In Siftables, the toy blocks that think, a TED video, David Merrill demonstrates small, computerized blocks that manipulated to perform math operations, play music, share photos, and do a variety of other tasks. I think Siftables could have a great impact on education – especially primary and special education. (7:09)
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How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses, a TED video, focuses on how Twitter has become more than just a social meda tool for communicating with your friends. Evan Williams, a co-founder of Twitter, talks about the evolution of Twitter as a means of gathering and sharing information. (7:58)
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Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech, a TED video, was brought to my attention by Deyana Matt. In this video, Pattie Maes from MIT demonstrates a wearable device that she and her innovative team have designed that acts like a computer using a projector, camera and cell phone. This video blew me away! (8:42)
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National Geographic Xpeditions is part of Thinkfinity.org, a site supported by the Verizon Foundatin that offers free resources for teachers and students. The site, created by the National Geographic Society and WotldCom, is designed to provide activities based on the U.S. National Geography Standards. Included in the site are maps of places all over the […]
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National Geographic Online gives students and teachers access to exclusive National Geographic content – including maps, articles, photographs, quizzes – which is updated daily. The “For Kids” page offers many online activities for students, and the “For Teachers” page has a searchable database of activities, resources and lesson plans.
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National Council for the Social Studies: Teacher Resources offers classroom resources which can be searched by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. Also included is the schedule of upcoming TV social studies-related programs, and a list of notable social studies books for students.
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National Atlas is a site maintained by the United States Department of the Interior. It provides many different kinds of multimedia maps along with summaries of geographic information.
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Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers offers an extensive list of links and resources from the Internet for Social Studies teachers. Topics include history, geography, world cultures and current events. This easy-to-use site also includes links to electronic newsgroups, discussion lists and mailing lists for Social Studies teachers.
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The History Buff was started by a history buff who enjoys collecting old newspapers. The site contains historical information on each of the presidents, historic audio and video clips, information about each of the fifty states and press coverage of a wide variety of historical events.
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EconEdLink is part of Thinkfinity.org, a site supported by the Verizon Foundatin that offers free resources for teachers and students. The site is a program of the National Council on Economic Education, and is designed to provide resources based on curriculum standards and the essential principles of economics. K-12 teachers will find lesson materials for […]
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