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Check Out K¹²'s Mobile Apps for iPhone and Android

Submitted by Ben Graff on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 4:16pm

At K¹², our mission is to provide any child access to exceptional and meaningful curriculum and tools. That’s one of the reasons K¹² has started creating a series of mobile apps based on our award-winning curriculum.

As the Director of Instructional Design and Innovation at K¹², I’ve been lucky enough to work on a few of our early projects. I thought you might be interested in what we’ve done so far, and what we’re up to next with apps.

First, for a quick way to see all of our apps, you can try these links:

  • Check out our Apple iOS Apps for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad (launches iTunes)
  • Check out our Android Apps (launches the Android Market) 

What will you find? Well, here’s a list of all the apps we’ve created so far. All of them are available to download today, and most of them are free!

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Announcing a Few Blog Improvements

Submitted by Scott Holm on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 7:11pm

This image was adapted from work by jphilipg on FlickrWhen I came on board here at K¹², one of the things I was asked to do was to take over management of the thinkTANK¹² blog. While I am responsible for publishing new content written by our awesome bloggers or deleting SPAM from our comments, I’ve thought a lot about how we can improve this blog for you, our readers.

Today we are pushing a few updates to this blog, and I wanted to let you know what they are and what you might notice is different.

First things first, we’re introducing a brand new comment system that we hope will make this blog a bit more interactive and fun. With the old comment system, you could add a new comment or reply to other comments as you would expect. However, if someone replied to your comment, you’d never know unless you came back to look for yourself.

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Test Anxiety: It’s That Time of Year Again

Submitted by Kimberly Spencer on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 1:52pm

Spring is the time of year when students across the United States are taking standardized state tests. People may debate the importance of these tests, the validity of the results, and the focus they can consume in instruction time. There is one universal element, however, that everyone can agree upon.

Many students experience text anxiety to some degree. Many times, parents are more concerned as to how their child is going to handle the test anxiety than they’re worried about their student’s knowledge of the material. 

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A Lab is a Lab is a Lab.... Not!

Submitted by Pat Keeney on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 4:48pm

So far I have not written much about what I do here at K¹². I am an instructional designer. This is like being an engineer, taking the material that is content, from wonderful experts like Dr. Dan Franck, and designing the best way to deliver this in our K¹² products. We have a wonderful team of instructional designers, like Jeff Pitcher with whom I have worked in developing virtual labs and videos, who are expert at doing this. For a moment, I am going to let you into our "instructional labs" to talk about science labs.

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Sticky Stuff and Inventive Thinking

Submitted by Melissa King on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 2:13pm

When great minds pass on, I stop and think about not only what they did but how they did it. The recent news tributes to Dr. Harvey Coover, who died on March 27, really caught my attention. What was his claim to fame? Don’t laugh—he was the inventor of that infamous material called Super Glue, a super sticky adhesive in a little tube that is found in most households today.

You could probably name dozens of situations when you want two broken parts or materials put back together and not have those pieces come apart again. My list includes stuff like damaged toys, shoes, tools, kitchen gadgets, furniture, dishes, etc. Did you know that Super Glue is also used to seal wounds and heal bone fractures?

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