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A website to support the use of GoogleApps to construct ePortfolios in both K-12 schools and in higher education... 
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Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model. Find out what it is and why everyone's talking about it.
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With so much information pushing and shoving against each other, hopping on Twitter helps streamline the research process by spitting it all out in 140-character-or-less chunks. Pay some of these hashtags a visit for a quicksilver glimpse at the super serious issues pockmarking the education sector these days.
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Now is the time for all of us to critically analyze our respective schools and take a stand against the status quo in order to do what is best for our students.
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Big Future is a dynamic free website that allows students to learn all about preparing for, finding, and applying to colleges. Whether a student is interested in financial aid, what colleges are a good fit for them, or exploring career opportunities that they are interested in, this is an excellent site. Through dynamic videos, interactive modules, and an appealing interface, this site is the place to visit for kids interested in preparing and applying to college. There are a wealth of resources on the site that are also great for parents and counselors.
seth's curator insight,
November 20, 2013 1:18 PM
This website is a real lifesaver! When it comes to finding colleges, exploring careers, and looking into financial aid, look no further. bigfuture.collegeboard.org makes it easy. I was able to plan my future effortlessly and i couldn't be happier. 
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December 2, 2014 3:26 PM
when it comes down to getting ready to apply for college its all about getting prepared and being ready making sure that you have finacial aid, or at least applying for it, also making sure you have you recomendation and your personal statement ready all the things you need so when you are applying to colleges you have them already to the side ready and also make sure you have taken or planning on taking the SAT and ACT because most colleges require that which is most important.
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EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality.
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The Technovation Challenge is a program to promote women in technology by giving girls the skills and confidence they need to be successful in computer science and entrepreneurship by developing a mobile phone app prototype, writing a business plan and pitching their idea to a panel of venture capital and technology startup judges.
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Every student starts school with unbounded imagination, curiosity and creativity - until he or she learns that knowing the right answer is far more important than asking a thoughtful question. So it isn't so much about "think different," as Apple says, but acting differently and understanding where the reactions take you.
So what are the characteristics of a good innovator? In his groundbreaking book, "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World," (http://creatinginnovators.com) education expert Tony Wagner proposes four main qualities:
- Curiosity, the habit of asking good questions and a desire to understand things more deeply
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Recently, EdSurge published a fabulous post highlighting the escalating rhetoric that the Khan Academy has inspired among math educators and edupreneurs. At the heart of the debates is the tension between teaching students to accurately perform math computation and procedures versus teaching students higher-order mathematics skills.
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refDot is a Google Chrome extension that pulls citations from whatever your are viewing. Whenever you're viewing a website, an online book, an online journal, or a news article, just click the refDot icon in your browser to open a window into which you enter all of information you need for a bibliography.
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InstaGrok is a discovery and learning engine thatlets you punch in any search term (I’d recommend using a subject matter or item you’re learning about) and get a neatly formatted and interactive experience as search results.
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50+ great tips for getting the most out of Google Docs as a student, with awesome ideas and tricks for collaboration, sharing, and staying productive
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While a crucial component to improvement of education, enhanced teacher performance is only half of the equation.
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It seems like a simple notion. Technology is an enormous part of contemporary life, why wouldn’t it be incorporated as part of education? But some school systems just don’t appear to grasp the concept. A portion of the problem is monetary – technology is costly. Another portion is the foreignness. The teachers don’t know how to use it, so how can they demonstrate its use to the kids? But as increasing numbers of children have the opportunity to become plugged into technology in classrooms, the positive effects are evident. Here are just five reasons technology works so well in the classroom.
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A guide for teachers who want to start using Google Documents in their classrooms.
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Among the Mantua Elementary PTA’s projects: providing translators for publications to keep families informed.
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Android 4 Schools is a great site to discover new apps for education that are available on the Android platform. Written by Richard Byrne, the force behind FreeTech4Teachers.com, this is an excellent resource for learning about devices and apps on the Android platform. With a ton of great resources out there for the iOS crowd, this site stands out as a unique departure with a growing library of useful apps for use in and out of the classroom.
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Building upon a process- and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 and under search for information online, how they evaluate information, and how their related practices of content creation, levels of new literacies, general digital media usage, and social patterns affect these activities.
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Promedia and Cisco would like to offer a scholarship of $2500 to 4 deserving students from across the school districts that we work with. Please fill in the following information to receive consideration for one of these scholarships (the first 100 students to mail this document to Promedia will be eligible for consideration)***
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In “Brain Rules” by John Medina, the author teaches us that in order for learning to take place, we have to connect with those we teach
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A North Carolina school district has quietly emerged as a model digital school, with thousands of laptops issued to students and test scores up across the board.
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Digital divide stems from lack of wifi, says middle school principal in FL.
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mySchoolNotebook.com is a great tool for students. With its help you can easily take your notes in your laptop and you can also edit them, insert an image or add a video into them.
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In recent years, more education professionals have noticed the benefits of online learning. Such programs allow students to comprehend a subject matter in a structure that can be more convenient for their learning styles. Time constraints for online learning programs are different than in the traditional classroom setting.
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Teacher Tech Training (T3) offers 10-week courses that are 3 hours per week. So you’ll get 30 hours of training as well as 3 Continuing Education Credits (CEUs). You can check out the first-ever class (starts April 25) on Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom here.
Here’s that class plan: Lesson 1: What are web 2.0 tools?
Not ready to take a paid class? There’s a free mini-course available right now that’s an introduction to Web 2.0 tools here. I spoke with Lisi about her new project and asked her a few questions that popped into my mind.
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