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Tracy Varner

20 Things Students Want the Nation to Know About Education - 2 views

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    "It's rare for education reformers, policymakers, and funders to listen to those at the heart of education reform work: The students. In fact Ann Curry who hosted Education Nation's first student panel* admitted folks at NBC were a little nervous about putting kids on stage. In their "Voices of a Nation" discussion, young people provided insight into their own experiences with education and what they think needs to be done to ensure that every student receives a world-class education. After the discussion Curry knew these students didn't disappoint. She told viewers, "Students wanted to say something that made a difference to you (adults) and they did. Now adults need to listen.""
Tracy Varner

SAS® Curriculum Pathways® - 0 views

  • Curriculum Specialists SAS Institute Education Practice The world's largest privately held software company, SAS was founded in academia and has maintained strong ties to the academic community. Those ties grew stronger in 1996 when the company's founders looked back to the classroom and asked: Can the expertise we have developed over the past 25 years enable us to produce technologies that enhance learning? The answer—an enthusiastic Yes—came only after deliberating with educators. SAS Curriculum Pathways is the result of those deliberations. Three qualities have been crucial to our success. Our commitment to teachers Our products work in the classroom in large part because teachers shape every phase of the planning and production process. Our focus on content Our approach is innovative, but our goals are traditional. Teachers, developers, designers, and other specialists clarify content in the core disciplines. We target content difficult to convey with conventional methods—topics where doing and seeing provide information and encourage insights in ways that textbooks cannot. Our approach to technology Our products make learning more profound and efficient, not simply more entertaining. Audio, visual, and interactive components all reinforce the educational objectives identified by teachers. Year after year, SAS Curriculum Pathways earns awards for educational technologies and, more importantly, we earn the support of teachers, students, and parents. For more information: Product Demo Awards News SAS' Commitment to Education SAS Institute Education Practice
Natasha Adams

Inquiry-Based Learning - 0 views

  • Inquiry-based learning is an instructional model that centers learning on addressing a particular problem or answering a central question. There are several different inquiry-based learning models, but most have several general elements in common: Learning focuses around a meaningful, ill-structured problem that demands consideration of diverse perspectives
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    Educator Day New Praire Teacher Honored New Jacobs Teacher Educator Award to promote best teaching with technology Related Links
Tracy Varner

APPitic - 1,300+ EDUapps - 2 views

shared by Tracy Varner on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
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    "APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings. "
Trisha Underwood

MapMaker Page Maps - National Geographic Education - 1 views

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    MapMaker Customize one-page maps and download, email, print, or share!
Trisha Underwood

Gooru | About Gooru - 0 views

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    "Gooru makes it easy for students and teachers to find the best online education resources. Using machine learning and human judgment, Gooru curates, auto-tags and contextualizes collections of web resources to accommodate personalized learning pathways. Multimedia resources available on Gooru dramatically increase student engagement and motivation to learn by connecting topics with 21st century resources and real life applications. Gooru also offers adaptive assessments that allow students to test their knowledge on topics with formative quizzes. "
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    Gooru makes it easy for students and teachers to find the best online education resources. Using machine learning and human judgment, Gooru curates, auto-tags and contextualizes collections of web resources to accommodate personalized learning pathways. Multimedia resources available on Gooru dramatically increase student engagement and motivation to learn by connecting topics with 21st century resources and real life applications. Gooru also offers adaptive assessments that allow students to test their knowledge on topics with formative quizzes.
Trisha Underwood

20 Twitter Hashtags Every Teacher Should Know About | Edudemic - 0 views

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    Twitter chats are such a great way to stay connected and informed in your professional circle, and education is no exception. Through education chats, you can find out about new methods for teaching, tech resources, even jobs for teachers. Most chats are held weekly, and offer an opportunity to have a regularly scheduled conversation with like-minded educators.
Trisha Underwood

OER Commons - 0 views

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    Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. 
Trisha Underwood

Finding Free Images for Your Classroom - 0 views

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    The Internet has made a myriad of material readily available to a vast audience. Along with these seemingly infinite resources  has come a lot of confusion about how images and other content published online should be legally recognized, protected or used. As educators, we often struggle in navigating that road.
Trisha Underwood

Web App Reviews - 0 views

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    The Best Chrome Apps and Extensions for Education
Trisha Underwood

TeachThought11 Essential Tools For Better Project-Based Learning - 0 views

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    Browser-based tools and several apps used in education are especially useful for researching, storytelling and collaborative video making. These tools' aim is to encourage students to approach a task by asking open-ended questions and develop a concept of a task. They also enhance personalized learning, where students discover their own strengths, whether it is analysing and mapping out ideas, research or even editing.
Trisha Underwood

: PBS LearningMedia - 0 views

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    Welcome to PBS LearningMedia™, your new destination for trusted, classroom-ready, standards-based, curriculum resources from PBS.  "PBS LearningMedia's innovative digital content is designed for educators to engage students and inspire learning. Sign up today for FREE, instant access to the best of public media (videos, interactives, audio, photos, and in-depth lesson plans)!"
Tracy Varner

Collaborize Classroom Common Core White Paper - 0 views

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    "This white paper offers educators a vehicle to teach students more effectively, while addressing the Common Core State Standards using a blended learning model that combines face-to-face instruction with asynchronous work done online."
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    This site offers a White Paper regarding the use of a Collaborize Classroom site to address Common Core issues.
Trisha Underwood

Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog - 0 views

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    Weebly for Education is Perfect for You and Your Students Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. Our drag & drop website editor is stunningly simple to use, and appropriate for use with students of all ages. Weebly enables your students to express themselves creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within a protected environment that you control.
Tracy Varner

YouTube launches a section just for schools | eSchool News - 0 views

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    "School teachers and administrators can log in and watch any video, but students cannot log in and can only watch YouTube EDU videos and videos their school has added. All comments and related videos are disabled, and search is limited to YouTube EDU videos. YouTube also has created a page for teachers, YouTube.com/Teachers, to help them learn to use the site as a powerful educational tool."
Tracy Varner

Collaborize Classroom | Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students - 0 views

  • With the new Topic Library: Access the best curriculum online. Create and share topics, lessons & assignments. Download peer-reviewed topic-based lessons.
  • With Collaborize Classroom: Get 100% student participation. Save on monthly printing costs. Reduce grading time by up to 2 hours a week. Receive detailed participation reports.
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    Is this something we should be looking at? Might be a lot like Schoology, but I like the connection to the Common Core State Standards for teachers as well as the available online peer-reviewed lessons... It is free!
Tracy Varner

Get Ready for iTunes U for K12! - 0 views

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    "Apple's "trifold" announcement last week was exciting: textbooks coming to iBooks; iBooks Author software to create your own books; and a dedicated iTunes U app, which "bundles" courses in a manageable, multimedia package. If you haven't watched the Apple Keynote, I highly recommend it, but I want to guide you to my favorite part. It comes in around the 56:25 time on the video where Eddy Cue announces that K12 Institutions can now sign up to deliver content in iTunes U. This is phenomenal news, and I believe, will have the potential to transform education more than the textbook announcement."
Tracy Varner

Open Education and the Common Core State Standards - 1 views

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    "We're excited to invite you to check out two new tools in OER Commons. One is for aligning OER to the Common Core State Standards and the second is a tool to evaluate the quality of a particular resource. Over 1,000 open resources have been vetted by teachers and curriculum specialists using our tools. Look here to see what has already been evaluated and aligned to the Common Core State Standards."
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