Potential funding for teacher learning trips...

Yikes!

Here is a great and fun reference tool for kids! Oh, and it is free!

Neat-O Library!

Student privacy on the internet...for their own sake.

Great, quick media literacy activity.

Take a quiz with your students about real life vs. what they see on TV. This quiz is great because it goes through the questions and answers one at a time, giving the real statistics with each answer.

Interesting article about a theory that children are reading less due to helicopter-parent book choosing practices. I would like to see the research they did/used to base their theory on. I have certainly noticed that many of our students seem to to a better job of choosing books for pleasure reading when left to their own devices. I sometimes counsel parents to let children make their own choices when choosing pleasure reading, as classroom assignments are not negotiable. I believe students learn more about themselves as readers when allowed to fumble a bit in their choices - with guidance, of course.