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Students have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet the challenge remains for them to find, evaluate, and apply the information they discover in the classroom and beyond.Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students: Improve search skills.Evaluate the information they find.Incorporate them in their work.Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstration

Diigo has decided to go with free and paid accounts ($5/month). It seems the biggest impact on student accounts will be that there is a limit on how much highlighting they can do (50/month). Premium accounts will allow you to save an electronic copy of a web page (screen shot) and images.

When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation.

The 58 page guide embedded below is intended as quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year. The guide is a available as a free download.

Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century

Post your belief about education, teaching, and learning.

Links to free one hour summer webinars from Discovery Education.

It seems like everything is on youtube. This collection features history, language, arts, science, technology and even classroom management videos.

A tool for digital storytelling and presentations

New York State education officials, admitting that the state's annual tests were not properly measuring student proficiency, released results Wednesday showing that more than half of New York City students were failing to meet state standards in reading, at a time when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg boasted that more that more than two-thirds of city's students were reading at grade level.

Lots of resources and examples of digital storytelling

Links to articles and resources on digital storytelling.

Step by step instructions on how to create a digital story using Movie Maker.

StageofLife.com thinks the answer to this phenomenon lies not in pushing against new social media, but rather embracing it: by encouraging high school students to blog. StageofLife.com is a website for the generation growing up with social media embedded into their daily lives to meet, share stories, and learn about those in their generation and other stages of life. It is an educational resource as well, offering lesson plans and contest ideas to educators. One of the most recent creative writing lesson plans is quite innovative: its goal is to break students out of the restrictive environment of 140-character word limits while at the same time promote the use of social media in the classroom. StageofLife.com believes that blogging and other social media is an integral part of the lives of current high school students, and should be incorporated into English classes around the country.

A reminder that what you post on the internet can come back to haunt you.

Website for Science Leadership Academy who worked with last year's cohort. It contains info and examples of student work.