science-resources.co.uk - 61 views
Visual Dictionary Online - StumbleUpon - 113 views
Education Week: Will We Ever Learn? - 37 views
-
All students should master a verifiable set of skills, but not necessarily the same skills. Part of the reason high schools fail so many kids is that educators can’t get free of the notion that all students—regardless of their career aspirations—need the same basic preparation. States are piling on academic courses, removing the arts, and downplaying career and technical education to make way for a double portion of math. Meanwhile, career-focused programs, such as Wisconsin’s youth apprenticeships and well-designed career academies, are engaging students and raising their post-high-school earnings, especially among hard-to-reach, at-risk male students.
-
Maintaining our one-size-fits-all approach will hurt many of the kids we are trying most to help. Maybe that approach, exemplified in the push for common standards, will simply lead to yet more unmet education goals. But it won’t reduce, and might increase, the already high rate at which students drop out of school, or graduate without the skills and social behaviors required for career success.
-
Well-written commentary for anyone interested in the impact of Common Core Standards. "What's Wrong With the Common-Standards Project" "We need rigorous but basic academics, homing in on skills that will be used, and not short-shrifting the "soft skill" behaviors that lead to success in college and careers. The management guru Peter Drucker got it right: "The result of a school is a student who has learned something and puts it to work 10 years later."
Flocabulary - Hip-Hop in the Classroom - 105 views
Web 2.0 List Of Web 2.0 Application Links - 94 views
Sleep Is Death (Geisterfahrer) - 47 views
-
A Storytelling game for two players.
-
This seems interesting; not sure how I might use it right off the bat, though. Be sure to check out the intro story: http://sleepisdeath.net/slideShow/
Thinkuknow - 5-7 - 71 views
Free Printable Posters - Poster-Street.com - 122 views
Langwitches Blog » "Skype Jobs" for Students - 50 views
YouTube - YouTube Tools for Schools - 109 views
Free Technology for Teachers: Glogster EDU Resource Library - 73 views
31 Days to Become a Better Ed Tech Leader -- Day 1: Carry Out a SWOT Analysis... - 87 views
9 [More] Powerful Image Editing Web Apps You May Need to Bookmark @ SmashingApps - 59 views
MathDoodles - 109 views
A guide to online educational resources. - NYTimes.com - 90 views
-
Richard Ludlow started the nonprofit Academic Earth two years ago after M.I.T.'s OpenCourseWare helped him pass linear algebra as a Yale undergraduate. His site offers the courses of 10 elite universities — 130 full courses and more than 3,500 video lectures. Viewers can turn the tables on professors and grade courses. Other guidance includes "Editor's Picks" and "Playlists," lectures selected around a theme like "First Day of Freshman Year" and "You Are What You Eat."
-
Connexions, started at Rice University 10 years ago, debundles education for the D.I.Y. learner. Anyone can write a "module," the term for instructional material that can be a single sentence or 1,000 pages. Connexions hosts more than 16,000 modules that make up almost 1,000 "collections." A collection might be, say, an algebra textbook or statistics course.
-
Daniel Colman is a curator of sorts. He sifts through the vast amount of free courses, movies and books offered online to find what he considers the very best in content and production value. Then he features them on Open Culture, the Web site he founded in 2006. It's a task in keeping with his mission as associate dean and director of Stanford's continuing education program.
- ...2 more annotations...
-
Thousands of pieces of free educational material - videos and podcasts of lectures, syllabuses, entire textbooks - have been posted in the name of the open courseware movement. But how to make sense of it all? Businesses, social entrepreneurs and "edupunks," envisioning a tuition-free world untethered by classrooms, have created Web sites to help navigate the mind-boggling volume of content. Some sites tweak traditional pedagogy; others aggregate, Hulu-style.
-
Amazing online resources for education
Think Green Resource Guide | Edutopia - 28 views
« First
‹ Previous
24821 - 24840 of 28355
Next ›
Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page