Project Tomorrow This research website is based on surveys taken by students and teachers around the country. It has great statistics that prove that using technology and gaming is a way to reach today’s youth. to brainbasedbloggers_Arin … saved by 76 other people … 1 day ago
games2train.com : Serious Training in a Game Environment This website allows people to use templates to create their own video game with content that is useful to their students or employees. This website is proof that gaming is a way to reach and engage people to learn something. to brainbasedbloggers_Arin … saved by 22 other people … 1 day ago
Marc Prensky.com He seems to be the educational gaming guru. This website talks about the advantages of using gaming with learning. He must believe that videogames are definately a way to reach a variety of different types of learners. to brainbasedbloggers_Arin … saved by 387 other people … 1 day ago
EDUCAUSE REVIEW | March/April 2006, Volume 41, Number 2 This article is awesome! It explains why educational gaming is beneficial and how this new digital gaming generation thinks. This article also expresses the importance of finding games that are engaging to ensure a successful, learning experience for st to brainbasedbloggers_Arin … saved by 5 other people … 1 day ago
GamesParentsTeachers :: Games Parents Teachers This website has many great reccomendations on high quality, engaging educational video and computer games out there. It also gives a description on popular games that are out there so parents and teachers can research the games their children are playing. brainbasedbloggers_Arin … saved by 112 other people … 1 day ago
BrainPOP – Animated Educational Site for Kids – Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology This is my favorite gamebased learning program to use with students. Not only does it have games for many subjects, but it also has animated videos to watch, a writing section that allows the student to write about the subject, a comic that goes with the brainbasedbloggers_Arin
Read, Click and Win with BookAdventure! … saved by 287 other people … on may 17
MysteryNet’s Kids Mysteries: mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks
Writing Fun by Jenny Eather- helping kids write using text organizers. Great writing graphic organizers
Tiered Curriculum Project tiered lessons for elementary grades
CAST: Center for Applied Special TechnologyCast.org provides research and development, professional development, policy and practice, publications, and products dealing with Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This is a great resource for those new to UDL, but also for those who have been working
Bookshare.org – Legal Information “A recently enacted exception in the U.S. copyright law makes Bookshare.org possible under the law in the United States, as long as the copyrighted digital books are only available to people with bona fide disabilities.” This site deals with the legal asp Brain-BasedBloggers-Pam, … 4 days ago
http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac01e.pdf J. Brophy, professor at MSU, discusses twelve effective strategies that teachers can use in the classroom to make learning more meaningful. The strategy that is the most meaningful to my TechQuest is scaffolding learning to meet the students of all studen
LEARNING DISABILITIES I was able to gain insight from Dr. Saul Greenberg on the intelligence of students identified with a learning disability. Dr. Greenberg supported what I have learned as a teacher consultant, that most students with learning disabilities are of normal inte
High School Graduation Rates in the United States | Table 1 This site provided high school graduation rates for all states. I used this site to make the point about what could happen if we do not meet the needs of all students in the classrooms. To learn students must have access to the general education curriculu
No Child Left Behind “NCLB greatly extends the power of the federal Department of Education (DOE) by creating an education framework that must be implemented by state DOEs so that all American children are proficient in math and reading by 2014.” This site gives a very brief
