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This article tells why technology integration in education is important and it also gives a few examples of what that integration can look like it a classroom. It talks about how relevant technology is to our students.

This article elaborates on technology integration importance

This gives educators a list of 50 ways to use twitter in grades k-12.

ways to use twitter in the classroom

Gives insight to personal learning networks and why a teacher should be using social media. "By developing professional relationships electronically, teachers can immediately post their latest articles, research, experiences, or discoveries. You, the connected teacher, are the recipient of all of these communications."

This article is about how 21st century children learn, which is with technology. It says that it is important that teachers are up to date with the students in their classrooms so they can better reach them. It says technology can be used for creation and design, discovery and exploration, it shifts the roles from the teachers to the students, and it gives the students and authentic audience.

This website shows how in today's day and age students need educators to re-envision the role of technology in the classroom for them.

This article gives great insight into the benefits and reasons to implement social media sites such as twitter, instagram, and Facebook into the classroom. It discusses the use of hashtags on these sites and how they can be supportive and aid in class-wide study groups.

This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. It also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.

This website is a free video generator that will allow teachers to add pictures from their class to the website and create an engaging slide show of her students. We feel that parents will love this feature of her website and will give them insight of what happens in their child's classroom.

See Edutopia's core strategies in action with our Five Keys video series. Take a deeper look at each strategy as we share the nuts and bolts of program implementation, give voice to examples from schools around the country, and illuminate the research behind the practices.

This is a fun video that gives an example of various catapults that exists and they can be in all different sizes and can be a really dun activity to be involved with.

This article gives insight to why teachers should be using twitter in the classroom and the benefits this social networking website brings to your students and the content they are learning.

This website gives 7 benefits and reasoning to technology integration in education. They are technology makes teaching easier, technology helps us track student's progress, educational technology is good for the environment, students enjoy learning with technology, technology makes distance learning more accessible, students and teachers can access information at any time, and technology makes collaboration more effective.

This is another source that discuss the benefits of integrating technology in the classroom. The reason I chose to use this site is because it says one benefit to integrating technology is that students now love learning because of it. This benefit is one of my favorites and is why I chose this source.

BrainPOP is an interactive website where students can learn information about all subject areas taught in school through videos and games. The information conveyed in the lessons could give students a new perspective about content they are learning or challenge students who understand the content to apply it in new ways. The website includes videos, games, assignments, and quizzes for teachers to implement in their classroom.

A website for kids that focuses on all core topics. This website has games and videos and interactive activities to aid learning.

This website talks about what a flipped classroom is and the benefits of it for students and teachers. This is a great website to look at if considering having a flipped classroom.

This site provides great benefits from using the flipped classroom learning environment. It also establishes some benefits for the teachers! The flipped classroom gives teachers more time to spend with individual students.

This article gives easy to understand tips on internet and every day safety for elementary aged students.

This website gives multiple tips on how you can surf the web in the safest ways.

This website is great because it gives options for PD and links to blogs and worksheets, and toolkits to integrate Digital Citizenship into the schools we work in.