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5 Simple Ideas That Can Transform Your Teaching

Teaching is impossibly complex.

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/project-based-learning/11-tools-for-better-project-based-learning/

11 Essential Tools For Better Project-Based Learning

The rise of technology used in classrooms has made learning much more interactive. The emergence of iPads to browser-based tools in project-based learning, take teaching to a new level in the 21st century.

How 21st Century Thinking Is Different

In an era dominated by constant information and the desire to be social, should the tone of thinking for students be different?

The Inside-Out School: A 21st Century Learning Model

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/inside-out-school-21st-century-learning-model/

As a follow-up to our 9 Characteristics of 21st Century Learning we developed in 2009, we have developed an updated framework, The Inside-Out Learning Model. The goal of the model is simple enough–not pure academic proficiency, but instead authentic self-knowledge, diverse local and global interdependence, adaptive critical thinking, and adaptive media literacy.

When learning a new task, especially during a nonformal learning event, a learner normally starts out by researching the topic to discover: If the goals and objectives are complete The full scope of the learning project Background information Researching a subject or task allows the learners to discover various facts, relationships, structures, and/or models for themselves.

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/learning/researching.html

Researching for Learning

As readers may know, a new book is getting a lot of national press these days: , by Paul Tough.

Grit, character and academic success: thoughtlessness, part 3

Personalized Learning is NOT Differentiating Instruction

The term “Personalized Learning” is a buzz word educators use to be an alternative to “one size fits all” teaching.

How Google Impacts The Way Students Think

It’s always revealing to watch learners research. When trying to understand complex questions often as part of multi-step projects, they often simply “Google it.” Why do people migrate?

I stumbled across this presentation last week, and sat on it for several days while I thought about it, and its implications for learning.

As Digital Influence Changes, Let Students Create The New Internet

25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom

Teachers these days are up to their ears in work that must be accomplished each day. In addition to time spent in front of students, teachers spend hours writing lesson plans and learning objectives, creating and grading tests and assignments, as well as attending meetings, professional development seminars, and courses for keeping up with certification.

5 Tools for Increasing Teacher Productivity

Back in June, I read an article on the Oxford University Press English Language Teaching blog entitled “Using Technology to Improve Writing Activities” (Silva, 2012).

How Blogging, Texting, and Twitter Can Help Students Learn

Are Apps the New Textbook?

Apple’s recent entry into the textbook market was a bit anticlimactic after news of a “major announcement” rippled through the internet. The news that Apple would soon enable teachers to create personalized and interactive textbooks was interesting if you’re merging old ed-thinking with modern tech-thinking.

There was much buzz surrounding Apple’s latest initiative.

Why Apple Is Missing The Point

6 Types of Blended Learning

Blended Learning is not so much an innovation as it is a natural by-product of the digital domain creeping into physical boundaries. As digital and social media become more and more prevalent in the life of learners, it was only a matter of time before learning became “blended” by necessity.