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students rotate on a fixed schedule or at the teacher’s discretion between learning modalities, at least one of which is online learning.

Lab Rotation – a Rotation-model implementation in which within a given course or subject (e.g., math), students rotate on a fixed schedule or at the teacher’s discretion among locations on the brick-and-mortar campus.

Individual Rotation – a Rotation-model implementation in which within a given course or subject (e.g., math), students rotate on an individually customized

A blended learning approach combines face to face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated instructional approach.

The goal of a blended approach is to join the best aspects of both face to face and online instruction.

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.

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

Traditional professional development, however—the kind in which teachers attend a one-time workshop or conference to learn a new teaching method, for example—hasn't provided much help in bringing her classroom into the 21st century.

That reality needs to change,

focus, with razor-sharp attention, on what students need to learn, rather than on how to use a specific device.

there’s a disparity between what principals expect from new hires and what teachers-in-training are learning.

Sixty-eight percent of teachers-in-training report they rely most heavily on field placements to learn about how to integrate technology into the classroom. They also watch their professors and take advice from peers.

not a project, but a process

importance of READING other blogs

checklist for students

at the end of the speech, students had posted a total of 438 tweets and 18 pages of Moodle chat. (Interestingly, no one went on Facebook,