Who hasn\’t done their homework and taken the time to see this film? If you havn\’t, pledge to see the movie, it will change the way your view our system and more importantly, make you want to do something about changing it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFN0nf6Hqk0&hl=en_US&fs=1]
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We took some time off for summer break but we are back. To all you teachers and education policy professionals, if these recessionary times have you unable to attend conferences to better yourself, here is a set of youtube videos (almost 6 hours) from a conference on \”Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age\” hosted at
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Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) a Philadelphia high school opened in September 2006 fundamentally asking the pertinent questions \”How do we learn?\” \”What can we create?\” \”What does it mean to lead?\” The SLA is built on the notion that inquiry is the very first step in the
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In the ebook Michael Zimmer outlines a variety of leading web-based tools that can be used in almost any classroom regardless of content area. This is a simple guide to bring teachers upto speed on common web based applications that students are already using and that teachers should be integrating into their day-to-day educational outreach.
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Reading through my google reader today, I came across an article in the economist announcing a New York public school opening called \’Quest to Learn.\’ The publicly funded school for students from grade 6 to 12 was established on the research principles of Dr James Paul Gee who is at the forefront of exploring \’What Video
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We took a bit of a summer vacation ourselves here at the Pop Lock and Learn Blog but things are back in that fall September swing. With all the controversy this past week directed towards President Obama over his back to school address to the children of America, we thought it would be great to be
