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Gov Loop: The 7 Barriers to Digital Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
For all its conveniences, significant barriers to effective digital communication exist. These digital communication barriers can interfere with the ability to get a point across via email, chats, texts, messaging, discussion boards,...
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3 C)

For Students 9th - 10th
This organization seeks to understand society's ethical and legal issues from an international perspective in light of new technology. The website contains news and policy statements.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Brain Cognitive Science: Cognitive Neuroscience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online neuroscience course focusing on human memories. Course highlights how memories are created and controlled, and how we are able to remember the past. Course features include readings and related resources on the topic.
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PBS

Pbs American Masters: Willie Nelson: All Together Now!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan is based on Willie Nelson lyrics, and the PBS feature on him. It focuses on brainstorming and choral reading skills. In addition to the lesson plan, there is information on how to do guided reading and choral reading.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: How Can 0.9999 = 1?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource discusses the relationship between '0.999' and '1' and provides various proofs of their equality.
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Khan Academy: Memory Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a ten-question quiz pertaining to memory.
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Educational Leadership: Art and Science of Teaching /Cognitive Verbs and Cc

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present a new mandate and challenge for K-12 educators-teaching and reinforcing cognitive verbs. These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students...
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Mantex: Tutorials: What Is Close Reading?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the four types of reading: Linguistic, Semantic, Structural, and Cultural and offers a detailed example of close reading. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem, RL.11-12.5 Choice of Text Structure
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Effective Decoding Instruction for Diverse Learners

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you implement effective decoding instruction for diverse learners in your classroom? This site focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, morphology, and the six basic types of syllables in the English language.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Social Bookmarking

For Students 9th - 10th
This article introduces the reader to the concept of social bookmarking which organizes sites generally by the use of tags. Social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources...

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