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By spring, nearly all of Brown?s students -- including Baker -- had passed the OGT and demonstrated growth in Lexile reading test scores. In between jobs at fast-food restaurants and school, several were making serious plans to become teachers, underwater welders, construction managers and politicians.
What happened? Technology. Not just any technology, but tools that look and feel like MySpace or Facebook -- integral social networks for most American teens. Using Read 180, a reading intervention program, Brown facilitates differentiated learning for reading and writing through a "wiki," a collection of Web pages and other documents that can be created and edited individually or collectively online.
Weller says new Web tools (such as wikis and video-capture technology) put power in the hands of students, but traditional learning-management systems (such as Moodle and Blackboard) emphasize central control by the learning institutions
This Directory contains over 2,300 tools for learning in two main sections
1. for creating, delivering and managing learning and performance support solutions
2. for managing your own learning and productivity, and sharing resources
This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. Columbia encourages you to browse this archive of online learning resources, including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars. You can find additional online resources from Columbia University at ci.columbia.edu or cero.columbia.edu and from the members of the Fathom consortium at their own websites.
Resources for teachers and learners interested in networked and blended learning
Open2.net is the online learning portal from the Open University and the
BBC.
HomeschoolMath.net is a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes, curriculum guide, and teaching tips articles. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules.
"Anyone in an organic chemistry class anywhere can now perform this experiment by watching the video. There are so many details that it's hard to describe in a lab manual," said Weizman, a lecturer at UC San Diego. He went on to produce five more lab-training videos.