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I really like this article because it addresses the need for learning to be relevant to the students. It is important for students to use what they have learned and technology provides a great outlet for that use.

Reading this article made me get excited about the possibilities of teaching with creativity and application. I agree with the author when she wrote, "I'd rather know that my kids were creating something of meaning, value, and I hope, beauty for people other than just their teachers, and that those creations had the opportunity to live in the world. That they were thinking hard about audience. That they were learning how to network and collaborate with others. That they were developing "proficiency with the tools of technology," learning to "design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes," and becoming literate in the process. Real work for real audiences is, of course, hard to find in the current standardized testing regime." I could not have said it better myself! It seems that employers are looking for people who possess the quality of "working well with others". This new integrated classroom setup would allow for so many different learners to excel! Incredible article!

I enjoyed this article but also disagreed with it due to the fact that it is not possible for most students to complete some of these because they may not have access to a computer. They are great ideas but you have to look at your students before making it an assignment.

Looking to add visual interest to your lesson? Pinterest may be your solution! The article suggests ways in which this visual social media site can be used in the classroom and promotes SPACE - an acronym that helps students to remember the "best" uses for the site. This is interesting in terms of reaching students with varied learning styles and intelligences, developing creativity and higher order thinking, and more. However, like most tools the site does have its downfalls. It tends to be more engaging for females than males, which brings about an interesting gender debate. Its use also falls into fuzzy copyright issues - none of which are different from other social media sites. Check out the article & let me know what you think!

Until Pinterest addresses the nudity and pornography that can pop up on the "everything" catergory, I can't recommend this site for class projects. I've banned my own children from it (both of my daughters have a board on my own account) and wish desperately that I could unsee some of the images I've seen. It seems like copyright might be the least of their worries if lewd content continues to surface. It's really too bad - I have to agree that it could be great for group or individual projects.

Blogger's blog about "will technology save public education".

I chose this article mainly because it gave some of the cons of educational technology. Although I do believe the article was a little dramatic, I did like some of the points that the author was making and i think its important to always see the pros and cons of things.

This site has got some great articles on intergrating technology in the classroom. This one in particular gives some useful tips when setting up your classroom instruction.

This was very interesting. I found it a little funny when I saw the word relax but it is true that if you let students have the feeling that these valuable tools are theirs then they will take care of them. I feel for most children, who are taught to be careful with valuable things, this will be the case. Although, there are some kids who are never taught that nor taught respect for others things because they are just taught to be selfish. As a teacher this would be you job to show them that they need to care for valuable things and respect others property along with your own.

I thought this article was very interesting. Students do have the ability to continue the use of technology with out the guidance of teachers, as this article points out.

This article discusses the challenges of professional development, resistance to change, MOOCs and other new models for schooling, delivering informal learning, failures of personalized learning, and failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments. It also talks about emerging trends, opportunities, and technologies.

From this article, I learned of the many challenges faced within educational technology. It lays out the challenges and makes it easier for an understanding of the challenges faced. Each challenge makes it easier for these challenges to become over turned.

This article definitely asks some good questions but I'm not sure that they answered all of the completely. There is a lot that needs to go into an online classroom like the teachers need to have a completely different type of training if they are going to teach online and not in the classroom. how do you keep a child engaged when they are not right there with you? Also the student needs to have the ambition to do the work. I know for myself that having online classes is not an option because I become distracted and for a teen or younger the number of distraction in the world is countless.

I like this article because they argue what the future technology in education will be for the future.

Google Play for Education is not just a new search engine.  Google is poising itself to compete with Apple in the Education market.  Really like that apps can be pushed out across multiple devices with one click.  

With the help of modern technology, students at the Charlotte Jewish Day School are talking to and learning from kids all over the world. Elementary students in Charlotte are going "global" with a technology initiative that links them to students from around the world.

This article talks about how elementary students are talking and learning with kids all a crossed the world! The students at the Charlotte Jewish Day School meet once a week with their teacher and they go through video and an online and ePal program! I have heard of schools doing this with high school students but never with elementary children! I think this is a great way for students to communicate with each other and what an awesome experience to talk to someone in another country! I bet they could/have learn a lot from each other!

This article addresses a lot of concerns and questions with technology in education. It talks about schools that have a device for every individual student as well as the challenge of students bringing their own devises from home. It also reiterates that teachers are very important in leading this shift into a more technological classroom and school environment and how teachers can learn also from each other and students. 

At first I didn't think I was going to find this article useful, but after reading through it, I really enjoyed it. I really like how it took a side that asked questions, but also addressed the concerns. I feel like this was a different way of examining the topic of educational technology.

This article again stressed a lot of benefits that technology has to offer for education. However, my favorite part about this article is that it talks about how integration of technology begins with the teacher. 

This is important because it gives tips on how to effectively use tech in the classroom

This article talks about pros and cons with young children and using technology in the classroom. He says that it needs to be done at particular times and should take away from the social development that these children at this age are learning. Timing is everything to technology and children at a young age. Parents and teachers need to take in account, when they are using the technology application what are they missing out on? Social interactions, play time, nap time or just free time. This time could also be a time where the parent and the child can spend time together to learn and teach each other about what they are doing with the technology.

The end of LIFO policy in Ohio and other states.

When I first started reading this article, I wasn't sure where it was going to lead me. However, I really enjoyed it. I never really thought about video games being used as a educational tool.It was a pretty interesting article!

I really like the idea of using games like the Wii for fitness but there is ways around all of it because it just requires the use of one hand. However there are other game systems out there that require your whole body to be interactive to score on the games. Is we are to use this great tool in the schools I feel that it should be one of those systems.

I really like the thought of using fun games to get the gets active and moving and playing. I agree about the wii, there are games like the xbox kinec where they use the whole body and not just the hands with the controllers.

I like this site it was informative, but mostly I like that it's interactive aned allowed you to comment.

personally I don't think children should have computers in their rooms. If they are going to have one, I think they should have them in a centrally located spot where the child can be supervised. However that is my opinion and I liked how this article talked about it being case by case, and depending on the child and or the parents, and the intended use of the computer.

I agree with Laura that children should not have computers in their rooms, it should be located where parents can actively see what their children are doing. But I did like how the article highlighted about the dependence on the family situations.

This is a great example of using computers and technology to create differentiated learning within one classroom.

As a special education major, this article really relates to daily activities I can experience in the classroom. Technology gives special education teachers an opportunity to watch students learn on their own at their own levels, rather than teaching at an intermediate level where all kids can learn.

I so enjoyed reading this article about new ideas of learning with students. It is imperative that we, as future teachers, learn to engage students where they are at and also where they are going. It's incredible to think how fast computers and technology have changed our lives, however this fast-paced world of new gizmos and gadgets is the "norm" for our students. When the article talked about, "The school hardly seems like it would be ground zero for high-tech educational innovation. It occupies a clean but unremarkable building on a quiet wooded street near a seemingly endless series of strip malls. Many of the teachers, and almost the entire corps of key technology leaders, are older women -- not your stereotypical technology mavens. Yet these veteran educators are living proof that success lies not in the flashiness of the gizmos you have but in how well you use them." It will be critical that we keep up with the ever-changing types of technology so that we can best serve our students.

This article talks about whether or not to use cell phones in the middle school classroom. It talks about the good and the bad and ways teachers can creatively use cell phones for learning tools.

Cell phones have become a ubiquitous accessory of high school students since the late 1990s. Initially banned by schools as an unnecessary distraction, events such as the Columbine tragedy and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 have made most districts reconsider the place of cell phones in middle and high schools.

I think that cell phones can be used as a tool, but they are not always appropriate. Some children don't have cell phones so in that situation, children can tend to feel left out if a teacher decides to use a phone as a tool. From my perspective, I most likely will leave cell phones out of my plans for the classroom and use other tools such as remote clickers and things of that nature that I provide for the students.

This article talks about the advantages and disadvantages of technology in the classroom. It discusses how technology can benefit some classes but may not be as beneficial to others. It also talks about the various ways that technology is changing how children learn and go to school.

Interesting article about using iPads in schools. I have experienced working with young children and iPads and it has always been a success. This article promotes them and talks about some of their main uses to teach. On January 19, 2012, Apple made a significant announcement that could change the educational landscape forever. There are several parts to the announcement - one is a software application that enables anyone to create a 'text book' and the other is a distribution platform for textbooks inside of the already popular iBooks application (a free download that runs on the iPad or iPhone.).iBooks 2 is an upgrade to the iBooks application that is the primary reading application of iOS.

The number of black and Latino students who were accepted at one of eight highly selective high schools in New York City increased from last year, according to admissions statistics released on Wednesday by the city's . The uptick for the two groups reverses a years-long decline in admissions to the schools, where admittance is based on a single test.