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This article also goes into how users use the information they find such as "fact checking," why they use the internet over other sources, and ways that they locate the information on the internet.

This article focuses on the teen internet accessibility, the relationship between the internet and schools, and how the internet has affected cheating. It also looks at ways that students use the internet such as instant messaging and searching for colleges.

In this publication, Marc Prensky talks about the rapid change of technology and the strategies that teaches need to use in order to implement technology in their classroom.

Lesson: Students from around the world can share essays on what morals are important to them and respond to the essays of others.

This study focuses on the relationship between the informal writing that teens participate in through text messages, IM, and email and the formal writing skills required in school or the business world. T

This is the International Reading Association's (IRA) 2001 position statement on this issue of technology integration. The article, entitled "Integrating Literacy and Technology in the Curriculum," stresses the need to become proficient in the new literacies of information and communication technology (ICT). A PDF version is available for download.

This is an english website for elementary school students it contains, ideas for writing, grammar blast, and also what I really like about it is it has a list of many different types of graphic organizers and pdfs the you could print out to use with your class.

From the website: "This 2008 ethnographic study for Consumer Reports WebWatch reveals that very young children are using online games and Web sites to play and learn, yet many of the games and sites are designed to manipulate children for the sake of commerce and promote the idea of commercialism. The online games observed in the study were found to vary widely in terms of quality, educational value, and their developmental match with children's abilities."

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

Research Implications for preparing teachers to teach with technology.

This is a good document for helping write a WebQuest even if it is a tad outdated.

This lesson hits around the 3-4th grade level. It is a fun activity that helps teach division through reading the book, When the Doorbell Rang to the class. The students get to have cookies and milk which anytime you use food in a lesson I have learned in motivating! They also will used kid pix for integration of technology after the story practicing creating problems for other students in the class to solve.

Great lesson using creativity in a multimedia slide show using Kid Pix- this is a language arts lesson that contains elements of nouns, verbs, sequencing..etc. This lesson is great because it goes into what the students need to know before beginning the lesson and what the teacher needs to perpare into for everything to run smoothly.

I had to teach fairy tales last year and this would have been a great lesson/unit that I could have used it goes week by what to do with your students. The students are writing their own fairy tales based on stories they have read and designing their own multimedia presentations through powerpoint and other technologies. Great lesson!

A lesson integrating language arts and technology in the classroom. Older students are split up into groups and they are to create photo stories and newsletters for a younger classroom. This lessons says kindergarten, but depending on your grade level you could use a first or second grade class too. The sort of act as reporters and pick out photos and classroom stories to put into a layout program for that class.

integrating english, math, science, and technology into a lesson where students ranging from ages 5-10 could explore one letter of the alphabet through books the computer and make an entire page of objects and things pertaining to that letter. This would work on research skills and also could use programs like kid pix for pictures.

science lesson for fourth grade where students will learn about vertebrates and record them in their science journal. They will then divide up into groups and produce a Hyperstudio presentation about the vertebrate. Great technology lesson integration.

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