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"Becta is the government agency leading the national drive to ensure the effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning."
How mobile phones help learning in secondary schools.
UK study "Harnessing Technology" challenges educators to change policy on cell phone usage in schools."In spite of school policies banning mobile phones in class, teachers in three schools explored ways of using students' own phones and borrowed smart pho
Kuglin's Educational Web Resource Page
From FETC Virtual Conference & Expo '09, "The 21st Century Web: Beyond the 2.0 Tools" 4/23/09.
Thinking in Mind
Neil Stephenson teaches 7th grade Humanities in Canada. His work is groundbreaking in inquiry-based learning and tech integration. There is a great deal to learn from Stephenson's blog and reflections.
Digital Storytelling
A wonderful resource for teaching digital storytelling. "Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimen
Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie
Students can work together or independently in creating animated projects. Even more fun would be to provide feedback to students using animation.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
Overview of the digital storytelling process. Includes guide, examples, and links to additional resources. Published by the University of Houston.
50 Ways To Tell A Story
Web 2.0 style, Alan Levine, takes us through various web 2.0 in telling the same story. Includes presentations and suggestions on story ideas, tools, and selecting tools.
Pixton™ - Comic Strip Creator - Make Your Own Web Comics Online
Students can learn through comics by "remixing" their own comic strips.
Power Reading and the School Library
Jamie McKenzie article on From Now On\n"Power Reading and the School Library"\nby Jamie McKenzie\nThe Educational Technology Journal\n Vol 14|No 6|Summer|2005\nThis article first appeared in the February 2005 issue of Library Media Connection.
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Literacy is about wrestling understanding from chunks of information, whether those chunks be numerical, textual, visual, cultural or artistic. Comprehension, on the other hand, has traditionally been more narrowly defined as the understanding of paragraphs and passages; but a marriage of the two seems well timed as the NCLB testing juggernaut thunders across the nation.3
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Research into effective practice indicates that achievement of strong scores on comprehension tests is possible, but progress will require teaming across all classrooms so that students spend some time in each hour of each day acquiring, practicing and sharpening essential comprehension skills such as questioning, picturing, inferring, recalling past knowledge, synthesizing and flexing.6
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ReadWriteThink
Searchable standards-based database of lesson plans for reading and language arts instruction, including library lesson plan submitted by teachers and educational organizations. Sponsored by the International Reading Assoc. and NCTE.
ShiftHappens - Did You Know?
"This wiki is designed to give you a little more background on the Did You Know? presentation. The wiki also will connect you with some resources to learn more about the shifts that are occurring in our world and their implications for K-12 and higher edu
ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education
A great interactive website for integrating technology and challenging students to think deeper about what they are learning and identify relationships that might otherwise be glossed over during a lesson. An excellent way to introduce diagramming. Templ
YouTube - Teacher feedback with Diigo
A great video on how to give student's feedback using Google groups and Diigo, including search techniques.
Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet
Create and share virtual flashcards with Quizlet, a new twist on the traditional flash card study method.
Youth Voices
"K-12 students and teachers who are working together to nurture student-to-student conversations, collaborations, and civic actions that result from publishing and commenting on each others discussion posts, images, podcasts, bookmarks, and videos and Voi
Information Literacy Instructional Strategies
Instructional strategies for integrating information literacy skills across the curriculum, summarized by Cathy Belben, Librarian, Burlington-Edison HS. Based on "Classroom Instruction that Works" by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock, 200
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