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IXL Math | Online math practice and lessons. Kid Friendly Websites. KidsKnowIt.com - Internet's Most Popular Educational Website For Kids - Thousands of Free Educational Games And Activities. E is for Explore!

Arcademic Skill Builders - Fun Educational Games for Kids. 20 Online Tools to Make Learning Fun | Once a Teacher…. By Karen Schweitzer Looking for a great way to engage and stimulate students in even the most tedious subjects? There are many online tools, games, activities, learning aids, and even web apps designed to make learning fun. Here is a list of 20 sites to try when the new school year begins: Games and Activities History Detective Kids – Based on PBS’ History Detective television show, this site encourages children between the ages of 8 and 12 to use critical thinking, problem solving, and dramatic play while digging through the past. Funbrain – Funbrain hosts dozens of interactive educational games for children. Math Is Fun – Math Is Fun is intended to make studying geometry, algebra, data, money, and measurements more enjoyable.

Brain POP – This interactive educational site offers games for a wide variety of subjects and grades. Kerpoof – Kerpoof is an educational game site provided by the Walt Disney Corporation. Funschool – Funschool provides games primarily for elementary children. Kids.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal for Kids. EdHelper.com - Math, Reading Comprehension, Themes, Lesson Plans, and Printable Worksheets. Online Resource Sites for Students. 20 Online Tools to Make Learning Fun | Once a Teacher…. TED Education Talks. 85+ Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media : Engine Feed : MediaRights. I hope this post will be a handy reference guide, especially for those teachers new to social media technologies and how to integrate them into the classroom. This resource is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good starting point for finding the information and people that will help you make the transition into a ’21st century learning environment’.

I intend for this to be a wikipost (I will update resources as they are shared with me by others), so feel free to bookmark the page and check in to my official blog at emergentbydesign.com periodically for new material. Enjoy. Building 21st Century Skills Web 2.0 is the Future of Education Why Education Needs Social Media How Social Networking Will Transform Learning What Role Should Social Media Play in Education? 100+ examples of the use of social media in learning Social Media Reading List The How-to Series A Teacher’s Guide to Twitter Google Tools for School Toward a New Learning Ecology (PDF) P21 Framework (PDF) {*style:<b> </b>*} 10 Tools for 2010. 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner. For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation.

Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to <a href=">cater to your individual learning style, no matter what that is. Visual Learners Visual learners learn through seeing and retain more information when it's presented in the form of pictures, diagrams, visual presentations, textbooks, handouts and videos. Here are some Web resources that cater to those needs. Auditory Learners Auditory learners do best in classes where listening is a main concern. Kinesthetic Learners.