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      Innovate to educate: System [Re]design for Personalized Learning

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      A Report from the 2010 Symposium 
      Participants in this symposium discussed the need to redesign our educational system to be one that meets the personalized learning needs of each student.  This report identifies recommended practices, policies and technologies and identifies key next steps.
      There are excellent resources listed in the references.

      Click image to access this report.

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      A New Day for Learning

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      A report from the Time, Learning and Afterschool Task Force.  Funded by the C. S. Mott Foundation.

      "The structure of the day for American children and youth is more than timeworn.  It is obsolete."

      Click image to access this report.

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      Children's Contact With the Outdoors and Nature:  
      a Focus on Educators and Educational Settings

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      A guide to the research conducted by the Child and Nature Network; an annotated bibliography of research and studies. 

      Also see the Child and Nature Network research and publications.

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      Change Leadership Group

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      The web site for Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap - Why Even Our Best Schools Do Not Teach 21st Century Survival Skills and What We Can Do About It. 
      This site has links to excellent resources, including articles by Tony Wagner.

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      Yong Zhao, Ph.D.

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      Yong Zhao is Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education, College of Education at the University of Oregon, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE). He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education.

      Dr. Zhao's web site includes a wealth of resources for educators.  His research interests include educational policy, computer gaming and education, diffusion of innovations, teacher adoption of technology, computer-assisted language learning, and globalization and education.