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UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.

UK study involving roughly 400 students, mostly aged 8-10 years, and a new generation of multi-touch, multi-user, computerized desktop surfaces is showing that over the last three years the technology has appreciably boosted students' math skills compared to peers learning the same material via the conventional paper-and-pencil method.

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Instructions: Cut & paste your students paper or homework assignment into the box below, and click the "check" button. This free plagiarism detector will find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports

Instructions: Cut & paste your students paper or homework assignment into the box below, and click the "check" button.  This free plagiarism detector will find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports.

Print paper rulers of various sizes for your classroom.

EssayTagger is a web-based tool that helps you grade your essays faster by eliminating the repetitive and inefficient aspects of grading papers. You'll be able to speed up your grading process without sacrificing the quality of the feedback you give to your students.

The value of Twitter for helping you and your colleagues stay informed of the latest trends, ideas, resources, and Web 2.0 integration tools has increased tremendously in the past year. A Web 2.0 tool is available for exploiting the every growing information on Twitter to remove barriers and allow you to collaborate with other science and math teachers. This new online tool is paper.li - a source of daily Twitter newsletters in education.

Check for plagiarism before you turn it in to your tutor, and before you receive a bad grade for your paper. Also, check your web content for duplication.

Bookgoo allows you to highlight and annotate your documents in the same way you would mark up a piece of paper with a highlighter and pen! Get started with bookgoo in 3 easy steps: STEP 1 - Upload your content STEP 2 - Highlight and annotate your document STEP 3 - Share your document with others

MUVE? 3D Webquest? Both?

A compelling MUVE with a bit of 3D Webquest thrown in?

This paper seeks to consider the benefits and barriers to using web 2 in the classroom Education web2.0 teacher eLearning web2

using a bit of paper, aluminum foil or other inexpensive metal, you can build a simple parabola to extend the reach of your WIFI;D very cool

build a simple parabola to extend the reach of your WIFI;D

Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers by the same name. Ian Jukes talks about Digital Children. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact people fit into both camps. We know that experience, like using a computer, will change the structure of our brain, This is a concept called Neuroplasticity. We also know that, the more intense the experience, the more profound the change. Our students, who often have a greater exposure to technology, are likely to be more neurologically adapted, but adults can as easily be "Digital Natives".

For visual mapping, outlining, writing and making presentations, use Inspiration® 9, the ultimate thinking and learning tool. Brainstorm ideas, structure your thoughts and visually communicate concepts to strengthen understanding with the Diagram and Map Views. To take notes, organize information, and structure writing for plans, papers and reports, use the integrated Outline View to focus on main and supporting ideas and to clarify thinking in written form. With Inspiration's Presentation Manager, transform your diagrams, mind maps and outlines into polished presentations that communicate ideas clearly and demonstrate understanding and knowledge.

"2collab is a free online bookmarking tool for professional researchers. Away from the noise of general web applications you can store and easily manage (using tags for added flexibility of categorisation) your links library. You can import your stored references to easily share them with your chosen colleagues or export your library ready for inclusion in your next research paper or project document."

"As a hardworking student, you've got a lot to organize, including essays, exams, deadlines, and class schedules, not to mention your social and personal life-plus any part-time jobs you may have taken on. In an effort to keep you more organized, we've generated this list of 50 useful mind-mapping tools that are designed to help you see your ideas more clearly, analyze and outline research papers, become more efficient when you study, and get inspired to be more creative in your work."

"Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file." Absolutely what I needed to get a Bamboo pen tablet to let me markup a PDF by drawing (Mac).

A video camera for $19.95 (w/o memory). Add $10 for 1 hour of recording at 720 x 480 resolution!

A video camera for $19.95 (w/o memory). Add $10 for 1 hour of recording at 720 x 480 resolution! Imagine where you could place it: i.e. rockets, paper airplanes, your dog, helmets, your forehead, etc...