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But some students turn the common conundrum into an opportunity to flex their creative muscles and, hopefully, tickle their teachers' funny bones with hilariously incorrect answers to test questions.

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I was recently involved in a conversation about how difficult it now is to filter what is on the internet and research effectively. In the past, students would primarily use books to research; being overloaded with possibly unreliable information wasn’t really an issue.

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It's a study of Canadian students' attitudes to e-learning and finds, not surprisingly that today's students are not so enthusiastic towards universities' net-based courses as we would expect. Despite growing up with the net and labelled as "digital natives" by generalising parents, they are not automatically attracted to the e-learning on offer.

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Thousands of first-year students at Ontario community colleges are taking catch-up courses in basic math skills — fractions, decimals, percentages — that they should have learned in grades 6, 7 and 8, according to an alarming new study.

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As many graduating high school students across the United States begin preparing to enter college in the fall, Microsoft is bringing back a popular promotion from last year to encourage more PC sales.

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A newly launched app will allow teachers to create and share interactive lessons for mobile devices like iPads, and help them receive feedback on the ways students are using their devices.

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I worry sometimes that my colleagues and administrators do not really understand the world for which they are preparing children.

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A safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. Free.

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Do standards subjugate students?

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The option of online education, which at first seemed to be limited to those who were working and going to school, is now readily available everywhere these days.

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Sharing audio messages with your students on your blog or classroom website is an effective way to maintain communication with them and their parents

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More and more students own mobile devices, including tablets, and indicate a strong desire to use those personal learning tools in school to increase collaboration and access to resources, according to the annual Speak Up Survey, which is facilitated by Project Tomorrow.

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Owing to the present difficult economic situation, financial literacy has turned out to be one of the hottest topics of discussion in the media. Being economically savvy is extremely important for making the type of smart money decisions, that’s essential for having a good standard of living.

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According to this article for Huff Post, U.S. high school students are reading at a level that hovers around 5th grade. One of the many concerns here is a lack of development of "critical reading skills", the kind that help students master many aspects of the 21st Century Fluencies.

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It is much easier to destroy than to build. Teachers work with young people, and they are fragile works-in-progress. A rash or unfeeling word can undo so much of the trust and growth that we strive for. 

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On the first day, language learners go in, sit in a theatre-style tiered classroom altogether, unclear about what it will be like to study a content university course.  It’s their first time to do so.  They fear that they will understand little.  And they’re right. They expect that writing down the slide points will be enough.  And they’re wrong.  Learning how to engage with the lecture content means survival.  How to do this is what we, as instructors, need to help learners figure out.

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Google+ has only been active for over a year now and educational technology experts can't seem to get enough of it. There is one obvious reason for this: It is the distincitve  novelty feature Google+ has.More and more new features are being released every now and then and the latest of them all was just a couple of days ago with the introduction of a new user friendly interface with amazing options such as rearranging the order in which your favourite apps appear on your homepage. You can read Google Official Post to learn more about this new update.

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I have been using Google Docs for a couple of years now and each time I discover a new way to use it in education I would say that this is the last tip I did not know but always proved wrong. There are always more and more to learn and in fact the moment you think you have learned it all is the moment you start to loose it all.

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Make it easier / more fun for the next person to learn what ever you are learning right now

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Facebook® is the most popular social networking site out there, with over a half billion active members. This workshop will teach students the basics of Facebook, how to find educational and useful features, how and why one would create a group, and will also provide some tips on how to be safe online and to protect your online persona.

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