Their homepage features a great example of slide rocket. Looks like a Google Tool that takes the strengths of PowerPoint, PhotoStory and Google Presentation.
blending video tutorials about complex concepts into a high-quality project-based curriculum has its place in the learning process.
Years of research have proved that an individual's ownership of new knowledge comes through constructive, productive, creative activities, not through passive consumption of instructional tutorials or reading textbooks.
But, we also found that when the aim is to make children the designers and builders of their own learning -- and therefore the owners of the knowledge they achieve -- Constructionism is necessary. And if investors and innovators want the new flipped classrooms to have a significant and scalable impact on students, we must use technology to integrate and promote Constructionist learning spaces across the country -- faster. This integration is both our greatest challenge and our biggest opportunity for realizing the potential benefits -- educational, societal or financial -- of flipping classrooms
This is one of the schools we visited, and was one of my favorites. I have some footage of their language class. All these little ones have iPads and it is just amazing to watch them use them.
The truth is, if you want a decent job that will lead to a decent life today you have to work harder, regularly reinvent yourself, obtain at least some form of postsecondary education, make sure that you’re engaged in lifelong learning and play by the rules. That’s not a bumper sticker, but we terribly mislead people by saying otherwise.
lifelong learning is the key to getting into, and staying in, the middle class.
“illiteracy will not be defined by those who cannot read and write, but by those who cannot learn and relearn.” Any form of standing still is deadly.