“Just giving kids an engineering problem to solve doesn’t mean it will lead to learning,” said Janine Remillard, an associate education professor at the University of Pennsylvania who is not opposed, but believes that good teaching is essential to making any curriculum work well.
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home - The Gateway to 21st Century Skills - 19 views
Wikibooks - 20 views
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2,469 free e-books and counting
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Thank you for sharing! Great resource!
Mashpedia, the Multimedia Encyclopedia - 17 views
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Student research
Many Schools Teach Engineering in Early Grades - NYTimes.com - 6 views
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I think it goes deeper than leading to "learning" in the sense of curriculum. It's more that students are learning to learn. Far too often we assume that students actually know how to learn. We know how to plan learning experiences and disseminate information, but how often do we stop to think whether or not a student has developed the skill to learn? -
Good point, Brian. I think more than anything the iterative process builds the skills of a learner that are applicable far beyond whether they learn "engineering." Process matters.
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“You’re not really learning what I would call engineering fundamentals,” he said of such programs. “You’re really learning about engineering.”
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 9 views
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Well organized and stocked with great images.
Zotero - Zotero - LibGuides at University of Missouri - 3 views
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Short Zotero.com overview and tutorial and great tip for college students whose college computers do not run Firefox.
Lexipedia - Where words have meaning - 14 views
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visual thesaurus - nice point of difference
CiteSeerX: Beta - 3 views
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Digital Library and search Engine. A collaborative effort by Univ. of Arkansas, King Saud Univ and National University of Singapore
Inkscape Wiki - 6 views
Educators - Population Reference Bureau - 4 views
Welcome To The FACE Kids Site - 18 views
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Copyright information for students
Free Video Clips - Streaming Online Videos - EncycloMedia - 18 views
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EncycloMedia.com™ is a free video encyclopedia that covers everything you need to know or want to learn. If your passion is entertainment, fitness, health, history, nature, people, science, spirituality, religion, or travel - free video encyclopedia provides the access you need.
Animal Diversity Web - 15 views
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ADW is a large searchable encyclopedia of the natural history of animals. Every day, thousands of classroom students and informal visitors use it to answer animal questions. Other sites specialize in local, endangered, or particular kinds of animals. We aim to be as comprehensive as possible.
Tree of Life Web Project - 14 views
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The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).
Word Game on most commonly Misspelled Words | Dictionary.com - 16 views
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this suits secondary students. is sponsored by dictionary.com, so american spelling
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