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Shidonni World- virtual pets drawings come to life
"Children of all ages draw pets and animals and play with them as they pop to life online. Shidonni is a virtual world that promoted creativity and imagination with kids 4 and up. Shidonni supports Children's sense of responsibility as they grow and care for their own doodles and creations. Shidonni gives a set of drawing tools and cool effects, so kids can explore their imagination fully. "
Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use.
How to make wordle safer for students.
Calculation Nation - Challenge others. Challenge yourself.™
Calculation Nation™ is a free education service of The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. NCTM is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.
Forget iTunes U: Students Now Getting College Credit via YouTube - ReadWriteWeb
A computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos.
The fact that Buckland is not charging the high school students who are remotely attending his courses but is still giving them college credit is what makes what he's doing so different...and perhaps groundbreaking.
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The fact that Buckland is not charging the high school students who are remotely attending his courses but is still giving them college credit is what makes what he's doing so different...and perhaps groundbreaking.
TheApple.com : Where Teachers Meet and Learn
TheApple brings members of the education community together to support and advance the profession. TheApple provides resources to promote careers in education, while fostering a community with exclusive benefits where information about the education community is provided to the education community by the community itself.
The New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
This study focused on the flows of the international economy as they affect the prospects for economic growth in this country, with particular attention to the effects on employment and income of advancing technology and the rise of countries that can offer high skills at low wages. The study addressed eight areas, in the following sequence:
• Estimated the contributions of education and innovation (such as patents, R&D spending) to U.S. and global economic growth
• Analyzed the relationship between education and access to middle-class status since 1967 and projected to 2012
• Projected the supply and demand for education in the United States to 2012
• Analyzed the relationship between educational attainment and occupational competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, work styles, work contexts, values, and interests) based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*Net) data
• Measured educational adequacy against criteria that included employability and middle-class jobs
• Estimated the vulnerability of U.S. jobs to offshoring based on the characteristics of the jobs and the skills of current job holders, as reported in O*Net
• Estimated the stock and growth of the global supply of educated workers
Apple - Education - Mobile Learning
Learning no longer happens only at a desk. Students now expect constant access to information, no matter where they are. Which is exactly why more and more faculty are using iTunes U to distribute digital lessons to their students.
Interview Questions for EdTech Personel
A wiki with interview questions for various types of educational technology positions with some links to other sites.
Interview questions for Technology Focused Schools
Here are a few interview questions and sample responses for schools that are "technology focused."
Steve Hargadon: Big News from Ning: Ad-Free Student Networks
All about setting up a ning account. Includes comments about ning for under 13yro students.
Apple - ACOT2 - About ACOT2
ACOT2 has identified six design principles for the 21st century high school.
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