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Arne Duncan on using the toys kids love--games and cellphones--to teach them, inside and outside the classroom walls.

This is VERY cool! With this Firefox addon you can see both your google search results AND the Wolfram|Alpha search results, side by side!

Wow! See both results on the same page! LOVE IT!

LOVE this collection of videos of great classroom lessons

If THIS collection of videos wasn't meant for CFF then NOTHING was. :-) Check these out. Every one of them (that I've watched so far) seems to be an excellent example of the kinds of lessons that we're promoting. Excellent!

Those who constantly strive to learn more from the world around them, who can't pass up an opportunity to pour over a book or dictionary, or who take classes just to learn a bit more are a special breed. For those with an iPhone, the chances for learning just got a lot greater. No matter if you love literature, science, nature, arts, foreign languages and travel, medicine, or Christian studies, there are apps that will enhance your ability to expand your knowledge base.

We hear a lot about the 21st century learner - but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed.

A genre comprised of books that are mainly written by women for women. The books range from having main characters in their early 20's to their late 60's. There is usually a personal, light, and humorous tone to the books. Sometimes they are written in first-person narrative; other time they are written from multiple viewpoints. The plots usually consist of women experiencing usual life issues, such as love, marriage, dating, relationships, friendships, roommates, corporate environments, weight issues, addiction, and much more.

Make any image talk with this interactive Web site. You can use it for free. Kids would love to use this in electronic presentations.

Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, "interactive environments," travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits.

Here is a collection of virtual field trip sites.

Interesting monologue about education. Give it a listen. I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts

"Here's our goal: To empower real people to get a better understanding of the stock market through the things they already know and love - the clothes they wear, the cars they drive (or the bikes they ride), and the burgers they eat."

"Librarians wear many hats at one time. Besides managing their space, they also organize events, reach out to the community and enhance the feel of the library, making it a timeless treasure that is making a major comeback. Libraries now stock DVDs new and old, the latest bestsellers and magazine and newspapers that we can't always find at our local stands."

Wow. Share this with your art teacher(s) The videos are on this page, but check out the other galleries, as well. Won't raise a math score, but the art folks will love it

Over the final 100 years, car manufacturers have designed a few various cars like wonderful cars, fastest cars, gorgeous cars, electric cars & eco-friendly cars. It's hard to consent on a list of the mainly

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This soccer coaching game is a good one to use with young players when you would like to stop the parents interfering from the sidelines during a match. It uses role reversal ideas to show pushy parents how shouting instructions to their children can be distracting and unhelpful. Kids love it!

Sometimes something is just so geeky that I just LOVE the concept. This is one of those. Dual Maps shows side-by-side maps of Google maps and Microsoft maps.

Beyond just a map - compare two maps. What can we learn from seeing the world from two maps?

It's time for Online Safety 3.0. Why 3.0 and why now? The online-safety messages most Americans are getting are still pretty much one-size-fits-all and focused largely on adult-to-child crime, rather than on what the growing bodies of both Net-safety and social-media research have found. Online Safety 2.0 began to develop messaging around the peer-to-peer part of online safety, mostly harassment and cyberbullying and, increasingly, sexting by cellphones, but it still focuses on technology not behavior as the primary risk and characterizes youth almost without exception as potential victims. Version 2.0 fails to recognize youth agency: young people as participants, stakeholders, and leaders in an increasingly participatory environment online and offline. To be relevant to young people, its intended beneficiaries, Net safety needs to respect youth agency, embrace the technologies they love, use social media in the instruction process, and address the positive reasons for safe use of social technology. It's not safety from bad outcomes but safety for positive ones. ... Safety is essential but only part of what we want for the people who are going to run this world! Online Safety 3.0 enables youth enrichment and empowerment. Its main components - new media literacy and digital citizenship - are both protective and enabling. Ideally from the moment they first use computers and cellphones, children are learning how to function mindfully, safely and effectively as individuals and community members, as consumers, producers, and stakeholders.

Online Safety 3.0 - safety and good citizenship while using the internet and participating in social networking. A "watershed" moment, says Bonnie Bracey Sutton (at http://www.mercurynews.com/fdcp?1257974940062).

TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! A powerful teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies, science and math. Includes example articles, worksheets, printable quizzes, graphic organizers, photos, etc.

Love this! Teaching teachers about twitter w/ a paper twitter packet. Great sharing of social media for varying tech comfort levels.