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Practical PBL: Four Tips for Better Implementation
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 Adrienne Curtis Dickinson http://www.edutopia.org Embarking on your first project-based learning unit is an exhilarating time full of big ideas and even bigger hopes about how this...
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How Do We Define and Measure “Deeper Learning”?
September 13, 2012 | 11:20 AM | By Tina Barseghian http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift In preparing students for the world outside school, what skills are important to learn? This goes to the heart of the...
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Do Cell Phones Belong in Schools?
Some call them educational, others call them distracting — we look at both sides By Laura Selby www.tecca.com With great tech innovations come messy real-life dilemmas. Should police officers tweet...
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Teachers and Social Media
The New Zealand teachers council has developed a useful and applicable resource for social media and education. The guidelines for teachers are well considered and developed by an informed and...
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If School is Not Relevant
February 24, 2012 | 2:20 PM | By MindShift By Shelly Blake-Plock Imagine if schools were judged not by how well students achieved while they were in school, but in how well they achieved once they...
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PBL? Am I Doing it Right?
Posted by Peter Skillen on Jul 13, 2012 http://plpnetwork.com Do you want to engage your students in Project Based Learning (PBL)? Maybe you are asking yourself what is PBL really? Am I doing it...
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The Flip: End of a Love Affair
Posted by Shelley Wright on Oct 8, 2012 http://plpnetwork.com A little over a year ago I wrote a post about the flipped classroom, why I loved it, and how I used it. I have to admit, the flip wasn’t...
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Facebook Hits 1 Billion Users
7:45 AM Friday Oct 5, 2012 www.nzherald.co.nz More than a billion people now log into Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or...
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Are We Wringing the Creativity Out of Kids?
May 4, 2012 | 9:50 AM | By Annie Murphy Paul http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift Do you think you’re creative?” Ask this question of a group of second-graders, and about 95 percent of them will answer...
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Dispelling the Myths About 1:1 Environments
OCTOBER 5, 2012 Andrew Marcinek, Instructional Technology Specialist, Boston, MA www.edutopia.org In my last post, I shared what we learned last year during our 1:1 iPad and Google Apps for Education...
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Beyond Grades and Trophies, Teaching Kids the Definition of Success
August 24, 2012 | 7:00 AM | By MindShift By Amanda Stupi http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift In her new book Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success, psychologist and author Madeline...
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‘Embodied learning’ Blends Lessons with Student-Computer Interaction
September 27th, 2012 www.eclassroomnews.com In an Elizabeth Forward Middle School classroom, students in an eighth-grade math class spent a recent morning getting into their lesson—literally. Standing...
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PD: How Do Educators Get to Know What They Don’t Know?
By Tom Whitby on October 8th, 2012 http://smartblogs.com/education When it comes to education reform, there are in general two major camps, but there are also several variations of each. The first...
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Research Libraries Increase Spending on Digital Materials
October 8, 2012 By Alisha Azevedo http://chronicle.com Spending by research libraries appears to be rising, especially for digital materials, according to new data from the Association of Research...
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Infographic: How to Design a Logo
We’ve compiled some great logo resources, talked about how to select a logo, and how to crowdsource your logo design… here’s an infographic and video infographic on how to design a great logo. The...
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UN: Six Billion Mobile Phone Subscriptions in the World
There are almost as many mobile phone subscriptions in the world as people, a United Nations telecom agency has said. 12 October 2012 Last updated at 08:59 ET www.bbc.co.uk A report by the...
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