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Related: Math • mjbercedoMaths Maps – A New Collaborative Project I am excited to introduce you to my new project idea that I hope will result in some engaging content for our classes. It is collaborative in the same way the Interesting Ways resources are and I will need your help to make it a success. Elevator Pitch Using Google Maps.Maths activities in different places around the world.One location, one maths topic, one map.Activities explained in placemarks in Google Maps.Placemarks geotagged to the maths it refers to. Doceri Interactive Whiteboard on the App Store Combining screencasting, desktop control, and an interactive whiteboard in one app, you’ll never have to turn your back to the class or audience again. Create a lesson or presentation, insert images, save and edit your project and record a screencast video you can easily save or share. Doceri does it all!
News Corp. Education Tablet: For The Love Of Learning? hide captionJoel Klein, former New York City schools chief, left to run News Corp.'s education division. On Thursday, Amplify announced a specially designed education tablet. Richard Drew/AP Joel Klein, former New York City schools chief, left to run News Corp.'s education division.
Fun Kids Online Math Games "Sheppard offers everything from early math to pre-algebra. The lessons include interactive activities to practice concepts. Students can shoot fruit, pop balloons, and even play math man (the math version of pac man!). Fractions, place value, money, and basic operations are some of the areas that are covered. Pilot KnowRe · KnowRe We are conducting a nationwide Pilot Program this fall. Our aim, throughout the pilot, is to gauge the potential of KnowRe’s technology, collected student data, and engaging game-like features. While we received an overwhelming amount of interest from schools and organizations throughout the U.S. and the globe, we were only able to invite a small portion of the applicants to join the program. The Pilot will stretch across 34 cities and 17 states in the United States and Canada and has approximately 150 teachers and 8,000 students participating. The pilot includes a diverse range of schools from urban to suburban, rural and virtual schools.
Top EdTech Update Academic Standards Assistive Technology Content for Sun.Apr 08, 2018 This is the eleventh post in a weekly series I’m creating that will highlight the Best “Best” lists in a particular topic I have posted over the years. You can see all those lists at the bottom of this post. These are lists I’ve also recently reviewed and revised, so they are up-to-date. You can find all my nearly 2,000 continually updated “Best” lists here. Stop wasting money teaching millions of students content they already know Nearly all aspects of America’s schools are built upon age-based grade levels and corresponding grade-level expectations: standards, instruction, curriculum, and assessment, among others. This reinforces the implicit message that performing on grade level is the primary purpose of schooling. Yet it also ignores an important question: How many students already perform one or more years above grade level on their first day of school? The answer to this question has profound implications for American education policy and for the organization of schools. If a mere 2 percent of students perform above grade level, for example, the present obsession with grade-level proficiency might make sense. But what if it were a far larger proportion?
Founder of Lynda.com Talks About Future of Learning Online (Video) - Kara Swisher - Media To Lynda Weinman, it’s funny that the online learning site she and her husband founded in 1995 suddenly seems like an overnight success. “Yes, only two decades in the making,” she joked at a lunch I had with her last week. But there certainly has been a big buzz around Lynda.com — named after Weinman — after the Carpinteria, Calif., company raised $103 million a month ago in its first major funding. And, last week, as part of a major expansion globally using that money, it bought Austria-based video2brain to add to its online course offerings in a range of computer and other skills, in a number of European languages. It’s all part of the plan to dominate the continuing education market, and to bring 60 more employees and a pile of lessons to a service that competes with a range of others, such as Codecademy and Treehouse in the business and computer learning space.
Math, Fun, and Games?: Yes Way! Today’s Learners Students are living and learning in an age of new media – where they give constant attention to the latest scoop on TV, the hottest music for their iPods or newest games for their game systems, instantaneous updates in the online communities and social networks, and, they have mobile apps to manage all of these interests simultaneously. Students are constantly (an average of 7.5 hours a day!) interacting with media – more than ANY other activity besides (maybe) sleeping, according to a popular report, compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation. This age of new media also implies an implication to teaching and learning. Traditional methods of teaching may not be engaging today's learners who are used to these interactive platforms.
10 Popular Blended Learning Resources Teachers Actually Use by Janis Beem Whether you’re new to blended learning or a seasoned veteran of blended learning, there’s always more to learn. Take a look at 10 of the top resources for blended education, also known as hybrid learning, from some of the most notable names in the field. So, in addition to great resources like YouTube, iTunesU, and a variety of blogs and social media channels, here are 10 of the most popular blended learning resources teachers use. 10 Popular Blended Learning Resources Teachers Actually Use 1. Five Mathematics Glossaries for Kids A glossary of mathematics terms can be a helpful aid to students who struggle with the vocabulary of mathematics. When I was a middle school and high school student the vocabulary of math often tripped me up and having a glossary of terms often helped me be able to complete my homework assignments. Here are five mathematics glossaries that students can access online. The McGraw Hill Mathematics eGlossary provides written and verbal definitions and explanations of mathematics terms.
Great Potential Press: About Us Great Potential Press is an award-winning publishing company devoted to informational resources for gifted adults and for parents, educators, and counselors of gifted children. We strive to provide new and helpful information with a particular focus on social, emotional, and family issues that can occur among gifted children and adults. Our publications help people understand gifted children and adults better and thus guide them to success more effectively. A frequent benefit is that gifted adults, who are so often the parents and teachers of gifted children, learn how giftedness is an important factor in their own lives. History Should 'real' students do an online course on the side? Universities have started giving away their content free as "massive open online courses", with the satisfyingly ridiculous acronym mooc (I challenge you to say it three times with a straight face). Eleven top UK universities recently announced they were joining the Open University to launch FutureLearn, in a bid to catch up with the elite US institutions that have led the way in teaching huge numbers online. It all sounds great for people who, for one reason or another, can't go to a traditional university. But do moocs have anything to offer students already studying at a bricks-and-mortar institution? People like me, who hate the niggling feeling that they might be missing out on a bargain?