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"I think that the interface of [the] iPad could work well for young children because it maps onto how kids already do things in their daily life," he said. "Sweeping things across the screen fits exactly with how very young children behave and think."

This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools.

This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy's administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their sprawling stacks - the classics, novels, poetry, biographies, tomes on every subject from the humanities to the sciences. The future, they believe, is digital.

All of IPMG's math games, math activities, math worksheets, math e-books and interactive math games are designed to foster math skill building. However, there are myriad games on the site that do allow differentiated instruction for an interested math learner who wishes to test their budding math skills against their peers or the computer. The math games and math activities available on www.iPlaymathgames.com are meant to be used to either support any math curriculum or just have fun with math!

This is the initial list of educational favorite apps as collected by ADEs

Imagine if every one of your kindergartners had received 1 book a month since they were born prior to entering your classroom.

A violent volcanic explosion immediately and forever alters the landscape. Elsewhere, raindrops gradually pick patterns out of the rock over the course of thousands of years. Can you recreate some of Earth's most amazing geological features by uncovering the natural processes that shaped them? via http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=2672

"Branches of Power lets you play all three branches of government, collectively charged with a critical goal: to build new laws! As President, choose issues you think are important and rally the people around them. As a legislator, craft bills around your constituents' values. As a Justice, uphold the law or strike down unconstitutional legislation. Only through using all three branches cooperatively can you construct towering laws upon the issue foundations that dot the landscape." via http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=2672

"On your own for professional development? Earn a certificate of completion by taking the Library's self-paced interactive modules. Each multimedia-rich program delivers approximately one hour of staff development."

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.