Engaging students in the 21st century

Defining 21st century skills is an editorial matter. There are dozens of examples floating range with a range of authority behind them—some inspired, grassroots efforts, other core brands of multimillion dollar organizations making a national push.

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http://edudemic.com/2012/06/currency-of-learning/

Simple meditation techniques, backed up with modern scientific knowledge of the brain, are helping kids hard-wire themselves to be able to better pay attention and become kinder, says neuroscientist Richard Davidson.

Here the link: http://eductechalogy.org/swfapp/blooms/wheel/engage.swf

This wheel consits of the revised Bloom's taxonomy for the 21 century and the associated digital activities for each cognitive process ...

They say a house is only as good as its foundation, and we believe the same holds true for web applications like Google Docs.

With our old foundation, we could continue delivering most features you wanted quickly, but over time it became clear that some just weren’t possible. So we decided to rebuild the underlying infrastructure of Docs to give us greater flexibility, improved performance and a better platform for developing new features quickly.

Today, we’re pleased to announce preview versions of the new Google document and spreadsheet editors and a new standalone drawings editor, all built with an even greater focus on speed and collaboration. To get a taste of what’s new today, check out our video: