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Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers- not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.

About Wolfram|Alpha: Making the World's Knowledge Computable Includes an overview of the technology, goals, and history of Wolfram|Alpha. ... introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers- not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data ... Second, Mathematica's vast web of built-in algorithms provides the ... www.wolframalpha.com/about.html

About Wolfram|Alpha: Making the World's Knowledge Computable Includes an overview of the technology, goals, and history of Wolfram|Alpha. ... introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers- not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data ... Second, Mathematica's vast web of built-in algorithms provides the ... www.wolframalpha.com/about.html

Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate.

Nice resource for both students and teachers...

Club Academia strives to organize existing knowledge in ways that make learning easily accessible while simultaneously inspiring people to discover and innovate.

How-to Give Feedback to Students the Right Way

The Right Questions, The Right Way

"7 Ways To Use Google Tools To Maximize Learning"

#Satchat: A Great Way for Administrators to Connect

"Five Ways to Empower Students"

"10 Ways Technology Supports 21st Century Learners in Being Self Directed"

Why Should Teachers And Tutors Use Twitter in Education?Teachers can connect to their students on a wider level as well as on a personal level

Again, I agree but educational technologies are difficult to move forward in classrooms, at least I can say that it is tough this year with AchieveNJ, Common Core, & PARCC all being implemented at once. I think we are on the way and getting the word out....let's see how much we grow in 2 years.

PowerPoint presentation for teachers about ways to use Twitter

Wolfram|Alpha Pro gives you a whole new way to interact with Wolfram|Alpha-and immediate access to new, more personal, computational knowledge.

to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale.

Teaching isn't easy. All too often educators are asked to achieve high goals with meager resources and distracted students. No technology alone can improve learning, but an intimate partnership between educational institutions and technology developers can. Our mission is to empower you-to give you the tools and connections to engage students more efficiently and improve educational effectiveness on both a large and small scale. Schoology isn't just an LMS. It's a living, breathing educational community that can adjust to changing student needs, learn from collective experiences, and continually improve as education and technology advance. We strive to provide an unparalleled educational experience that improves student outcomes by providing educators information and insights that were never before possible. Schoology hopes not only to illuminate why particular students learn the way they do, but also to provide support and personalized content that is tailored to them. Schoology is transforming learning through the collaboration of passionate individuals. We're on a unique journey, and this is just the beginning.

We're revolutionizing education by changing the way people think about education.

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Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: "satisfactory." And with no feedback, no coaching, there's just no way to improve. Bill Gates suggests that even great teachers can get better with smart feedback - and lays out a program from his foundation to bring it to every classroom.

Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Research on College Undermatch "Access to the nation's most selective colleges remains starkly unequal, with students in the lowest income quartile constituting less than 4% of enrollment," say Michael Bastedo and Allyson Flaster (University of Michigan/Ann Arbor) in this article in Educational Researcher. "Students in the top SES quartile comprise 69% of enrollment at institutions that admit fewer than a third of their applicants…" One increasingly popular explanation for this enrollment gap is undermatching - academically able low-income students not applying to selective colleges for which they are qualified, settling instead for lower-tier institutions. Bastedo and Flaster are skeptical about this theory for three reasons First, they don't believe there is good evidence about the life benefits of attending different tiers of college, and most measures of college "quality" are quite unscientific. Life advantages might accrue at the extremes - going to a highly selective college versus a low-quality community college - but the evidence about the whole middle range is "quite muddy," say Bastedo and Flaster. Among the factors that need to be looked at more carefully are a college's graduation rate, students' debt burden, placement in graduate or professional schools, and post-graduate earnings. Second, the authors question whether it's possible for researchers to predict which low-income students will get into selective colleges to which they haven't yet applied. Competition for seats in these colleges has become much more intense in recent years, and extra-curricular activities, alumni parents, athletic prowess, and other intangibles play an increasingly important part. In many of these areas, higher-SES students have great advantages. Third, even if we look only at SAT scores and GPAs, high-achieving disadvantaged students are still not as competitive as the undermatching advocate

Low grades on tests do not necessarily mean that students haven't studied. Some students may have been confused when the material was covered in class. Incomplete homework isn't always a sign that students don't care.

Excellent article....