10.10.2014

CK-12: Free Access to High Quality Content

"CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally.  Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles.


We need to go from today’s “fixed time, variable learning” to a “variable time, fixed learning” model or even better, “maximum capability learning” within a teacher’s constraints of standards compliance and other administrative rules in their region.  This new model adapts to each student level, style, and circumstance while leveraging new digital tools to answer the most fundamental questions: “What can digitization do for the textbook?”  and “What can digitization do for learning?” instead of the more mundane “How can the textbook become digital?”. Leveraging these new tools to multiply and enhance learning resources (such as video, simulations, and peer learning) is key to CK-12’s mission. CK-12’s goal is to provide tools that can help increase student learning through engagement, and to provide more universal access to learning and learning content, irrespective of educational resources available for a student or region.  Additionally, CK-12 aims to reduce the impact of educational resources needed (by teachers or by classrooms) by leveraging good teachers, and when teachers are poor, burned out or not available, CK-12 will provide direct access to students for their own learning.
Our approach provides educational solutions for the following:
•    Students and teachers
•    Students without teachers
•    Students with both good and bad teachers"

10.07.2014

KCHS adds more Chromebooks!

Kolbe doubled it's inventory of Chromebooks to 20 due to growing popularity among students for easy-to-use cloud computing!

10.06.2014

Creating Blogs and Websites

Great article from Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne on creating and using blogs and websites to compliment instruction!


10.03.2014

Resources for Technology Integration

From Edutopia: "Free materials, downloads, tools, and suggested readings to better understand technology integration." Click here!


10.02.2014

Library Thing

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.