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""In this age of copy-and-paste, digital cheating needs to be addressed on two fronts. First, we need to educate our students at an early age to respect and cite the work of others. Second, if all we ask is for our kids to regurgitate information, then we miss the mark. It is our responsibility as educators to craft assignments that require critical thinking, evaluation, and creation.""

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Capture your child's voice and imagination with our creative story building tool and share them with friends and family. Encourages creativity and self expression Helps reinforce reading and writing skills A GREEN alternative to books NO ads, NO merchandising, NO external links Made with kids in mind! It's Fun and it's FREE for everyone!

"Kidblog" One students tale of how Kidblog has streamlined the blogging process and outdone her initial expectations.

"How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says he's seeing some of these already beginning to come to fruition."

This is a MUST TRY site. It's not often that I'm amazed be an educational resource, but I am with this one. Pora Ora is a stunning educational virtual world for Primary school aged students. Play truely fun educational games which practise skills in English, maths and many other subjects. The graphics and useably is superb. Online safety is at the heart of this site. The parential admin account can set the student's account to free chat with everyone to completely locked down where they have the world to themselves and everything in between. The site has a language filter and users can report any incidents of trouble. Also, the first task requires the user to complete an online safety task. The site is free with a few premium features coming out later. You have got to try this one! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

This is definitely something the Primary school should be looking into

"About KidsRuby makes it fun and easy to learn how to program. Download Now or check out the code on Github."

"Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input."

Also free microsoft programming language for kids. We use Scratch in the LRC from 7th grade on, but need to move it down to 6th. We also want to begin programming clubs for creating games and apps. This might be a good starting point for Primary.

Some ideas for lower ks3 and younger for brain week.

A great list of internet safety resources online.

"Information Investigator 3 Self-paced Information Fluency Tutorials and Assessment "

We use a lot of their stuff to teach it to our kids. These are good resources and both Judith and I have done their teacher's course.

super hyper spider typer- a fun way of improving typing speed- game format and free no sign up required

Just for fun or to practice typing skills