Linking you to individuals, organizations, institutions, and blogs.

ASCD (org) : “ASCD (Formerly the Association for the Supervision of Curriculum Development) is a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading. ASCD's innovative solutions promote the success of each child.”

ALT, Association for Learning Technology: Their “purpose is to ensure that use of learning technology is effective and efficient, informed by research and practice, and grounded in an understanding of the underlying technologies, their capabilities and the situations into which they are placed.”

Clarence Fisher's Blog-Remote Access, even from here: A Literacy teacher who has created some great “understand tech” resources for teachers

Darren Kuropatwa's Blog-A Difference: Canadian Math teacher, inspired and technologically connected
Edutopia (website): “Share evidence based K-12 learning strategies that empower you to improve education”
Flipped Learning Network: Flipped learning occurs when class content is learned by the individual then class time is used for active problem solving and one-to-one or small group interactions with the teacher.
George Siemens (wiki)Elearnspace (blog)Learning analytics (website): “a writer, theorist, speaker, and researcher on learning, networks, technology, analytics and visualization, openness, and organizational effectiveness in digital environments.”
ITL Research: a multiyear global research program designed to investigate the factors that promote the transformation of teaching practices and the impact those changes have on students’ learning outcomes
Innovative Teaching Exchange, by the Mathematical Association of America: to allow people teaching mathematics at the college level to share new methods they have tried, invented, or discovered, which they feel help the students learn better and/or more easily
Keith Devlin: “current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences.”
NCETM, National Centre for the Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics: aims “to raise levels of achievement in maths, and to increase appreciation of the power and wonder of maths”
Match Education: “We operate high-performing urban public charter schools and a unique graduate school of education that trains teachers for high-poverty schools” Nuffield Foundation: work “to improve social well-being by funding research and innovation in education and social policy. (they) also work to increase research capacity, both in science and social science.”
Promethean Planet: The Worlds' largest interactive Whiteboard learning community. Blogs, discussion boards, Resources, etc
Rumie: “a non-profit organization bringing free educational content to the world’s underprivileged children through low cost technology.”
San Francisco Math Circle: “a program designed to increase the quality and quantity of students who become mathematics educators and researchers, or who simply love and use mathematics in their studies, work and daily activities.”
Stephen Downes: Stephen's Blog-“OLDaily – short for Online Learning Daily – is my contribution to the growing world of email newsletters”
Stephen Heppell: Stephen's Website-“Total learning, shoeless learning, superclasses, rooms within rooms, write-on surfaces, toilets, schools-within-schools, sound, learner led, science spaces, phones: how young? tiered seating, little details, flat screens, rule of 3”
Tony Bates (website): “online learning and distance education resources”. Tony Bates is President and CEO of Tony Bates Associates Ltd, a private company specializing in consultancy and training in the planning and management of e-learning and distance education
weusemath.org: “The most common question students ask math teachers at every level is “When will I use math?” WeUseMath.org is a non-profit website that helps to answer this question. “

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