Great Resource of eBooks Each of the libraries listed provides free services to the public. There are Kids books, Teacher books, Foreign Language and more! SIG 1 Context: E-books K-12 Setting
5. Facebook is a country. With over 500 million users as of July 2010, Facebook, were it a country, would be the 4th largest in the world. If you are an English-speaking American who has lived most of your life in one small town, how would you like to be dropped off on a street corner in China to find your way? You might want to learn the language and know a few of the local customs before you set out to do much of anything.
There is a shift in how people get jobs, how companies advertise, how new ventures present themselves, how corporations gain business, how students learn, how everything works. More ways why students need 21st-century skills:
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Follow along as a public elementary school in Chicago integrates the iPad into its first through fifth grade classrooms. This blog has a master list of apps, App Reviews from teachers and students, and other intergrating tech in the classroom.
This website is great for background information to mobile devices. It is a PDF file
"Now, as a growing number of students carry smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices that can connect to the internet wirelessly through a cellular as well as a Wi-Fi connection, the definition of ―mobile learning‖ is expanding-and with it, the possibilities inherent in the term.
Shared at a ISTE conference, and demonstrates some of the ironies and contradictions the education system is mired in. The one that spoke to me the most was Don't trap tech. in the classroom.
This site gives more ideas on how to use Skype in the classroom.
Introduce your students to new ways of seeing the world with a cultural exchange. Bring language to life with real-life conversations where students can practice a new language with a class of native speakers. And More!
A fantastic free Google product that gives you direct access to real world statistics. It plots graphs of the data for you and even animates the graphs to show how they change through time.