Grants also support efforts to develop new learning environments to understand how schools, libraries, museums, and other formal and informal institutions need to adapt, change, and collaborate as a result of young people's use of digital media. Projects are looking at learning in virtual worlds, through game design, with mobile devices, and through the interactions in social networks-in and out of school. Resources support new school design, including a model based on the principles of game design that shape and inform all aspects of teaching and learning.

Each archive includes questions, discussions, and accompanying resources from the live webinar. To find a specific archive, use the pull-down filter below to search by subtopic and then subtopic, or use the column headings to sort by title, topic, subtopic, presenter or date.

Design Thinking is a mindset and methodology that centers around problem solving. Using Design Thinking in education creates curriculum that focuses on students going through a process to inquire, brainstorm, and create solutions to real interdisciplinary problems.

We are pleased to welcome you to New Hampshire's first statewide on-line virtual public school. The Academy's goal is to use the latest internet technologies to provide our students with any time, any where access to a rigorous, personalized education that helps them learn today, graduate tomorrow and prepare for the future. A few highlights about the Academy: Tuition-free for all students residing in NH; We accept both full-time and part-time students; We accept out-of-state students. Out-of-state students pay tuition fees; An approved New Hampshire public school; Courses taught by New Hampshire certified instructors.

This blog is the collected thoughts of school administrators that want to share best practices in education. All of the authors have different experiences in education but all have the same goal; ensuring we do what is best for studentsþff.

This site is devoted to teaching educators how to use podcasts and vodcasts to increase student achievement. This is the brainchild of Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams who are pioneers in the field of using vodcasts in the classroom. They have devised a new method of teaching called Pre-Vodcasting. In this model, students watch vodcasts at home and class time is spent in engaging hands-on activities and directed problem solving.

Join us for Smithsonian Shout Online Conference Series: lively, informative exchanges with experts in science, history, and the arts and people everywhere in the world. Presentations include visuals such as artworks and photographs, maps and graphics, and video clips - all archived for replay any time. The series is part of the ShoutLearning project. Register for the Shout online conference series.

A new sort of tools - and a new sort of ethics - are required for the next generation of students to succeed in the face of global challenges. Come explore how social media can be used by educators to effect positive social change. See examples of how teachers have collaborated with colleagues, connected their classrooms to others around the globe, and helped to bring green initiatives to their schools and communities. Discover how students too can use powerful (and often free) tools to tap into their own passions, bring new relevance to their learning, and make a real difference in their world.

Goals/challenges - 30 for 30 days - related to educational technology. A yudu book written by Shelly Terrell.

Ask question from a community of teachers; Answer questions to share your best practices; Join the crowd to vote up great answers, earn reputation for your own, and help run EdCrowd.

Feel free to click on any of these links to explore exciting tools for getting your young learners to love learning a language!

Our goal is to provide examples of differentiated lessons and student activities to inspire you. We post the examples here and provide the source/reference. This is so that we do not loose these wonderful examples because links are no longer valid. These differentiation resources are used in a middle school or high school classroom.

The intent of this project wiki is to address: How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action?

20 web 2.0 tools for teachers, by Simon Ward

has been set up to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging. The menu for the website is to the left. Please explore AND contribute. This website is actually a "wiki," which means that it is hoped that you will contribute to the content of this website.

Links, blogs, and other information related to cell phone use and text messaging in school

These projects are examples of the work that is done at all of the High Tech High Schools. It is our record of what we have done and how to get there. Teachers can utilize this to show off what they have done with their students, and get ideas from others teachers. Students can show their parents and friends the work that they have done, and the community can see how project based learning enables students to do and learn. Please enjoy the projects and videos.

Udemy's goal is to enable anyone to teach and learn online. In less than 5 minutes, you can create your own online course on Udemy. You can upload presentations, videos, host live classroom sessions and write articles. It's fast, easy and free. By making it easy to teach online, Udemy also brings together the best teachers on the internet in an effort to educate the world. That means if you want to learn Multivariable Calculus, you can. If you want to learn Photoshop, you can. If you want to learn more about the metaphor for good and evil as presented by the dark and light colors in Star Wars, you can on Udemy.

Founded in 2003 by Jenny M. Buccos, ProjectExplorer.org is a nonprofit organization (501c3) that produces free, online global travel series. Designed for family and classroom, ProjectExplorer.org provides students with access to peoples and places they may never have seen or knew existed. ProjectExplorer.org's multi-award winning online video series, photos, educational blogs, and lesson plans are provided free-of-charge. ProjectExplorer.org's programs cover multiple subject areas that foster cross-cultural understanding.

Are you ready for new Kidlink adventures? Kidlink Projects increase your students' life-skills and help children get friends,build social networks and get peers around the world. Let your students experience the communication tools inside of Kidlink!