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Smart List: 30 Innovation Investors
Today we are recognizing 30 investors, incubators, and new school engines powering the learning revolution.
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Fun New Apps for Learning From edshelf
From enabling memorization through multimedia to practicing social skills via simulated situations, here are six notable tools that were added to edshelf in the past week by educators such as yourselves.
Personalized Learning
Smart List: 50 Great Blogs & Blasts
Today we are recognizing 50 thought leading blogs, blasts and edtech sites.
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Free 3D Models Help Students
The best way to learn anatomy is to look at real bones and real bodies - anyone who dissected a frog in high school knows that the tidy multi-colored diagrams found in textbooks rarely do justice to the real thing. But there are several problems: besides the ick factor, real bodies aren't always easily accessible or affordable. 3D anatomical models have existed for some time but these, too, aren't always affordable. Luckily, several free sources of 3D models exist. Even better, recent research suggests that they help students learn about biological systems.
Personalized Learning
Ordering a Teacher: Suggestions from Students (Part 1)
I always ask, “If you could walk up to a machine that dispenses great educators at your disposal, what characteristics would you select to create the teacher of your dreams?”
Leadership
Blog Premise: What Getting Smart Means…
We started this blog five years ago and have posted more than 4,000 blogs. The underlying premise is that investment in great teaching and edupreneurship leads to innovation which holds the promise of excellence and equity at scale. We think social media can expand impact and increase serendipity.
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Teachers Now “Pinning” Common Core Resources in MasteryConnect
Recently, MasteryConnect unveiled a cool, social bookmarking feature for standards aligned resources. Much like the Pinterest paradigm of social bookmarking, teachers find or upload any resource on the web, align it to a state or Common Core standard, and “pin” it to a board or collection.
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3 Ways to Encourage Higher Order Thinking with Technology
Here are three ways for teachers to prepare to design learning experiences that encourage higher order thinking through the use of technology as a tool for learning.
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Creative Apps from EdShelf
These six selections involve doing something creatively, or just differently. Sometimes students and teachers both need a chance to stretch their creative muscle and change things up
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EdTech 10: Summer Off? No way!
Teachers this summer are soaking up more than sunshine! We’ve noticed that our recent posts with teaching resources are making their way around the internet faster than a barefoot kid running across hot pavement!