Gifted Education 2.0

Mrs. Smoke's 20 tools teacher should start the year with with annotations on what they can be used for.

For teachers hoping to infuse multimedia into their classrooms, YouTube makes for an excellent starting point. Plenty of universities, nonprofits, organizations, museums and more post videos for the cause of education both in and out of schools. The following list compiles some of the ones most worthy of attention, as they feature plenty of solid content appealing to their respective audiences and actively try to make viewers smarter.

Want to see how great you look in clay? Create a clay version of you and your friends now!

Aspects of creative thinking that are not usually taught.

you can view photos of present and past superimposed, create your own stories, view photos of specific places and time periods

"In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents. They analyze, compare, evaluate and interpret multiple representations from a variety of disciplines and subjects, including texts, photographs, artwork, and data. They learn to choose and modify their own communication based on the rhetorical situation. Point of view is created by the reader, the audience and the medium."

create drag and drop games or apps - now uses HTML5 so it can be used on more platforms.

Great set of cyber safety topics in online videos

Fascinating view of the skeletons and habitats of different primates on Earth.

Sometimes gifted children think they know what their parents do and do not want to hear; therefore, these children will tell parents only certain information and avoid telling them other things, such as their fears.

In a digital world, the question is not whether you will leave a mark. The question is, "What kind of mark are you leaving?"

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.

learning html for kids a step-by step tutorial

Center for Development and Learning Discussion of what Higher Order thinking is, what it looks like, how to develop the skills

Search the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips for a topic or two!