As my title suggests, these 11 traits should be encouraged and developed in our students. Standards, standardized testing and approved curriculum is important, but is not enough. We need to develop what students will truly need in to be successful in the future. Creativity is the edge they need and we need to do our best develop it. So with thanks to Dean, here are 11 highly creative traits that students need to develop.

A small but already by no means negligible number of Americans is starting to realize what their future looks like: no retirement, no job, no savings, plus they are getting old. Their only possible means of support in old age is their children.

Simply by seeing what others do, I have been forced to reflect on my own practice and improve it. SLIDESHARE & PRESENTATIONS

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Online classes see significant boost in enrollment

Digital Natives The real bombshell which will be hitting primary schools now and secondary schools in the next decade is a whole bunch of Noahs. These kids have grown up with YouTube (which has only been around since 2005) and all the web 2.0 which we, as pure digital immigrants, are trying to adapt to. At the same time their parents, having become comfortable with computers and the Internet, have felt confident enough to expose them to this technology at every earlier ages. The result is likely to be a wave of genuine digital natives that I am not sure education is ready for.

Developing Online From Simplicity toward Complexity: Going with the Flow of Non-Linear Learning

Technology Architecture and Furniture

Usable Knowledge - Leadership & Policy - Decisions through Data - Teaching and Curriculum

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) attempts to capture some of the essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.

Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning 7/15/2008 05:48:00 PM Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage." We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for?

Giving professors gadgets without training can do more harm than good in the classroom, students say

Gov of South Australia - Pedagogy

Currently, researchers advocate constructivist practices over predominantly didactic models. This preference is supported by research indicating that when basic skills are taught via constructivist approaches, students: ¨ Retain knowledge better; ¨ Transfer concepts flexibly across situations; and ¨ Exhibit a deeper understanding of content.

Integrating Technology and Pedagogy Constuctivist Foundations of Teaching For Learning

Wilson's Curriculum Pages - Beyond Bloom - A new Version of the Cognitive Taxonomy

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Education Theories We've broken down this section on theories into the following five categories:

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