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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A video my student, Rebekah, created for the Invention Project. In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. The student is programming a video game in a maker space using Bloxels.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material. When my students watch his videos, they say they feel like they are sitting in the same Harvard classroom that is being filmed and are participating in the dialog with the other students.

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Top 10 Tips for Using Social Media for Administrators & Other Educators

The 21st Century Principal

Once they have that knowledge base, they are responsible for seeing that their educational community is educated on its nature, its potential, its hazards, and its power. Having a Twitter account or Facebook account for your school simply isn''t enough anymore. Schools can post moving videos or photos to a Facebook account.

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Hyperconnected

Learning with 'e's

million search enquiries on Google, nearly 2 million photos created on Snapchat , over 4 million hours of video watched on the video sharing channel YouTube (and 400 hours uploaded), nearly half a million tweets sent on Twitter, and more than 16 million text messages sent. The trick is knowing where to click.'

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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