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Nonfiction news articles for kids.

This article has a great chart that shows the difference between using technology and truly integrating technology in the classroom.

National Writing Project (NWP) is a site dedicated to digital writing. Educators can read articles, explore resources, and submit their own publications. The sub links from Google are: About - Since it is hard to filter information via internet, sites must be trusted. This is especially important for educators wanting to incorporate what they find on the internet into their lessons. NWP is a networking community that comes together to provide, "Professional development, develop resources, generate research, and act on knowledge to improve the teaching of writing and learning in schools and communities."

Here is a great article with links to sites that offer free educational videos  This is the 1st time I am using Diigo to share and hope I am doing it successfully.  Kimberly

Glogster is a great multimedia tool and here's an article about 50 ways to use it with your students.

"End Homework Hassles If homework time is always a headache, these strategies will make life easier for your child-and you."

Blooms Taxonomy is one of our topical themes in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Over the last couple of years, we have been posting dozens of articles on how teachers can can apply the HOTS ( Higher Order Thinking Skills ) in their teaching. You can check the resources below to learn more.

107 iPad apps..."Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing iPads as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and maths with step-by-step animation of problems."

Improve reading in content-area classes for easily differentiate instruction for any reading. Simple, fast, and free! This is a quick and easy way to create a lesson plan. You copy and paste an article and it will help you create all kinds of lessons based on the words contained in it, in seconds. Amazing! And it's free!

The goal of Edudemic is to connect teachers, administrators, and students with the technological resources. Edudemic has grown to become one of the largest education websites in the world. The site features a regular flow of tools, tips, resources, visuals, and guest posts from dozens of authors around the world. Edudemic exists and flourishes because there is a need to enable resource discovery among educators around the world.

Great ideas for using a wiki to meet CCS.

DOGO Media is a next-generation online network empowering kids to engage with digital media in a fun, safe and social environment. "DOGO" means young or small in Swahili. While our young fans may be small, they act BIG as they engage with our websites and express their opinions on the content that interests and inspires them. DOGOnews was created in '09 by a young mother in the SF Bay Area who couldn't find a reliable and safe source for her grammar school children to use for current events assignments. The word spread…first a couple of classmates read it, then teachers at the school found out about it, and now thousands of students and teachers from around the world are using the DOGO websites in-and-out of the classroom on a daily basis. What started as a small project has quickly grown to a community of kids and educators engaging positively on the current events, books, movies … (and lots more to come) that excite them!

Great explanation of why we use alternate algorithms in elementary school. Appropriate to share with parents who distrust alternate algorithms like partial quotients and partial products.

This article talks about number sense--what it is and how to build it. This is a good resource to share with parents.

A professional article (and resource) with information about PLC, including what they are how and tips for successful implementation.