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The time has come to stop tinkering with an antiquated model. We are delayed in our thinking because those who were able to suffer through or even thrive in this dying high school model have grown up to be teachers and lawyers and businesspeople who now advocate for reforms through the prism of their experiences. But the vast majority do not have the same fond memories of those halcyon high school days. For these students, the "high school experience" has failed. It is not only an economic issue, but a moral one of providing the very best opportunities for our young at all socioeconomic levels to flourish in a rapidly changing world.

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This high school demonstrates the important role leadership plays in bringing about change.

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Ideas for doing more with Diigo. Particularly useful set of ideas for education.

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"It's always dangerous to predict the future. But if history is any indication, judging from the accomplishment of NCLB and Race-to-the Top, I would say that five years from now, American education will still be said to be broken and obsolete. We will find out that the Common Core Standards, after billions of dollars, millions of hours of teacher time, and numerous PD sessions, alignment task forces, is not the cure to American's education ill. Worse yet, we will likely have most of nation's schools teaching to the common tests aligned with the Common Core. As a result, we will see a further narrowing of the curriculum and educational experiences. Whatever innovative teaching that has not been completely lost in the schools may finally be gone. And then we will have a nation of students, teachers, and schools who are compliant with the Common Core Standards, but we may not have much else left."

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Evernote is an excellent tool for organization. This blog post shares some applications and good links to learn more about using Evernote for productivity.

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"Professors who participate in our program assign their students to edit Wikipedia articles as part of their coursework. Students are assisted by trained Wikipedia Ambassadors, who help both in the class and on wiki."

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Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 150 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions."

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"Bogus or hoax websites are a wonderful resource to use with students to develop their critical evaluation skills. However, many are only suitable for more mature students and it is essential that students have a good understanding of the topic before they are asked to pick the deliberate falsehoods and exaggerations. For example, the Dihydrogen Monoxide site is only useful when students have an understanding of chemical formulas."

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"How can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers? In Net Smart, I show how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully."

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"Do you suffer from info overload? Is your RSS reader bursting at the seams? Have your bookmarks gone bonkers?"

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"The Information Age has facilitated a reinvention of nearly every industry except for education. It's time to unhinge ourselves from many of the assumptions that undergird how we deliver instruction and begin to design new models that are better able to leverage talent, time, and technology to best meet the unique needs of each student. In doing so, we can put Mann's innovation in its proper context: as the foundation for our commitment to a public education but not as the blueprint for how to deliver it."

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Great list of questions pertaining to SAFETY and SECURITY in Google Apps for Education.

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Grovo's video lessons aren't just stand-alone videos. There a part of a sequence of video courses. Each course has guiding questions that you can use to check your knowledge along the way.

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"Trying to figure something out on your own before getting help actually produces better results than having guidance from the beginning"

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TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.

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SpellingCity is one of if not the best site for vocabulary and spelling. It allows educators to create word lists that they can integrate into games to help students improve their skills. Also, there are lots of teacher resources to enjoy such as: videos, worksheets, printables, and more.

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"Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training." The site offers access to leveled lesson plans for K-12, search activities from AGoogleADay, and an archive of previous webinars.

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" In schools, and in life, we often let rules or obsta­cles get in our way of chang­ing our behav­iors or reach­ing a goal. In schools those obsta­cles may be 45-minute peri­ods, stan­dard­ized test­ing, the bud­get, facil­i­ties, or a host of other things. Those chal­lenges, how­ever real they are, often become excuses to not make major changes. I say excuses because in most cases there are exam­ples of schools that have over­come those obsta­cles to improve their learn­ing envi­ron­ment for stu­dents. "

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Charlie Osborne, a journalist and ex-teacher, has some great suggestions in this article for using Facebook in the classroom.

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"The library system probably won’t disappear anytime soon, but rather, see itself blossoming into something new and exciting in congruence with today’s myriad informational demands."

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