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"What is CEQ*ALL? What happens when students are left to their own devices? In a WiFi Web 2 world, it could be many wonderful and amazing things? Web 2 empowers the self-initiated to learn more and more personally than ever possible before. But many students, well-trained in the "playing school" see free time a chance to goof off, to escape the boredom or avoid the stress. But what if students were truly free to learn as they wish in a supportive environment? CEQ*ALL provides a research-based, common sense approach to guiding personal learning to maximize intrinsic motivation, achievement and sophisticated thinking."

"What happens when students are left to their own devices? In a WiFi Web 2 world, it could be many wonderful and amazing things? Web 2 empowers the self-initiated to learn more and more personally than ever possible before. But many students, well-trained in the "playing school" see free time a chance to goof off, to escape the boredom or avoid the stress. But what if students were truly free to learn as they wish in a supportive environment? CEQ*ALL provides a research-based, common sense approach to guiding personal learning to maximize intrinsic motivation, achievement and sophisticated thinking."

How can you communicate this big message to your students and help them take risks in their learning? What does this mean in a concrete sense? There are at least three areas where teachers can help students learn to feel comfortable taking risks in their thinking: 1) The environment must support risk-taking in learning; 2) The curriculum needs to allow for some uncertainty and ambiguity about exactly what children will learn; and 3) Students need opportunities to learn forms of thinking that embody risk-taking and openness

A checklist of ICT skills for teachers

Here, in this forum as part of Academic Commons, the essay complements eighteen case studies on teaching, learning, and new media technologies. Together the essay and studies constitute the digital volume "The Difference that Inquiry Makes: A Collaborative Case Study of learning and Technology, from the Visible Knowledge Project." For more information about VKP, see http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/.

"Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swellingbclass sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education."

In this programme Professor Stephen Heppell discusses what he thinks learning might look like in the year 2016. Stephen takes the prestigious stage at the Edward Boyle Memorial Lecture in the Royal Society of Arts, to offer his views on future learning and the important role we play in its fruition.

A professional reflection on facilitating Visible Knowledge. I particularly like their 4 Cs: Connections, Complexity, Content and Commitment. This is a fine summation of the desired experience generated by "Learning to Look"

SuperClubsPLUS is a Safe Social Learning Network where 6-12 year olds can meet friends across the UK and around the world, be creative, have fun and learn ICT, Literacy and Global Citizenship together.

I had my first look at this site at the ICTEV09 conference. It's worth a look around as it has been specifically designed as a safe social networking site for 6-12 year olds.

"I know it works, but is the theory valid? Common sense tells us that learning is enhanced by social activity, which is the basic idea underlying the use of Web 2.0 tools. But is there educational theory to support it? Of the three dominant theories, one strongly emphasises the importance of social interaction. The theory of Social Constructivism is well established. Vygotsky is considered the father of the concept. As the Wikipedia says in its excellent entry, "Where Piaget argued that people should create their own version of the truth, Vygotsky added the importance of discussing this version of truth with others, in order to, through the process of mediation, get to a higher order of truth that has also been socially tested (Derry 1999)""

Great document (Word) with skills for students to become independent learners.

Inspirational, lots of good ideas

This poster begins to map the field of active and critical reading as demonstrated in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) projects in the Visible Knowledge Project. It connects, as well, to exhibition posters that synthesize work and methods that cut across projects. We also link to posters of individual SOTL projects ub the VKP Galler

A fantastic source for the greatest thinkers and achievers of our day. Use the Web or iTunes interface to view, download and watch snippets to support Learning to Look