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"This website is part of a three-year project inviting teachers from around the world to tell the stories of learning unfolding in their classrooms. These writings combine action research, assessment documentation, and personal reflection with a focus on thinking and learning."
"Don’t go to college to get a job. Go to college to learn." Diane Ravitch is a research professor at New York University.
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.
Hard to believe this was 1989.
"Trying to figure something out on your own before getting help actually produces better results than having guidance from the beginning"
Growth in people learning computer languages.
From the educators perspective, what is exciting about digital learning? What are the concerns about moving in this direction? Great questions with 10 answers of each.
"How do you remember the classrooms where you spent your formative years? If you're picturing a teacher writing on a chalkboard while kids sit in neat rows, it's time for a refresher course. Not only is that chalkboard a relic from yesteryear, but so are many of the old-school approaches to teaching and learning. Even parents are taking on new roles in today's changing classrooms."
The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education.
"It will take classroom teachers, who understand that “21st Century Learning” cannot be equaled to “using computers, iPads, web 2.0 tools or other technology gadgets and tools” at a set time during their schedule , to make the shift how we think about learning."
"Even with these tools, scaffolding is necessary. Below is a series of mini-lessons I use for the first project. The expectation is that groups become more independent in subsequent projects."
"CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning."
"Various powerpoints, handouts etc that I have used to promote EDMODO."
"The gaming expert shares insights into why video games are such effective learning tools."
"It’s not a stretch to say that technology will continue to change the educational landscape. As students become more immersed in technology around them, self-regulation will become an essential life skill to cultivate."
"Epistemic games are computer games that are essentially about learning to think in innovative ways. They’re designed to be pedagogical tools for the digital age where the player learns to think like professionals by playing a simulated game of such professions as management, engineering, journalism or urban planning."
"We can’t continue to ignore the drive to learn that exists inside every child. We can’t keep making them chase after carrots, as though they had real value. We can’t do this because sooner or later they will find out that the world that waits for them has no use for carrots, and would prefer employees who innovate, make connections, ask good questions, think independently and work well with others. "
6 considerations for building the ultimate digital classroom.
"Savvy teachers and schools are already discarding the one-size-fits-all, siloed model of teaching and learning. And, they already know that it's not enough for schools to simply add on a "creativity hour"; it must be infused into all aspects of our education system. Let's hope more schools get on board with this paradigm shift so that an entire generation of students doesn't grow up living their lives according to outdated 20th-century myths about creativity."
This site is ideal for creating quizzes, flashcards, and study guides and then sharing them w/ others. Another nice feature is the ability to create a study group or class and then share things w/ them. Also, a user has a number of privacy controls on who can/can't see their quizzes.
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