Until rather recently, the places where teens would find one another were physical, geographical spaces, but today they are more often located in cyberspace. Many adults are puzzled, and some are apppalled, by the amount of time teens spend online and by what they seem to do there. A terrific new book by danah boyd (who spells her name without capitals), entitled It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, helps us make sense of it.

Expanding the Definition of a Flipped Learning Environment

Presented by Dr. Lisa Wilson  Pedagogical Interfaces:  Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

The Inquiry Process, Step By Step

Personalization vs. Differentiation vs. Individualization

The Colorado Legacy Foundation's video about their Expanded Learning Opportunities Initiative  (video)

THE FIVE W'S OF PERSONALIZED LEARNING The 5 W's are the What, Who, Where, Why, and Wow of Personalized Learning. Learn what is and what is not personalized learning, learn how learners learn best, walk through the Three Stages of Personalized Learning Environments, understand how teacher and learner roles will change, and how to use assessment AS learning.

What does the future of education look like? One where the student play an active role in their education through an interactive, personalized, and continuous learning experience.

The Big Ideas School 

The CECER-DLL project is a cooperative agreement awarded to the FPG Child Development Institute of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The initiative targets children who are dual language learners (birth-age 5) and their families across settings such as: early care and education center-based programs, home-based and family child care providers, and Head Start and Early Head Start Programs.

Literacy in the Digital Age

Teaching kids to be 'digital citizens' (not just 'digital natives')

Google Apps in the Classroom - tips and tricks

We make reading (and writing) cool! Blog by reading interventionist from Waterloo school

This page by kathy Schrock gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place

I was able to adapt to my situation when the Internet went down, because I knew what I wanted to do, how it could be done, and what I could use to get there. I acted much like teachers do in classrooms every day.

College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question. Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies. Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives. Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency.

UNESCO. A primer; an easy-to-read, non-technical overview explaining what information literacy means