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fostering 21st-century skills is best done through active learning in a classroom setting.

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students now view the inability to use their own electronics devices in school as the primary barrier to a successful digital education.

The NWP Digital Is website is a teaching-focused knowledge base exploring the art and craft of writing,

Skype in the classroom is a free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms. Join today to share resources, chat with teachers and even pair classes.

Showbeyond is a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform and story sharing community.

“My God man…where do you find all this stuff?” “I don’t know how you keep up with all this…technology.” “You must spend all day in front of a computer…”

Discover what you need to know, and also what you don’t know – all at the same time

big issue for so many teachers like me is where do you find the time to test out new stuff.

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:

five aspects of schooling where teachers can make a positive difference to student engagement. They are Competence, Creativity, Community, Context, and Challenge.

A central premise of Tuned Out is that if something is important to student engagement, it is equally important to teacher engagement. Therefore, some of the suggested actions are for students, some are for teachers, and some are for use by facilitators of adult learning.

Interview with Karen Hume on Tuned Out

Teachers and students today need to be creative, flexible and collaborative learners, and Hume explains how to make this happen. - Don Tapscott

Think: more rigorous, more relevant, more fun.

Informal, or formative assessments are about checking for understanding in an effective way in order to guide our instruction.

65,000 iPad-specific apps available in the App Store; there are fewer than 100 tablet apps available for Android. If you're shopping for a tablet this year, that's an important difference.

The three-year project could result in a useful resource for both mathematicians and theoretical physicists to aid calculations in a variety of fields from number theory to atomic physics. But those hoping t

Now, the coming months will bring a blizzard of tablets that are meant to compete with the iPad

the shocker here, though, is that the iPad 2 actually costs less than its comparably equipped Android rivals, like the Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.