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English: A panorama of a research room taken at the New York Public Library with a Canon 5D and 24-105mm f/4L IS.  (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Research news and information I've been reading lately. Professional Development Adds Up for Maine's Math Teachers | Edutopia "Professional development is the essential vitamin for boosting learning with laptops, according to researchers studying Maine's one-to-one program. David Silvernail, director of the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, said a two-year randomized control trial of middle school math teachers was "successful on all fronts." Researchers examined the impact of high quality, ongoing professional development that included face-to-face and online workshops, peer coaching and mentoring, and site visits." tags: research 1:1 laptop education Change Magazine - September-October 2010 It i...

Sadly, my Diigo post- to blog feed is down and so these GREAT resources didn't post since July 3rd (and I've been blogging every day) so, now, you get a mega-dose of news and information instead of the usually smaller 4-6 items of note a day.  Sorry that this is a tad late. It is important to me to give you  two or three informative posts a day and I've been blogging away like crazy and didn't catch that it didn't come through due to my current book project,  Flipped classroom, behavior management, Olympics, some amazing research, cool videos, Tweets of the world visualized. Tons of things for you to peruse and read in one MASSIVE post. ;-)  I hope this will be fixed very soon, I know Diigo is working on it. I love DIigo and it is one of my favorite tools - there is something going on with the new authorization method of Google, but they have assured me they're working on it. Class Room Great page on Classroom management and Class Rules from Je...

Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio ... Free free free learning. Cost: Your time. nice list of free ways to add ebooks, textbooks, courses, and language courses onto your ipad or Kindle. tags: education ipad kindle ebook elearning free Improve Your Learning and Memory.: Your Kid May Be Smart. Just Don’t Tell Him So Too Often Every kd isn't smart but every kid (and adult) needs a "growth mindset." Please read this article. "Research by Carol Dweck and colleagues at Stanford demonstrated that the students who are most likely to learn from their mistakes are those who don’t think of themselves as smart as such but smart enough to get smarter. They have a “growth mindset,” a belief system that they can get better if th...