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"Education World offers five lessons to help teachers commemorate the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States. These lessons will keep alive the spirit of patriotism and tolerance stimulated by the events of 9/11. Included: Students make a huge flag mural for your school or a proverb book for your classroom library, write letters to fire fighters in their community, read aloud books that model tolerance, raise money for Afghan children, more!"

The New World Trade Center is a series of panoramas of the site where the Center is being rebuilt. It's from The New York Times.

The International Education K ­ 16 website is a collaborative effort at Pennsylvania Department of Education between the Bureaus of Teaching and Learning and Community and Student Services. This website will emphasize World Languages, World Cultures, and global issues. Global Coin will provide materials and resources to students, teachers, parents and professionals. In the future Global Coin will be enhanced and expanded technologically to meet numerous educational needs

Check this out for resources to get your classes connected.

Schools are working with a flexible definition of literacy, influenced by established core concepts of media literacy, to: * promote the development of critical thinking skills necessary to independently 'read' & 'write', and make meaning of messages in a variety of forms * promote the basic operational skills, and understanding of the languages necessary to independently 'read' and 'write' effective messages in various forms of media (print, video, audio, etc.) * instill confidence in the ability to adapt those skills and concepts to emerging forms of communication * connect and transfer the fundamentals of literacy to other forms of real world communication and problem solving Challenges & Questions: * How do you fit this into already full school schedules? * If these type of productions do take time from other discipline and skills, is it worth it? * When and how do we train teachers to be confident enough in their own media literacy to fluidly guide students? * Where is the balance that satisfies outcomes schools are traditionally responsible for with the real world needs of our students?

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Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is an animated television series that looks at the natural world from a preschooler's point of view. It introduces preschoolers to a fascinating world filled with loveable characters and stunning wildlife movies from National Geographic.

Where educators, students, and parents are networking the world together. Global COIN allows international connections via the World Wide Web for researching and collaborating with different cultures and their societies. The International Education K ­ 16 website is a collaborative effort at Pennsylvania Department of Education between the Bureaus of Teaching and Learning and Community and Student Services. This website will emphasize World Languages, World Cultures, and global issues. Global Coin will provide materials and resources to students, teachers, parents and professionals. In the future Global Coin will be enhanced and expanded technologically to meet numerous educational needs.

AN 8th grade teacher asked his students: "How has writing for a world wide audience changed the way you write?" This blog post contains the list of responses.

Listen to varieties of world music on this National Geographic site.

Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

Unless you're enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you're probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world's greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you've now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world.

Unless you're enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you're probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world's greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet, and our list of 100 incredible lectures, you've now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world.

A thematically-organized interactive that helps you learn more about the patterns and processes that make up world history.

36 learning games to change the world

A Radically Different World If you think our future will require better schools, you're wrong. The future of education calls for entirely new kinds of learning environments. If you think we will need better teachers, you're wrong. Tomorrow's learners will need guides who take on fundamentally different roles. As every dimension of our world evolves so rapidly, the education challenges of tomorrow will require solutions that go far beyond today's answers.

This site was so cool. I created my own comic story. I was able to play brain buster games I read stories and had stories read to me, and watched videos about how to create a comic.. This site was created by Jim Davis, creator of the comic strip Garfield, in conjunction with Ball State University and PAWS, Inc. It give kids the opportunity to explore, create and connect safely with kids around the world. Jim Davis created this site because he felt there was a need to provide a high-quality, free, and engaging web site that could motivate children to achieve their full potential. The approach is kid-centric and tries to close the achievement gap between what kids seek to do on the Internet and standards-based educational activities. The mission of Professor Garfield.org is encourage children to explore academically sound literacy activities and provide them with tools to express themselves through creative writing prorams. It's an Internet destination that is safe, free and fun! The Professor Garfield and Sparktop sites (both found on this link) provide all kids of ways for kids to shine and showcase their talents and abilities! Students can record their own "talent" for Sparkstage (our American Idol-like competition), arrange music with the awesome music mixer tool, create their own comic strip in the Comis Lab, learn to sculpt, or be taught to draw by professional artists in the Art-Bot section. On Sparktop.org kids safely connect with other kids who knwow what they are going through. They find information about how their brain works and get tips on how to succeed in school and life. And they get to showcase their creativity and be recognized for their strengths. Millions of children from around the world visit the web site every month.

We believe todays students have tremendous potential, are interested in making connections between their academic study and careers, and deserve widely accessible career information. Who are we? Our World Interactive is a not-for profit web and film project jointly produced by WHYY (the Philadelphia and Delaware public broadcasting affiliate) and GlenDevon Group (a private company), Life Science Career Alliance (an industry and education partnership) and the Chester County Intermediate Unit (an educational service agency). . WHAT We offer EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE is an interactive website for job and career exploration targeted to teenagers and young adults in middle school through college and the mentors who advise them. OUR WORLD is a film series highlighting a broad spectrum of careers within one or more industry clusters.

"Using podcasting, I have taken low-level readers and have excited them about reading and sharing what they read with the world. The Fireside Book Chat Podcast contains student reviews of self-selected books. A take on the old-fashioned book report, the podcast provides students with an authentic way to learn because they do it not just for themselves nor just for the teacher, but for the world. "

"Challenge Based Learning is an engaging multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to leverage the technology they use in their daily lives to solve real-world problems. Challenge Based Learning is collaborative and hands-on, asking students to work with other students, their teachers, and experts in their communities and around the world to develop deeper knowledge of the subjects students are studying, accept and solve challenges, take action, share their experience, and enter into a global discussion about important issues."

"So it's my pleasure to share with you our new education programs that are aimed at innovations in STEM+ learning and empowering socially responsible entrepreneurs through global collaboration and the power of technology. Our goal is to equip educators, students and aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills and tools to drive amazing social change in their communities and around the world. Needless to say, I'm VERY excited - I think you will be, too... We believe there is no better way to address society's most pressing challenges than by equipping students, educators and future entrepreneurs with the skills and technology to turn their ideas and ambition into action. Our long-term vision is a world where unlimited educational opportunities transform lives, strengthen communities and drive social change worldwide. To turn our vision into reality, we are partnering with leading education, non-profit and nongovernmental institutions to offer three new programs described below. So what could be more exciting than announcing these new programs? Perhaps selecting exciting and innovative proposals in a few months! Will yours be one of them?"

"Gapminder Desktop is a new application which allows you to use Gapminder World without an Internet connection available. You can: * Use Gapminder World without the Internet. * Save a list of your own favorite graphs. * Update automatically to the latest version."

Search by newspaper title, language, or address and get a map of the world with pinpoints for each newspaper. Awesome for finding newspapers from different countries and in different languages.

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