They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,” but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. In fact, many of them don’t even know how to google properly.
(Link: Logging Off: The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World)
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Smories are free original stories for kids, read by kids. 50 added every month
(Link: Smories – new stories for children, read by children)
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(Link: Charts – The Cost of Educating America)
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(Link: Charts – The Cost of Educating America |)
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Quia is pronounced key-ah, and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including:
* Templates for creating 16 types of online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises.
* Complete online testing tools that allow you to create quizzes, grade them with computer assistance, and receive detailed reports on student performance.
* Access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes in 300 categories. All of the shared activities have been created by teachers from around the world.
* A schoolwide network that allows effortless collaboration with your fellow teachers.
* An easy, centralized classroom management system including a master student list, archive of student results, and the tools to conduct schoolwide proficiency testing.
* A class Web page creator that includes a course calendar and an easy way to post your Quia activities for students and parents.
(Link: Quia – Quintessential Instructional Archive)
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BetterLesson was founded by a group of teachers from Atlanta and Boston public schools in the spring of 2008 to help educators organize and share their curricula.
We are committed to saving educators from “reinventing the wheel.” By using BetterLesson as an organizational and sharing platform, educators will be able to lesson plan more efficiently and effectively, allowing them to give warranted focus to creating innovative content, delivering innovative content, grading, tutoring, analyzing data, communicating with parents, and finishing paperwork. Oh, and sleeping.
We are also committed to connecting educators within and across diverse instructional and geographic communities. Our first core principle is that meaningful collaboration among educators is the key to creating and delivering the highest quality instruction.
(Link: BetterLesson – create, organize and share your curriculum)
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(Link: ICTAC MEMO iPhone Apps for Education)
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The Knowledge Marketplace supports the buying and selling of knowledge-based products. Teacher members have the SAME capabilities at businesses for including their products in the online store located on WeAreTeachers and “I am Teacher” on Facebook. The Knowledge Marketplace features over 25,000 products with over 90% of those providing discounts for teachers and students.
(Link: www.weareteachers.com)
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An empowering place where teachers
buy & sell original and used teaching materials and make teaching an even more rewarding experience
(Link: TeachersPayTeachers.com – a marketplace for lesson plans and teaching resources)
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iPhone Apps for Students – define a word, learn the name of a bone, practice your French, or prep for the SAT, iPhone has the smartest apps around.
(Link: Apple – iPhone – Apps for Students)
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“It’s a world apart from the old factory model of the high school with its rows of desks, textbooks and memorization,” said Ms. Martinez, whose organization has helped design 40 high schools in nine states and hopes to double that number by next year. Students in the New Tech schools typically outperform comparable schools in standardized tests.
For all its promise to improve education, technology is still no match for one human tutoring another — which, of course, cannot be used to educate large numbers of students and is expensive.
(Link: At Your Fingers, an Oxford Don – NYTimes.com)
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Children’s Progress is an educational software developer in New York City. We provide teachers with insights into how students are learning, and tools for turning that information into success for students. We apply cutting edge psychometrics and educational techniques to revolutionize the way children learn. Inc. named us one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in America.
We’re looking to hire developers who can work independently while always identifying ways to improve our products. You’ll be joining a small team with flexible responsibilities, and we want you to be working on projects that interest and challenge you the most. You will be building significant pieces of web and desktop applications that are helping hundreds of thousands of children learn math and literacy.
(Link: Children’s Progress – insights for educators, success for students)
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The prediction is straightforward: Kids learn better when they are taught in a way that matches their learning style than when they are taught in a way that doesn’t.
That’s a straightforward prediction.
The data are straightforward too: It doesn’t work.
(Link: The Answer Sheet – Willingham: Student “Learning Styles” Theory Is Bunk)
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What are, then, the aspects of Web 2.0 that translate into achieving educational goals? Let me suggest the following list of educational benefits of Web 2.0, which I hesitate to claim as exhaustive, but which I hope will help the discussion.
Engagement.
Authenticity.
Participation.
Openness and Access to Information.
Collaboration.
Creativity.
Passionate Interest and Personal Expression.
Discussion.
Asynchronous Contribution.
Proactivity.
Critical Thinking.
(Link: Moving Toward Web 2.0 in K-12 Education)
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the K–12 education group on YouTube. Teachers and students upload movies on this group, which has hundreds of videos on subjects ranging from making angel puppets to footage from a 2004 expedition to the Titanic.
(Link: YouTube – K12 Education)
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