Educational Technology
The excitement of online education is redefining academics in the 21st century and providing the impetus to rethink two issues: How students acquire and retain knowledge, and how they can apply what they've learned to succeed in the workplace.
In a technologically driven world, information is available at the click of a mouse and cutting-edge knowledge changes every second. Technologically savvy education that engages students will enable them to master knowledge online, in a classroom, through independent reading or in other ways.
Online Coding Sites
code.org - Our vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer programming
Khan Academy - Programming Basics, Canvas Drawing, Animation, User Interaction
Codecademy - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Ruby, Python, API
Code Avengers - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
SQLZOO - Learn Structured Query Language
CodeHS - Problem Solving, JavaScript, Animation, Game Programming
Treehouse - HTML, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, iOS, Android, UX
Code School - HTML5, CSS, CSS3, jQuery, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, iOS
Psuedo Coding Sites
Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
Colleen Lewis Scratch Instruction Students can use this curriculum for free, teachers can use the curriculum in their classroom, everyone can watch videos on SchoolTube or YouTube.
Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.
Cool Sites for Demo-ing IT Concepts
Logic Lab is a program for simulating simple circuits of logic gates on he screen.
Sorting Algorithms.Animations these pages show 8 different sorting algorithms on 4 different initial conditions.
Visual Trace Route Tool Simply enter the URL or the IP address in the form to perform a traceroute to your website from the US, Europe and Asia simultaneously.
MOOC Sites
These three MOOC sites offer free college courses from a variety of participating universities.
Udacity ... "Our mission is to bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective higher education to the world. We believe that higher education is a basic human right, and we seek to empower our students to advance their education and careers. "
Coursera... "we envision a future where everyone has access to a world-class education that has so far been available to a select few. We aim to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in."
edX... "courses are designed to be interesting, fun and rigorous. They are the best courses, from the best professors and the best schools, spanning dozens of subjects. Some edX courses now offer ID verified Certificates of Achievement. A new way to demonstrate your achievement and showcase your knowledge."
Learning Management Systems
CourseSites by Blackboard is a free, hosted online course creation and facilitation service that empowers individual K–12 teachers, college and university instructors and community educators to add a web–based component to their courses, or even host an entire course on the Internet.
Haiku Learning is a full suite of beautiful, cloud-based tools designed to get you up and running with digital learning in minutes.
Edmodo where over 44 million teachers, students, and parents are connecting to collaborate on assignments, discover new resources, and more.
Blended Learning Systems
Apex Learning is the leading provider of blended and virtual learning solutions to the nation's schools. Our digital curriculum provides an active learning experience that engages all students in rigorous coursework to prepare them for college and work. The standards-based digital curriculum — in math, science, English, social studies, world languages, electives, and Advanced Placement — is widely used for original credit, credit recovery, remediation, intervention, acceleration, and exam preparation.
EDGenuity provides engaging online and blended learning education solutions that propel success for every student, empower every teacher to deliver more effective instruction, and enable schools and districts to meet their academic goals. Edgenuity delivers a range of Core Curriculum, AP®, Elective, Career and Technical Education (CTE), and Credit Recovery courses aligned to the rigor and high expectations of state, Common Core and iNACOL standards and designed to inspire life-long learning.
At K12.com we deliver individualized learning for each and every student. Many children simply cannot get the individually focused and flexible learning they need in a traditional classroom. Parents and educators who choose K12 understand the great potential of an individualized education.
ST Math Reimagining Math Education -Spatial-Temporal (ST) Math® is the leader in visual math instruction and represents the highest quality and most effective blended learning math solution in K-12 education. Created by MIND Research Institute, ST Math is game-based instructional software for K-12 and is designed to boost math comprehension and proficiency through visual learning.
Dreambox is a highly adaptive learning math program for students in Pre-K through grade 5. It is best used by individual students on their own (but in a classroom setting) as the system creates an independent path through the material for each student. It assesses students’ skills based on how they solve problems rather than on a single end-of-session assessment. The platform captures every decision a student makes while working within lessons. (For this reason, the company calls it an "intelligent adaptive learning system.") DreamBox relied on a team of nationally credentialed math teachers to build the curriculum.
Lessons Worth Sharing
Ted ED - TED-Ed's videos aim to capture and amplify the voices of the world's greatest educators. To achieve this, we pair extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of exceptional educational videos.
Khan Academy - Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
Crash Course - Six awesome courses in one awesome channel: John Green teaches you US History and Hank Green teaches you Chemistry. Check out the playlists for past courses in World History, Biology, Literature, and Ecology.
HowStuffWorks is an American commercial edutainment website that was founded by Marshall Brain with the goal of giving its target audience an insight into the way in which many things work. The site uses various media in its effort to explain complex concepts, terminology and mechanisms, including photographs, diagrams, videos and animations, and articles.
XKCD is a "stick-figure strip featuring humour about technology, science, mathematics and relationships"