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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.""

"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. "

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.

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

"The Internet has made researching subjects deceptively effortless for students - or so it may seem to them at first. Truth is, students who haven't been taught the skills to conduct good research will invariably come up short."

Writing will always be important, but weaving text, images, sound, and presentation together can give students more and different ways to express themselves. Easy-to-use online tools allow students the opportunity to create multimedia projects that demonstrate knowledge and develop useful skills. Check out these new three tools on the scene:

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.

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.

10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have

Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? Lenny Gonzales What's the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather gnomic answer: It's not just what you know. It's what you know about what you know.

"gClassFolders is a free, Google-Spreadsheet-based add-on for Google Apps for EDU that CREATES class folders for students and teachers to simplify and streamline their experience of using Google's world class productivity and collaboration tools in the classroom."

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)!"

"If you structure your class exactly the same way you have always done but employ it flipped," warns Richard Talyor, CMO for Echo360, "effectively what you have done is added an extra hour of class for every hour of class the student has."

"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."

This site offers a White Paper regarding the use of a Collaborize Classroom site to address Common Core issues.

-- MIX your own media Playlists using content from any collection --TRACK what media is "trending" this week for your subject area --FIND what media is rated highest by other HippoCampus users --SHARE your customized HippoCampus with your students and friends

One of the most valuable #edtech lessons that I ever learned came from Hall Davidson, who suggests that teachers interested in incorporating digital storytelling projects into their classrooms create digital kits that students can use as starting points for their efforts.

It's a process . . . The following steps will organize the benchmarks and processes for successful coaching of students' digital products into a zone of excellence. Rather than "go forth and good luck" with make a media product, strategically organizing feedback and signing - off processes along the way will ensure rigor that delivers high ROL (Return-on-Learning)!

"Want to convert PDF to JPG? Submit your PDF, we convert it to JPG, online! You will also have the opportunity to download the pictures as a zip file."

This is a great tool to use and/or share with students that need to convert PDF documents to a JPG format so that they may be uploaded to Schoology! It is free, it works entirely online and does not require the student to create an account. Woo-hoo!

"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."