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A Vision of Students Today (Michael Wesch)
Created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it serves to motivate district level leaders to provide teachers with the tools and training to do so.

Do Schools Kill Creativity? (Ken Robinson)
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.

Did You Know? 3.0 (Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod)
“Widely viewed video by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod that gives light to the changes imminent in our emerging knowledge-based society. This is an excellent video for framing and introducing the new reality to students, teachers, faculty, and administrators.” – Dr. Alec Couros

The Machine is Us/ing Us (Michael Wesch)
“Web 2.0″ in just under 5 minutes.

Five Minute University (Father Guido Sarducci)
Father Guido Sarducci teaches what an average college graduate knows after five years from graduation in five minutes. The video gives humorous critique to learning in higher education.

Pay Attention (Darren Draper)
This presentation, simply entitled Pay Attention, was created by Darren Draper in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching.

Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding (Claus Brabrand and Jacob Andersen)

A 19-minute award-winning short-film about teaching at the University. It shows examples of good and bad teaching, and promotes constructive alignment learning approach using Solo Taxonomy to test students’ level of understanding (deep understanding?).

Brain Rules (Dr. John Medina)
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget–and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains? In Brain Rules, molecular biologist Dr. John Medina shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule – what scientists know for sure about how our brains work – and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.

Debunks Myths about the so-called “Developing World” (Hans Rosling)

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.” Yes, we could learn a few tricks from him on how to inspire students to learn our topic for the day.

PowerPoint Extreme Makeover (Dean Shareski)
How do you use PowerPoint effectively? Using Camtasia studio, Dean Shareski shows you what you can do to make your PowerPoint presentation more attractive, engaging and effective.

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