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Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

Our class teachers use these resources with the tech coach (me!) very successfully as part of our digital citizenship curriculum. We also shared some of the ideas with parents at a recent training session.

I love this website!!! This will be great for when I need resources in my future clasroom.

ESL Games Plus offers interactive online games for learning and teaching English as a Second Language. Our learning games are mostly suitable for teaching ESL Kids and Teenagers. There are activities for teaching and practising English grammar, vocabulary, sentences, listening and pronunciation skills.

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.

Fantastic Case Study of using an interesting tool to deliver design thinking and the bases for game design for kids.

Thanks Rodrigo. I am passionate about Design Thinking & Visual Thinking.

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

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 !

Education.com provides activities, worksheets, videos, expert advice and a school directory to give parents information and ideas to help kids reach their full potential and make learning fun.

This binder contains lots of interactive art games for kids!

Enjoy these fun grammar games for kids. Find a range of free interactive exercises and practice activities that are perfect for helping students learn English.

Thank you very much. Very useful page!

This 20-hour course introduces core computer science and programming concepts. The course is designed for use in classrooms for grades K-8, but it is fun to learn at all ages.

I've used http;//www.codeacademy.com too and I know locally its used by secondary schools to teach coding for students. Its a fantastic tool.

Great tool! It works on android tablets! I tried also http://scratch.mit.edu/ and http://snap.berkeley.edu/ but they works only on PC :(

i found this website with songs linked to some of the topics we teach - the kids were loving it! There are songs linked to loads of different topics.

If you have used a sticky note you can relate to the concept of Padlet. It is a great tool for students to collaborate and share information. You can post all kinds of digital content on the wall to share ideas or brainstorm.

I have just mentored a group through their PYP exhibition, if I had known of Padlet then it would have been great. Thanks for the idea, excellent tool for collaboration.

Yes I also love using 'Padlet'. It's so versatile and effective. We will be using this tool later on in our MOOC "ICT in Primary Education.

LearningA-Z.com produces online teaching materials for the elementary classroom. Printable worksheets, activities lesson plans for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade.

My maths is a great resource to teach numeracy for the kids. It is a subscription website for schools, and it has lessons, worksheets, games, homework. Everything you need to teach Numeracy using an ICT tool.

mymaths is an excellent site... I used it for 6 years in my previous schools and it was used from Y1 to Y13 it is amazing for lessons but especially for homework and each cohort was followed through Primary and Secondary - great assessment tool too.

A few English and French books in a digital interactive format. Great for any French teachers and gets the kids engaged with tech!