MEDT7462 A3 Resources

Poptropica Teaching Guides Poptropica is one of the Internet's most popular sites for kids-and now it's available as an app for the iPad! It's not just a place to play games; each of the islands featured on the site provides a learning opportunity.

When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information.

Whether you are looking for technology lessons for your classroom or computer lab, The Teacher's Corner has organized some great lessons and resources around the following: management, integration, keyboarding, and more. Make sure your students are developing their 21st Century skills. Your creativity can help other teachers.

An overview of the Edutopia professional development guide for integrating technology tools in the classroom.

Elementary / Middle School Technology Lesson Plans and Ideas for Using Technology in the Classroom at Internet 4 Classrooms, internet resources for teachers and students

Examines the use of technology under two different contexts: university courses for future middle school teachers, and middle school classrooms. Emphasizes the need for young adolescents to become technologically literate. Discusses different programs to help middle school students learn how to use technology, and at the same time helping them become better and more independent thinkers.

Our Teaching Today Web-link-ography is a directory of web link resources. The links were carefully selected to help teachers find free, valuable classroom resources. This directory includes links to state standards, professional development, technology updates, grant information, and student activities.

From this page you can find student centered, experiential and investigatory learning based lesson plans for all STEM subject areas and grade levels. Lessons are constantly being added to this page. If you can't find what you are looking for send us an email and we will find it.

My first take on 'special needs' is: Don't all students have special needs? Aren't we beyond the cookie cutter education that lines students up and feeds them from the same trough? Yes and yes, but for the purposes of this article, I'm going to reign my pen in and discuss what we traditionally consider 'special...

7/1/2003 By: Joan Cunningham As new technologies permeate our society, they are also becoming more and more of a factor in today's classrooms. The promise of technology in education is significant. Technology offers the potential of individualized instruction for every student as students become actively engaged in and responsible for their own learning.