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19 Oct 09

The First Thanksgiving: Letters from the Mayflower

"Sign up to receive three letters from a young girl traveling on the Mayflower* and three letters from a young Native American boy*. Give your class a glimpse of history through the eyes of two school-age children."

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06 Jun 09

Word Girl: Build Vocabulary through Word Games | Scholastic

Four vocabulary activities for students.

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19 Apr 09

Tech Futures | Scholastic.com

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First, technology is changing the way students interact with information. It has revolutionized the way we obtain, gather, evaluate, and search for information, and schools that have not adapted to these changes find themselves disconnected from their students.
Secondly, many technology initiatives are specifically designed to increase a student’s access to technology. Therefore, a school district can achieve its goal without actually improving student learning. The problem is that access to technology should not be the goal; improving teaching and learning should be.
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- Consider how strange it would be to see a lesson that includes the statement “Students will use paper and a pen….”
- There was a time when information was only accessible at school from teachers, libraries, and textbooks. If a student didn’t learn the information before they left school, they had very limited access to these information resources. Yet now, the Internet has changed the rules: Information is available at any time to anyone with access.
- School leaders need to decide what should be the focus of instruction: information retention, or information consumption.
- Districts need to realize that one size does not fit all, and placing the same technology in each classroom in the name of equity is a recipe for disaster.

29 Oct 08

Scholastic News Online: Election 2008 | Scholastic.com

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15 Sep 08

Interactive Whiteboard Lessons

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Scholastic BookFlix: Fictional Video Storybooks Paired Nonfiction eBooks—Online! Grades PreK–3

Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning.

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