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Excellent visual showing teacher activities at each level of SAMRl; Timeline of "beliefs" about learning with technology . The shift is a significant one, and necessary.

article on shifting instruction and using Khan Academy as a tool, but not the only instruction - very interesting

Maybe not even using Khan Academy, but applying the idea of creating an explanation of the math problem then students create a video - showing mastery.

I spend a lot of time, these days, talking and writing about how we are asking teachers to redefine what it means to be a teacher - and, in all fairness, how difficult that is. I try to present myself as a master learner, suggesting that part of what teachers should be, today, is constant and resourceful learners - master learners. But perhaps a significant part of this exercise in redefinition should involve our students - an explicit remolding of perceptions of these youngsters, in order to fully shift the relationship between student and teacher, learner and master learner.

"As the information landscape shifts to offer far more information in an often befuddling manner that some have called "data smog," many schools are learning that traditional approaches to student research are inadequate to meet the essential learning goals set by most states or provincial governments. With hundreds of computers and dozens of classrooms connected to extensive electronic information resources, schools are recognizing the importance of reinventing the way they engage students in both questioning and research. "

The way we lock in knowledge and skills is often counterintuitive. A debut column on the lowdown of learning

"The growing access to knowledge, information, people, and tools that our students are getting demands a shift in how we think about the work they do in school."