Links to Other Sites
Below
are links to web sites that are exploring innovative approaches to
education and community involvement. If you know of other sites please
direct them to bshimp@me.com.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation
The George Lucas
Educational Foundation is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning
process by using digital media to document, disseminate, and advocate
for innovative, replicable strategies that prepare students to thrive in
their future education, careers, and adult lives.
The Khan Academy
The Khan Academy is an
organization on a mission. They’re a not-for-profit with the goal of
changing education for the better by providing a free world-class
education to anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources
are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student,
teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom
after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in
earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are
available to you completely free of charge.
Wolfram|Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—
not
by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast
collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.Making the world’s
knowledge computable.
GoKnow Mobile Learning
GoKnow was founded by two
leaders in the field of education and technology, Dr. Elliot Soloway and
Dr. Cathleen Norris, GoKnow Mobile Learning is the result of ten years
and $20 million worth of research and development. Along with their team
of industry experts, Dr. Soloway and Dr. Norris continue to pave the
way for students to become more engaged in classroom work through
advanced mobile learning environments. Their years of scholastic
partnership have culminated in educational breakthroughs, which provide
flexible, intuitive, individualized, and progressive platforms for
students to actively connect with the 21st Century curriculum.
