From the site:
Does your school or district receive E-rate funding? This free toolkit will help you meet the educational requirements outlined in the Children's Internet Protection Act. Use the robust lessons and helpful documentation templates to demonstrate your commitment to teaching kids how to use technology safely.
Your toolkit provides:
* A short toolkit intro video
* An implementation guide
* Documents to track activity
* Links to valuable E-rate info
Thanks to Karen Sheely for sharing the link with me.
Thinking Blocks is a suite of learning tools designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently. Using brightly colored blocks, students model mathematical relationships and identify known and unknown quantities. The model provides students with a powerful image that organizes information and simplifies the problem solving process. By modeling increasingly complex word problems, students develop strong reasoning skills which will facilitate the transition from arithmetic to algebra.
"Wkipedia is a great educational resource for both teachers and students. Its articles appear almost always in the first four links of the search results. I know there are some issues with the use of this resource in education such as : plagiarism, trusted content and many more but still instead of excluding it all together we better learn and teach our students the best ways to use it."
"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
Art Safari allows kids to explore paintings and sculptures from the Museum of Modern Art accompanied by a series of questions where they are encouraged to write about what they observe. They can also submit their own artwork.