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‘Flipped’ classrooms take advantage of technology – USATODAY.com
“Step into Stacey Roshan’s Advanced Placement calculus class some morning and two things become apparent: The students don’t seem stressed-out, as AP students often do. And the teacher is barely teaching.”
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10 Reasons Your Students Should Be Blogging | From the Desk of Mr. Foteah
“In case you can’t tell by the content of each of my posts this week, my students started blogging on Monday and we are all pretty pumped about it.”
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Lifelong UNlearning | District Administration Magazine
“Quoting author Alvin Toffler, who said the key literacy skill of the 21st century is the “ability to learn, unlearn and relearn,” Davidson goes one step further: “Unlearning is required when the world or your circumstances in that world have changed so completely that your old habits now hold you back. You can’t just resolve to change. You need to break a pattern, to free yourself from old ways before you can adopt the new.” “
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How to Get What You Want | 21st Century Collaborative
“There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
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Learning and Laptops: This I Believe Goes Global 2011
“For the past four years, I have had my classes write their versions of National Public Radio’s “This I Believe” segment. I was introduced to this idea by a colleague and have been always impressed by what my students hold as their personal values and beliefs. Writing these essays has allowed for them to do something they don’t get to do all that often at school – express their heartfelt beliefs.”
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ED385606 1994-02-00 Strategies for Teaching Critical Thinking. ERIC/AE Digest.
“Critical thinking skills figure prominently among the goals for education, whether one asks developers of curricula, educational researchers, parents, or employers. Although there are some quite diverse definitions of critical thinking, nearly all emphasize the ability and tendency to gather, evaluate, and use information effectively (Beyer, 1985).”
Creating a Path for Learning in the 21st Century
