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A site that actually keeps up with class activity-in real time. Anyone can ask and answer questions on Piazza. With students teaching students, conversations on Piazza can continue long after office hours are over. Piazza gives students anonymity options to encourage everyone-even shy students-to ask and answer questions. Instructor endorsements of good questions and answers let instructors push the class in the right direction.

Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age addresses the complex and diverse experiences of learners in a world embedded with digital technologies. The text combines first-hand accounts from learners with extensive research and analysis, including a developmental model for effective e-learning, and a wide range of strategies that digitally-connected learners are using to fit learning into their lives.

Study conducted by Scott M. Waring (University of Central Florida) and Courtney C. Bentley (The University of Montevallo). The study involved having a group of fifth graders create a social networking profile from the perspective of a historical figure from the American Revolutionary time period.

This article is about Mobile learning: Positioning Educators for a Mobile, Connected Future. M-learing lends itself to new methods of delivery that are highly suited to the"just enough , just in time and just for me" demands of twenty-first century learners.

Develop a deep understanding of mathematics. This user-friendly resource presents grades 3-5 teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction. Focus on an understanding of and procedural fluency with multiplication and division.

The competition for attention is a major concern with Internet commerce and education.

Pinterst is a great social media site for teachers to use to find diy (do it yourself) teacher materials, classroom management techniques and various other great ideas to use in your classroom for your students. I would highly reccommend this social media site because it is very easy to save the ideas that you find interesting and to go back and revisit those ideas later on at any time.