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"Pizza boxes are a fantastic tool for play!  They are small and can be stacked easily for storage purposes.  They are portable and are perfect for on the go.  Simply open the box to store all of your extra parts or pieces.  Pizza boxes are also super versatile and rather inexpensive. "

"Backed by AT&T and Stanford's startX, PlayPosit (fka eduCanon) is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities. see also https://speakingofspeechblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/my-brains-on-fire/

The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity serves as a nexus for research on dyslexia, and is as well a leading source of advocacy and information to better the lives of people with dyslexia. Our mission is to uncover and illuminate the strengths of those with dyslexia, disseminate the latest innovations from scientific research and practical advice, and transform the treatment of children and adults with dyslexia.

"The National Education Technology Plan is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. The 2016 Plan, Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, articulates a vision of equity, active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere, all-the-time learning possible. While acknowledging the continuing need to provide greater equity of access to technology itself, the plan goes further to call upon all involved in American education to ensure equity of access to transformational learning experiences enabled by technology. The principles and examples provided in this document align to the Activities to Support the Effective Use of Technology (Title IV A) of Every Student Succeeds Act as authorized by Congress in December 2015."

As a professional, you are in charge of your own learning. Edchat Interactive is live peer‐to‐peer video sharing best practices in education. The webinars are hosted by innovators working to transform outcomes through sharing their knowledge and techniques. Find, access, and engage in the archive to locate topics pertinent to your practice!

Tucker, age 11, outlines different ways educators can transform themselves into Educational Experience Designers and describes some different tools that can be used to provide students with more options. A big thanks to TTAC/ODU (http://ttac.odu.edu/) for sponsoring the creation of this video series!

The National Urban Technology Center (Urban Tech), a not-for-profit educational corporation, transforms lives through the power of technology by giving youth the capacity for positive behavior and academic success. Urban Tech achieves its mission by teaching students essential life skills, and by training and coaching parents and educators to support social and emotional learning. Urban Tech's flagship programs, The Youth Leadership Academy® (YLA) and SeedTech®, are delivered online to enhance the ability of schools and after-school programs to reach and effectively teach all students.

Using Pool Noodles for arts and crafts.

The Project In order to ensure we take full advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Project Variability is bringing together the brightest minds in academia, business, and education to deploy this new science across all sectors of society -- from education to the workforce. Our goal is nothing less than to transform the levers of growth and opportunity by integrating the science of the individual into the very fabric of our digital society.