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This article demonstrates how tablets impacted education.

This article has published in 1968, it introduced the technology hardware in education then, but still demonstrate that education technology topic had beed raised for years. 

This article demonstrates 7 things people should know about Digital Storytelling. Very informative article.

In an attempt to examine dialogue within a second grade classroom, students were encouraged to participate in whole-class mathematics discussions without raising their hands before speaking. Beneficial social and sociomathematical norms developed in place of this traditional social norm. Effects of this change on the dialogue and written mathematical explanations of a class of second grade students are described. Focus was placed on student participation in whole-class discussions. The study helped to determine the effects of student-centered dialogue on students' mathematical explanations and justifications as demonstrated in the students' discussions, participation, and written expression related to their mathematics learning.

Media literacy is suddenly a front-burner issue for schools, thanks to the recent presidential election, a spate of reports on "fake news," and new research demonstrating just how ill-equipped young people are to critically evaluate information they encounter online and via social media.

WritingFix is an excellent resource that provides lesson plans that meet the needs of many students. WritingFix has detailed lessons that focus on the essential components of writing. Each lesson is introduced with a children's book that demonstrates a specific component. The website it organized by the components of writing and has so much information! However, be aware that this site can look overwhelming because there is a lot of information available.

Follow-up to previous post. Young boy creates animation of a character opening a door.

LDC "teaching tasks" are the meaningful reading and writing assignments that teachers "teach" and students "do" to demonstrate they have learned college and career skills. LDC teaching tasks define what students will be asked to do and know: the challenging content and CCRS-aligned literacy skills that become the heart of the LDC module.