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1. Assign worksheet for homework. 2. The next day, collect worksheets & redistribute randomly to other classmates. 3. Give students 5 minutes to silently study the student's paper they were given. 4. Each student will be given 60-90 seconds to stand up and introduce the person they were randomly assigned. They are to tell everything they can about that person based on their paper. Challenge the students to practice higher level thinking + observations/inferences. For example, if the paper a student received is very neat & organized, they can infer that the student took his/her time and has good work ethic. If the paper is sloppy & only half complete, the student can infer that he/she rushed through the work or didn't try very hard.

They sound like something out of science fiction, but Bitcoins are getting just a little bit more real every day. They're intangible and invisible, but bitcoins recently attracted some real investment capital from the Winklevoss twins, who first dreamed up the idea for Facebook - or so their lawsuit argued. A bit of background: Bitcoins are a virtual currency system. They were programmed by an anonymous programmer(s?) in 2009. There are a limited number of possible bitcoins that can ever be traded-21 million-and the "coins" become available incrementally. That process is crowdsourced (anybody can mint bitcoins) but it requires solving complex encryption problems. Most bitcoin miners have an army of computer hardware to do the work for them.

"It seems like you can't open an education periodical these days without finding an article espousing the wonders of flipping the classroom. Like most initiatives in schools, flipping the classroom does have merit in the right situation. But also like most initiatives it's not a one-size-fits-all solution. Here are three questions that I have to ask before flipping a classroom."

(E-portfolio Formative Assessment) Set up one folder for general classroom observations, then make a dedicated folder for each student in your class. Instantly your phone or tablet becomes your eyes, ears and brain. Collect visual data, record audio, and add notes as you have time. Later, process all you collected and decide who achieved mastery and who you need to meet with the next day.