The Future of Education, Education Policy
- MindShift KQED’s blog on education breakthroughs
- Sir Ken Robinson’s Famous Ted Talk: “Schools Kill Creativity”
- Adaptive Tests Revolutionary? Hechinger Report, links to actual sample questions from PARC and SBAC
- Sir Ken Robinson: “Bring on the Education Revolution!”
- Learning Matters Videos Video Records of Education Ideas
- ASU and Knewton’s Grand Experiment Can adaptive learning bridge the college entry remedial gap?
The Drive for Common Standards and Assessments
- Common Core Standards Initiative
- Common Core Mapping Project Educators mapping knowledge and skills to common core
- Smarter Balanced One of the two US DoE funded consortia developing 21st-century assessments
- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career The other DoE funded assessment consortium.
- The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources
- Scholastic’s Teachers on Primary Sources site
- Engage NY
- Literacy Design Collaborative
- Mathematics Design Collaborative
- NASSP Common Core Resources
- Cost Factors in Common Core
Games, Simulations, Gamification
- MIT Unleashes New Massive Open Online (MMO) Math and Science Games —Radix Endeavor is Coming! Designed to capture students actions to drive learning
- Funbrain– Youthful, traditional interactive core skill games
- Science Game Center — Find and review interactive science games– from “Bio Chem Gems” to “Build a Cell”
- Mr. Wood’s List of Games Teacher’s list of effective learning games–elementary & middle -and science
- Sim City The original, still full of unlimited learning challenges
- Brain Pop Animated short videos that teach and engage
Game Learning, Behavior, and Social Impact
- Video Games that Make You a Better Person — Fox News Segment
- Researchers See Games as Testing and Learning Tools — Ed Week Report on University of Wisconsin Research
- Edu Games Hub — Online blog and website tracking progress of educational games
- Learning Games Network — MIT Education Arcade and University of Wisconsin Game Designers
- Learning Less — Report: the rush for skills crowds out the richness of curriculum, necessary Knowledge