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Off the grid-for-little-kids videos and other smart stuff collected by Rion Nakaya and her three year old co-curator.

Gooru is a free platform for 21st century teachers and students. We offer a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and curating content.

Collaboration in the past was limited at best, due to the costly restraints of time and space. Districts needed to pay for travel and provide time away from the job, which limited the amount of collaboration possible. This excluded a great number of educators who could not be replaced if absent from the classroom.

Technology has provided us with the ability to communicate, curate, collaborate, and (most importantly) create with any number of educators, globally, at any time, and at very little cost.

victims of its dated mindset: if it was good enough for me, it's good enough for the kids. The idea of collaboration requires a mindset of believing there is room to learn and grow. It is also a belief that we are smarter collectively than individually.

Creating is not only at the top of Bloom’s taxonomy, it is a critical skill needed for the advancement of our society.

Curating is a skill needed to sift through the mountains of new content created every day.

A key component of creative class jobs is collaboration

Students working in cooperative groups can create a Scoop.it! about a topic of interest or study. Teachers can create Scoop.Its! about topics they are studying for professional development. Teachers can create Scoop.Its! about topics their students will be studying. Students and Teachers can look at existing Scoop.Its! to connect with others who share their interests and learn about interesting things. Here are some interesting Scoop.its! that I found about learning innovatively:

some Scoop.its to share, offering a taste of the kind of current awareness the tool provides for school library professionals.