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"How Might Our Students Benefit from a Flipped Classroom? Harvard Physics Professor, Eric Mazur, uses peer instruction and just-in-time teaching to promote better learning. In the details of his strategy, students use class time to grapple with, discuss and find solutions to problems that have traditionally been given as homework assignments. Mazur believes this collaborative deconstruction and application leads to deeper discussions and better learning."

"Introduction Since early in 1995, teachers everywhere have learned how to use the web well by adopting the WebQuest format to create inquiry-oriented lessons. But what exactly is a WebQuest? What does it feel like to do one? How do you know a good one when you see it? In the space of 90 minutes, you're going to grapple with these questions and more. "

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Our thesis is straightforward: Schools need to transition from the bureaucratic industrial-age structures in which they were created a hundred years ago into modern learning and improvement organizations that are suitable to the needs of today.

"The Flip: Why I Love It, How I Use It"

"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it-and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.

50+ Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story Why 50 Ways? To somewhat mangle the elegant lyrics of Paul Simon The story is all inside your head She said to me The answer is easy if you Go on the web and see I'd like to help you in your struggle With creativity There must be fifty web 2.0 ways To tell a story It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise; we are at the point now where we can do some very compelling content creation with nothing more complex than a web browser.

Change that prevents real change - Connectivism

Welcome to a new (flat) world for authors. If you want to participate in a publishing revolution that expands access to information & knowledge, while still generating handsome royalties, this Flat World might be for you!

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.

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.

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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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.

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