SJR Teacher/Learners

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

The facility is reachable by searching for "ads preference manager," by clicking on "ads by Google" buttons that appear along with certain targeted ads, and through a somewhat cumbersome process via Google's home page.

It tells me that privacy is very much also culturally defined

There's certainly much more privacy debate in the U.S. now than ever in my two decades of being involved in privacy law

While a lot of this activity comes directly from demands of one's employer, Toronto-based life coach Joshua Zuchter said much of it is also a matter of personal choice.

For the first time in years we had nearly the whole day to talk with our departmental colleagues about our challenges, our successes, and what we're doing in our classrooms.

saying goodbye to the fifty pound backpacks our students carry around, and all of their textbooks and learning resources will be available on this one, small device!

curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen

we are woefully neglecting writing in our schools and in this new digital world, where writing is needed more than ever, we are doing a tremendous disservice to our kids

Collaboration is the real step to education transformation. When we gather to produce, our ideas, talents, and skills embody our final outcome.

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

Keep it short

Do the vodcast with another teacher

7 ways games reward the brain

Touch screens can be game-changing

It is ironic that in one of the world’s most progressive technological areas nobody here seems to be feeling like they have to choose.

Kids are still doing lots and lots of reading, writing and discussion and in a lot of ways, the technology allows that engagement,"

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