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Infographics on Most common Interview questions and how to answer them guide by learning successful interview tactics and finding good opportunities (RT @edtech_utb: 35 Most Asked Job Interview Questions and How to Answer Them.

"I don't do end of year countdowns, I actually dread the last day of school because it means these amazing kids are not going to be mine any longer.  And yet, being in 5th grade means that graduation is near, middle school looms, and the kids know that our time is limited.  So they started asking me what we would be doing these last few weeks after math is done, memoir is done, all that stuff we had to get through is done (I never tell them that we are never done even if we aren't).  And voila; a list of ideas for the remaining weeks."

I have been on Twitter for 8 months and spent some time this weekend evaluating the experience.  I am a firm believer in evaluation and using feedback to improve and refine practice. Recently, I forwarded a brief survey to faculty to use at the end of 3rd quarter.  They were asked to administer this survey to all students in each of their classes.  The feedback received was helpful and for some, rather surprising.  

The questions are:

"In his new book To Sell is Human, http://ow.ly/kJUZx   author Daniel Pink reports that education is one of the fastest growing job categories in the country. And with this growth comes the opportunity to change the way educators envision their roles and their classrooms. Guided by findings in educational research and neuroscience, the emphasis on cognitive skills like computation and memorization is evolving to include less tangible, non-cognitive skills, like collaboration and improvisation."

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has recently started publishing a series of posts on different mushrooming learning concepts. The below graphic is from one of these posts, it outlines the 7 most powerful idea shifts in learning today.

Along with creativity, collaboration, and communication, critical thinking is one of the four components of learning in the 21st century.

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"It’s actually hard for me to type this title after years and years and years of math drills that made my elementary-school head want to explode.

Can learning math facts be fun? Is it possible that learning these facts can actually be ‘super-fun’?"

Danish students will be given the building blocks for a bright future when the world's first 'Lego school' opens its doors later this year.

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life? a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.