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How students and teachers understand the standards against which work will be measured, from Edutopia.org's Assessment Professional Development Guide.

How students and teachers understand the standards against which work will be measured, from Edutopia.org's Assessment Professional Development Guide.

Edutopia blogger Andrew Marcinek provides a thoughtful course correction for teachers facing full-on technology integration, offering three suggestions for focusing on media and balancing it with what students should be learning.

Teacher and blogger Monica Burns recommends some of her favorite free iPad apps that help teachers and students create engaging presentations.

Teacher and blogger Monica Burns recommends some of her favorite free iPad apps that help teachers and students create engaging presentations.

Edutopia is all about change and innovation in education. It is a great website to explore for new ideas, educational resources and discussion boards.

This is great website to reference to as an educator. It has a variety of information and perspective from various professional in the field of education. I love the fact that it has blogs broken down into categories that covers topics in certain grade level. Overall this website is very user friendly and truly utilizes the multimedia format.

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. Join the conversation today!

Different ways to model the use of technology for students. Lots of ideas and easy ways to to integrate the technology while still teaching the students appropriate use.

Kids creating digital book commercials.

Using tech with special education students.

How do parents keep their kids to be safe online?

A worthwhile article that blends "Technology Integration" with "Best Practice" methods. Read how one school district modernized their educational program.

Edutopia's Tech2Learn page. Tips, links and other resources for Integrating Technology into the classroom. Homepage has countless great articles and resources for teachers.

Ron Peck (@Ron_Peck on Twitter) teaches social studies at North Valley High School in Medford, OR. A self-proclaimed history and tech geek, he's the co-creator and co-moderator of #SSChat and #APChat on Twitter. Visit his blog at http://historygeek29.blogspot.com/. How many times have you thought to yourself, "In what way can I spice up this unit and make it student-centered?"

National Mathematics Advisory Panel report recommends educational technology to improve student performance in mathematics.

Helping keep the digital world civil . . . This blog post lays it all out: the rationale for teaching digital citizenship; how to start teaching it in elementary grades, and some follow up ideas for middle and high school. It's never too late to start working with students on digital citizenship, though! :-)

Calling all teacher-leaders -- you know who you are! This is a great article for any of us to read because as we learn more about integrating technology in our classes, we can help not only our students, but also other teachers, our schools, and communities stay relevant in the 21st century. 

A great post that reminds readers about the transcendence of narrative writing across genres (and across subjects!) The teacher uses historical and science fiction as inspiration for her ELA students' writing projects, but ideas, such as the "What if . . ." digital presentation project she mentions from Larry Ferlazzo could be used in almost any subject. The author's ideas for having students prove their informational research are also very helpful. I loved reading the post, too. Her, "Nobody puts baby in a corner," quote made me laugh out loud.

An outline of basic computers skills, and at what grade level students should be introduced to the skill, developing the skill, or using the skill. Great springboard for keeping in mind what skills students will have for your lessons and technology integration projects.

PBL Primer, Assessment Tools, Sample Projects and Useful Links.

I thought this article provided an interesting perspective about evaluating the use of certain digital tools based  on the type of instructional approach a teacher planned to use. The use of polyphonic teaching lends itself to the use of digital tools.