Student voice Wouldn’t it be great if your school day was structured around your interests? Wouldn’t it be great if you could work on real life projects
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Flipped classrooms improve learning – Euronews
The flipped classrooms hit Europe! Comparing Europe and the US I’m guessing there are more initiatives on how to use technology in class from the US
Powerful Learning Press!
The Connected Teacher: Powering Up In the great free interactive eBook, The Connected Teacher: Powering Up, you can read stories by teachers and school leaders who are
Students’ reflection on writing and homework
Questions: On request from students at a Teachers college in Norway (HIST) I asked my students the following questions: A. Do you think there is more pressure
Three Starting Points for Thinking Differently About Learning
In many ways, I can’t imagine there has been a more amazing time to learn. I recently read this guest post in the New York
Using social media to connect educators, students and experts worldwide
Learn Live Theatre E, Saturday 02 Feb, 13:15-14:00 Participants will be shown how to use social media like Skype, YouTube, blogs and Twitter to get
Teaching how to write a great introdcution
TED-ED is a great place to find videos for your class. You can choose to show the video and make your own assignments, or use
Why School?
Why School, the new book by Will Richardson Seems like a lot of educators I follow on Twitter have read the new book by Will
Innovative Ideas from Across the Globe
What can we learn from other countries? In this video they take a look at countries making the big strides when it comes to 21st
Summer reading
I have copied this post from the Powerful Learning Practice web site. Mostly to remind myself of all the books I already have on my
MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative
Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science MIT is turning its attention to younger
Anthony Salcito – The New Classroom Experience
We have to continue asking the right questions! In this presentation at the “Learning Without Frontiers” conference Anthony Salcito raises a lot of interesting questions
Korea – Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education
Korea’s plan to teach skills needed in the 21st century The objective of “smart education” is to digitalize Korea’s entire school curriculum by 2015. The
Unselfish Self Promotion
Powerful Learning Practice has an interesting conversation going on about self promotion. “Conversations from the Edge” is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues
What schools should look like
How we are using technology in Norway? In this short video Bruce Dixon is sharing some observations about schools and the need for reform with