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active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts
Through projects, students acquire and refine their analysis and problem-solving skills as they work individually and in teams to find, process, and synthesize information they've found online.
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- tech tools for visualizing and modeling, especially in the sciences, offer students ways to experiment and observe phenomenon and to view results in graphic ways that aid in understanding.
- way teachers teach, offering educators effective ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding through multiple means.

15 Oct 09

punahou.next

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14 Oct 09

'Flocking' behavior lands on social networking sites - USATODAY.com

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13 Oct 09

Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:Why Creativity Now? A Conversation with Sir Ken Robinson

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This is tremendously important. I think we have to build in many many more opportunities for students to develop, practice, and follow personal interests. - jbeaver on 2009-10-13

that people see creativity and critical thinking as being opposed
A big part of being creative is looking for new ways of doing things within whatever activity you're involved in.
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- It's a
  process, not a single event, and genuine creative processes involve critical thinking as well as imaginative insights and fresh ideas.
- essential bit of every creative process is evaluation.
- A policy for creativity in education needs to be about everybody, not just a few.
- The second misconception is that creativity is about special activities. People associate creativity with the arts only. I'm a great advocate of the arts, but creativity is really a function of everything we do. So education for creativity is about the whole curriculum, not just part of it.
- creativity is a disciplined process that requires skill, knowledge, and control.
- also requires imagination and inspiration.
- America is now facing the biggest challenge it's ever faced—to maintain it's position in the world economies. All these things demand high levels of innovation, creativity, and ingenuity. At the moment, instead of promoting creativity, I think we're systematically educating it out of our kids.
- Too often now we are systematically alienating people from their own talents and, therefore, from the whole process of education. This isn't, to me, a whimsical argument, like, "Wouldn't it be nice if we all did something we liked." It's a fundamental human truth that people perform better when they're in touch with things that inspire them. For some people, it's gymnastics; for some people, it's playing the blues; and for some people, it's doing calculus.
- individual in isolation is bound to frustrate some of those possibilities.
  
  Can you teach creativity?
  
  Yes. B
- First of all, we can teach generic skills of creative thinking
- skills of divergent thinking, for example, which encourage creativity through the use of analogies, metaphors, and visual thinking.
- Well, the minute you get people to think visually—to draw pictures or move rather than sit and write bullet points—something different happens in the room. Breaking them up so they aren't sitting at the same desk and getting them to work with people they wouldn't normally sit with creates a different type of dynamic. So you can teach people particular skills to free up their own thinking, of valuing diversity of opinion in a room.
- If you combine a personal aptitude
  with a passion for that same thing, then you go into a different place creatively.
- You can't assess people—in general—for being creative because you have to be doing something to be creative.
- I make a distinction between teaching creatively and teaching for creativity.
- Teaching creatively means that teachers use their own creative skills to make ideas and content more interesting
- You encourage kids to experiment, to innovate, not giving them all the answers but giving them the tools they need to find out what the answers might be or to explore new avenues.
- Whether there would be an individual grade for creativity, that's a larger question. Certainly giving people credit for originality, encouraging it, and giving kids some way of reflecting on whether these new ideas are more effective than existing ideas is a powerful part of pedagogy.
- The regime of standardized testing has led us all to believe that if you can't count it, it doesn't count. Actually, in every creative approach some of the things we're looking for are hard, if not impossible, to quantify. But that doesn't mean they don't matter. When I hear people say, "Well, of course, you can't assess creativity," I think, "You can—just stop and think about it a bit."

29 Sep 09

Implementation and Effects Of One-to-One Computing Initiatives: A Research Synthesis - Education News - redOrbit

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Finally, some initiatives seek, by introducing ubiquitous access to computers, to effect a transformation in the quality of instruction. Many of the initiatives focused on transforming teaching seek specifically to make instruction more "student-centered," that is, more differentiated, problem- or project-based, and demanding of higher-order thinking skills.

23 Sep 09

Twenty-Seven Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom

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21 Sep 09

Will the Web kill colleges?

interesting article regarding future and use of "college aggregators"

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16 Sep 09

Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable

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12 Sep 09

Teaching College Math » Blog Archive » Technology Skills We Should Be Teaching in College

Very thoughtful post concerning 21st century skills.

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02 Sep 09

5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best -- THE Journal

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we still do not have real measures for learning or effective teaching in most schools because the system demands test scores, not learning assessment.
, we might be better off teaching teachers how to observe within a given context, how to actively listen, and how to deduce knowledge from information. Only then can we hope to begin to measure the learning that is taking place.
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- but do we really have teachers in general who truly observe learning?
- Do we respect the minds of our students and take care of how they think and how technology can stimulate response and engagement, or are we simply waiting for some easy way to count and grade? While I do not propose a simple ready-made solution here, I do encourage more critical thought and exploration into the kinds of skills we need as teachers to understand the processes of learning and to measure them adequately.

29 Aug 09

Installing QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

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24 Aug 09

2-About

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16 Aug 09

Education | iPhone Apps iPhone 3G apps and iPod touch Applications Reviews ituneappreviews.com

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iPod Touch in Education at TechTimes Blog

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I foresee the iPod Touch as an alternative tool: we have to stop thinking about “what can I do with a laptop” and focus more on instructional design. In some scenarios where you might want to use a laptop, the iPod Touch would be a viable alternative. The iPod is good for looking things up, and consuming “content” (e.g. podcasts, video). The laptop is superior at communication and collection (i.e., writing, recording audio, broadcasting video). If you want a one tool fits all, the laptop wins. If you want to diversify your budget spending with more tools then the iPod Touch might be a possibility.

04 Aug 09