A diversity in education project by Spokane area digital youth project TinCan - a group who I'm looking to collaborate with through CATE when i make the jump to eastern Washington in 2010.
Biology: play Foldit and help scientists solve major challenges while you solve puzzles
Math: enter a math problem and have Mathway solve it for you!
Math: SpeedCrunch is a fast, high precision and powerful desktop calculator
* history and results on a scrollable display
* up to 50 decimal precisions
* unlimited variable storage
* intelligent automatic completion
* fully usable from the keyboard
* more than 50 built-in math functions
* optional virtual keypad to be used with a mouse
* on-the-fly and selection calculation
* customizable appearance
* syntax highlighting and parentheses matching
Language Learning: (free) blending self-paced lessons, web 2.0 community, and interactive tools
Introducing the Earworms Musical Brain Trainer
Learn a new Language in Second Life, your Ipod, your iPhone or PC for the new year!
200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music.
The 70 minute Earworms SLCD’s will play the tracks inworld - can be downloaded as mp3 files to your desktop, Ipod or Iphone and comes with full documentation on PDF files for you to print and read at your leisure.
Come and sample Earworms for yourself inworld - visit us at and TP up to The Earworms Loft
Earworms mbt puts the words and phrases you need not just on the tip of your tongue, but also transports them deep into your long-term memory.
Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex.
You will have successfully learned the phrase and have the correct accent ringing in your ears. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing: While jogging, in the car, in the bath, doing the ironing…you can be learning a new language at the same time! earworms mbt© Rapid Languages is the first language course to get your toe tapping.
You know the phenomena of those catchy tunes or earworms that you just can't get out of your head? Voulezvous coucher avec moi, ce soir? Well, earworms mbt© has put this phenomena to positive use. Gone are the days of learning pressure and frustration at not being able to remember, the experience of many on conventional language courses. In combination with music, the phrases you need are automatically anchored deep into your memory, ready for instant recall.
Community Building: using technology to help communities find and use their voices
February/March 2009 issue of Innovate has Marc Prensky recasting his "digital native/digital immigrant" notion as "digital wisdom" - check it out
New article on the use of technology to differentiate instruction
NYU Steinhardt Dept of Admin, Leadership, and Technology