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A site that actually keeps up with class activity-in real time. Anyone can ask and answer questions on Piazza. With students teaching students, conversations on Piazza can continue long after office hours are over. Piazza gives students anonymity options to encourage everyone-even shy students-to ask and answer questions. Instructor endorsements of good questions and answers let instructors push the class in the right direction.

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Scene 1: Two shot of kids at desk introducing news and first example 2: 180 Rule Good Example. Kids facing each other having a conversation about school.

Scene 1: Two shot of kids at desk introducing news and first example 2: 180 Rule Good Example. Kids facing each other having a conversation about school.

An iPhone app that allows teachers to call more parents, more often. With Dash, teachers can log student performance and generate a daily speed dial of parent numbers. At the end of each conversation, Dash instantly creates a call log and analytics that inform future parent contact and ensure no student is overlooked. Parent engagement and data that teachers need to fast-track student success are now only a click away.

The Learning Times Green Room shares podcasts for "Renewal, Retooling, and Conversations about Learning." In this short episode, the hosts are accompanied by Curt Bonks, author of "The World is Open," for a reflection on technology and education.

Your landing page design doesn't have to be complicated. All marketers should use these 4 neuroscience principles to maximize conversions. Super helpful too if you design online content for students!

Early Childhood Educators discussing and sharing ideas. Everything from curriculum ideas to policy. Some great educational technology ideas for this age group.

Join the conversation!  How do you use cell phones in class?  Cell phones in pre-k?  What do you think?

The Clayton Christensen Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation. Founded on the theories of Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen, the Institute offers a unique framework for understanding many of society's most pressing problems. Our mission is ambitious but clear: work to shape and elevate the conversation surrounding these issues through rigorous research and public outreach. With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation. The Christensen Institute is based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

What makes today's education landscape different than last year, the year before or five years ago? What is different?

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FlipSnack is everything you need to easily publish captivating online magazines, transforming your pdfs into online flipbooks. It works and looks great across all digital platforms, engaging your customers with interactive experiences and making it easy to sell directly from the pages of your digital publication.Files conversion now 10X faster than ever!

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Image source Are you a student who is struggling to learn a foreign language? Or maybe you're a teacher who teaches foreign languages? Every teacher knows that students who want to get up to speed on a new language need to start conversing in that language with as many people as possible.

How to Leverage the Potential of Mathematical Errors Author(s): Wendy S. Bray Source: Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 19, No. 7 (March 2013), pp. 424-431 Published by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/teacchilmath.19.7.0424 Accessed: 29-01-2016 05:23 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content do 3 on Fri, 29 Jan 2016 05:23:09 UTC 3 on Fri, 29 Jan 201 ll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 424 March 2013 * teaching children mathematics | Vol. 19, No. 7 Copyright © 2013 The National CounTcilhoisf TceoanchteenrstodfoMwanthleomadateicds,fIrnocm. w1w3w2..n1c7tm0..1or9g3. .A7ll3rigohntsFrreis,e2rv9edJ.an 2016 05:23:09 UTC This material may not be copied or distributed electronicaAllylloruisneasnuy bojtehecrt ftoormJSatTwOithRouTt ewrrmittsenapnedrmCisosniodnitfiroomnsNCTM. x www.nctm.org to Leverage the Potential of Mathematical EIncorporrating arfocus oon students'rmistakses into your instruction can advance their understanding. By Wendy S. Bray elling children that they can learn from their mistakes is common practice. Yet research indicates that many teachers in the United States limit public attention to errors during math- ematics lessons (Bray 2011; Santagata 2005). Some believe that drawing attention to errors publicly may embarrass error m

Great article about ISTE standards.