PBS Teams With 34 PBS Member Stations To Launch PBSLearningMedia.org With Over 14,000 preK-16 Instructional Resources

URL: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org
To foster classroom innovation and engagement, PBS and WGBH, and their producing partners WNET and KET, along with 31 other PBS member stations, today launched PBS LearningMedia (pbslearningmedia.org), a free service for all teachers, students and families nationwide. 

In addition to a rich public media library, PBS LearningMedia has content contributed from other publicly funded organizations, including the National Archives, the Library of Congress and NPR, as well as content funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Education, to deliver thousands of resources for use in the classroom and with home-schoolers.

“As America’s largest classroom, PBS and our local stations are helping to re-imagine classroom learning and are partnering with our producers and teachers to engage students to accelerate academic achievement,” said Paula Kerger, PBS President and CEO. “PBS LearningMedia is a key part of the solution to one of the nation’s biggest challenges – improving student progress to build our future workforce.”

Delivering unprecedented access to a robust digital library aligned to Common Core State Standards and available to all preK-16 classrooms, PBS LearningMedia is the next generation in digital media platforms with high-quality content drawn from more than 1,500 public media producers, 350 local stations, such as WGBH’s NOVA science series among many others, and a growing list of other contributors.

Beginning today, teachers and students have immediate access for their lessons and homework to more than 14,000 research-based instructional resources – including videos, interactives, images, audio files, mobile apps, lesson plans, and worksheets...read more 
 
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New Site MakingLearningReal.org Provides Problem Based Case Learning (PBCL) Tools

Innovation in Teaching and Learning for Technological Education (ITL) announces the launch of MakingLearningReal.org, a comprehensive, free resource for teachers and administrators in technical education seeking to employ inquiry-based methodology in the classroom. Imagine completing a two-year technical degree and heading out into the workplace armed with real-world experience and a portfolio of successful projects. That’s the experience of students whose teachers employ the methods featured on MakingLearningReal.org. Created by leading experts in learning and cognition, this model builds on the understanding that students learn best when they are working on real problems in a project-based environment facilitated by partnerships with local businesses, which bring real-time, real-world business needs to the classroom.

Working from this industry problem, students and teachers engage in a process that embodies the whole range of experiences and skills needed to become effective in the workplace: brainstorming, proposing solutions, and then testing, revising, presenting and implementing them. This process significantly lowers the barriers typically separating the classroom from the real world while preparing students for the work world and providing them with valuable experience...read more or go to the site now

Curriki.org Provides Peer Reviewed Open Source Educational Learning Materials

Curriki is an online community for creating and sharing K–12 open source curricula, a resource that can help provide a low-cost and innovative solution to many of our teaching and learning challenges in districts and schools.

Curriki is a social entrepreneurship organization that supports the development and free distribution of open source educational materials to improve education worldwide. The online community gives teachers, students and parents universal access to peer-reviewed K-12 curricula and powerful online collaboration tools. Curriki has nearly 100,000 registered members and more than 400 groups with access to more than 32,000 free, open source learning assets. Curriki logs more than 175,000 unique visitors per month from teachers representing more than 200 countries/territories around the world. Curriki's impact is measured by the global usage of its instructional resources, which are currently being used to teach more than an estimated 4.7 million students around the world.

If you are interested in obtaining more information about Curriki, please check out their website at www.curriki.org...see the site now

EarnMyDegree.com Reveals the Highest Paying Jobs Straight out of College

URL: http://www.earnmydegree.com

In today’s tough economy it’s important to know not only which industries are hiring, but which jobs pay well, when you get out of college. Some professions are more likely to pay top dollar to get qualified people in the door.

To help you figure out which jobs pay more, EarnMyDegree.com has put together an easy-to-reference guide of the 11 highest paying jobs straight out of college. The list can be found at http://www.earnmydegree.com/online-education/learning-center/11-highest-paying-jobs.html.

Topping the list is an investment banker. According to the Salary Finder on Indeed.com, an investment banker can expect to make about $112,000 a year. Although the demand for this job might be declining due to the economy, the earning potential is still very high.

A software developer comes in second place on the list, making about $84,000 a year. Jobs for software developers are usually easy to come by, but continued education is often a necessity due to the constant changes in technology.

The good news is that many continuing education classes in software development are available through online colleges or online universities, making it easier to fit education into an already busy schedule. Rounding out the top five highest paying jobs on the EarnMyDegree.com list are actuaries, engineers and network systems administrators.

A job that made the list, which may surprise many people, is a teacher. This position came in at number 11, with foreign language teachers especially likely to make a decent...Read more here or see the site now

Help Kids Write Short Stories With Short-Stories-Help-Children.com

URL: http://www.short-stories-help-children.com
Short-Stories-Help-Children.com provides a welcome twist to parenting and enables kids to publish stories and solicit comments. Originally launched in December of 2006, the site aims to cut through much of the tedium of learning from the parenting professionals.

Short-Stories-Help-Children.com is a light-hearted, refreshing look into parenting for those moms and dads struggling with their first gradeschoolers. It deals with raising kids in today's complex world of marketing hype, peer pressure and behavioural issues.

The site provides commentary about educational methods, literacy in its various forms, learning disorders, distractions that hurt productivity, discipline and violence in schools to name a few. The site also invites parents to share their experiences. Basic concepts are clarified by the analogy of writing short stories to show parents how to focus a child's attention and efforts...

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New Curious George Web Site from PBSKids Has Interactive Learning Tools

URL: http://www.pbskids.org/curiousgeorge
The Curious George PBS KIDS web site offers interactive learning tools and activities for children ages 3 and up. Since its September 2006 launch, the Curious George site at http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge ranks as one of the most visited pbskids.org sites. The site debuted with an average two million visits per month. Statistics also show that kids who visited the site stayed on average for an impressive one hour. The Curious George web site-like the TV series-introduces young kids to key concepts in science, math and engineering in a way that is fun for them and accessible to parents, caregivers and educators. more...

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WGBH Teachers' Domain Launches Chemistry and Civil Rights Special Collections

URL: http://www.teachersdomain.org/exhibits/pj07-ex/index.html
In partnership with the PBS/NOVA program “Forgotten Genius”, a Percy Julian Resource Collection is live now on the Teachers' Domain web site. In 1950, Percy Julian was one of the few African Americans with a Ph.D. He was Chicago's man of the year and a groundbreaking scientist. But it wasn't an easy road. Denied teaching positions and the target of death threats, Julian struggled to get ahead in a racially hostile world. New media-rich resources, adapted from NOVA: “Forgotten Genius”, explore how Julian revolutionized chemistry with the first synthesis of a chemical compound, as well as the challenges he overcame as an African American despite legalized segregation.

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Site Provides Medical Assistant Career Guide and Educational Resources

Medical Assistant Website Speaks to Thousands of Medical Assistants Coast to Coast

URL: http://www.medicalassistant.net

According to the US Department of Labor some of the hottest careers lie in the health care industry. Opportunities in this field abound for men and women alike. Here is where Danni R. and her website at MedicalAssistant.net come into play. Danni is a former Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) herself, who has worked side-by-side with her peers in different medical offices and has taught the medical assistant curriculum at well respected vocational schools in her community and online. Therefore she understands the concerns and struggles of medical assistants unlike anybody else, and knows the needs of those who are preparing for tests, quizzes, and final exams. more »

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