technology+and+learning

Take a look at the following examples and ideas about how technology can be used to provide an effective and creative learning experience for students and teachers alike:

"Young people need to know how to relate and apply past ways of knowing to a constantly changing kaleidoscope of ideas and events"  - **M. Csikszentmihalyi, 2006**

__CLUE IN, TEACHERS!!__
//What kind of education most benefits today's students: digital natives? With technology's growth, student's are changing, and thus so should teaching. Today's teachers must engage students digitally to encourage creative and critical thinking.// media type="youtube" key="-3ES5CRMJ9Y" height="315" width="420" [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ES5CRMJ9Y]

__**Integrating Technology into Classrooms**__
//As technology has revolutionized society in the 20th and 21st century, it naturally has found its way into schools, education and learning. The way that technology is integrated with classrooms and into lesson planning needs to be reflected upon so that students learning can benefit most from the new technological tools that are available now and continuing to evolve in these new times.// media type="youtube" key="9cxyH1qgKZQ" height="315" width="420" []

= Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! = //http://www.ted.com In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.// //TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at @http://www.ted.com/translate.// media type="youtube" key="r9LelXa3U_I" height="315" width="560" []