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Interesting perspective on integrating technology 1:1 in an upper elementary school classroom

Lesson plan idea for teaching digital citizenship to students in lower elementary grades

A search engine geared for elementary-aged children

Example of how lower elementary teacher uses digital portfolio.  Can easily be altered for middle and high school.

From the article: But South Korea, among the world's most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn't anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more.

Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students' standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students' lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and greater college matriculation and adult earnings, according to a new study that tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years.

Teachers across grade levels are forsaking traditional resources such as textbooks for free, online, and collaboratively-created instructional materials.

A k-4 computer teacher, mainly shares resources and lessons he does with his students (k-4 emphasis).

K-5 apps to help students remember