"A series of two-minute videos relating concepts from textbook chemistry to current MIT research and applications in medicine, the environment, and energy"
The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore thousands of documents in a variety of media from the National Archives holdings, but it also includes online tools to help teachers combine these materials and create engaging history activities that students can access over the internet.
" it is clear that the technology overlap that has happened in this last decade has given the needed impetus to escalating the potential of mobile learning. This convergence of mobile information and enabling technologies has significantly impacted the way users interact with information on a daily and immediate basis."
"Screencasting is the capture all of the action on a computer screen while you are narrating. Screencasts can be made with many tools and are often used to create a tutorial or showcase student content mastery. This page provides links to information, ideas, rubrics, and tools for the creation of screencasts by both teachers and students.
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"Assessment to Instruction with the World's Largest K-12 Resource Library
The Right Assessments, Videos, and Homework for Each Standard and Each Student "
"YouTube videos in class, calls it "21st century learning" and says because video technology is such a part of the students' lives it makes sense to incorporate it into the educational experience."
the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology has upped the technology ante with the release of its National Education Technology Plan
in Spring 2010.
The plan states, "The challenge for our education system is to leverage the learning sciences and modern technology to create engaging, relevant, and personalized learning experiences for all learners that mirror students' daily lives and the reality of their futures."
teachers need to guide students to be critical readers "who can evaluate online information for credibility, timeliness, accuracy, and even hidden agendas,"