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This Northwest Education Technology Consortium site features three strong examples of classroom integration of technology, one each from elementary, middle, and high school level.s. To provide valuable context, each example features background information about the school and teacher, how the projects was planned and organized, how students accessed technology, and how teachers assessed students work. Examples of student work are included. The format used is very engaging and provides a good model of how to present a unit.

While many educators realize technology's enormous potential to help them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students' needs, abilities, or learning styles, it might be hard for them to find concrete applications of this approach to emulate in their classrooms. But in a Jan. 28 webinar from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), experts provided several examples of classroom projects that can help all students learn while keeping them engaged.

This site introduces you to the options for using technology in your classroom, e.g. webcasts, webcams, current news sources, inquiry-learning. Even more important, it explains why it's important to make instruction meaningful, current, and engaging for today's students. This is a great place to start exploring your options for integrating technology in the classroom.

iLearn Technology is one of the best blogs I've seen for teaching educators about integrating technology and computer curriculum into the classroom. Kelly Tenkely presents the latest Web2.0 gadgets but also writes about how she's using them in her grade 5 classroom.

Before you jump on the SAMR bandwagon, give this a read. I wrote in a previous post my thoughts on how the SAMR model degrades/demeans meaningful technology based learning activities and directs teachers to think of their use of technology as insufficien…

video calling for a new way to view assistive technology

Great video!

SET-BC is a Provincial Resource Program designed to assist school districts in British Columbia in meeting the assistive technology needs of students with physical disabilities and visual impairments. There are lots of free downloadable tutorials and curriculum materials associated with AT programs such as Kurzweil, Clicker5, Boardmaker, and others at this site.

Students in a South Texas classroom had taken on the role of employees at CleanWater Tech, a fictional U.S. company that produces water filtration technology, and were poring over the economic indicators of various unnamed countries, trying to decide into which nation the company should expand.

The real challenge is not integrating technology effectively. It's developing a vision for technology use

ISTE award winner Surrey teacher Karen Lirenman blogs about her primary students' use of technology in the classroom.

Many app ideas organized on an attractive weebly website. ICT with Miss C is all about technology integration using Web 2.0 in the primary classroom. useful websites, video tutorials, screen capture walkthroughs of useful web 2.0 tools and ipad apps, lessons and step by step guides. Laura Chaffey

ICT with Miss C is all about technology integration using Web 2.0 in the primary classroom. useful websites, video tutorials, screen capture walkthroughs of useful web 2.0 tools and ipad apps, lessons and step by step guides. Laura Chaffey

A long-awaited opinion by David Rose et. al. on whether technology is necessary for the implementation of UDL.

Techy Tips for not so Techy Teachers A collaboration of ideas for quick and simple ways to use technology in the classroom - ANY classroom!

This is a site for teachers or librarians to test technology literacy skills with 6th grade or 9th grade students. It may be a useful tool!

Assessment tool to evaluate 6th and 9th grade student technology literacy skills.

Weekly discussions about educational issues and technology.

There are a handful of questions I can count on being asked at least once at every school in which I do instructional technology coaching. I'm sure many of you have the same issues, so I thought I'd share. Good solid advice for 1)showing YouTube videos, 2)mirroring iPads to SMARTBoards and 3)the best answer to the "must-have" apps question.

How can students use tech to make thinking visible? How can we use tech to make sure every student is heard? How can we use tech for students to share what their learning with each other?

Part 1 – Making Thinking Visible: After being part of a technology infused classroom for over 15 years, I have recently come to believe something profound about teaching and learning in the t…

Maureen LaFleche spotted this great resource and here's what she has to say about it "Check out CK-12.org. It is a website that provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels, will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles. Text can be read at two different levels - grade level and basic. You can download books and activities as pdf, epub or mobi." I have checked out several of the units and they look excellent for middle and high school.

open letter to creator of SAMR model asking where is the research and educational credentials to back up his ideas. The SAMR model has become very popular but perhaps we should proceed with caution. For now, I am sticking to the UDL guidelines as the model I use when advocating any educational practice including the use of technology.

open letter to creator of SAMR model asking where is the research to back up his ideas.

Great post shows the difference between old-school and wonderfully creative Pro-D on technology. Participants used tech in the course of real problem solving. Posts about ChatterPix written by Ms. Hayes