web20-21stcentury-tools - home - 8 views
What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com - 6 views
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He is a big thinker, always chasing new ideas, and a conversation with him can feel like a one-man TED conference, dotted with references to the latest work by behavioral psychologists and management gurus and design theorists.
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in America that if you worked hard and you showed real grit, that you could be successful,” he said. “Strangely, we’ve now forgotten that. People who have an easy time of things, who get 800s on their SAT’s, I worry that those people get feedback that everything they’re doing is great. And I think as a result, we are actually setting them up for long-term failure.
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Timelines.com - 6 views
25 More Tech Tips and Tricks - NYTimes.com - 5 views
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow | Video on TED.com - 6 views
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Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
Free online OCR - 5 views
Beautiful web-based timeline software - 5 views
WWF Footprint Calculator - 5 views
Class Blogs - 6 views
Connect with TIME - TIME.com - 6 views
The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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"people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves."
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Good article to balance the hysteria and myths that us oldies know what's up and the kids aren't informed.
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It is good news about the older teenagers, and those in their 20's however as noted in the article "Younger teenagers were not included in these studies, and they may not have the same privacy concerns. But anecdotal evidence suggests that many of them have not had enough experience to understand the downside to oversharing". These kids need to be our target audience when talking about cybersafety etc, as like with many other facets of a teenagers life, they don't necessarily have the "fear factor" and understand the long term risks.
2010 Horizon Report: The K12 Edition - 4 views
The Keys to Inquiry: Section II - Harvard - 4 views
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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
Holocaust Literature - 4 views
The Decade in Cartoons - 4 views
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