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In a growing number of schools, educators are echoing Papert's assertion that engaging students by starting with the concrete and solving hands-on, real-world problems is a great motivator.

When was the “old system” knocking it out of the park?

I believe however that if we continue to have the same system for our kids that we had, something is wrong.

She is not, of course, arguing that kids should be exposed to pornography, but rather that their response to it depends on the kid. By way of analogy, she says that when a 40-year-old is an alcoholic, the issue is not that he was exposed to alcohol at 21.

So what’s a person to do? Take a break, of course! But first, let’s examine the causes of all this digital stress. Then we can dive into some of the side effects of it all. Finally, we’ll look at how to fix all the digital stress and turn you into a well-oiled stress-free digital citizen

What is the best use of our class time? More precisely, how do we ensure that students do the most cognitively demanding work inside classrooms?

We’re working on shifting the focus from teaching to learning at my school. We try to ensure decisions are based on our learning principles, be they about teaching, classrooms, programs or personnel.

Lee Crockett made a comment the other day about BYOD, Bring your own device and Digital Citizenship. He said that the heart of any BYOD program is digital citizenship

Students must live and abide by the underlying ethics of digital citizenship, and to do this we can not set down a block of rules like the tablets of the 10 commandments and say abide by these.

Many educators and parents are searching for apps that provide the best environment for learning to take place.

LearnZillion is a learning platform that combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting. Each lesson highlights a Common Core standard, starting with math in grades 3-9