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you can visit that world and offer your students some of its benefits -- like fluency with online collaboration and communication -- from right where you are

In fact, I'm never up in front of the board "teaching" the class for more than 15 minutes at a time. Let me explain:

Bad lecturing is dead (as it should be); a corollary is most teachers are bad lecturers (which they are)

If you are checking your Blackberry while helping your kids do their homework, you are switching tasks that require different perspectives," Hamilton says. "That can be taxing on the executive function of your brain and reduce your ability to use self-control in other areas of your life."

How do you identify and avoid spreading misinformation, myths, and urban legends on the internet?

employ a healthy level of skepticism for what you're reading, watching, or otherwise consuming—on the internet or elsewhere

Snopes is "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation"—and for the most part, it actually does live up to that goal.

Key Trends in 2011:

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Cloud computing Mobiles

When students step out the door of the institution called school today, they step into a learning environment that is organized in ways radically different from how it once was

The third scenario might be called “open access to learning,” or “caterpillar learns to fly.”