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

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Includes articles on video games, the LiveScribe pen, and other classroom technology.

"schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut budgets and lay off teachers, with little proof that this approach is improving basic learning."

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.

2006 Time article on ... you guessed it.

Awww, you missed your chance to take part in Star Wars!

2008 multitasking study. From the conclusion: "Our results suggest that interruptions lead people to change not only work rhythms but also strategies and mental states. Another possibility is that interruptions do in fact lengthen the time to perform a task but that this extra time only occurs directly after the interruption when reorienting back to the task, and it can be compensated for by a faster and more stressful working style."

Google Apps tools that support Anderson/Krathwohl's revision to Bloom's taxonomy.

New York Times magazine article on RCS and KIPP character education programs.

"It was just another day here at St. John's College, whose distinctiveness goes far beyond its curriculum of great works: Aeschylus and Aristotle, Bacon and Bach. As much of academia fractures into ever more specific disciplines, this tiny college still expects - in fact, requires - its professors to teach almost every subject, leveraging ignorance as much as expertise."

"It was just another day here at St. John's College, whose distinctiveness goes far beyond its curriculum of great works: Aeschylus and Aristotle, Bacon and Bach. As much of academia fractures into ever more specific disciplines, this tiny college still expects - in fact, requires - its professors to teach almost every subject, leveraging ignorance as much as expertise."

How digital tools can fit into the taxonomy. Based on Anderson/Krathwohl's 2000 revision to Bloom's original.

Anderson/Krathwohl's 2-axis taxonomy of educational objectives. 

Very long talk by Eric Mazur on the merits of teaching for understanding.

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"Online learning is sweeping across America. In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K-12 students did. What was originally a distance learning phenomenon no longer is. Most of the growth is occurring in blended-learning environments, in which students learn online in an adult-supervised environment at least part of the time. As this happens, online learning has the potential to transform America's education system..."

"A blended learning approach combines face to face classroom methods with computer-mediated activities to form an integrated instructional approach." Leads to more links about blended learning as well.

Slideshare in which Robert Talbert explains his vision of a flipped classroom: its justification and its application in classes.