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Duane Sharrock

Students Learn Better With Star Trek-Style Touchscreen Desks | Popular Science - 3 views

  • A UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students’ math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method. How? Through collaboration, mostly, as well as by giving teachers better tools by which to micromanage individual students who need some extra instruction while allowing the rest of the class to continue moving forward.
  • the researchers have concluded that these new touchscreen desks boost both fluency and flexibility--the critical thinking skills that allow students to solve complex problems not simply through knowing formulas and devices, but by being able to figure out what the real problem is and the most effective means of stripping it down and solving it.
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    UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.
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    UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.
Professional Learning Board

Children's Books 40% - 60% Off Until Monday - 8 views

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    Books are a great gift and now is the perfect time for parents and teachers to stock up with Internet only special sale pricing discounts for their family or school. Whether you have pre-readers, beginning readers or advanced readers, you will find a broad selection of age and skill appropriate learning-based books from which to select that children love. Search for educational books (fiction, classics and non-fiction) by age, topics, Accelerated Reader, popularity and more… Stock up for your students, children, friends, relatives and classroom. Teenage boys love reading with the new Conspiracy 365 series (12 books in 12 months).
Jim Farmer

Pay Attention - 0 views

  • Darren Draper
  • Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?
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    Great presentation and resources. Time for change!
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    Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices?
LUCIAN DUMA

#edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project gateway to knowledge central.ly/web20education... - 8 views

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    Introduction New Age #SocialMedia #Curation in #education20 with #edtech20 project . My post for #leadershipday11
Jerry Swiatek

BrainFlips | Home of the world's smartest flashcards - 21 views

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    BrainFlips, Inc. is committed to building the most user-friendly and effective flashcards anywhere, for students and self-motivated learners of all ages and academic levels. BrainFlips.com is your free one-stop source for flashcards on any subject. We offer tools and features unavailable anywhere else. Features include: * Full multimedia flashcards: text, images, audio, and video * Fun, easy to use interface * Outstanding community features like study groups and wiki flashcard decks * Multiple modes of study * Artificial intelligence that targets learning and makes study time more efficient * And much, much more! In addition to the free BrainFlips.com website, we can provide your organization with the very best flashcard tools customized to fit your needs.
Jeff Johnson

Connecting Peers, Perspectives, and Pedagogy Online - 0 views

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    C3PO stands for Connecting Peers, Perspectives, and Pedagogy Online. This website is designed to give educators the resources they need to connect with other classrooms from around the world in order to collaborate and learn in an authentic 21st century environment. In this age of increased emphasis on literacy, higher demands for technology, and rapidly depleting school budgets, this type of free, online collaboration is both highly necessary and relevant.
Allison Kipta

Creative Web Tools For and By Kids / FrontPage - 0 views

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    Creative Web Tools For and By Kids is a project designed for students, ages 9 to 14, to use emerging technologies for engaging, thinking, learning, collaborating, creating, and innovating. The focus is on the use of free, open-source, or minimal cost tools, so the project can be replicated. An underlying goal is to demonstrate how advanced technological applications for enhancing learning can be implemented with only a computer and Internet access.
Jeff Johnson

Quest Atlantis - 1 views

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    Quest Atlantis (QA) is a learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-12, in educational tasks. Building on strategies from online role-playing games, QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. It allows users to travel to virtual places to perform educational activities (known as Quests), talk with other users and mentors, and build virtual personae. A Quest is an engaging curricular task designed to be entertaining yet educational.
Fred Delventhal

Mosquito Ringtones - Download the Mosquito Ring Tone Free - 0 views

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    The short version, A tone outside the audible range of hearing for most people over the age of 30. This means that you can get phone calls and receive text messages in class or school without teachers hearing it. For more in-depth information on how the mosquito ringtone works, please see he Mosquito RingTone FAQ. For information on how to get the ringtone on to your phone, see our Mosquito Ringtone how-to Guide.
Jerry Swiatek

Quest Atlantis - 0 views

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    Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults. Explore our site and learn more about this exciting project.
Helena Baert

The future of learning institutions in a digital age - 1 views

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    Great article! The future of learning institutions in a digital age
Fred Delventhal

Story Something: Create personalized children's stories instantly. - 22 views

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    "Create personalized children's stories instantly. Turn any time into story time. It's free. 1. Add the details about your children and family -- what do your kids call Mom? Dad? Grandma? 2. Tell us what kinds of stories your kids like. 3. Have new personalized stories based on your child's age and interests delivered to you automagically."
Joseph Alvarado

5 Ways Classrooms Can Use Video Conferencing - 30 views

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    The author of two books, 12-year-old Adora Svitak published her first, Flying Fingers, at the age of seven. In addition, she has spoken at some of the nation's pre-eminent education conferences and taught students around the world via her video conferencing programs. Most recently, she spoke at the TED conference.
Cara Whitehead

Handwriting Worksheets | Articles - 12 views

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     A Variety of FREE handwriting sheets. http://cot.ag/dnduUE
Cara Whitehead

Science Vocabulary - 21 views

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    Science vocabulary for all content areas and age levels (K-12)
Judy Robison

Go Beyond One Hour | Code.org - 21 views

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    Tutorials for all ages to learn simple computer coding
Jeff Johnson

Kids' Vid: About Us - 0 views

  • Kids' Vid is an instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom. Video production can be intimidating to the novice. Not to worry. It is nothing more than a method for recording research and expressing creative ideas. Video production, if properly implemented, is more than a new toy for students. It provides the tools and the means for students to create and display serious work in a new, exciting and engaging way that is appropriate for all age groups and abilities. This is a place for serious fun.
Cerese Godfrey

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 4 views

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    Fun and super easy to use.
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