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Back to School: 15 Essential iOS Apps for Students 6 days ago by Zoe Fox

"Organize Your Education!™ GradeMate is a powerful online organizer for teachers and students to keep track of their courses - from managing grades, assignments, and events to sharing files, course notes, and class discussions."

"This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes. The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas: * AJAX Programming * Algorithms * Distributed Systems * Web Security * Languages In the Tools 101 section, you will find a set of introductions to some common tools used in Computer Science such as version control systems and databases. The CS Curriculum Search will help you find teaching materials that have been published to the web by faculty from CS departments around the world. You can refine your search to display just lectures, assignments or reference materials for a set of courses."

"Doe is the youngest of five children and says he's been inventing gadgets since the age of four. He gathers scrap metal and other materials to create electronic solutions for his town. His inventions have caught the eye of university professors and scientists at academic institutions in the U.S., including Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard."

"Doe is the youngest of five children and says he's been inventing gadgets since the age of four. He gathers scrap metal and other materials to create electronic solutions for his town. His inventions have caught the eye of university professors and scientists at academic institutions in the U.S., including Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard."

From site: High Ability is a blog and information aggregator for parents, guardians and teachers of high ability children managed by the Ohio Association of Gifted Children (OAGC) for the benefit of high ability students in the State of Ohio.

Last year a select group of middle school students from the gifted and talented program participated in a virtual learning program called MyChinese360. Piloted and paid for by Eastern Suffolk B.O.C.E.S., the program taught Kings Park children the fundamentals of Mandarin.  

Now that my students are getting more comfortable making online slideshows (especially with Flowgram), they're also getting more interested in including music

article on NCLB and gifted students - lack of opportunities

Recently I've come to the idea that the question "how do you differentiate?" is the wrong question to ask (or at least coming in the wrong sequence). The essential question should be "what do you differentiate?" By differentiating instruction I am changing something for some group of students. To do this I have to ask myself "what can I change and what do I need to keep the same?" What follows are three cases of differentiation, all of which change a different facet of learning.

"When children work on science projects, experiments, investigations, or other science activities their curiosity can be stimulated by asking questions. This helps children develop a better understanding of science concepts. Questioning is part of the attributes of inquiry-based science and central to critical thinking."

Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: The 21st century is a world in constant change. In A New Culture of Learning, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown pursue an understanding of how the forces of change, and emerging waves of interest associated with these forces, inspire and invite us to imagine a future of learning that is as powerful as it is optimistic. Our understanding of what constitutes "a new culture of learning" is based on several basic assumptions about the world and how learning occurs: