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NASA now offers easy access to a rich array of its educational resources--including websites and video--through its Find Teaching Materials search tool. The database is searchable by keyword, and may be filtered by: * Grade Level * Type of Material * Subject NASA allows offers a browsable A-Z List of Print Publications in pdf form.

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Uses questions/prompts to get users to explore different sorts of search engines to answer diffrent sorts of questions.

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Howard hit on one major takeaway that I had from our week in the UK. "Increasingly I think the digital divide is less about access to technology and more about the difference between those who know how and those who don't know how," he said. He's convinced that what's most important is not access to the Internet - we have more than a billion people on the Internet now and there are 4 billion phones out there - but access to knowledge and literacies for the digital age. "The ability to know has suddenly become the ability to search and the ability to sift" and discern. "Skill plus social" is the key.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between