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U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra addresses participants at the Edustat University 2009 conference, hosted by Albemarle County Public Schools in Charlottesville July 20-22, 2009. Chopra discusses using data to help discover and overcome gaps in student learning and how to know what we teach and how well it is working. (2:24 minutes)

For slightly older students who need practice counting money at higher amounts

For slightly older students who need practice counting money at higher amounts

Via @kjarrett -- This is ISTE's list of criteria by which to judge the effectiveness of a training program for potential technology integrators. This could be used to assess tech coaches for how well they are addressing the demands of NET*S at the building or district level.

Via @kjarrett -- This is ISTE's list of criteria by which to judge the effectiveness of a training program for potential technology integrators. This could be used to assess tech coaches for how well they are addressing the demands of NET*S at the building or district level.

Website - A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.

This website was shared at the Discovery Day. Make sure you click on a word. Above it will show that word used in other Presidents' speeches. Interesting.

Socrata is an online space for data lovers to browse datasets as well as create new visualizations to share with others. The data itself can be visualized in a number of ways including, charts, maps, graphs and tables. The site has hundreds of datasets to choose from which can be mashed and downloaded into a variety of file formats including CSV, PDF and XML. \n

InfuseLearning provides a platform by which teachers can seamlessly engage every student on any device. Make informed decisions at the point of instruction with real-time, student feedback.

1. Learners have to be at the center of what happens in the classroom 2. Learning is a social practice and can't happen alone 3. Emotions are an integra part of learning 4. Learners are different 5. Students need to be stretched, but not too much 6. Assessment should be for learning, not of learning 7. Learning needs to be connected across disciplines. cf. the Jenaplan School, Germany

"The International Association for K-12 Online Learning's (iNACOL) Director of Policy, David Teeter, recently published "Online Learning: Top 5 Federal Policy Issues Brief," which takes a close look at reforms to improve student-centered, competency-based policies for online learning." iNACOL Releases 5 Policy Reforms for Online Learning http://t.co/YPHJl3Iw

Check out the links at the bottom of the page. Many interesting educational links.

"The Secret Millionaires Club Learn & Earn promotion teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship with print and digital materials offering activities to do in the classroom, at home and in other venues and settings where students and families learn. It was developed to extend the lessons of the Secret Millionaires Club webisodes and prime time specials created by A Squared Entertainment, into classrooms and homes across the country. Sponsored by CreditReport.com, part of the Experian family of brands, a robust array of materials has been developed for distribution to schools, youth organizations, and families. All in-school activities are developed by educational partner, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and are aligned to national core math standards to ensure maximum integration and implementation. "

Check out Miss Hill's Digital Hallway link at the bottom of her page. This is great way that she shares student work displays with parents who can't get into the building. Miss Hill adds a QR code for the display video to her newsletter so parents can access it from their smartphones as well! Great idea!

"The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing honors young women at the high school level for their computing-related achievements and interests. Awardees are selected for their computing and IT aptitude, leadership ability, academic history, and plans for post-secondary education.:

"In an effort to provide unique resources to teachers and students, SPICE has developed a series of web-based activities and lectures, which were developed to support specific SPICE curricula or presented at teacher workshops. This website will be updated periodically."

"Letter P.A.L.S. was created specifically to motivate students to practice reading effortlessly and support teachers' efforts of ensuring that every student reads proficiently by 4th Grade. Letter P.A.L.S. is perfect for Block Reading /SSR Time, Before/After School and/or at Home use. "

"Read & Write is a Google Chrome Web App that increases the accessibility of the text of documents in your Google Drive account. After installing the app you will see a Read & Write tab appear at the top of your browser window whenever you have a document open in Google Drive. Clicking that Read & Write tab will open a menu of accessibility options. "

"Present on desktop & mobile and projector screens at the same time." Accepts Word, PowerPoint, or PDF files. Share live to any device, anywhere with a short link. Even use with a Google Hangout!

"Code.org has developed a free elementary school curriculum that allows even the youngest students to explore the limitless world of computing. The courses blend online, self-guided and self-paced tutorials with "unplugged"activities that require no computer at all. Each course consists of about 20 lessons that may be implemented as one unit or over the course of a semester. Even kindergarten-aged pre-readers can participate."

Sumdog's free math games cover 100 numeracy topics, at 10 different levels.

"Know your current events? Prove it at wikipredict, the wikipedia prediction market, a free online game where players compete for fame and glory by buying and selling virtual shares of wikipedia articles. The price of a share is a function of it's activity on wikipedia."

Learning in isolation can be hard. One of the main benefits of learning math in a classroom is having instructors demonstrate solving a certain problem, explaining how each step of the process works. MathTV.com aims to give you at least some of this benefit via the power of online video.