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Twitter is intertwined with just about every aspect of the daily life of students, teachers, and everyone else online. That's why I thought this new infographic by Masters Degree Online makes some interesting points. If you can overlook the spelling errors, you should take a moment to learn a bit more about the relationship between Twitter and grades.

Evaluating web pages skillfully requires you to do two things at once: Train your eye and your fingers to employ a series of techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages; Train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted. This page is organized to combine the two techniques into a process that begins with looking at your search results from a search engine or other source, follows through by investigating the content of page, and extends beyond the page to what others may say about the page or its author(s).

Five Myths About Classroom Technology (And What To Do, Instead) https://t.co/Q1I9A4OycU #edtech via @EdSurge #ED554 - Steven Knight (@plan3t_t3ch) May 17, 2016

This is an interesting posting about teacher challenges with regard to technology use in the classroom.

Dr. Scott McLeod wrote about effective school technology leadership and the challenges teachers face with regard to use of technology in classroom

"Education 2.0: Social networking for your class Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged."

"With WeVideo, you simply upload your video clips and photos, create your storylines, and edit them in the cloud. Oh, that "cloud thing", it means the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. For you that means there's no software to download. All video story creation takes place in the browser on your smartphone, tablet, or computer."

Despite the tremendously diverse speakers covering an incredibly wide range of topics, TED goes far beyond merely conglomerating "ideas worth spreading" and draws the big picture by sketching out all the little pieces that surround it. And it does it with the distinct stroke of an unmistakable artist. 

CORE Education About this original series A collection of videos produced by CORE Education Ltd, New Zealand and used across the CORE websites. Go to http://edtalks.org to view EDtalks, our collection of nearly 300 videos for educators. # Episodes 584 episodes

This blog is helpful to pre service teachers because it outlines ways of planning for instruction in an organized way. It also talks about ways to set up the classroom in order to promote optimal learning. In addition, the blogger offers lots of helpful tips for teachers such as finding time before school or during the weekend to take care of administrative duties.

A general education blog about different strategies that can be used for students. Also includes many useful links to education websites.

Lesson plans, videos, and classroom resources all about recycling and other environmental topics

200+ articles and resources about Twitter for Learning

As you watch this video, think about what could happen in schools if  adults got out of the way.