Afrikaans on-line support

Afrikaans on-line support

2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP)

2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP)

The National Education Technology Plan is the flagship educational 

technology policy document for the United States. 

The 2016 Plan, Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the 

Role of Technology in Education, articulates a vision of equity, 

active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere, 

all-the-time learning possible. 

While acknowledging the continuing need to provide greater equity of 

access to technology itself, the plan goes further to call upon all involved 

in American education to ensure equity of access to transformational learning 

experiences enabled by technology. 

The principles and examples provided in this document align to the 

Innovative Technology Expands Children’s Horizons (ITECH) 

program as authorized by Congress in December 2015 

through the Every Child Achieves Act.

This is really great!

After reading it I realised that this could be used or adapted in almost any country.

Definitely worth a read!

Click here to download the document

 #Microsoft Educator Network #MIEExpert15 #MSFTEduE2 #MSFTEdu #technology #edtech

Napier's Bones

Napier's Bones

This is really incredible!

This is a Fun and Easy Way To Multiply Big Numbers.

Ths is how it works

Let's say we want to Multiply:

3579 x 4

Lay out the bones that have the top numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9. (See picture above)

Starting from the right side, in the 4th row, add the two numbers in each diagonal 

of that row, and then write its sum underneath that column. (See picture above)

You can see the 4th row highlighted in picture.

If you get a two-digit sum, you will need to write down the ones digit, 

and then carry the other digit over to the next diagonal to the left to be added with it.  

See picture below

So in the picture above is just the one row.

Notice the the diagonal with the 8 and the 3. Since 8 + 3 = 11, 

we wrote the 1 underneath, and carried the other 1 to the diagonal to its left. 

And that is the answer

Very cool!!

Click here to download the pdf

Big Brain Math

Big Brain Math

This is really AWESOME!!

It feels just like a huge game, but with a slight twist...

It is all about maths.

You can choose your character, your grade level and then you can choose which

operation you would like to concentrate on!!

Brilliant!!

Click here to go to the download page

Teacher Tube

Teacher Tube

Teacher Tube is a free community for sharing videos and other content

for teachers and students.  One of the great things about this site is that 

most of the videos have been uploaded by teachers for teachers.

All the videos and documents are searchable so it does make your life

easier to find the appropriate videos.

Definitely worth using when looking for content to show your studetns!

Click here to visit the site

ck12.org

ck12.org

This is really a fantastic website.  The CK-12 Foundation provides 

a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, 

and real world applications.  Once you have registered, which is quick and easy,

you can then pick a topic.

I picked basic geometry for this example.

I started with the 2 page worksheet that explained the various definitions.

Click the button below to get the file.

You can then click on other reading material, which I 

thought was very good.  Here is a screen capture of one

of the reading materials.

You can then look at various videos that you can show to your class.

There are 54 different things that you can do in this section.

This is really fantastic, make sure that you have a look

at all the different sections so that you can benefit from

all of these great resources!!

Click below to go to the site.

Brainly

Brainly

Brainly.com is using a new trend in education and the world wide web,

called social learning or school crowdsourcing. Students use the internet to 

make solutions to their homework by co-operation.  

This is really great.  Once you have registered, quick and free, you can then

either help other students by answering their questions, or you can put in your

own question and what for someone to answer it.

I am really amazed at how quickly the questions get answered.

Absolutely brilliant!!

Teaching Videos

Teaching Videos

A collection of cross curricular videos for teachers to use in class.
The videos are sourced from many sites, including YouTube, Teacher.tv and many more.

This is really good!!

Teachers first

Teachers First

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources
designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical,
user-friendly, and ad-free format.
Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our robust search tool

On the TeachersFirst’s Classroom Resources area this includes anything you
would use with students in the classroom. You can find over 12,000
educator-reviewed web resources, searchable by subject/grade or keyword.