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The key to success is “formative assessment,” Brovold said, which means teachers first determine which students understood the material, which students need more practice, and which didn’t understand at all.

easier to streamline other routine teacher tasks like emailing updates to parents, providing feedback on summative assessments, and even keeping track of classroom materials

, you don’t have to flip ALL your lessons all the time to have an impact

worth exploring some of the excellent (and free) materials that are available on-line already

the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and ­refreshing ­notebooks every three to four years would be ­prohibitive

surveyed the 155 eighth-graders ­participating in the pilot, they learned something ­interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school

IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications

But it struck me – why not create course materials with this? As a teacher, why shouldn’t I just craft my course documents and all the rest, package it up, and distribute it to my students? Well, there are several reasons iBooks Author isn’t ready for this.

One of the benefits of technology is that students can interact with and learn from lesson materials directly rather than waiting for a passive transfer of information

I found the videos and other resources that I used in the presentation. Here is a list of the materials I used and also some of the other ones I didn’t use, but are worthwhile looking at depending on your audience.

And though the iPads have been in the building for only two months, an education revolution appears to be under way.

I actually do use Winthrop High School students are never far from their iPads, even using them during their lunch hours. A glance across the school cafeteria reveals iPads on almost every table. this for many academic purposes." Those include taking class notes and recording lecture audio in an app dubbed Evernote, using the iPad as planner and calendar, downloading and reading class materials in PDF form and writing papers.

Twitter's magic - quite aside from the obvious networking potential - is in its simplicity and relatively no-frills design and application.

ten things I love about Twitter as a teacher and ELT materials designer:

Learning focuses on the student, not the teacher.

So "learning" as it is usually found today -- in lectures, video, and web experiences -- is viewed as transmitting information from one person to another

We neglect important high-level skills such as problem solving

Think of your favorite teachers over the years– they presented you with challenging, thought-provoking material and then asked you to think about it, question it, master the skills, and respond in a thoughtful way.