Questions:

1. How do you design challenging activities with no down time? #1to1techat

2. What types of collaborative work do you use? #1to1techat

3. How do you differentiate/personalize activities to fit the needs of each student? #1to1techat

4. How are timed activities helpful to keep students engaged and on task? #1to1techat

5. What is the role of the teacher as facilitator of learning in keeping students engaged? #1to1techat

The Eric Simmons of #TeamClaco story:

You hear it all the time, but Simons, now 20, was a mediocre student with little interest in school. That changed one day when his high school chemistry teacher confronted him and demanded to know what she could do to get him interested.

"I was stumped," Simons writes on the About Us page of his startup, ClassConnect. "She didn't ask me to try harder, she didn't ask me to stay after for help or study more -- she asked me to figure out how she could grab my interest. No one had ever bothered to ask me that before. A few moments later I replied, 'let's get everyone working together on computers -- I'll even build the software for us to use.'" His life as an entrepreneur had begun.