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A 5th grade Science teacher, Mr. Ramirez includes in his website lots of interesting links to science (electricity, magnetism, chemestry, engineering, NASA, rockets, tangrams) education-related resources including videos and games. General teacher's presentations to the main sections are available in English and Spanish.

A simple online tool for creating book covers. My grade Prep and 1 (Australia) students use this with few difficulties. The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.

RayRay is a fantastic little problem solving games that gets students communicating and collaboration to develop strategies to solve problems. Belly buttons! (To see what I mean give the game a go!)

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Case study on the use of the game Lure of the Labyrinth with students in primary school. Provides assessment data and discusses the challenges and successes of this Department of Education Trial.

An oldie, but a goodie! Scratch is a free tool designed to support the development of coding skills. Available in 40+ languages and aimed at students aged 8 and up. Students can program their own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share their creations with others in the online community.

Actually there is also a new curriculum for Scratch with worksheets: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/download.html It has also been translated into several languages. This is a very helpful tool if you want to start introducing programming to a class. I have been using it now twice, and I am happy with the outcome. In particular the worksheets are so helpful and give you more time to support the individual child.

I have use code.org as an introduction before using scratch. It allows the children participate it in games involving angry birds, plants vs zombies, flappy birds and the disney frozen characters.

I am really excited about this research done by Dr. Mitra. It goes to show that barriers to ICT access can be significantly minimized and all students can gain access. In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origins of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children's education takes us through a series of startling results - children can self-organise their own learning, they can achieve educational objectives on their own, they can read by themselves.

I was recently introduced to this research and found it fascinating. I am going to try to use some of this research in my own classroom by giving children access to the technology and giving them some freedom to explore and answer questions for themselves. I am excited to see how it works out!

Professor Mitra came to Argentina as a speaker for the ESSARP Conference in 2013. Fortunately colleagues of mine had the fortune to assist and learn aboit this amazing person from which we can learn a lot! Trust for our students is the key! Not being afraid helps as well! Allowing kids to learn through tools they feel comfortable about is a great success!

Webs: Create a free website with professionally designed website templates, free web hosting, and easy to use free website builder. No coding skills needed! This is a great user friendly way for our students to create websites to achieve the content learning goal without spending time having to learn webs.com. Better than WIX for students using this type of technology for the 1st time.

Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment " Educational Technology Debate

Little Bird Tales was created to help nurture children's creativity and imagination while simultaneously creating one of-a-kind digital stories that can easily be shared.

Explore the fun side of math with thinking games, number puzzles, and more.

Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Brought to life by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL). o

Storynory has published a free audio story every week since November 2005.

Customizes content for each student based on the student´s skills and empowers them to master concepts of common core curriculum

2simple is a winner of the best leadership and management solutions. full of applications that meet the needs of the pupils of this generation.

Lessons and games designed for fun.