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Smart List: 20 Cool Sites in Pairs
Today we’re wrapping our recognitions with 20 pairs that just didn’t fit on other lists but included organizations doing great work.
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EdTech 10: Leveraging Teachers; Rating HigherEd
“Great” can’t happen without incredible amounts of hard work, so, this Labor Day, we sure hope all those teachers realize how appreciated their hard work is.
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Smart List: Connecting & Supporting Entrepreneurs
Today we’re recognizing 10 organizations connecting and supporting entrepreneurs.
EdTech
Internet Learning Part 2: Meet Students Where They Live
Today’s students eat … breathe … sleep … study … play connected. So why not meet them, reach them, and teach them right where they live?
EdTech
Trending Reasons to Teach Social Media in Schools
Before kids wreck LinkedIn with their adolescent online social behaviors, let’s see if we can deliver some outstanding digital citizens to this medium.
EdTech
New Language Arts Apps from edshelf
Let’s say you give your students a writing assignment. It could be a fictional story, a book summary, or, in our example below, a persuasive essay. Here are a series of mobile apps that your students can use for this assignment.
Personalized Learning
Word Nerds Get Digital
You definitely know you’re a word nerd when you fall hopelessly in love with an essay called “The Joy of Sesquipedalians,” by Anne Fadiman, from her collection Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. Fadiman begins her essay with a panegyric to Wally the Wordworm, the dictionary devouring invertebrate…
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Better Pitches
"Applicants who are able to describe their need and solutions succinctly tend to resonate more with reviewers," said John Bailey, "There is a reason why we call them "elevator speeches" - because it forces one to strip out what is unnecessary in order to simplify and focus the message."
EdTech
LinkedIn at 14
Ultimately, a portfolio system should showcase a person's work and that showcasing should in turn help that person advance and achieve his or her goals. If that's the case, why not LinkedIn for students?
Ed Policy
Smart LIst: The 10 Most Innovative Cities
Today we are recognizing smart cities. We built an index based on 12 metrics of innovations in learning considering K-12 schools, universities, foundations and investors, edtech and other education enterprise. Here are the ten smartest cities (in order):