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This isn't an article, but I thought it was interesting

I really like this concept, teachers are now blogging. This is a huge thing among teenagers, they love to blog online about their lives and so on. Teachers use blogs as a way of informing parents what is going on in the classroom. The teachers also use blogs as a way to add extra information, give students who were ill their missed assignments, and even help students learn from home.

Since Chapter 3 talks about using instructional software, this man, Bill Mackenty, talks about how important it is to use games to help students learn.

Great videos that demo augmented reality, Chris Dede (Harvard), one of the leaders in the field, talks about what he envisions as the future of this technology.  Overall, a page of great info to introduce you to the educational potential of this tool.

Today's post-secondary students need to be well equipped with technology for their studies, whether in the arts, sciences or welding. Students are faced with many choices when it comes to technology, both in hardware and software. In this great, tech savvy city we are fortunate to have people who not only know their products, but also provide great customer service.

I liked the fact that one of the teachers in this article is using Wikipedia as a learning tool by having her class edit their hometown page.

It is no surprise that children are using more computers, video games, and cell phones. What is surprising is that they aren't just using Dad's stuff. Many kids have their own laptops - as evidenced by the sales of Intel's Classmate PC.

This is an article where it taks about getting parents involved with the monitoring of what chidlren are doing on the computers so to make using them a positive learning experience.

I feel like iPads would definitely be useful but the expense would be out of this world!

More than one wag has pointed out that someone awakening from a 50 year nap in a school would think she had been asleep for a few years at most, long enough to see fashions change, but that's about it. Otherwise, schools would be pretty much the same as when she fell asleep a half-century ago.

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 students offering tips to teachers on how to use technology and incorporate it into the classroom. Sometimes the teacher HAS to become the student to really learn.

Here is an article that discusses how games can be integrated into the classroom and be used for learning purposes using technology such as computers and augmented reality devices. It also discusses the challenges that they have faced creating and implementing these games into a learning environment and the challenges that they feel they'll have to face to make it more successful.

Great article. Chris Dede is brilliant - I've been studying with him the last two semesters and have played Alien Contact. In fact, I am currently working on developing an augmented reality tour of the Black Heritage Trail in Boston. If you are interested in learning more about AR and VR, you may want to check out these videos: http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/learning/LD2-6-107.html and http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/learning/LD2-3.html

I found this site today and I think it is a great way for kids to be creative by writing their own story and even uploading their own drawings/photos. This would make a great gift for Mother's Day, grandparents, or other family members. For $2.99 they can make a PDF eBook.

This article describes the accessibility of apple products in education.

This article was very helpful. It explains in detail the effects of technology in the classroom.

This page discuss the motivation and the role technology plays within the classroom

I love that this article says that Teacher's aren't just a fountain of knowledge being poured into a child's mind. Peer evaluation can also help a student learn from their's/other's mistakes and achievements.

we just talked about this in class regarding the size of documents and photographs being downloaded for projects or multiple purposes. This school decided to look at ways to help save storage. They found a program that has increased by 30-40 percent in just a few days and they have found it to be easier to use and allows for more storage. They are very happy with their investment.

This article is about rural and/or small schools using online courses to satify student's educational needs.

I don't think that computers are going to drop that much, but I sort of agree with you John. If the price of computers drops enough, there just might be more wiggle room in the overall school budget.

I don't know how much a computer will drop in price anymore, but what is truly remarkable is how much the price of a personal computer has dropped in last 10 years. I remember purchasing a computer 10 years ago for $2000. Now I can purchase a computer for $500. That to me is a remarkable drop in price.

I checked this out just to see what potentials for novels and plays for seventh graders to study. Just a thought, why do English teachers keep teaching the same old books? Some of the stuff that I found was stuff that I was taught back when I was all three levels of school. Isn't time to update the reading list to stuff that has be written in last 20 years or even more recent instead of stuff that is outdated by like 50 or 100 years ago. I can't complain about Mark Twain though. I do like his writing. But Julie and the Wolves, The Outsiders, The Giver?