SJR Teacher/Learners

Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both fundamental skills (reading, writing, and math) and Digital Age skills (teamwork, problem solving, research gathering, time management, information synthesizing, utilizing high-tech tools). With this combination of skills students become directors and managers of their learning process, guided and mentored by a skilled teacher.

People are drowning in a deluge of data. Corporate users received about 110 messages a day in 2010, says market researcher Radicati Group. There are 110 million tweets a day, Twitter says. Researcher Basex has pegged business productivity losses due to the "cost of unnecessary interruptions" at $650 billion in 2007.

if the students have met your criteria for completing research and have completed other assessment activities that show proficiency with content, let them pursue their ideas and choices.

Evaluating the iPad for Education

attitude here has always been to look very carefully at emerging technologies, and not implement them until we're comfortable that they will benefit students and enhance the curriculum,

David Nagel: You've described the cell phone as a "game changer" for education and as the "quintessential 21st century tool." Why the cell phone specifically?

or 90 percent of what a student has to do, the smart phone can do i

Samsung's Galaxy already has a version that can shoot out a 60-inch image!

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Interactive whiteboards are the classroom technology that teachers say they most value, and though tablet-style eReader devices such as Apple’s iPad haven’t been around for long, they’re already considered the second most useful mobile classroom technology behind laptops,

60 percent of their time using educational resources in the classroom that are either free or paid for by the teachers themselves.

increasingly clear to me that the less I teach, the more my students are actually learning

I Resign From Teaching

I have carefully constructed learning questions and activities for each student. The students are working collaboratively with each other on differentiated learning activities and producing a variety of evidence

How to Use Google Documents: Video Series

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.

The role of the academy — and the way we prepare students for their future lives — is changing.

notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.

Learning analytics

Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.

There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warrior”) that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other.

selected press clippings and resources in this section have been chosen to provide a clear sense of both the forest and the trees in the landscape of emerging technology

it depends on how they are used to support instruction, whether or not they become toys, and what you do with it when it in the hands of the user.  Accessories, apps, and scheduling matter-A LOT.

Our challenge is to find ways to teach our children how to navigate the rapidly moving digital present, consciously and reflectively.

the "one life" perspective says the opposite, that it is precisely our job as educators to help students live one, integrated life, by inviting them to not only use their technology at school, but also talk about it within the greater context of community and society.

The tie that binds us to our ancestors is that both ancient and digital-age humans crave community

To ensure that students learn how to think critically and are assessed in an "authentic" way