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The use of technology in education provides powerful opportunities to engage students in authentic learning. Google has developed a suite of tools that can easily be integrated into K-12 classrooms to encourage collaboration and creativity. This course will provide educators with a basic understanding of various Google products and suggest ways to integrate those products into the classroom.  Hat tip to John Sowash

This next-generation digital media service empowers PreK-16 educators to re-imagine classroom learning, transform teaching, and creatively engage students. It brings together the best of public media, produced specifically for educators, from PBS, WGBH, and 55+ public media partners. This flexible service includes high-quality content tied to Common Core and national curriculum standards. The service is freely available to educators as a basic service that can be enhanced with premium solutions for schools and districts-designed for seamless media integration and customization. The basic service offers: Unique access to best-in-class resources from PBS producers and partners and technology resources tied to Common Core and national curriculum standards A robust content library of thousands of digital core curriculum resources, designed with today's student in mind Carefully created, purpose-built media: videos, interactives, audios, lesson plans, multimedia, professional development, and more Ability for educators to search, save, share, and review content Cross-platform flexibility to display on classroom presentation tools to mobile devices

Are you looking for practical ways to improve student achievement? Strengthen teaching and learning processes with research-based instructional strategies combined with effective technology use. Twelve core strategies link to 30 classroom examples that show how to apply key research, using technology to engage learners and improve achievement. via Jackie Gerstein

Great Collection of sites. I got this link from my friend Elaine Plybon via twitter @glad2be

Our goal is to help classroom teachers integrate technology into their curriculum by identifying and providing interactive Internet resources addressing specific objectives.

Resources from the BLC workshop presentation.

This week is the education issue. There are some very well written articles and online the photo essay of classroom technology through time is turned into an interactive timeline.