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"hese videos and support materials will give you another weapon in your answer arsenal. In the videos, students meet people whose everyday, real life includes just the kind of mathematics they explore in Math by Design. Use the Discussion Questions and Related Practice resources to extend and enrich your students' video watching experience!"

"Get the Math mixes video and web interactivity to help middle and high school students develop algebraic thinking skills for solving real-world problems."

Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt's dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago - all in seconds. Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, ChronoZoom - essentially a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features -- is coming to life.

In today's college classrooms the sound of furious note-scribbling has been replaced by clacking on keyboards and tapping on tablets. Thanks to the ubiquity of WiFi on campuses, it's not just note-taking that's been given a 21st-century update. Professors and students alike are constantly online

Teachers would be foolhardy to label parents as either good or bad.

Not all parents are created equal and cannot be categorized on a single spectrum.  To do so would jeopardize a teacher's ability to survive. Literally.  I mean, I'm talking life or death here.

You see, when normally mild man

I've been following the work on Digital Literacy by Doug Belshaw for just over 2 years and I'm still getting my head round what it means to be digitally literate. Two years ago Doug published a post which really grabbed my interest in which he outlined his 8 elements of Digital Literacy as part of his thesis.

The very best sources for educational videos on the web."

40 Sites for Educational Games"

Chem4Kids.com! The web site that teaches the basics of chemistry to everyone!

Teacher videos, resources and lesson plans. Discover great ideas and strategies to use as a teacher with this collection of videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.

Welcome to the SPICE website! Here you can find all the information about the Spice project, teaching materials and publications. The Spice website is aimed at teachers, pupils, scientists, science communicators and science educators.The teachers who were involved in the SPICE project and who carried out the implementations of the Good Practices in their schools in 15 different EU countries have shared their impressions, results and highlights of their gained experience on this website.

The INSPIRE project aimed to develop and experiment new teaching methods in the field of math, science and technology (MST). The purpose is to challenge the lack of interest of students to start scientific studies and more widely to extend the supply of scientific specialists and to develop a scientific culture in European countries