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A new way to learn. Discovery Education. Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels. It's almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn't just for teens anymore.

Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels

Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children's/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category. The Simulations and Serious Games Registry. Brittany Wenger, 17, Wins Google Science Fair Grand Prize For Breast Cancer Diagnosis App. Have you ever helped the hard-of-hearing listen to music?

Brittany Wenger, 17, Wins Google Science Fair Grand Prize For Breast Cancer Diagnosis App

Or built a computer program to diagnose breast cancer? These kids have. The five teenage winners of the second annual Google Science Fair were announced on Monday, according to Scientific American. The Internet map. Lessons Worth Sharing. Make: Projects How-to Projects Library - Electronics, Arduino, Crafts, Solar, Robots. 118 Videos Explaining Each Element In The Periodic Table.

If you’re a science teacher, you’re going to want to bookmark this as soon as possible.

118 Videos Explaining Each Element In The Periodic Table

If you’re not a science teacher, heck, you’ll still love this and learn a thing or two. The University of Nottingham has created ‘The Periodic Table of Videos‘ and it’s just what the title would imply. 118 videos that explain each element. Video journalist Brady Haran and working chemists from the University of Nottingham assembled these videos for the world to enjoy. Now, they say they’re going to start improving and beefing up each video with new stories, better samples, and bigger experiments.

MIT Video. Right Question Institute - A Catalyst for Microdemocracy. History of the Internet in a Nutshell [INFOGRAPHIC] Teaching Strategies. Picture of a Fractured Mind. 5 things I hate about homeschooling (& how I deal with them) TheBearthInstitute - Earthschooling. Need help choosing a curriculum (Christopherus v. Oak Meadow). Homeschool Blogs. Create and share visual ideas online.

Valve releasing free movie-making tool. The technology Valve used to create its "Meet the Team" videos for Team Fortress 2 will be made available to the public.

Valve releasing free movie-making tool

Examined Life by Astra Taylor. What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today. A Profile Of Personalized Learning. By: Pam Proctor [Pam's website is www.honouringthechild.com] [Pam is the author of Honouring the Child: Changing Ways of Teaching, and was a co-founder of the famous Dickens Annex in Vancouver.

A Profile Of Personalized Learning

In this piece she describes what happens in a school devoted to personalized learning.] Well-known author and speaker Sir Ken Robinson was in Vancouver during the summer (2011) talking about Personalized Learning, which teachers, administrators and government officials are reported to be considering putting into practice in B.C. schools.

Jefferson County Open School. The Statistics behind the US Civil War in Interactive Infographics. The Civil War [elibrosen.com] is the final student project of Eli Rosen for Golan Levin's Interactive Art and Computational Design course of 2012.

The Statistics behind the US Civil War in Interactive Infographics

The project provides a data-driven interface to explore the stories and facts behind the U.S. Civil War. Exoplanets. The American Dream: Phase II. Lago Vista, Tex., March 2006 by Stacy Arezou MehrfarWhy must there be only one vision of the American dream?

The American Dream: Phase II

“Sprawl … It’s the American dream unfolding before your eyes.” That’s L. Brooks Patterson’s irresistible description of sprawl, proving yet again how masterful the stalwarts of the status quo are at messaging that which they hope to preserve in amber. Art Lab iPad App. Browse. Flipped Video Lessons for Continuous Assessment. Wall Street Survivor – Dashboard. Rapid interactivity for effective eLearning content for university, colleges and schools. Online Courses. The Why Discovery process is about considering the past and examining those times when everything seemed to go perfectly.

Online Courses

The Why does not come from looking ahead at what you want to achieve, it is not born out of any market research and it doesn't come from extensive interviews with customers or employees. The Why Discovery Course consists of 14 online self-directed sessions combined with a library of exercises. They are designed to help you recall and examine the times in your life when everything just “felt right”; when you were at your best, when you loved working on a project or loved a job. Edmodo: resource sharing, collaboration, lessons, communication, assessments and organisation. Over the last couple of days I have found myself introducing edmodo to a range of people – from both overseas and within Australia.

Edmodo: resource sharing, collaboration, lessons, communication, assessments and organisation

As I was running through the features of edmodo yesterday, I realised that it might seem a little overwhelming to the uninitiated – there is so much to see and I am always so keen to show it all. So, to counter my chaotic mind and my accidentally unhelpful zeal for edmodo, I have decided to write down the features of edmodo that I use every day and why I use them. After a two minute pen and paper brainstorm I decided that I use edmodo for six specific purposes: resource sharing, collaboration, lessons, communication, assessments and organisation. I will outline these in more detail below, indicating what specific features of edmodo I use for each purpose and why. Collaborize Classroom – Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students. Collaborize Classroom is designed to complement classroom instruction and engage students in online activities, assignments and discussions that allow for deeper participation inside and outside the classroom.

Collaborize Classroom – Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students

Do more with less. Allow your students to participate on their own time with an easy-to-use private platform. Enrich your curriculum with multimedia. Embed Microsoft Office documents, videos, pictures, and PDFs. What is Second Life? Exploring and Discovery Travel with friends to thousands of beautiful and exciting places — all created by the Second Life community.

AcademicPub - Custom Books...Now! Custom Course Materials for Higher Education. College Readiness Checklist for Parents. As May begins, high school seniors are enjoying their final weeks in school before graduation. In just a few months, they will be stepping onto college campuses for the first time and entering a new chapter. Twenty-five percent of college students drop out in their freshman year because they are not academically, emotionally or financially prepared for college life and adulthood. Whether students like it or not, college takes planning and preparation. The 60-Second Guide To Religion. How Online Education Has Changed In 10 Years 8.85K Views 0 Likes We all know that education, specifically online education, has come a long way in the last few years. Historic Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives - In Focus. The New York City Municipal Archives just released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century.

Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime, city business, aerial photographs, and more. I spent hours lost in these amazing photos, and gathered this group together to give you just a glimpse of what's been made available from this remarkable collection. [Update - 50 additional photos added: More from NYC.]

[Update II - Image sizes reduced by request of the NYC Archive.] [53 photos] Become Fluent with Language Immersion for Google Chrome. Universcale. Welcome to the Anthropocene. Anthropocene: Age of Man - Interactive Graphic. Is Peer Input as Important as Content for Online Learning? Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies. Babe Ruth: Rare and Unpublished Photos. How One App Uses Digital to Empower Education. How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters - Interactive Feature. Hazards of Storing Spent Fuel - Interactive Feature.

Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics from TeAch-nology.com. Docs. Rhetological Fallacies. Where are the Libraries. Project Citizen. MyImpact - What's your impact? Service-learning. Service learning is a method of teaching that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service.

This form of learning emphasizes critical thinking and personal reflection while encouraging a heightened sense of community, civic engagement, and personal responsibility. The Community Service Act of 1990, which authorized the Learn and Serve America grant program, defines service learning as: Service learning offers students immediate opportunities to apply classroom learning to support or enhance the work of local agencies that often exist to effect positive change in the community.[2] The National Youth Leadership Council defines service learning as "a philosophy, pedagogy, and model for community development that is used as an instructional strategy to meet learning goals and/or content standards.

" [3] Bloom: new ways to see and communicate. The Solar system: Explore Your Backyard. Let's Play Automation: Irish Race Buggy. AcademicPub - Assemble A Custom Book with Real-Time Copyright Clearance. 3 Year-Old Sings Tom Lehrer's Elements Song. World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance - Google Public Data Explorer. To grasp a billion stars. Top 10 Web Tools. At Flex Academy, High School Mimics the Workplace. Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies. 39 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed. This is the first rev of Conversation Prism (1.0). 3.0 is Now Available - www.theconversationprism.com. Yahoo! Style Guide. 6 Really Good Sites with FREE Video Lectures from Top US Colleges.

Watching free video lectures is easier to do than you might think. Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development. Infographics & Data Visualizations. Personal Development – Simply Charlotte Mason. SCM Curriculum Guide – Simply Charlotte Mason. Software Helps Singers Find Perfect Pitch. Glogster: make a poster online. It's free! Most Viewed Essays. Classical Education After the Digital Revolution – Part 1 of 3 : Circe Institute. Classical Education After the Digital Revolution – Part 3 of 3 : Circe Institute. Science News – Science Articles and Current Events. Science of Baseball.

Collections. Mythical Beasts & Modern Monsters. Brightworks: An Extraordinary School. BadgeStack Project. Smithsonian. Knowit - Share your Knowledge. TAGOS Leadership Academy ~ Janesville, Wisconsin ~ TAGOS Curriculum. Meditation Station - 108 Meditation Techniques. Medical Encyclopedia. Armadillo Run. Gizmos! Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding.

Homepage. Promise of Place. Challenge Based Learning - Support. Khan Academy. The Kid Should See This.