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In this day and age, where anyone with access to the internet can create a website, it is critical that we as educators teach our students how to evaluate web content. There are some great resources available for educating students on this matter, such as Kathy Schrock's Five W's of Website Evaluation or the University of Southern Maine's Checklist for Evaluating Websites.

"QR codes are a great and easy way to share digital materials and resources within your classroom. I use it in 2 different ways."

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"The new wave of educational technology will leverage our greatest natural resource: the curiosity inherent in every child."

Twitter chats are a great resource for learning and networking, allowing academics from all over the world to come together on a regular basis to talk about what's important in education.

Twitter chats happen on a specific day and time so you are connecting to other educators 'live'.

The Home Page for the Purdue Online Writing lab highlight in my previous post.  Resources here can be adapt for school use.     

Online Discussions: Affordances & Constraints Integration Ideas Examples & Resources

Resources to support the Australian curriculum in NSW, with a special focus on: Asian; Indigenous; & Multimodal texts

"The new building blocks for learning in a complex world This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of twenty-first century teaching and learning. Explores the three main categories of 21st Century Skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills Addresses timely issues such as the rapid advance of technology and increased economic competition Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) The book contains a DVD with video clips of classroom teaching. For more information on the book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com."

Gooru, a search engine dedicated to revolutionize digitally enhanced education, has officially launched after more than two years in development, one of the latest and most comprehensive products designed to help K-14 teachers better navigate the plethora of digitally enhanced education curriculum resources being offered.

This doesn't make digital research better or worse, but rather different. So in response, here are 13 digital research tools and resources (one is a video), each complemented by a lesson on credibility and research for the 21st century student who has grown up in an age of information abundance, but contextual scarcity.

TeachingACEnglish is a rich, practical and contemporary professional resource to support teachers and school leaders implementing the Australian Curriculum: English from Foundation to year 10. This collection of video snapshots - or vignettes - illustrates ideas, approaches and strategies for teaching, learning and assessment. The vignettes demonstrate approaches to differentiation and aspects of explicit teaching about a select group of content descriptions for reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar.