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You think of technology as a tool," one high school student told me. "We think of it as a foundation; it underlies everything we do."

"The full Mind Tools toolkit contains more than 700 management, career and thinking skills. Use the buttons below to start exploring them." Creative Ideas for lesson plans for "real world" skills

digital lit 50 animation tools

Good tool for embedding an image into a blog and allowing zoomability.

Just another tool.

Excellent tool for creating timelines- great for collaborative humanities projects

Drop A Pin, Tell A Story With Google's New 'Tour Builder' Tool http://t.co/n7vhxXm81V @MrsAndreaCoffey Egypt Unit or next one?

"Cold Turkey"

The teacher could have 30 students, all doing the same thing at the same time on their iPads, but this doesn't make sense either. The students have a powerful information tool in their hands, and as The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics require students to think critically and problem solve, there is no way that a teacher can get students to become independent learners in sync.

Interesting look at a new 'one size fits all' problem.

Related to my post about Curation Tools, Edcanvas is another option for curating resources and guiding student research.

e within their cooperative groups or partnerships. For example, if the class is working on using descriptive adjectives in their compositions, one student could be assigned to review another's writing. He or she could provide positive feedback, noting several instances of using descriptive vocabulary, and provide constructive feedback, identifying several sentences that could be enhanced with additional adjectives. After this, the students could switch roles and repeat the process. Goals: Set specific goals for the writing assignments that students are to complete. The goals can be established by the teacher or created by the class themselves, with review from the teacher to ensure they are appropriate and attainable. Goals can include (but are not limited to) adding more ideas to a paper or including specific elements of a writing genre (e.g., in an opinion essay include at least three reasons supporting your belief). Setting specific product goals can foster motivation, and teachers can continue to motivate students by providing reinforcement when they reach their goals. Word processing: Allow students to use a computer for completing written tasks. With a computer, text can be added, deleted, and moved easily. Furthermore, students can access tools, such as spell check, to enhance their written compositions. As with any technology, teachers should provide guidance on proper use of the computer and any relevant software before students use the computer to compose independently. Sentence combining: Explicitly teach students to write more complex and sophisticated sentences. Sentence combining involves teacher modeling of how to combine two or more related sentences to create a more complex one. Students should be encouraged to apply the sentence construction skills as they write or revise. Process writing: Implement flexible, but practical classroom routines that provide students with extended opportunities for practicing the cycle of planning, writing, and revie

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