Group items tagged

How we define success may vary -- building 21st-century learning skills, closing the achievement gap, reinventing the learning process. But the tonic effect of success on teachers does not change. Everywhere we go, we hear it: There is no greater reward than knowing you have enhanced a child's chances of succeeding in life.

Collection of 10 highly recommended resource sites on using iPads in education. 

Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make. Should this be scarce or abundant? MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes available for free online. The marginal cost...

"vocabulary, visual, dictionary, tools, special educatio, esl, ell, speech"

Nice blog post from Powerful Learning Practice and Professional Development for 21st Century Educators. 

"Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. "

10 great free resources from Discovery Education.

What/who has legal rights when it comes to audio recording of class lecture/discussion?

"online resources, Special Education, summer fever, summer, summer camps, academic gains, learning games, summer reading"

"special education, special needs, students, learning, success, teachers, classrooms"

Kevin Honeycutt watched as a group of students at the Turning Point Learning Center, a K-8 charter school in Emporia, KS, took turns with an iPad, rocking out on a virtual guitar as they rehearsed for an upcoming spring concert. Steve Dembo, online community manager for Discovery Education, has postulated about the device on his blog. "While being able to store a thousand books on the device is wonderful, that in itself doesn't increase student learning," he wrote in an email. "But when you begin combining the written knowledge with images, videos, and interactive activities in a personal, intuitive interface, that's when we begin truly experiencing the future of learning."

iPad education visions

Great infographic on teacher responses regarding effectiveness of education materials.

Thoughtful discussion on writing standards and student blogging.

On the one side Indians are considered as the proud owner of glorious education system in the past and on the other side we the same Indian are considered as one of the nations with poorest education structure in the world -with millions of illiterates in the country- even poorer than the countries those stands nowhere near us in the development in the last few years.