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This blog offers numerous apps that can be used in conjunction with ipads and tablets in the social studies classroom. Various apps can help students learn geography, American history, and connect with different cultures around the world.

This blog offers numerous apps that can be used in conjunction with ipads and tablets in the social studies classroom. Various apps can help students learn geography, American history, and connect with different cultures around the world.

The purpose of this study was to determine what the most commons grading practices were and to find out if they met with standards of grading students, especially with disabilities. It reviews those grading techniques and patterns and then lays out the results of their study and what they think worked best.

This is an article that addresses problems with traditional, single grading techniques-especially for students with "diverse learning needs;" suggesting methods of alternative grading such as IEP-Based grading, portfolio grading and self-comparison grading. It also speaks to the issue of misunderstanding the true purpose of grades (as ways to demonstrate progress, show competency in a subject area, etc.).

This page goes into detail about how and why iPads benefit students on the autism spectrum as well as other students with special needs. The article also shares about nonprofit organizations that have helped to provide iPads for families of children on the autism spectrum.

A journal article explaining why there is a need for change in the way students are graded, ideas for forms of alternative assessment and what it would look like, and how it contributes to children's learning.

How admissions people are looking past GPA's and onto personal lives of prospective students. 

This blog gives guidelines for teachers about how to present themselves on facebook and how to handle requests from students. It stresses that teachers are professionals and the way they present themselves on any type of social media should reflect that.

Article that interviews teachers and advocates for and against in-class tablet use. Looks at the pros and cons of tablet technology particularly in elementary schools. Looks into the ways technology in classrooms can negatively and positively affect student performance and student-teacher relationships.

This article discusses a KIPP school's use of computer instruction in a kindergarten class. This particular program used computer-based learning during part of the class time so the teacher could focus on smaller groups of students, among other reasons. 

This article was based on an experiment done using two groups of Kindergarteners; ones who learned with iPads, and ones who did not. The results prove that using iPads with the students improved test scores.

Article sharing the use of iPod Touches for learners who are ELL. Applications include voice recording. Student results also included in article. Search criteria: "ipod touch classroom elementary reading"

This article explains seven effective ways that teachers can incorporate social media into their classrooms. It says that social media can serve as a tool or simply a way to connect people together.

This article is great for generating ideas for unique ways to use social media to enhance the classroom experience for students.

This is a persuasive essay detailing the positive effects of a controlled setting with laptop use in classes. Having a small number of laptops and placing the students in groups would allow the laptops to be used in a controlled setting with laptop time being much more valuable having to share with other students. Having one laptop per group would allow the laptop to be a tool of necessity rather than entertainment.

Survey results and other studies conducted on how well online learning works for students, and the pros and cons to online learning

Article explains the benefits students will receive when using technology in the classroom. Motivation, collaboration and differentiated instruction are some of the subjects that are talked about.

Googles published website giving tutorials and tips for teachers. Can be used as a place to share student projects, teacher reviews, and lesson plans. plans range from population growth tracking to up to the minute earthquake watching.

Googles published website giving tutorials and tips for teachers.

This article discusses the effectiveness of interactive whiteboards in early education and how students gain skills from them. It also goes into availability of interactive whiteboards in classrooms, if they are developmentally appropriate, and a score sheet to evaluate software for use in education.

This article provides another view on the cost effectiveness and the uselfulness that the iPad provides in all classrooms, especially for autistic students. It describes a pilot research study that proved to support integrating the iPad into special education curriculums because of the wide range of uses and tools it provides. One of the main points the researcher argued is that the iPad has multiple uses and can replace the many devices that are apparent in special education programs.

Publication from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies that describes what research says about how study of the arts contributes to academic achievement and student success.