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Active learning may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years. If this is true for universities might it also apply to secondary schools? Eric Mazur, a professor at Harvard, shares his story of how discovered that his success as a teacher “was a complete illusion, a house of cards.” 
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Picturing America, an exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide...each masterpiece has an "inspiration" that discusses the picture as well as an artist bio and resources to use in the classroom.
Lauren's curator insight,
August 1, 2013 7:57 PM
Picturing America focuses on American Art in relation to American history. This site is a project by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. Images can browsed by theme or time period, and each image provides a backstory that explains its significance. This is a great resource for any student focusing on American Art.
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Educational transformation is coming not because of the increasing ineffectiveness of schools in meeting society’s needs – though that is certainly a good reason – but due to their growing unaffordability...This is not a temporary financial dislocation due to an economic downturn, but a permanent sea-change that has already happened in every other service sector of our economy.
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"Gooru...leverages technology, amplifies the effect of stellar teaching, and inspires students to learn. Gooru provides teachers with the ability to "search and teach" and students with the ability to "search and study" to find curriculum-appropriate web resources for any lesson. Teachers and students then share their lessons and notes with each other to enable learning in a truly social way."
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Global Digital Citizenship is a critical element of any teaching program at any level. Our students are connected. Irrespective of the age of the student they are wired. We are seeing devices reducing in cost, increasing in availability and entering most classrooms and almost every school.
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Teacher videos for students and learning. Watch educational videos and documentary films by grade level and classroom subject. Get lesson plans and submit your own.
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I have been asked by a few different people to boil down the "essence" of teaching with technology, whatever that means. I doubt this is what they meant, but this is what they got, and I share it...
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Got failure in your classroom? It’s not a bad thing. Unless failure is the end of the road and it stops there. Failure is opportunity. To fail is to learn.
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It is hard to make an argument that there are many desirable post-secondary educational or career scenarios for current high school students that will not require the use of computer technology on a daily basis. The kids have known this for quite some time now.
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SpicyNodes provides an innovative means to add excitement to almost any area of study. As students become enamored with the presentation of their ideas, they increasingly focus on the quality of their work and develop the critical thinking skills necessary for the digital age.
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Through this free course, teachers learn to think critically about the field of Mind, Brain, and Education and thus learn to be informed consumers of information about brain science, better able to separate science from myth and misinterpretation.
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A eye-opening reflection on how we view children and how we teach children in our current education system...
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