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The website run by Jane Hart—the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (C4LPT) in the UK. Jane also publishes a blog, Learning in the Modern Workplace, that adroitly addresses generic-learning issues as well: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/. The website by Kathy Schrock for apps and Bloom's taxonomy: http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps
... See moreRita-Marie Conrad • The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips
Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
An innovative internet company called MasteryConnect.com has software that supports this pedagogy. Grades can be very discouraging for kids but if teachers return an assignment with suggestions on how to improve or correct the errors and kids understand it is part of the process of learning, they will still be excited to learn.
Lance Izumi • Moonshots in Education: Launching Blended Learning in the Classroom
Race to Nowhere: The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture (dir. Vicki Abeles, 2011) is a documentary and a movement in schools working to fight, using my own words, non-Essentialism in school. They are working to reduce the imposition of unnecessary homework and stress on children. See their website, www.racetonowhere.com/.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Your Review: Alpha School
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