MU Web 2.0 Online Course

We spoke with Eric about how he was able to change – from a principal that banned social media in his school to a principal that his students call ‘Mr. Twitter.’

. Watch our interview for tips on how you and your district can get started.

Before choosing to restrict the use of social and mobile tools in schools, policymakers and education leaders have to consider the negative impact such restrictions will have on learning.

Social media and mobile devices are already in widespread use by students,

state, and local policies do not match up with current realities and need clarification or updating in light of current social trends

of students using the Web to communicate with each other, the presenters at this event were encouraging it

how to use cell phones within the classroom. Considering that some school districts still ban students from bringing cell phones to school,

Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a healthy lifestyle. Each student learns in an environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults. Each student is actively engaged in learning and is connected to the school and broader community. Each student has access to personalized learning and is supported by qualified, caring adults. Each student is challenged academically and prepared for success in college or further study and for employment and participation in a global environment.

Molecular Workbench (MW) provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science.

America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Citizenship Quiz

learn about the geography, data, languages, and holidays of different countries around the world.

CultureCrossing.net is an evolving database of cross-cultural information about every country in the world.

Find information on 200+ countries and add your own knowledge to our guides Ask our experts Connect directly with community members from around the world Access global resources to further your cross-cultural exploration

The authors used a typical recent day as a starting point for their interviews with 80 people in 30 countries. They specifically chose not to cover daily caloric averages, as they wanted to include some extreme examples of eating, like one woman's diet on a bingeing day or the small number of calories a herder in Kenya ate during extreme drought. The texts in the book provide the context for the photographs, detailing each person's diet, culture, and circumstance at the moment they were photographed: a snapshot in time. A complete methodology is available in the book.

we publish a new chart or map every working day, highlight our interactive-data features and provide links to interesting sources of data around the web.

help students learn to detect bias and plain falsehoods on various websites

exploring accessible tools that students could use to gain a similar understanding of more mainstream media.