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This Masters program in Educational Technology has course descriptions that rarely include references to their students learning how to use technology.

This cartoon demonstrates the irony in learning from an anti-technology article presented as an e-book.

This website is the educators best friend by offering tips and articles on lesson plans, PD's, tech integration and much more.

This website allows students to tour the technology, mathematics and science that went behind many of the inventions of WWII. It also gives lesson plans for teachers to utilize the site in the classroom.

PE Apps for Teachers

This article discusses how communities of practice benefit from technology, particularly in social work contexts. To start, it talks about how groups such as Weight Watchers and Alcoholics Anonymous are communities of practice (this was good for me to see as I have certainly been basing them on more "tech based" models). A key part of communities of practice, according to the article, is becoming a practitioner and not simply acquiring knowledge about practice. Page 593 also had a useful "stage" description to see communities of practice along a continuum.

A learning theory is a conceptual framework that attempts to explain what happens when people learn. Learning theories can help people interpret observations of learning, and direct people toward solutions to practical problems. In general, there are three types of learning theories: behaviorist, cognitive, and constructivist.

Skype offers some unique opportunities for tech-savvy teachers to get their students learning in exciting new ways.

The app, developed by Software Solutions, LLC, offers deaf and hard of hearing individuals a convenient, portable means of learning and using sign language throughout the day.