tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51935741823007949982024-03-09T21:46:00.777-05:00EDge21A Blog for 21st Century EducatorsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1695125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-81353644718011834152014-07-17T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-17T14:00:03.216-04:00Featured 7-17-2014: Highlights for High School<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Highlights for High School is a companion website to MIT OpenCourseWare* providing open educational resources for high school educators and students. Highlights for High School includes content created specifically for high school students as well as resources collected from the MIT curriculum that can be used effectively in high school.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-75159653512203791592014-07-16T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-16T14:00:03.277-04:00Featured 7-16-2014: MIT OpenCourseWare<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate courses freely available on the web. With more than 2200 courses available, OpenCourseWare provides free MIT educational content that can be used to augment your knowledge or in teaching others. Each course consists of at least Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-70076989042760024542014-07-15T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-08T10:40:56.475-04:00Featured 7-15-2014: Biblionasium<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Designed to engage, encourage, and excite young people about reading, BiblioNasium is a free, social network for children in elementary and middle school. BiblioNasium includes the tools to function as a literacy partner, helping teachers efficiently develop and propel an effective, challenging, independent reading program. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-31211240862050453522014-07-14T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-14T14:00:03.158-04:00Featured 7-14-2014: The Collaborative for Student Success<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> The Collaborative for Student Success is a grant-making initiative that pools the resources of a diverse group of education foundations. Committed to improving public education, the members of the Collaborative for Student Success share the concept that successfully putting the Common Core State Standards into effect is important to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-26377827467212393172014-07-12T10:00:00.000-04:002014-07-12T10:00:05.880-04:00The Rearview Mirror 7-12-2014For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance. MondayBrown v. Board of Education was a landmark case in which the US Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.TuesdayTimeline World War 2 is a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-4653205215198400222014-07-11T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-11T14:00:02.075-04:00Plus 7-11-2014: Makerspace<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Simply described, Makerspaces are community centers with tools combining manufacturing equipment, community, and education in order to enable members to design, prototype, and create manufactured works that wouldn’t be possible with the resources available to individuals working alone. Makerspaces can be organizations affiliated with or Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-61763006578570142022014-07-10T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-10T14:00:04.716-04:00Featured 7-10-2014: MIT+K12 Videos<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> MIT+K12 Videos about STEM topics are made for students by students. Current MIT students are invited and trained to write and host webisodes for kids about their favorite science, technology, engineering, and math topics, seeking to entertain and engage as well as to educate. The mission of MIT+K12 Videos is to "use MIT's unique Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-56491630855740595942014-07-09T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-09T14:00:00.131-04:00Featured 7-9-2014: Global Writes<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Global Writes works with schools and school districts to develop and implement programs integrating performing arts techniques with literacy programs. Global Writes helps schools develop technology applications to share student-created work for publication and feedback. This includes the use of digital media, videoconferencing, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-16013396626255257952014-07-08T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-08T14:00:04.263-04:00Featured 7-8-2014: Timeline World War 2 with Robert MacNeil<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Timeline World War 2 is a definitive history of the Second World War, presented by broadcaster Robert MacNeil. Timeline World War 2 for the iPad features a zoomable interactive timeline that dramatically alters how history can be viewed and understood, bringing to life the events of 70 years ago for a 21st century audience. With more Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-76549695291075793332014-07-07T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-07T14:00:00.817-04:00Featured 7-7-2014: Brown v. Board of Education<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark case in which the US Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, overturning the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-3784588470029061442014-07-05T10:00:00.000-04:002014-07-05T10:00:01.269-04:00The Rearview Mirror 7-5-2014For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance. MondayThe Pericles Group provides game-based learning solutions for students, teachers, and administrators in a wide range of situations and a variety of disciplines.TuesdayThe GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-54764280732783569882014-07-03T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-03T14:00:03.034-04:00Plus 7-3-2014: Make Math a Game<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Make Math a Game is devoted to helping people, both kids and adults, improve their math skills while having a good math experience. Browse the Make Math a Game blog for ideas that can improve your math ability. The free website helps you understand the basics and alleviate confusion so that math becomes fun. The goal is to "give help to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-38995257535401717412014-07-02T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-02T14:00:00.476-04:00Featured 7-2-2014: Peekaboo Studios<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Peekaboo Studios is an educational app developer focused on building apps aligned with Common Core State Standards for PreK-12. Peekaboo Studios has created over 140 apps that teach early concepts, critical thinking, vocabulary, math, music exploration, and more. A few of the available titles are Best Books for Tweens, Ultimate Trivia: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-4274927400514592122014-07-01T14:00:00.000-04:002014-07-01T14:00:01.779-04:00Featured 7-1-2014: The GLOBE Program<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> The GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program is a worldwide hands-on science and education program for primary and secondary schools. The vision of the GLOBE program is to promote and support students, teachers, and scientists collaborating on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-79268936138915976542014-06-30T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-30T14:00:04.140-04:00Featured 6-30-2014: The Pericles Group<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> The Pericles Group provides game-based learning solutions for students, teachers, and administrators in a wide range of situations and a variety of disciplines. The Pericles Group offers ‘practomimetic' courses that blend stories and game play providing students the opportunity to explore learning as a narrative and as a game. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-53071203601437769662014-06-28T10:00:00.000-04:002014-06-28T10:00:00.959-04:00The Rearview Mirror 6-28-2014For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance. MondayThe NISE Network is an online digital library of public nano educational products and tools for educators and scientists to use to increase their ability to engage their people in nanoscale technology.TuesdayIn order to help Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-62132406096026341762014-06-26T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-26T14:00:03.857-04:00Featured 6-26-2014: Sharplet<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?-->Sharplet Sharplet is a new web app that promises users will remember more in less time using the spaced repetition learning method to optimally schedule flashcard review sessions. Spaced repetition is a learning technique that utilizes increasing intervals of time between subsequent review of previously learned material in order to take Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-1537091484309309212014-06-25T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-25T14:00:00.425-04:00Featured 6-25-2014: MathTermsMathTerms is a free illustrated glossary of nearly 1000 mathematics terms for middle- and high-school students and teachers in both English and Spanish. With its colorful, annotated illustrations, MathTerms has been accessed online by millions of students over the past five years. It is now available as an iPad and Android app with permission of The Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-81435284972504609092014-06-24T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-24T14:00:00.101-04:00Featured 6-24-2014: Kids Discover<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> In order to help you integrate core nonfiction topics into your curriculum, Kids Discover has developed hundreds of free downloads, articles, lesson plans, and other resources. The mission of Kids Discover is "to expose kids to all the wonders in the world—science, space, nature, history and culture—in one easy-to-understand, beautiful Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-49300181876045256072014-06-23T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-23T14:00:02.765-04:00Featured 6-23-2014: NISE Network<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> The NISE Network is an online digital library of public nano educational products and tools for educators and scientists to use to increase their ability to engage their people in nanoscale technology. Launched in 2005, the NISE Network (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network) has the target of engaging the public with the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-88107849477223381202014-06-21T09:57:00.000-04:002014-06-21T09:57:00.120-04:00The Rearview Mirror 6-21-2014For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance. MondayParticiPoll is an audience polling add-in for PowerPoint that allows audience members to use their own devices to votes.TuesdayThe Radix Endeavor is a multiplayer online game for STEM learning in high Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-24307798470981115772014-06-20T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-20T14:00:01.220-04:00Plus 6-20-2014: Global Read Aloud<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> Pernille Ripp, a 5th grade teacher in Wisconsin, started Global Read Aloud in the summer of 2010 to expand the global collaboration of her students. Participating educators choose a book to read aloud to their students during a certain time period during which they try to make as many global connections as possible. Individual teachers Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-49472526862964222982014-06-19T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-19T14:00:03.940-04:00Featured 6-19-2014: LEGO Education<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> LEGO Education was created to bring classroom tested and ready solutions that will engage and motivate young students. Combining the fun, exciting aspects of LEGO bricks with subject-specific tools and curricula, LEGO Education can help teachers meet their objectives. Based in Denmark, LEGO Education has been working with educators for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-33784000448994310342014-06-18T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-18T14:00:02.678-04:00Featured 6-18-2014: CollegeEd<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> CollegeEd is the free, standards-based* college planning and career exploration program for middle and high school students from the College Board. Drawing on more than a century of experience by the College Board in guiding students on the way to college, the CollegeEd program provides lessons and activities meant to help students Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193574182300794998.post-62955613192544094522014-06-17T14:00:00.000-04:002014-06-17T14:00:02.033-04:00Featured 6-17-2014: Radix Endeavor<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?--> The Radix Endeavor is a multiplayer online game for STEM learning in high school. When a player enters the Radix Endeavor she finds herself on an island with many unknown species of plants and animals, many mysterious places waiting to be discovered, and many problems to be solved. She must try to determine what is causing the problems,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0