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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.

As a parent and PTO President I found this article very interesting. It discuss' how budget cuts have made it harder for schools to operate and get money for the extra programs that keep students interested. It gave a few examples of ways to raise money without doing the cookie cutter fundraisers.

This article is about how teachers have become dissatisfied with the way they are being evaluated. What's worse is that the evaluations are coming at a time when budgets are being slashed and layoffs are up.

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.

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.

This article makes a connection between technology and the culture that students live in. By understanding the culture and background that people have been exposed to through technology and its advances, they can be more prepared to think critically about its use and application in their lives.

Posted: Saturday, October 22, 2011 6:15 am By CHRISTINA GUENTHNER, Argus-Press Staff Writer The Argus-Press | SHAFTSBURG - Students within Perry Public Schools are experiencing some of the newest educational tools available thanks to a portion of the school improvement bond passed by the community in February.

South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.

James Dukes students are learning through technology in their day-to-day classroom situations. Official district enrollment set at 6,130 students. Students at James Dukes Elementary School are moving ahead in 21st century technology, a fact that Principal Pauline Leavitt emphasized in a PowerPoint presentation to the school board at its Oct.

A private liberal arts college in Oregon took Apple's iPad through its paces to test its value as a a tool for learning inside the classroom and out. The evaluation followed a pilot of Amazon's first-generation Kindle, which the college eventually decided against. Reed College is trying to find a way to go completely paperless in it's classrooms. It is interesting to note that this professor feels that students would be less likely to check email or log onto social networking sites on an ipad because they are smaller and more difficult to hide behind than a laptop.

This article is written in opposition to using technology in education as a shortcut. Essentially, the author is arguing that technology is what you make of it; there is no replacement for good teachers, and that technology should not be used as a stand-in for teachers. He offers rebuttals for the reasons to use technology in the classroom

This article offers some examples of how technology can be incorporated into a classroom to help students with disabilities.

Virtual reality can work for educators as a tool in assisting students to become immersed in a learning environment where they can participate in their own learning in a technology based environment. My name is John Shaffer. I am a seventh grade Science teacher in Academy School District Twenty in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Student Inclusion = Technology Infusion by Sylvia Martinez and Dennis Harper Generation Y (Gen Y) provides a research-proven methodology designed to infuse technology throughout the school. Students work with teachers to bring effective technology into the classrooms and libraries. The resulting collaboration provides the students with project-based learning and the teachers with on-site sustainable professional development.

Australian scientists have invented a new breed of robots called Lingodroids, programmed to make, use, and share language. The bots can coin words to describe places they have been, places they want to go, and plans for getting there.

Middle school students are motivated by experiential learning activities. Effective technology-based activities require students to do more than look up information; they require students to "do" something with it. Using Technology to Motivate Middle School Students For middle school teachers and students, the research is highly supportive of the use of technology integration in the classroom.

"My 14 year old daughter is a texting addict! She will even sit and text when our family is at a restaurant. It drives me nuts. If I tell her to stop, she just does it under the table. It's like this little secret that we can't be in on, plus it's just plain rude.

This article shows how to use a power point not only for your lessons, but for student presentations

This is a good article that talks about how technology can and should be used in our classrooms. It also talks about ways that technology may actually harm the lessons.