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4. Buildings with phone numbers Yes, you really did have to call a building to ask whether the person you wanted to speak to was there or not. Buildings had phone numbers, not people. Now, almost everyone has a mobile phone and the concept of trying to guess where someone might be before you call them is almost entirely redundant.

Digital Storytelling resources

Learn the easy and useful basics of storyboarding in PowerPoint. Explore helpful tips to visually enrich your presentations.

One of the world's most popular video games has made significant inroads into K-12 classrooms, opening new doors for teaching everything from city planning to 1st graders to physics for high schoolers. The game, of course, is Minecraft, a 21st-century version of Legos in which players use simple 3-D digital blocks to build and explore almost anything they can imagine.

Intel® Teachhelps K-12 teachers of all subjects engage students with digital learning, including digital content, Web 2.0, social networking, and online tools and resources. Intel Teach professional development empowers teachers to integrate technology effectively into their existing curriculum, focusing on their students' problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration, which are precisely the skills required in the high tech, networked society in which we live.

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework that guides curriculum redesign to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all students based on scientific insights into how humans learn. It provides strategies of implementation, as well as examples.

Carol Dweck revisits the concept of growth mindset, to clarify any misconceptions based on her research findings, outlining its relationship with learning success and failure.

Tried and tested projects, programs and presentations! The resources are divided by grade level. Choose the appropriate audience to view the resources available.

When most of us hear the word A simple picture book such as Similarly, economics, we think of either our present precarious financial circumstances, or of world financial issues far beyond our own understanding, let alone the understanding of our students.

Explicit Teacher Modeling Purpose The purpose of explicit teacher modeling is to provide students with a clear, multi-sensory model of a skill or concept. The teacher is the person best equipped to provide such a model. What is it? Teacher both describes and models the math skill/concept.

August 18, 2014 I love rubrics and I find them particularly helpful in lesson plan designing as well as in assessing students work. I know some teachers and educators think of them as "so yesterday" but we need to view them as roadmaps that can guide you towards achieving your teaching/learning goals.

The buzz around the maker movement obscures the benefits of maker education for students, writes researcher Jennifer Oxman Ryan.

Education-technology tools have made it easier for teachers to keep tabs on students' understanding.

Creative Commons search engine allows you to search for CC licensed content from up to 13 popular search engines with a single click and from a single page. Creative Commons search is not a search engine per se but only a portal that pulls out results for your queries from the search engines it supports.

Let's be honest...technology can be a pain in the "you-know-what" sometimes! It always seems to stop working the minute you are about to start an important lesson, or even worse, about to get an observation...Yikes! I have had these experiences in the past, yet I strongly believe technology has an important place in the classroom.

Google doc add-ons for teachers

Ipad creativity

Digital Storytelling on an ipad