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How has technology improved our learners by making them more critical thinkers, mobile learners, deeper learning, continuous feedback, unlimited and immediate learning, and creation and contribution.

How has technology improved our learners by making them more critical thinkers, mobile learners, deeper learning, continuous feedback, unlimited and immediate learning, and creation and contribution.

Free technology resources to use in the elementary classroom.

This is a great resource that gives you lesson plans and activities in a variety of different subjects and grade levels. You can even search by standards, grade, and subject!

Lesson plans and activities for a wide range of subject geared towards real-life examples. Difficult to sort through and search for material relevant to the math standards needed for my courses.

This was a cool resource I had found for an ITU that I'm creating that is based on plants

I like Gizmo a lot. I actually used this same link in one of my projects for another class!

This website is a good tool for teachers to map student's ideas within the classroom. Teachers can model the use of this website and have their students use it as well.

Mindmeister is a great resource for students! Graphic organizers are a powerful tool to help organize thinking. Mindmeister's ability to bring collaboration into the mix just makes it better, as well as being able to present. Works on multiple types of devices too, so good for everyone!

I really like this software! When I think of Social Bookmarking I want to use it to help me find different tools that will benefit me in my classroom. I can think of a time where I am going to want a nice mind mapping software that you can collaborate with, and I know I will be able to come and look at this resource. I agree that this software could be used very effectively, especially because it does have the collaboration tool. I believe this tool could be used both for the teacher and also the student. I could see how easily I could use this website in my life, both when trying to explain things and also in group work. I am aware of different concept maps you can create online, but I believe this one looks user friendly and I would like to explore it even more!

Dr. Z provides a lot of insight into new ways to and ideas about using technology in an instructional manner

Dr. Z provides a lot of insight into new ways to and ideas about using technology in an instructional manner

I just actually thought this was a short pretty interesting read, it gives you both sides of the story

I thought this was a useful resource for the introduction of using social media in the classroom being straight forward with the pros and cons. I think this resource would be useful if it were linked with a website that explained how to combat the cons that are pointed out in this article. For example, how can we take the cyber bullying issue and turn it into a learning opportunity in the classroom. I believe this resource should be used to help teachers decide if they want to utilize social media in the classroom. I am aware of multiple resources that point out the pros and cons in social media.

This was very short, sweet and to the point. It got the points across fairly simply. It would be a good link for an RWLD or something along those lines. A great supplemental read that doesn't take too long to get through and understand.

This article talks about the positives of having classroom websites with student involvement.

This article provides constructive feedback from parents and students about their thoughts on classroom websites.

This hashtag is used by educators to see what types of resources are being used in todays classrooms and how we can improve them!

I am always looking for ways to do screen recording. This seems like an easy way to create how to videos from iPad apps.

I ended up reading a few of the blog posts from this site. I haven't experienced any school or class that does BYOD, so I wonder how that works in schools that do that.

I remember in when I was in high school, if a student would have their phone with them, they would get in trouble. Nowadays, teachers are taking this change in society to their advantage. Teachers that do not work at a 1:1 school are using the BYOD, or bring your own device. I think this website can be used by both teachers and students. I think this because both the students and teachers will be effected by BYOD. I have never seen another website about this topic, but that does not mean there isn't any.