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Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites Looking for great cultural and educational video? Then you've come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. If you find it useful, please share it as widely as you can. And if we're missing good sites, please list them in the comments below.

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting."

Essential viewing! Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day. (Recorded at TED2009, February 2009, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 18:38)

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Program Overview Students interact with music, movies, software, and other digital content every day. Do they understand the rules that dictate the ethical use of these digital files, and do they understand why these issues are relevant? The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relevance of and a personal respect for creative rights and grow to become good digital citizens.

"The study, conducted by Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, and Harrison Group, a leading marketing and strategic research consulting firm, found that from age 6 - 17, the time kids spend reading books for fun declines while the time kids spend going online for fun and using a cell phone to text or talk increases. Parents express concern that the use of electronic and digital devices negatively affects the time kids spend reading books (41%), doing physical activities (40%), and engaging with family (33%)."

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but to a student struggling with a writing prompt, six may be more like it. :( How do we help kids learn how to investigate / decode / explore a photograph or image, thinking critically, documenting their work along the way, ultimately drawing conclusions of their own? Well, thanks to the Center for Children and Technology / Education Development Center, we have a tool to do just that. It's called Image Detective

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Welcome to the Hot Docs Doc Library, celebrating Canada's rich documentary filmmaking heritage. Browse the library for scores of outstanding documentaries, all by Canadian filmmakers. Visit the Community section to find extensive playlists compiled by experts, invaluable educational resources and intriguing filmmaker interviews. The Doc Library is FREE - no checkouts, no late fees! But please support the films and filmmakers by visiting their websites and buying their DVDs to share with others.

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Looking for Learning in 21st Century Classrooms A leadership guide to supporting and coaching best practice technology use across the curriculum. Administrators are given the charge to foster professional development of teachers through classroom observation, walk-throughs and overall supervision. In recent years, technology has changed significantly and the world has altered alongside that change. Education has begun the process of including technology, but finds variety in teacher expertise and practice. What questions can supervisors ask of their teachers to best promote technology-use to improve learning? Here are some helpful guiding questions.

Nice teacher resource with age group