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Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the 21st century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design professionals - architects, engineers, town planners, programmers - teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. But teaching is not treated as a design profession. Every day, teachers design and test new ways of teaching, using learning technology to help their learners. But their discoveries remain local. By representing and communicating their best ideas as structured pedagogical patterns, teachers could develop this vital professional knowledge collectively. Teacher professional development has not embedded in the teacher's everyday role the idea that they could discover something worth communicating to other teachers, or build on each others' ideas. Could the culture change? From this unique perspective on the nature of teaching, Diana Laurillard argues that a 21st century education system needs teachers who work collaboratively to design effective and innovative teaching.

In my opinion the most important thing is -given teaching will be treated as a collective design science- learning about how to apply new ways of teaching on our individual children. The newest would probably not always be the best and what worked in other schools elsewhere might not work in your own school. So let´s also stress how to individualize collective knowledge again and break it down to everyday usable teaching aid that we can evaluate.

I totally agree with your opinion about education, specially when you talk about collaborative work among teachers to help our students build knowledge .THank you

April 22, 2016 Google has recently launched a new interesting website called Computer Science Education to help students learn coding and computer science. Google Computer Science Education provides a collection of powerful tools, resources and programs to engage students in learning about the wonders of computer science. It also provides them with a number of scholarships, internships, residences and several other resources to help them develop their professional and technical skills.

As a fan and enthusiastic user of IT in classes, I have just started a course: ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum. It is a free course at www.coursera.org I will start recording some tools available online. Take a look at them and free your imagination to use them in your lessons.

Hello! I am glad to be here. I just have known this free course so I immediately enrolled. I am happy that I will be learning a lot especially in dealing with the 21st century learners. I need to enhance my skills in learning when and how to use and integrate ICT in the teaching-learning process!

Oh this is great!

A new version of the Future Classroom Lab is now available. A lot of new content is now available through the website and we invite all of you interested to login and join the FCL community! New features and improvements will be added to be website in the coming weeks.

I just found out this amazing ICT course, I am so happy of being here today and start this new journey. Hopefully I will learn as much as I can so I will be able to deliver new strategies in education I my future jobs.

Reading about the news not only makes use of literacy skills but also relevant knowledge and understanding about the world. This website provides age-appropriate news material, videos and pictures.

Great! This is a great resource to get some productive discussion started. Also, it can engage students into critical thinking and point of view analisys. Writing this down on my Journal!

A new teaching resource containing eight light-related activities is now available to download from the ESA website. Combining science with art,

"The proposed invisible learning concept is the result of several years of research and work to integrate diverse perspectives on a new paradigm of learning and human capital development that is especially relevant in the context of the 21st century. This view takes into account the impact of technological advances and changes in formal, non-formal, and informal education, in addition to the 'fuzzy' metaspaces in between. Within this approach, we explore a panorama of options for future development of education that is relevant today. Invisible Learning does not propose a theory, but rather establishes a metatheory capable of integrating different ideas and perspectives. This has been described as a protoparadigm, which is still in the 'beta' stage of construction." -Cristóbal Cobo & John Moravec

This site is from a group of architects - Fielding Nair International - that have worked redesigning schools and learning spaces in different parts of the world. Many times we dream about a new type of education ... but the school physical space is not designed for those changes. I recommend to have a look at the many cases they publish in their site (it has been very inspiring for me).

An evolving collection of innovative, interactive stories exploring the world - and our place in it -. Artists and storytellers of all sorts utilizing new technology, to explore new forms of creation, present distinct voices, strong points-of-view, and unique perspectives to provoke discussion, spur debate and challenge the way we think.

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Dear Friends, I'm the new member of this family. It is great being with you and sharing the new stuff. Here i share Voki. I hope you like it. I sometimes use this web 2.00 tool with my primary school students and they do enjoy it.

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This is a great website which explores the amazing range of digital tools that are available to tell a story. Have a look! I am sure you will find something new you can use in the classroom to encourage children to tell stories.

Thank you for sharing! I'm interested in digital storytelling so it's a very good resource for me.

This is a great resource to learn a new language and it´s free

Duolingo, the free, wildly popular language app, is taking its zero-ad, gamification approach to learning into the classroom today, with the launch of a new platform called Duolingo for Schools. Launched in 2012, Duolingo offers reading, listening, speaking and writing exercises split into different lessons ("skills") and levels (if you get a certain number wrong in a given level, you lose a life). Good example of how free app available on line are helping to solve the financial factor on developing countries and improving language learning.

Presentation tip #1: Be a great presenter with Prezi presentation software. This is a wonderful new way of presentation. Easy and quick. One can use this instead of powerpoint presentation. In my experience, students love to explore prezi.

I always use this web tools to prepare my lesson materials and also my students use it to make their Project work. I also reccomend animoto.com to prepare good and enjoyable presentations

September: IS 339 integrates Gmail and Google Apps into standard practice. Every staff member starts the new school year with their own Gmail account, and many begin using Google Docs and spreadsheets in their lessons.