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By Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj, The InfoSavvy Group, Sept 2006. Jukes and Dosaj look at the challenges of digital immigrants (e.g. adults) effectively teaching digital natives (today's kids).

In the forum (Table 4: Thinkers) there is a PDF of an earlier version of this resouce (2004).

This is a site where users can create educational trivia and quiz games, and share them.

Definition from Wikipedia. Bloom's taxonomy is essentially the classification of learning objectives that educators set for students.

By Pranav Mistry. Posted on YouTube. This tool, a "wearable gestural interface" connects the physical world with the digital world of information. For more, see http://pranavmistry.misutori.com/projects/sixthsense/

By Malcolm Gladwell, published Little Brown, 2000. Gladwell looks at why major changes seem to happen so suddenly. His "tipping point" is the moment when "social epidemics... take off, when they reach their critical mass...."

Rick Maupin quoted: "The nature of modern culture is such that many new ideas are constantly being introduced from a wide variety of sources, ranging from trend-setting teens and twenty-somethings in the nation's metropolitan centers to new product offerings from established corporations. Some of these achieve a measure of steady, consistent success, some fail, and some take off on an upward trajectory of exponential popularity and influence."

By John Dewey, published in 1921.

Ed Ingman posted that Dewey's idea of "the end in mind" is relevant to Conley's work on college readiness.

Performance by Brad Paisley, posted on YouTube. Another look at ideas about the future.

Tagline: Love and Logic (c) provides simple and easy to use techniques to help parents have more fun and less stress while raising responsible kids of all ages. There is a section of the site devoted to classroom solutions for educators.

Sharon Hall recommends, saying "I have personal experience utilizing the concepts with very difficult students over the past 9 years."

Educator Madeline Hunter developed the Instructional Theory into Practice, or ITIP model for teaching. This web page, from the education department of Hope College (MI) outlines the model.

Overview of the federal government's Blue Ribbon Schools program, this site includes the application and an outline of the application process, as well as information about last year's winning schools.

Researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, Jeff Brenman, there are numerous versions of this video on the web. This is the version used for the MCNC principals and directors meeting, Feb 2010.

By David T. Conley, published in Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) - Illinois, Update Newsletter, spring 2009, 20(2). This article was one of the assigned readings for MCNC's Principals and Directors meeting, Feb 2010.

By Daniel T. Willingham, in American Educator, spring 2009, pp 4-13. Excerpted from his book, Why Don't Students Like School, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2009. This article was one of the assigned readings for MCNC's Principals and Directors meeting, Feb 2010.

By Chris Rawlinson, posted on his website. An alternate version of the Did You Know video.

On YouTube, another version of the Did You Know video.

By David T. Conley, published by Jossey-Bass, 2005. From summary: Describes many of the problems facing ill prepared college-bound students and outlines potential actions that should enable more students to go on to postsecondary education and do well in entry-level college courses.