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This article is about the new iPad education app, Star Walk. It enables users to point their iPad at the sky and identify the visible stars, constellations and satellites.

Pinterest has taken the world by storm. This article is about Pinterest and how it is used as a creative tool for teachers every where. It allows teachers to share and post ideas from lesson plans, to pictures of creative bulletin board ideas.

An educational theory gaining momentum in the literature may open the door to increased use of social media in schools. Dr. Richard Light believes that social networking may be good in schools for reasons like group studies.

This talks about students that are planning on going to college and how to prepare them in high school.

This is sad news for History teachers. It becomes so important that we not only teach to the standards, but we also need to teach students enough to enable them to be successful in college.

This article talks about how you can integrate math into other subjects.

This article talks about how we educate Minorities.

This articles talks about how you can teach your gifted students in the mixed classroom. This helps teachers who have a variety of students and feel like they need to provide gifted students with more.

This article discusses the impact of Gay Rights on the History Classroom.

From smartphones to tablets, Wi-Fi to 3G/4G: I cover telecom & mobile. Conventional wisdom says that loaning Apple's bestselling iPad to college students would be a popular move. A seven-week-long study by the University of Notre Dame found that students did indeed like learning with the tablet computers, but that they used the devices differently than was expected.

This is sort of like a "learning" Second Life. Here's a little blurb about the "River City Project": As visitors to River City, students travel back in time, bringing their 21st century skills and technology to address 19th century problems. Based on authentic historical, sociological, and geographical conditions, River City is a town besieged with health problems. Students work together in small research teams to help the town understand why residents are becoming ill. Students use technology to keep track of clues that hint at causes of illnesses, form and test hypotheses, develop controlled experiments to test their hypotheses, and make recommendations based on the data they collect, all in an online environment. Isn't this a great tool for higher order thinking?

This paper illustrates the conflict that exists between what is required of teachers in preparing students to meet certain standards and the need to incorporate technology into their courses of study.

I like this article because it shows how much technology has changed education and how easy it makes communication. Using email the way this teacher does is very helpful and also very green.

This article talks about using assistive technology with students with learning disabilities. I think it is really important to help students the best we can be able to learn, and technology can play a great deal in that.

technology education and its relevance to lateral thinking

Using technology in education for better sustainable development practices

This article is about how South Africa is proposing to teach technology to primary and middle school students and their rational for doing so.

just an updated article on cyberbullying

This is an article about an Augmented Reality game that is being played using cellphones to investigate the causes of a beached whale, by simulating the environment with augmented reality.

Apple education can help me a difference in student learning.