is on the rise; mobile computing is "beyond the tipping point"; and most kids don't use traditional computers to connect to the Internet at home.

surveyed identify 3G- or 4G-enabled devices as their primary means of connecting to the Internet

Evans noted that 46 percent of teachers are using video in in the classroom.

teachers who practice flipping have seen "higher student achievement, increased student engagement, and better attitudes toward learning and school."

But instead of having students view the content at home, that video becomes a station in class that small groups rotate through. The rest of their time is spent on other activities -- independent work and group work, with some activities related to the lesson and others focusing on different course content.

The teacher can observe whether students are really watching.