What are the skills and dispositions we need to teach our students to prepare them for the 21st Century? Route 21 is a collaboration among educational professionals policymakers and industry.
What happens when a school library replaces every book with Kindels? Read this article from USA Today and find out what the students think. (Thank you KB for this link)
Medpedia is a new medical resource using the Wikipedia model BUT with oversight from medical professionals.
What is a vook? Vooks combine text and video and can be downloaded onto a computer or smartphone. I can see if for cooking but romance???
The Library of Congress Teacher's Page has links to great collections of primary sources and great tools for analyzing them. There are also opportunities for professional development. Check out their page on veteran's stories.
Another new source for primary sources is Footnote. They have partnered with the National Archives to offer high quality digital copies of important historic documents. They also have a genealogy section using historic census information. Unfortunately there is a fee to do any deep searching using the census data.
Here's a website that encourages students to look at the environmental consequences of their purchases. Be Different. Live Different. Buy Different
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