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CFY, conducted a pilot in 2011-12 that worked with teachers on incorporating blended learning into their classrooms. Our goal was not technological but pedagogical.

Envision these cycles as gears that are interlocked and running as one to drive student achievement and student ownership of learning. Neither of these cycles requires technology, but both are greatly enhanced by using technology.

Shifting Prominence of Each Gear from K-12

launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning

Students created a driving question

product of students' choice created by teams

that factory-model schooling was not just ineffective but actually harmful to most students—a message which had been so radical and out of the mainstream twenty years ago, actually sounded very much like the messages of my other guests.

the Internet has become an unparalleled platform for learning, intitiative, participation, productivity, and creativity, almost all of this happens outside of formal educational institutions

technology as a liberating force

there are lots of great benefits to having your data backed up online. But there are also lots of benefits to having your data backed up locally, on an external hard drive. It’s cheap, backups and restores are fast and you maintain control over your data.

iCloud (here’s more on the iCloud.com launch), which allows iTunes purchases including songs and TV episodes to be stored on Apple’s servers and tapped into on-demand via any of your iTunes or iOS devices. This includes the option to have your purchases automatically download to each of your devices (buying a song via iTunes on your computer and having it immediately also download itself to your iPhone, for instance) and also includes the ability to download any previous purchases, including those you may have lost due to drive failure, for free