Tools for Teachers & Learners

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Sex, Etc. is published by Answer, a national organization that provides and promotes unfettered access to comprehensive sexuality education for young people and the adults who teach them. Learn how you can support better sex education.

You can download the accompanyng ebook from: https://www.tes.com/us/teacher-lessons/digital-tools-series-videonotes-11173909 VideoNot.es is a great tool fo

This is a wonderful book from the British Council that I was lucky enough to co-edit with Alan Maley. The book is a collection of creative classroom ideas from a mix of new writers and some of the most experienced ELT writers around the world.

Drop the meaningless links, the rummage in your mailbox, lost articles in read later silos, and copy-pasting into docs to see content and context together.
Candy lets you capture ideas in an easy, beautiful way.

This lesson is based on an infographic about weddings, their history and some related customs and practices.
In the lesson students will explore their opinions of weddings and marriage and discover some new information about the origins of various wedding customs.
The aims of the lesson are:

• To help students explore and articulate their existing opinions of marriage and weddings.
• To help students understand and evaluate visual information.
• To develop students’ abilities to check and evaluate the credibility of information.
• To help students develop their abilities to carry out online factual research.
• To help students develop the ability to synergise information from a range of sources and formulate written arguments around that information.

Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.

I was created to showcase some of the new capabilities of Microsoft Cognitive Services. These new capabilities are the result of years of research advancements (some of them summarized here). Specifically, I use Computer Vision and Natural Language to describe contents of images. I am still learning, so sometimes I get things wrong.

We all make mistakes when we write, and it would be nice if a computer could help us see the ones that spell checkers miss. Grammar checking is hard because language is squishy, so you can’t just write down the rules and check that they are followed. This lack of regularity is why grammar checkers have always been so poor.

The Reedsy Book Editor is a free online writing tool allowing any author to format and create professional ePub and print-ready files in seconds.

Not familiar with LTI? Basically it's like Facebook apps or Google widgets, but interoperable between lots of edu tools. Browse this site to find tutorials, extensions and other resources.

This lesson encourages students to think about their attitudes to wealth and the link between success and positive habit formation. It also helps them to question and explore the credability of online information, develop a more critical approach to information and improve a range of digital researh skills using various online tools.

This is a syntax highlighter for English. It uses natural language processing to determine the part of speech for each word and highlights accordingly. It works with tricky sentences too, e.g. The man we saw saw a saw.

The portal features tools developed by the most innovative EdTech companies and educational researchers–many of which have been funded by U.S. federal agencies who have worked with our cohort to help develop educational resources capable of transforming student learning for today’s learners.

iOS apps and a cloud-based website make creating from anywhere a breeze. Download interactive PDFs, print at Walgreens, or scan a QR code of your creation to bring your buncee offline.

Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.