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Students live and will work in an increasingly highly connected and collaborative world, and we have to understand what this means for learning, working, and living in order to provide a more personal, self-directed and more effective learning environment for the students.

Increased exposure to more diverse ideas, learning experiences and techniques. Increased networking which helps educators to know other educators and their practices across the world. It provides educators with opportunities to collaborate on a variety of research, projects, techniques for teaching and more. It allows educators to stay up to date with all the current things happening in educational organizations all over the world. Educators can easily learn about the best practices for teaching globally and share them with others. It keeps their literacy flowing and evolving on the tools of 21st century . Educators can make their students experience high-quality virtual classes (with MOOCs) and blended classes where learning occurs even outside the schools. Through this educators can make masses of people understand the relevance of education that students are receiving presently and how they can make positive amends to it.

This is the last generation of students who will carry backpacks to school.

Never in the history of education has the delivery of instruction been so drastically altered so incredibly quickly

It’s click and record simplicity

It’s available everywhere

These aren’t single tools to “try,” but news ways to think about how learners access media, how educators define success, and what the roles of immense digital communities should be in popularizing new learning models.

None of it is really complicated—it just requires new thinking.

This occurs simply through crowdsourced knowledge

a “flipped school” —

The results were dramatic: the failure rate in English dropped from 52 percent to 19 percent; in math, it dropped from 44 percent to 13 percent; in science, from 41 percent to 19 percent; and in social studies, from 28 percent to 9 percent

“On average we approximated a 30 percent failure rate,” said Green. “With flipping, it dropped to under 10 percent.”