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What do you get when you mix STEM, project-based learning, college prep, personalized blended learning, and a small supportive environment?

schools and teachers often get stuck in a "Yeah, but..." mindset when thinking about change. Instead of dreaming about what's possible -- taking a "What if" stance towards the challenges standing in our way

Unlike most school reformers floating 'tweak-the-status-quo' proposals these days (let's test kids more! let's get rid of a few teachers! let's make school longer! let's lecture better!), the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) decided to swing for the fences:

As with learning to read, swim or play good football children will be much more effective social networkers with support, guidance and help than without

We need to educate young people to understand that it is wrong to write anything on a social networking site which you wouldn’t say to someone’s face

Second, Twitter and Facebook are, as has been well publicised, a groomer’s dream.

What If School Was More Like Twitter?

Twitter offers a great deal of variety in opinion

Twitter offers us is the ability to respond to ideas and have a general discussion about those responses.

unless traditional teaching practices morph to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices can afford, some fear the promise will go the way of all the technology collecting dust in the corner of the classroom. Worse, it might eventually lead to what everyone unequivocally dreads: the mechanization of teaching.

“Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”

With the clear partnership between Microsoft and Facebook, then, will Facebook become the new space for not just students but for students and teachers to work on class projects?

still see it as a distraction and a platform for stupid public disclosures by students and cyberbullying."

Boasting a 98 percent college-matriculation rate among graduates, High Tech High warrants a closer look, and Whiteley's documentary devotes a full year to examining the project

"The only surviving skills that will save young kids are creative and innovative. As the current school system is now, for 12 of 16 years, you're not in an environment that brings that out of them."

The literature shows that more recent, sophisticated applications of the technology produce greater positive gains than older applications, he said.

"Where technology does have a positive impact is when it actively engages students, when it's used as a communication tool, when it's used for things like simulations or games that enable students to actively manipulate the environment."