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Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. New features allows teachers to track student progress. Free trial currently available.

"Practice: Through Problem Solving. The question is just the beginning. Every problem in the TenMarks library is developed with the intent to engage the student's problem-solving skills. With a continually growing bank of questions, students are assured access to a wide variety of problems to practice and perfect their skills and build a strong foundation."

"How have schools successfully transformed their students' learning experiences by incorporating 21st Century Skills into teacher practice, curriculum, assessment, and professional development?"

"A phonics best seller for over 30 years, Explode The Code® has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. This research-based and teacher-tested program meets and exceeds "No Child Left Behind" requirements and National Reading Panel Standards. Explode The Code is now available in workbooks and online."

With over 8,000 resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, audio, video and flashcards, onestopenglish is the world's number one resource site for English Language teachers. Onestopenglish is a teacher's resource site published by Macmillan English Campus, part of the Macmillan Education Group, one of the world's leading publishers of English language teaching materials. Onestopenglish is packed with resources for English teachers. All materials are written and edited by our expert team of teachers and authors and are organized into core subject areas such as Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary, Business and ESP, Exams and Young Learners, so you'll always find what you're looking for.

Welcome to Animal Jam-a virtual world for kids where they can discover real-world plant and animal facts, plus follow enriching storylines paired with National Geographic's multimedia educational content! Animal Jam features a full spectrum of play that caters to young kids at all skill levels and developmental stages. With constantly evolving educational content, your child can join a community featuring fun activities and games, as well as chat with online friends in a safe and moderated environment.

Fun way to practice keyboarding skills

Teaches keyboarding skills. Addresses common core literacy standards. Fee for use however.

"Integrating technology with classroom practice can be a great way to strengthen engagement by linking students to a global audience, turning them into creators of digital media, and helping them practice collaboration skills that will prepare them for the future"

"Bestselling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy. With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them. Both a call to action and a blueprint for creating more effective classrooms, Focus: Elevating the Essentials for Radically Improved Student Learning will challenge your assumptions about schooling and show how educators who have embraced this approach quickly achieved spectacular results."

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.

Glogster EDU Premium is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom. Perhaps, a great alternative to traditional book reports or any kind of report. Some things you can do with Glogster are: * Glog - interactive poster * Collaborative class projects * School-level teacher management of students and classes * Engage students in fun and creative activities

A fun game that teaches keyboarding skills.