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Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Works only with Google Chrome

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias according to which better-informed people find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed people. The term was coined by Robin Hogarth.[1]

Users collaboratively highlight text in ways identified by teacher and lets you visualize what group is doing

Courses are designed to be interesting, fun and rigorous. They are the best courses, from the best professors and the best schools, spanning dozens of subjects. Some edX courses now offer ID verified Certificates of Achievement. A new way to demonstrate your achievement and showcase your knowledge.

really simple assessment tool that works on computer, mobile devices, any platform

Looking for a way to get your students more engaged? Mixbook is proud to present Mixbook for Educators, a program that allows educators even easier access to the most powerful suite of digital storytelling tools on the web. Check out the stories below to

"lipQuiz™​ was created to provide educators with a quick way to create gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. With FlipQuiz™​, questions are displayed on-screen and boards are saved for later use."

ATIA 2012 Resources Author: Beth Poss and Mo Buti

The Daily Five and CAFE menu resources

iTunesU course created by a local teacher "Students will explore Energy topics through this course. Content related to light, sound, thermal energy, magnetism, and electricity will be blended with how we see energy around us. Our class created book, How We Explore Energy, will be used in this course. Various apps will be explored as well."

"But these examples-involving only thousands of students-are the exceptions to the rule. The system as a whole educates millions and is slow to recognize or adopt successful innovation. It's a system that was constructed almost two centuries ago to meet the needs of the industrial age. Now that our society and economy have evolved beyond that era, our schools must also be reinvented. For the time being, we can see what the future looks like in places like Juárez Correa's classroom. We can also see that change will not come easily. "

Simple Online Collaboration: Online File Storage, FTP Replacement, Team Workspaces

edWeb is a free professional social and learning network for the education community

"With Talkboard you can visually express your ideas... together. Invite friends and colleagues from across the room or around the world. Talkboard's simple yet elegant drawing tools and integrated audio allow you to easily capture, communicate and develop your ideas."

"When you have a Google Document open, open the Add-ons menu and search for "tag cloud generator." The Tag Cloud Generator Add-on will create a word cloud in the right-hand margin of any of your Google Documents that contain more than one hundred words."