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"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below."

"At EdTechTeacher, our mission is to help teachers and schools leverage technology to create student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments. We offer keynote presentations, hands-on workshops, online courses, and live webinars for teachers, schools, and school districts. Whether you are a teacher looking to enhance your instructional practices, or a school leader seeking to foster change, we have services to fit a variety of needs. We understand teachers and students because all of us have been in the classroom."

"Back to School Night | Six Tips for Wowing Class Parents Back-to-School Night is often the first time you get to meet your class parents and that night sets the tone for the year ahead. Although it's a QUICK evening, it's a great opportunity to build rapport and invite parents to become a team with you and their children in cultivating a positive and successful learning environment. Make your time together count with these six quick tips: "

"Publications and resources, including community-based organizations, for educators, parents, and community members with tools for recognizing bullying behavior and approaches for determining how to respond. "

"Welcome to the CTAP, Common Core State Standards Instructional Modules website. Brought to you by CTAP, the CaliforniaTechnology Assistance Project, this site is designed to assist educational professionals with the task of preparing teachers and students to excel in the Common Core environment, while developing the necessary technology integration skills for mastery of content and performing well on the Smarter Balanced Assessment."

"A reversed teaching model that delivers instruction at home through interactive, teacher-created videos and moves "homework" to the classroom. Moving lectures outside of the classroom allows teachers to spend more 1:1 time with each student. Students have the opportunity to ask questions and work through problems with the guidance of their teachers and the support of their peers - creating a collaborative learning environment. "

"Mobile Device Management for iOS Mobile Device Management (MDM) gives businesses the ability to manage large scale deployments of iPhone and iPad. These capabilities in iOS give IT departments the ability to securely enroll devices in an enterprise environment, wirelessly configure and update settings, monitor compliance with corporate policies, and remotely wipe or lock managed devices."

"When I started working on PCs back in the mid-80's, there were thirty-six individual memory chips to be inserted in motherboard sockets. Today's computers don't have half that many individual parts! But the basic tool for troubleshooting PC problems remains unchanged - it's your brain. Swapping parts without thinking about it may work in production environments where there are endless supplies of spare parts lying around, but if you're trying to troubleshoot your home computer or out on a field service job, you won't have that luxury. The majority of computer problems turn out to be software issues, especially malicious software. But intermittent hardware failures can baffle the best technicians, and the only way to work around them is to adopt a systematic approach to troubleshooting rather than shooting from the hip. The approach I teach through my websites and books is to a process of elimination that narrows down the possibilities until the failure can be identified. When you master the basic troubleshooting technique, you'll be able to apply the lesson to technologies and situations not covered here. The flowcharts below are miniatures excerpted from my book "Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts" which is used by home hobbyists as well as for a course text in technical colleges and a field guide for technicians. "

"The web's leading FREE school-to-home communications tool! SchoolNotes provides teachers with a virtual environment, giving the ability to post classroom or school oriented information. This information is accessible anywhere there is an internet connection giving both parents and students the opportunity to keep in touch with what is happening in the classroom. With SchoolNotes Teachers, Parents and Students are all on the same page! If you are not a current SchoolNotes user, you can either register for a FREE account here, or visit the Teacher, Student or Parent tabs above. "

"A new way to work. iPad features incredible applications like Mail, Calendar, Notes, and Safari in a beautiful, thin and light design, so you stay productive anywhere. With easy, secure integration into business environments and a robust platform for app development, iPad is ready to start working when you are. "

"Resources Explore the resources below to understand how to use, integrate, and support iPad in business environments."

"Independent Voices 2011 is an attempt to recognise some of those names. With the help of PeerIndex - a company that maps the social web and is similarly keen on uncovering new sources of authority online - we counted votes from Independent readers and users of the PeerIndex website across seven categories (UK news, world news, people, entertainment, technology, science and environment, and business) to determine a group of winners and runners-up."

"The Learning Registry is a new approach to capturing, sharing, and analyzing learning resource data to broaden the usefulness of digital content to benefit educators and learnerThe Learning Registry: Use, Share, Find, Amplify.s. Not a website or repository… not a search engine… and not a replacement for the excellent sources of online learning content that already exist… ...the Learning Registry is an open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly share resources, as well as information about how those resources are used by educators in diverse learning environments across the Web."

Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning Initiated by Barry Joseph, Global Kids, Inc. Written by Barry with scores of others* Background For over four years, Global Kids has developed badging systems within, after and outside of schools. We are currently designing a badging system for dozens of civic and cultural institutions within the Hive Learning Networks in New York City and Chicago, as well as throughout our organization. We have had a frontline view of the growing interest which has emerged over the past year in the development of badging systems across a wide range of formal and informal learning environments. We have also followed the rise of opposition, and sometimes confusion, about what digital badging looks like or is designed to accomplish. In this context we felt it might be useful to delineate the various interests we see aligning themselves with badges, or make distinctions amongst the different goals people have for them.

"Common Core Map Grade: K Grade: 1 Grade: 2 Grade: 3 Grade: 4 Grade: 5 Grade: 6 Grade: 7 Grade: 8 Grade: 9-12 Standard Description Videos Exercises Grade: K 2 VIDEOS 2 EXERCISES Counting and Cardinality K.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens. K.CC.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). K.CC.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. K.CC.4.a When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. K.CC.4.b Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted. K.CC.4.c Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. K.CC.5 Count to tell the number of objects. K.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.1 Comparing Whole Numbers 2 Comparing Whole Numbers 3 K.CC.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals. Geometry K.G.1 Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. K.G.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. K.G.3 Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres). K.G.4 Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes. K.G.5

If you are a parent, teacher, or other adult working with children, this blog aims to help you learn, as much as possible, about helping digital kids grow into thoughtful, collaborative, and savvy digital citizens. The blog's mission is to provide context for adults - defining and clarifying digital world issues, 21st Century learning challenges, and those virtual environments and devices that children take for granted.

The #1 choice for IT educators worldwide, NetSupport School delivers the tools you need to help maximize the effectiveness of computer-led teaching and now you can utilize the power of NetSupport School in a Google Chromebook education environment. For use in an existing or new NetSupport-managed classroom, the NetSupport School Student app extension can be installed on each student Chromebook running Google Chrome OS. From the teacher's desktop they can then connect to each chromebook system enabling them to monitor the screens and interact with each student quickly and efficiently.

LTI™ is a standard way of integrating rich learning applications which are often remotely hosted and provided through third-party services with platforms like learning management systems, portals, or other educational environments

"ARDUINO IS AN OPEN-SOURCE ELECTRONICS PROTOTYPING PLATFORM BASED ON FLEXIBLE, EASY-TO-USE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE. IT'S INTENDED FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, HOBBYISTS AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN CREATING INTERACTIVE OBJECTS OR ENVIRONMENTS."

"A digital badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality, or interest that can be earned in many learning environments. Open badging makes it easy for anyone to issue, earn, and display badges across the web-through a shared infrastructure that's free and open to all. "