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

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One-to-one technology has the power to revolutionize virtually any classroom, but language arts classrooms may see the most obvious and immediate benefits from day one. Let’s take a look at a few of the dramatic improvements 1:1 technology can make in the areas of reading and writing.

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"MinecraftEdu is the collaboration of a small team of educators and programmers from the United States and Finland. We are working with Mojang AB of Sweden, the creators of Minecraft, to make the game affordable and accessible to schools everywhere. We have also created a suite of tools that make it easy to unlock the power of Minecraft in YOUR classroom. "

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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.

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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.

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"CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning."

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"Whether you’re looking to inspire or entertain your students, the following TED talks have terrific lessons embedded in fascinating talks"

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"Even that Twitter thing the kids are into these days, with its 140-characters and its perpetual haze of pound signs, has its uses. More than 28, of course, but here’s a nice little starting point."

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"Good classroom teaching does not translate into good online teaching without effective training and sufficient technical understanding."

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"Google+ has strong potential application in formal learning environments"

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A good overview on how to get set up and start using Pinterest.

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"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."

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"How can speakers expect their audience to remember what they say if they don’t know how people learn? These learning laws are powerful strategies that align with how our brains naturally operate and learn." Important to consider when delivering a presentation.

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Check out the the lesson plan index and the classroom tools index for links to information about each of the services available to teachers and students as well as tutorial or how-to resources.

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"Rethinking the Way College Students Learn
College students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn. And experts say students need to learn better because the 21st century economy demands more well-educated workers."

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A social learning management system. Free.

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The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators contains the process and methods of design, adapted specifically for the context of education.

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Suggestions for using Facebook in the classroom. Also includes links to alternatives.

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