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this freely available course is designed for teachers, students and individuals with little or no programming experience and teaches basic Java programming concepts through developing 3-D animations in Alice 3.1. Alice is a free, educational, introductory Java development environment created at Carnegie Mellon University.

Tablets are playing a pivotal role in placing future education experiences in the hands of teachers and students, giving them access to highly engaging and interactive learning materials.

Interdisciplinary journal aimed to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of technology enhanced learning. It covers the full range from research, application development to experience reports and product descriptions. iJET is an Open Access Journal. Readers don't have to pay any fee. Only registration is necessary.

The Exploratorium is a twenty-first-century learning laboratory , an eye-opening, always-changing, playful place to explore and tinker. For more than forty years, they've built creative, thought-provoking exhibits, tools, programs, and experiences that ignite curiosity, encourage exploration, and lead to profound learning. Dive in and discover what they're all about. Their site includes access to websites, activities, videos and apps.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing

!Free educational tools-what could be better? Anytime, anywhere, teachers like to have plenty of resources to pick from to help them create great classroom experiences to engage their students

As a fan and enthusiastic user of IT in classes, I have just started a course: ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum. It is a free course at www.coursera.org I will start recording some tools available online. Take a look at them and free your imagination to use them in your lessons.

Hello! I am glad to be here. I just have known this free course so I immediately enrolled. I am happy that I will be learning a lot especially in dealing with the 21st century learners. I need to enhance my skills in learning when and how to use and integrate ICT in the teaching-learning process!

Oh this is great!

An invention kit for the 21st century based on research at MIT Media Lab. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. The site includes a gallery of projects already made by adults and children alike, videos and guides to inspire your own startups.

This is amazing! I've just finished our inventions topic at school, this would have been great for that!

Hi lauralooroll, Well... you can start planning for next time. If you get makeymakey and experiment with your students, please share your discoveries. :)

A few years old now, but still a great resource. Lots of videos from primary (and secondary) pupils carrying out innovative, interesting and fun science experiments. A great source of ideas and inspiration for your next science lesson.

PeopleLink offers a unique solution for this vertical capable of delivering best in Class Video experience, flexible scalability, and a comprehensive set of data collaboration tools which make learning extremely effective & efficient.

Presentation tip #1: Be a great presenter with Prezi presentation software. This is a wonderful new way of presentation. Easy and quick. One can use this instead of powerpoint presentation. In my experience, students love to explore prezi.

I always use this web tools to prepare my lesson materials and also my students use it to make their Project work. I also reccomend animoto.com to prepare good and enjoyable presentations

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!

LittleBits is a great set of small electronic components that kids can use to create circuits with moderate complexity. The simple plug-and-play concept is very intuitive and give pupils a first experience in the world of electronics. They can built great intelligent and connected objects in a very short amount of time !

Teachers considering the benefits of flipping the classroom and have an iPad available may want to try the following very reliable iPad Apps to assist with this endeavor. While it may seem a daunting task to put all of those into action with one's students, they are easy and actually fun to use and do not require a lot of technical skills and experience.

This site is from a group of architects - Fielding Nair International - that have worked redesigning schools and learning spaces in different parts of the world. Many times we dream about a new type of education ... but the school physical space is not designed for those changes. I recommend to have a look at the many cases they publish in their site (it has been very inspiring for me).

Project Noah was created to provide people of all ages with a simple, easy-to-use way to share their experiences with wildlife. It is intended to be a community for nature exploration and documentation.

Report by Erin Relly, Vanessa Vartabedian, Laurel J. Fert and Henry Jenkins which elaborates on the five principles of participatory learning (exercise creativity, co-learning, motivation and engagement, relevance and learning ecosystem) and shares insights from 11 teachers who oriented their classrooms according to these principles including triumphs and discoveries, challenges identified, and suggestions for fostering participatory learning environments.

Vialogues(Video+Dialogues) is an asynchronous Video discussion tool which can be used for leveraging digital videos for learning by adding group interaction as part of the online video experience.