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Cori Belle, USA, Primary, Literacy, Reading, WritingI love to read and write and am passionate about teaching kids. I taught first grade for four years. Though I am currently taking a break from teaching to raise my family, my desire is to help teachers make sense of current trends in reading and writing and to provide some thoughts on how to merge these ideas with existing teaching practices.Growing Readers and WritersIncreasing the capacity of teachers to provide high quality literacy instruction.

Xinyu Li, China, SecondaryTeacher of Information Technology.mingxiao's blogFocusing on media and educational technology.Theme: web2.0 tools, media and software applications, social learning

Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators

Enhance the classroom experience. Yes, that even means letting your students online with laptops and other devices when they’re in your classroom. Use a hashtag and ask your students to use it on each tweet; this means you can easily collate tweets together at the end of the alloted task/activity/time. Read this: Twitterati in the academy Read this: Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool Read this: Twitter Conference Ideas : eLearning Technology Bring student ideas, reading, emotions, etc into your world. Whether Twitter is used in the classroom or just around each timetabled seminar/lecture time, Twitter and it’s use can add value to the contents or your teaching, and you’ll end up learning from your learners.

The key features of the primary curriculum put forward by this Review are: Recognising the continuing importance of subjects and the essential knowledge, skills and understanding they represent. Providing a stronger focus on curriculum progression. Strengthening the focus on ensuring, that by the age of seven, children have a secure grasp of the literacy and numeracy skills they need to make good progress thereafter.  Strengthening the teaching and learning of ICT to enable them to be independent and confident users of technology by the end of primary education. Providing a greater emphasis on personal development through a more integrated and simpler framework for schools.  Building stronger links between the Early Years Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1, and between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. in offering exciting opportunities for learning languages for 7-11 year olds.

在《会唱歌的积木》中，我们分享了来自TED.com原始网页上wylie jones的评论。wylie jones说TED不但可以是 technology, entertainment, design（科技、娱乐与设计），还可以是teaching, encouraging, developing（教育、鼓励与发展），或 talent, energy, daring（才智、能量与胆识），或 thinking, enlightening, discovering（思考、启发与发现）。