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These inspiring, insightful videos make the case for stepping up the integration of technology in today's classrooms

The National Academy of the Sciences has launched this new website that gives an overview of the U.S. energy system. It covers 4 main topics: energy uses, sources of energy, the cost of energy (in terms of the environment, national security, and sustainability), and energy efficiency. The site has easy to navigate content and links to source material, and it includes n energy quiz, a glossary, and a source library. The site's producers are also developing curriculum-based materials for high school and middle school classrooms. Two special features--Our Energy System and Understasnding Efficiency--are designed to actively engage visitors and enhance their understanding of energy, including what it is, h ow we use it, and ways to conserve it.

"THE Place For Educational Games! Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas."

"Arcademic Skill Builders are free research-based and standards-aligned educational games! Engage and motivate students with our multiplayer and single-player games."

Create online assignments with video and images to engage students, provide practice, and assess their speaking.

"Lingt Classroom helps teachers enable their students to speak. -Create online assignments that make engaging and assessing spoken performance as natural as giving out a worksheet. -Make oral exams that take a fraction of the time to administer and assess. Perfect for IB and AP preparation. -Offer targeted feedback to individual responses to maximize student improvement. - Incorporate video and images to create media and culture-rich exercises. - Archive all your assignments and students' responses to reuse next time and track individual improvement. "

from the Reading-Active-and-Engaging wiki - more information on book trailers, as well other resources

"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."

"Discovery Education, Sanford Health and WebMD teamed up to create a new program called fit 4 the classroom, an extension of the fit initiative designed to educate, motivate, and inspire children of all ages to live a healthy lifestyle. You will find a series of elementary lesson plans with engaging activities and videos that can tie into your math, science and other subjects and demonstrate the importance of a balanced daily life."

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.

"A Minnesota teacher took initiative to reimagine what "school" could be. His students seem engaged, and are performing highly. But can his innovation spread in our current education system? Will it even survive? (13 minutes) A Split Screen Strategy Creating the Capacity for Teachers to Innovate"

Differentiating, individualizing the learning experience - one teacher's experiences.

"This resource is part textbook and part online practice workbook. It includes traditional grammar and vocabulary sections, but adds some fun with games, engagement with videos, and a variety of practice activities that provide instant feedback. "

Mind Leap makes sure that parents and educators know which apps are educational and which aren't, which keep kids engaged and which bore them to tears. And, we encourage developers to build great stuff that turns kids on to learning.

"Upgrade the typical book report with a digital spin! Integrate reading, writing, and 21st century literacy skills into an interactive and engaging project. Participating teachers will be helping students meet the demands of the Common Core, which include requirements for students to present ideas with "multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.""

FORA.tv helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart. We present the web's largest collection of unmediated video drawn from live events, lectures, and debates going on all the time at top universities, think tanks and conferences. We gather this provocative, big-idea content for anyone to watch, interact with, and share --when, where, and how they want.

Debatepedia is "the Wikipedia of pros and cons". Its mission is to "clarify public debates and improve decision-making globally". Debatepedia is a project of the International Debate Education Association (IDEA), a 501c3 non-profit. It utilizes the same wiki technology powering Wikipedia to engage you and other citizen-editors in clarifying public debates by centralizing them into a single pro/con encyclopedia. This helps you, other citizens, and leaders better weigh ALL the pros and cons, develop positions, and make more informed decisions, votes, etc... And this significantly improves democracy and people's lives.

Serious games are games with purpose beyond just providing entertainment. Examples include, but are not limited to, games for learning, games for health, and games for policy and social change. Designing effective, engaging serious games requires theoretical understanding of learning, cognition, emotion, and play.

For teachers of mathematics, we: * Offer you FREE enrichment material (Problems, Articles and Games) at all Key Stages that really can help to inspire and engage learners and embed RICH tasks into everyday practice. * Help to promote RICH thinking in classrooms by offering on-line and face-to-face support at Primary and Secondary level. * Deliver professional development courses and workshops in rich mathematics. * Help teachers to think strategically about 'next steps' and progression in problem solving.

"We live in a time of rapidly changing technology, increasing globalization, and serious environmental issues affecting the planet. We need a new generation of thinkers in our schools and in the workplace to help solve problems. New digital tools enable students to take charge of their learning. With their hands on a whiteboard or laptop keyboard, they are engaged in active learning rather than passive response mode. Explore solutions below."

Welcome to read me-a set of engaging resources for Key Stage 3 students created by the National Schools Partnership on behalf of Reading for Life. These resources have been designed to reach 11 to 14 year old boys in particular to excite them about reading in and outside of the classroom.

"To engage students in making design decisions that affect the transfer of energy \nbetween a building and the outside environment. To help students identify and \nconsider the types of decisions involved in improving a building's energy \nprofile. To analyze the green roof option in economic and community terms."