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The goal of this site is to make Alan November's visit to Friendswood more meaningful for you. 

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Latest Activity: Jul 21, 2011

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In the forums you will find online resources and questions that can help you prepare for our upcoming workshop.   We have selected a cross-section of videos and podcasts that will help stimulate your thinking. They will also provide models of innovation upon which we can build ideas and discussions during our workshop. We highly recommend that you view one or more of these resources and respond to the questions.  We look forward to reading your responses.

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Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"

Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s This is a "Ted Talk" by Eli Pariser.  What can we do to teach our students to learn how…Continue

Started by Jim Wenzloff Jul 21, 2011.

1. Alan’s Ted Talk January 2011 “Students as Contributor”

Resource: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJHzpEy4bE QUESTIONs:What legacy do you think your students can create to make a contribution for…Continue

Started by Jim Wenzloff Jul 20, 2011.

2. Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom

Resource: http://vimeo.com/3930740 -In this video interview, Alan compares the global knowledge of children in the 1700’s with today.  He also claims that there…Continue

Started by Jim Wenzloff Jul 20, 2011.

3. Flipped Model of Learning: With Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams

Resouce: http://novemberlearning.com/category/podcasts/In this podcast, Alan November interviews Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams,…Continue

Started by Jim Wenzloff Jul 20, 2011.

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From the NL Blog

Why More Schools Aren’t Teaching Web Literacy—and How They Can Start

Fourteen years after writing Teaching Zack to Think, there is still no Internet skill more critical than Web literacy. However, simply teaching students to be able to search for and validate information is not enough. The ever-growing amount of information on the Web and the immediate access to experts and peers from around the world [...]

Flipped Learning: A Response to Five Common Criticisms

Alan November and Brian Mull have recently written an article titled Flipped Learning: A Response to Five Common Criticisms which now appears on the  eSchool News site. Within the article, they explain how to deepen student learning using the Flipped Learning method, and they also address criticisms this method has received. You are invited to read [...]

BLC is an incubator of great ideas

Last spring, at the end of a full day of keynotes and presentations at BLC 11, @ewanmcintosh @dkuropatwa, a few others and I hit Beantown for refreshments and a kick at the day’s notes. The idea of problem-finding, of asking question to which no one knows the answers, emerged as a new model for pedagogy. [...]

BLC11 Keynote: Rob Evans

Today, we are launching our second BLC11 keynote video with Rob Evans, clinical and organizational psychologist and the Executive Director of the Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Massachusetts. As you watch the keynote, we encourage you to reflect on and respond to the following questions. Rob Evans shared that for transformation to take place, there [...]

Webinar with Alan November and Dr. Eric Mazur

This is a very special episode of our podcast series. It’s an archived recording of our first of what we hope will be many live webinars complete with audience Q&A at the end. In this conversation, Alan talks again to Dr. Eric Mazur, Area Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University and 2011 Building Learning [...]

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