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"Spirit of Innovation Challenge provides an opportunity for teams of students to create commercially viable products or services to address issues of global sustainability for the benefit of humanity.This annual competition is free and available to students, ages 13-18, from around the world. The Spirit of Innovation Challenge offers teachers, parents and afterschool coordinators a relevant and dynamic way to teach science, technology, engineering and math. Along the way, world-renowned scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are available as virtual mentors. This is the competition where Geek is Chic™ "

"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.

The Eye provided a way to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps humdreds of the top educational websites, blogs, forums and practitioner case studies. With additional features like saving your own favorite innovations, Futurelab's favorites, customizable email digests, and a widget version

"What Do Educational Innovators Really Do? Here's Twelve Examples"

Summary: 25 random things innovative educators can do to enhance teaching and learning

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 "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. Media Sharing Digital Storytelling Manage and Organize Social Networking and Communication Curriculum Sharing Content Resources: Lesson Plans and More Content Collaboration

Newsela is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news.

"Newsela is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing. Register now or learn more about the impact Newsela can have on your classroom."

a unique innovation network - a global community of cutting-edge leaders, thinkers, and doers from many different disciplines, who come together to explore the social impact of new technologies, the forces of change shaping our future, and new approaches to solving the world's most significant challenges.

TEDxNYED, an all-day conference focusing on empowering innovation in education, is being held in New York City on Saturday, March 5, 2011. It will be webcast live here at tedxnyed.com, allowing viewers around the world to join and engage in these ideas worth spreading."

Engaging students with document cameras is not difficult, but it does require a little imagination. With that in mind, the following ideas are designed to help you learn how to use classroom document cameras in unique and innovative ways at school. You might be surprised at just how versatile these great teaching tools really are!

"Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects."

I have used and have seen this used. It is like a PowerPoint but web based. Presentations can be embedded.

Give students the ability to unleash their creativity in new and innovative ways. From abstract art to pointillism, students now can click and draw their way into original works of art, and today's freebie gives you a great list of places to begin.

Program: Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century Episode: Full Show Featuring the foremost thought leaders, innovators and practitioners in the field, Digital Media is a startling preview of a 21st Century education revolution. Duration: (52:55) Premiere Date: 02/13/2011 Episode Expires: Fri 13 Feb 2015 TV Rating: NR

"Puppet Animation is an innovative application that lets you create an animation using the image of your choice. You just need to prepare one image. No need to prepare many time lapse animation pages! The application has a simple user interface and there are no difficult controls like usual animation softwares."

"Student Reporting Labs connect students with a network of public broadcasting mentors, an innovative journalism curriculum and an online collaborative space to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports for PBS NewsHour Extra."

Middlespot is an innovative web site for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way. This would be a great tool for teachers to organize content appropriate web sites and then share them with their students.

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Inside Mathematics is a professional resource for educators that features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the website. Inside Mathematics will be aligning its tools and examples to the Common Core.

"Picturing America, an exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country's history and character through the study and understanding of its art. The nation's artistic heritage-our paintings, sculpture, architecture, fine crafts, and photography-offers unique insights into the character, ideals, and aspirations of our country. By bringing high-quality reproductions of notable American art into public and private schools, libraries, and communities, Picturing America gives participants the opportunity to learn about our nation's history and culture in a fresh and engaging way. The program uses art as a catalyst for the study of America-the cultural, political, and historical threads woven into our nation's fabric over time. Collectively, the masterpieces in Picturing America, used in conjunction with the Teachers Resource Book and program Web site, help students experience the humanity of history and enhance the teaching and understanding of America's past."