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The human element, a magical connection, is at the heart of successful education, and you can’t bottle it.

At the heart of effective technology integration practices, digital technologies offer learners greater opportunities to be more actively involved in the learning experience.

We’re going from districts fearing it and blocking it off to welcoming it and making it a major part of their technology plan. We’ll be surprised if a significant portion of districts aren’t using mobile learning inside and outside of schools soon.”

Each educator, each class, each school will have to find the best way to integrate mobile devices based on its student population. The opportunity of using mobile devices and all of its utilities allows educators to reconsider: What do we want students to know, and how do we help them? And what additional benefit does using a mobile device bring to the equation? This gets to the heart of the mobile learning issue: beyond fact-finding and game-playing – even if it’s educational — how can mobile devices add relevance and value to how kids learn?

personalized learning – students owning what they learn.

1:1 computer environment, the key is to utilize the technology for a clear and direct purpose that is in support of student learning.

PBL is at the heart of creating an engaging classroom

Lee Crockett made a comment the other day about BYOD, Bring your own device and Digital Citizenship. He said that the heart of any BYOD program is digital citizenship

Students must live and abide by the underlying ethics of digital citizenship, and to do this we can not set down a block of rules like the tablets of the 10 commandments and say abide by these.

It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.

the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.

Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows

Mediocre, scattershot training, apart from doing little to help students, is a burden for teachers.

“We should start where students’ weaknesses and shortcomings are and then seek strategies or techniques to help [teachers] understand those shortcomings.”

“But the heart of it has to be about planning for good instruction and evaluating teaching.”

Without adopting inquiry-based, student-centered, skill-driven approaches to teaching and learning -- all nested in a system that values innovation -- STEM education will become just another term for additional math and engineering courses.

heart of any STEM program should be courses in which students create products, not just take tests

Allow for creativity

What is assessment? Where do we want students to be at the end of a course or a program? And how will we know if they get there? Those two questions are at the heart of assessment.