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Word Prediction Software – Word Prediction Software simply predicts the words that are being typed to reduce the number of keystrokes used to input the word. Once several letters of the word are typed, a list of words pops up and the student selects the correct word. Some versions of the software base the list of words on the letters keyed and other versions will base the choice on context and grammar. Tablets and iPads – Tablets and iPads are the hottest must haves in the technology market. These devices can be used like a computer, an imaging device, a camera, a projector, a mouse, a keyboard, and a remote device for a white boards. The use of tablets and iPads as technology in special education classrooms is limitless and app developers, parents, specialists and doctors are always searching for more unique ways to employ these devices.

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ONLINE COLLABORATION PROJECTS

PRINTABLES FROM THE TEACHER'S CORNER!

The following five technological tools are must haves for the classroom of today. Each tool provides teachers with a method in which they can actively engage their students in the learning process.

used by teachers for their classes

Word Processing

Spreadsheets and Databases

While lectures and lessons can be informative and even “edutaining” when delivered with passion and good materials by knowledgeable experts, sadly many traditional lectures and lessons are boring, and even worse often ineffective.

Even if you don’t have computers or tablets available in your classroom, the fact that an increasing number of High School and college students have smartphones is making it easier than ever to leverage technology to create engaging, active lessons students enjoy working on. For younger grades, if you don’t have access to devices with Web access, perhaps you can access a computer lab by request, or use devices in your library.

1. Incorporate Student Input & Gather Feedback

Strategies: Using feedback in the classroomModeling non-defensive behavior in the classroom can be critical to demonstrating effective use of feedback for teachers and students. Teaching critical thinkingCritical thinking, as it pertains to teaching and learning, can be considered an open-minded process of discovery and understanding, analysis and application, synthesis and evaluation. Bloom's taxonomyBenjamin Bloom (1956) created this taxonomy or classification system for categorizing "competencies" in educational settings, as defined by skills demonstrated by learner type or intelligence. Teaching with questioningWhat are some procedures and strategies for using questions in the classroom? The Socratic MethodTeaching by Asking Instead of by Telling: Teacher: Rick Garlikov; Students: 22 third grade class in a suburban elementary school... A binary arithmetic example! Teaching with guided notes in lecturesGuided Notes are teacher-prepared hand-outs that outline or map lectures, but leave "blank" space for key concepts, facts, definitions, etc. As the lecture progresses, the learner then fills in the spaces with content.

Integrating technology into a high school classroom isn't a one-step process. "You can't just slap a netbook [computer] on top of a textbook and say, 'Great, now we have technology," says Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization.Wise says that digital learning starts with teachers, whose performance is enhanced by technology—not the other way around. That's also the idea of Digital Learning Day, which the Alliance is spearheading.

ning practices," says Sarah Hall, director of the Alliance's Center for Secondary School Digital Learning and Policy.

"In the 21st Century, the century our children will

live in (the century they will, in fact, shape), media

literacy will not be a luxury; it will be a necessity."

Feelings Game 4 graduated lessons for learning about emotions. Faceland Build skills in facial recognition of emotion

Building Smarter ways to use the SMART Board and Support Math Core Content K-8http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/SmartBoard/smartmath.htm

Use this to demonstrate translations, rotations, reflections of squares, triangles, parallelograms on a grid, this is a really nicely done site (I do not believe that you can draw your own figure from scratch, but hitting the “new triangle/square, etc” button brings up a different one each time)http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Transmographer/?version=1.5.0_01&browser=MSIE&vendor=Sun_Microsystems_Inc.

Biology sitehttp://kvhs.nbed.nb.ca/gallant/biology/biology.htmlCells Alivehttp://www.cellsalive.com/Body Systemshttp://www.sachem.edu/dept/sd/poster2006/bodaciousbiology2006.htm

social media pervades all aspects of modern society, and it has become an imperative for us as educators -- and parents -- to model appropriate digital citizenship to even our youngest learners.

Students already have enough screen time.

Students need to be able to communicate in person.

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Science & Nature

  Sizing Up the UniverseHow big? How far? Explore the universe by starting in your own backyard.Smithsonian Educatio

Technology should be used for a purpose—not for the sake of being flashy and not as a distraction from other forms of pedagogy

Be sure that the technology that you intend to use is accessible to your students

do consider whether or not your students have access to technology that you want them to use