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Grockit is a social platform for learning that provides students with collaborative real-time study rooms and content aligned to K-12 curriculum and college entrance exams. With Grockit, schools can: * Quickly assess students' academic skill levels * Focus instruction on areas with the most need * Continuously adapt study plans to each student"

K-12 education's early steps in movement to an all digital curriculum. Students in 4th, 7th, and 9th grade social studies will be on an iPad.

Website created by a student for students in hope of simplifying the study process.

Here are a few social studies resources for educators.

iPad is a cool versatile tool that has a huge potential in education. It is widely  believed that iPad has started tranforming the face of education and revolutionizng modes of learning. Results coming out of pilot studies on the integration of iPads in the classroom seem to be promising.

Unique Learning System is the ONLY online, dynamic, standards-based curriculum specifically designed for special learners. Subscribers download monthly instructional thematic units of study. Each unit contains 30 lesson plans and downloadable materials that teachers can readily implement into classroom learning activities. All materials are created using SymbolStix graphics. The unit lesson plans define three levels of differentiated tasks to accommodate the diversity of learners with significant disabilities.

"Evidently studying and iPods go together like peanut butter and jelly. So if you want to get in on the latest technological-educational craze, check out the following iTunes apps. These are the top free apps that are beneficial for high school and college students."

Very interesting site for social studies and primary sources.

"Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links."

create your own tones, study the math behind it, see it visually

Most public schools are traditionally run by principals and administrators, who defer to policies dictated by the state. But a group of 60 schools across the country is subverting the top-down system, putting teachers in full control of running their schools. It's called the Teacher Powered Schools initiative, led by Education Evolving, and the goal is to seed a movement that will inspire other teachers in schools across the country to realize their potential as leaders. To that end, Education Evolving released a study [PDF]  in partnership with Center for Teaching Quality, which indicates that 91 percent of Americans believe teachers should have greater influence over decisions that affect student learning. What's more, 81 percent of Americans indicate they trust teachers to make "schools run better." In this model of teacher-run schools, teams of teachers "work collaboratively as leaders and partners to make professional decisions over the areas that matter most for their students, including selection of colleagues, evaluation, budget and resources, curriculum and school-level policymaking.""

"AERobot (Affordable Education Robot) is a low-cost robot designed to introduce students of all ages to the fundamentals of programming and control of robots, with the hope of inspiring them to further pursue studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).  We hope that AERobot's low cost ($10.70 including assembly) will enable more students, especially those who could not normally afford to do so, to gain hands-on experience in robotics"

map themes, data, and tools for customizing maps