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This site provides you with the opportunity to create digital records of your students. The students have their own user name and password and you can use the parent email address to link them to their child records. It is awesome I am trying it out

I am really interested in E-Portfolio. So, was eager to surf the site. BUT, unfortunately, could find anything connected to creating an E-Portfolio. Sorry, if I am wrong. May be you gave a wrong reference. The one you gave opens a GAME ^((

Globalization and rapid technological change have made knowledge a critical determinant of competitiveness in the world economy. The World Bank is playing an important role in assisting countries in taking advantage of the opportunities in information and communications technologies (ICTs) to contribute to education goals and poverty reduction strategies.

SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording. With a unique interface concept, in this site you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world, or you can search the database for specific sounds by different artists from certain places. If you are a phonographer, you can also contribute your recordings for others to enjoy. The Creative Commons Attribution license encourages the sharing and reuse of all sounds on this website. an excellent way to travel around the world through your ears. Go ahead, book your sonic journey, open your ears, close your eyes and... enjoy!

An invention kit for the 21st century based on research at MIT Media Lab. Turn everyday objects into touchpads And combine them with the internet. The site includes a gallery of projects already made by adults And children alike, videos And guides to inspire your own startups.

This is amazing! I've just finished our inventions topic at school, this would have been great for that!

Hi lauralooroll, Well... you can start planning for next time. If you get makeymakey and experiment with your students, please share your discoveries. :)

Developed by Becky Herr-Stephenson and Meryl Alper with Erin Reilly and an introduction by Henry Jenkins, this report focus on transmedia in the lives of children aged 5 to 11 and its applications to storytelling, play and learning.

NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) that provides resources to help teach children how to be safer on- and offline. The program is designed for children ages 5-17, and provides resources such as videos, games, activity cards, and presentations for parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. Site's contents are in English and although there are no captioned or translated videos, some texts are also available in Spanish.

I stopped to read the provided key points about screen time for kids together with its corresponding article because, it has been always a topic in my mind when friends share their disapproval about TV watching. I always back up my thoughts by considering that the problem is not the amount of screen they have but, the purpse for its use. Unfortunately, I believe many parents use TV or simile, as baby sitters, this I consider negative. While reading these articlaes, my ideas became clearer and on paper! Technology, many times neglected by old-fashioned teaching teachers, is often considered in the same way and, I truly believe that it must be also considered something positive, enhancing and motivating if used wisely.

Besides all the online applications, programs, tools and games .. screen time is equally important for kids. The article also rejects the myths that parents and teachers have in minds regarding screen time. This perspective can be changed in to positivity by by proper monitoring of kids during screen time.

Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

It is used in our school!

You might be interested reading Evaluating the Khan Academy at http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/evaluating-khan-academy?cid=EXT_TWBN_D_EXT giving a summary and reference to the Research on the Use of Khan Academy in Schools report.

2013 Design Challenge: Robot Enhancements, Software, and Teaching Plans Sponsored by: The African Robotics Network (AFRON) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Robots excite people of all ages. Their physical behavior often inspires primary and secondary student interest in computers, science, math, and engineering more broadly.

Thanks Enzo, this looks like something my students could work on as an enrichment project.

Fabulous online robotics challenge - I use it in my school with grades 3-6 (Australia) as we do not have robotics.

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

A very good resource indeed! Completes greatly the first lesson of K-5 Course 1 of code.org, I think.

Interdisciplinary journal aimed to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of technology enhanced learning. It covers the full range from research, application development to experience reports and product descriptions. iJET is an Open Access Journal. Readers don't have to pay any fee. Only registration is necessary.

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I didn't know what a DM was! Now I know. Interesting to see what we need

Thank you for this link - really helpful! I have a lot of colleagues who do not feel confident about their use of ICT in the classroom and in school - I am going to show them this to support their skills that they already have!

Science across the World brings an international dimension to science education in schools and colleges. Students gain a global perspective on scientific issues related to their personal lives, their impacts on the environment and the varying cultural impacts of science on people in different countries.

Level Up Village curriculum teaches STEAM and design thinking through collaborative, real-life problem solving on an international scale.

InfoComm India presents AV systems integrators, as well as business owners and IT managers an excellent opportunity to find out how you can leverage on Pro AV communications technology in your corporate or marketing strategies for your business or organizational success.

This New York Time article asks readers to draw a graph showing their best guess of the relationship between income and going to college in the United States. Then, it provides individualized feedback. It's an interesting approach and could be used for upper-level primary.

Fantastic Case Study of using an interesting tool to deliver design thinking and the bases for game design for kids.

Thanks Rodrigo. I am passionate about Design Thinking & Visual Thinking.

Evernote is mainly a note-taking app. It is an amazing tool to write down your thoughts and ideas, organize them by using tags and sync them across various mobile devices. But thanks to a very friendly API, Evernote can do more. If you don't wanna mess with Tumblr, Blogger or WordPress, but you are a major Evernote fan,...

Repositorio Educativo de la Comunidad Educativa Española Agrega 2 is an initiative developed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Red.es and Spain's regional governments. The federation of educational digital object repositories Agrega is a platform with nodes in all regional government education departments. The educational content which can be found therein is organised around the curriculum covering pre-university education and is prepared for downloading and direct use by the teaching staff and the students.

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.Every MP3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era.