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Children will ... be required to come up with new innovations and to develop their big ideas in order to change the world.

There were some famous heroes in those books, ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Lucille Ball. There were also lesser-known "regular" people. But regardless of their fame, they all proved that ordinary people change the world. One of those ordinary people is my former English teacher Sheila Spicer.

I found this while searching Literary Criticism for a colleague, a bit reluctant to change the tags but will add a few

EdTech professionals will be challenged to become a change agent within their profession by implementing education and social media marketing tools within their daily practice.

"Google CEO Eric Schmidt created buzz (and some shock and criticism) when he suggested in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that, in the not too distant future, "every young person…will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends' social media sites.""

"Many of the best libraries are becoming town squares."

"This documentary on Texting and Driving is haunting. It focuses on four accidents, some of them fatal, and Herzog aims his camera squarely at the faces of both victims and perpetrators, asking them to describe in detail what happened and the aftermath. Herzog emphasizes the change in civilization he perceives in part by examining an accident in which an Amish family was killed and another in which a horse-shoer's truck was involved." For Senior Students.

Does anyone have essential questions for literature focus time with younger students?

"The positions of the Australian negotiators have been mixed. In relation to some provisions they are acting in accordance with domestic developments, including the recommendations of the IT pricing report on parallel importation and the abusive assertion of IP rights; on other issues, such as the extension of the term of copyright and the omission of "fair use," their position is not so strong. On these matters, and on the proposed cooperation between ISPs and copyright holders - which is controversial domestically and represents a significant change - the treaty terms ought to be open to public debate. *"

Love the last one. It's almost the opposite of what teacher training advocates - you are allowed to be an independent thinker AND change your mind. You can't ask people to think critically and then complain when they exercise that skill. And we can't do it to our students either!

"The contemporary educational system has imposed many changes in the way teachers share knowledge. It seems that you cannot be a successful teacher without being an EdTech enthusiast at the same time"

'What is memory? In this episode of Catalyst, Anja Taylor investigates how our memories change from childhood to adulthood and how we can build up greater brain reserves to power our mind into old age.'

Yes, we know there aren't enough women in tech. Yes, we know we need to change the ratio. One college has found the answer. With a three-step method, Harvey Mudd College in California quadrupled its female computer science majors. The experiment started in 2006 when Maria Klawe, a computer scientist and mathematician herself, was appointed college president. That...