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Summary of ideas related to improving instruction in high school.

An adventure in the world of tessellations. (PDF File)

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Writing in the 21st Century by NCTE Past President, Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University, Tallahassee

A new Promise needs to be created among educators, students, parents, policy makers and funders if all students are to make significant progress towards achieving rigorous and relevant 21st century academic standards and skills. The American public education system was never designed nor intended to function as an academic institution where success for all drove policy making and decisions regarding educational procedures and practices.

Site with a horde of downloadable PDF-formatted certificate templates. Nice designs.

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The NMC Horizon Report series is the mostvisible outcome of the NMC Horizon Project, anongoing research effort established in 2002 thatidentifies and describes emerging technologieslikely to have a large impact on teaching,learning, research, or creative expression withineducation around the globe. This volume, The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition examines emergingtechnologies for their potential impact on and use inteaching, learning, and creative expression within theenvironment of pre-college education. The hope isthat the report is useful to educators worldwide, andthe international composition of the advisory boardreflects the care with which a global perspective wasassembled. While there are many local factors affectingthe practice of education, there are also issues thattranscend regional boundaries, questions we all facein K-12 education, and it was with these in mind thatthis report was created. The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition is the third in the K-12 series of reportsand is produced by the NMC in collaboration withthe Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), andthe International Society for Technology in Education(ISTE), with the generous support of HP's Office ofGlobal Social Innovation.

eLearning modules, PDFs, videos, and more for both learning and teaching with Geogebra

A free downloadable PDF eBook for learning how to program in Scratch.

Nice printable handout for discussing Bloom's

This presentation discusses a series of  financial lab exercises that demonstrate to students that finance theory has real value in  the business world, thus linking "abstract" course content to the real world. The  exercises align with Bloom's Taxonomy, starting with acquisition of knowledge goals and  moving toward the development of higher level critical thinking goals. 

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Write Well is a web-based application with interactive templates that help students organize their thoughts and ideas, while writing more effectively. When students are finished with a project, it can be exported to Microsoft Word, Google Drive, or as a PDF.