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Basic article on the concept of Khan Academy. My takeaway was the importance of the following quote: "It can give the teacher additional class time to do more creative and customized teaching. " If you are not taking up classtime imparting knowledge where the teacher is speaking more of the time, you give students the voice to explain what is going on in their heads, or working on collaborative problem solving.

"Primary teachers leave technology to the secondary teachers; Secondary teachers leave technology to the Higher Ed Teachers; and Higher Ed teachers assume that students are "digital natives". Tech skills of Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Research, Social Learning, and Media Literacy in general are not being taught by some educators, but rather being assumed to be mastered by our digital natives."

Very powerful application of Google Apps to create a system of assessment and feedback for teachers and students. It's complex, but he's provided the whole template.

"This section provides a document on teaching portfolios (pdf) - including a description of their common structure and recommendations for specific artifacts to include as evidence of effective teaching - and information on our program for graduate students that helps them document their teaching experience at Carnegie Mellon."

Intriguing exam-taking software for a laptop or desktop, Mac or Win. Provides a kiosk interface that locks students out of other applications. Really works. To try it, sign up as an instructor.

"The five Cs below will empower educators to discover how they and their students can begin building personal learning networks specific to the learner's needs extending relevant learning connections to like-interested people around the globe." 

web-based educational software program that teaches students how words work

"I used to have to tell my students about phenomena, or have them read; now I can show them," says Jim Doane, a science teacher at Scarborough Middle School, in Scarborough, Maine. When we begin adding digital demonstrations through video and Flash animation, we are giving students new, better ways to get information." This is sooo true - I love that I can show my kindergartners a video of a baby worm hatching from it's cocoon because the odds of us being able to see it in our worm bin despite the number of actual cocoons we may see are very,very low! Or videos of leaves changing color (in fast time) when we discuss chlorphyll and sunlight and fall. Or a magnificent closeup of our very own red wigglers as they "move" across the Promethean Board.

Not phenomenal editing, but gets his point across: based on evidence, Mazur was convinced that lecturing alone wasn't as effective a tool as engaging his students in active learning.

A teacher's extension of Michael Wesch's college-themed video. Similar themes and execution but aimed at K-12 instead.

An article on Bloom's that includes a wonderful description of teaching organic chemistry through a mechanistic approach:  (which I've found in practice to be vastly superior to teaching students to memorize reactions!)

"Discover a project-based learning model that motivates students to pursue knowledge and drives academic achievement."

"What is an essential question? An essential question is - well, essential: important, vital, at the heart of the matter - the essence of the issue."

"Browse and use standards-aligned curriculum." Some free, some paid.

"we found that they still had many of the well-known conceptual difficulties with basic mechanics, and there was little correlation between the number of problems solved and conceptual understanding. This result suggests that traditional problem solving has a limited effect on conceptual understanding."

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Good tutorial resource about using Diigo