Education City is transforming teaching and learning, helping to improve children's education. We provide fun educational games in the form of online activities for kids and interactive smartboard activities for teachers.
Welcome to Links for Educators! It is our goal to provide educators with the most up-to-date and latest websites available. It is created by teachers and edited by teachers for teachers.
The eMINTS National Center is a non-profit, independent business unit of the University of Missouri. eMINTS offers professional development programs created by educators for educators. Leading experts have collaborated to produce programs that
* inspire educators to use instructional strategies powered by technology
* engage students in the excitement of learning
* enrich teaching to dramatically improve student performance
eMINTS changes how teachers teach and students learn. Its instructional model provides a research-based approach to organizing instruction and can be implemented in any subject area at any level.
The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
An initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project, our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition.
The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative.
Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.
25 best online resources for finding and viewing educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration.
The resources included videos for those who learned by more kinesthetic and auditory modalities, written newspaper reports for those who learned best by visual modalities, and even interactive websites for those with a more tactile and kinesthetic learning style.
For example
Instead of showing the video in class, you might have them watch it on YouTube as a homework assignment.
using technology to enhance education doesn't mean that we should move classes totally online. Students need face-to-face social interaction, especially in the primary and middle school grades.
The point is not to "teach with technology" but to use technology to convey content more powerfully and efficiently.
Baby Boomers, in general, prefer face-to-face or telephone communication
seem to embrace both cell phones and e-mail, with a bit of instant messaging thrown in.
Gen Xers
Net Generation
social networks like Facebook, instant messages, Skype, and texting.
iGeneration, a phone is not a phone. It is a portable computer
born between about 1925 and 1946 are often called the Traditional or Silent generation
Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, they are characterized by a belief in common goals and respect for authority.
Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, tends to be optimistic, idealistic, and communicative and to value education and consumer goods.
born between 1965 and 1979, were defined by Douglas Coupland (1991) as Generation X
not as easily categorized.
1980s and the birth of the World Wide Web
Generation Y, simply meaning the generation after X.