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This website provides a list of lesson plans you can use in your classroom for grades K-12.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media. Useful information for all grade levels regarding digital citizenship

Check out our Scope & Sequence below to find the right resources for your classroom. The grade-differentiated units spiral to address a cross-curricular approach. Teachers can use the units either sequentially by grade or at any grade level within the band.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

Educators from around the country shared their favorite teaching apps.

Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them.

LiveText Inc. is a team of education professionals dedicated to using technology to improve learning for individuals and organizations. This is where you will post your work for your portfolio.

LiveText offers the most comprehensive and easy-to-use learning outcomes assessment solution with the most robust data collection and analytics features.

Great article on how technology is helping the classrooms and why it is important for teachers to integrate their classrooms with technology.

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are a set of standards published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) for the purpose of leveraging the use of technology in K-12 education to enable students to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital society. What we Found: The National Educational Technology standards give information about the standards with technology. Some of these standards include: -Teachers model and advocate safe teaching -promote digital etiquette, and they exhibit legal and ethical responsibility and respect -teachers identify the societal global issues of media literacy in an evolving digital world -exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources Natalie Copens Brenda Tucker Randy Reed Allee Bernheimer

Nine days ago I published Beyond Google, an ebooklet designed to help teachers and students improve their Internet search results. What that ebooklet didn't include was resources for evaluating the quality of the websites that you find through Internet search engines.

Education Nation is a nationally broadcast, in-depth conversation about improving education in America. During an interactive summit on Rockefeller Plaza, parents, teachers and students will meet with leaders in politics, business and technology to explore the challenges and opportunities in education today.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

Importance of Tech Edu for teachers

Live text allows you to create an ePortfolio. Education majors at Oklahoma State all eventually put their work into a Live Text binder. 

Studies have proven that when implemented well, project-based learning (PBL) can increase retention of content and improve students' attitudes towards learning, among other benefits. This PBL research review explores the vast body of research on the topic and helps make sense of the results.

This article discusses what project based learning is. It also mentions learn outcomes and keys to project learning success.

This resource lists ways in which to engage students with technology for writing. She used weekly blogs to engage her students in writing. The technology presented a real audience for their writing. These blogs helped improve the students writing and engaged them with technology.

My Big Campus makes it easy to engage students, develop lessons, track and improve academic progress, connect with a learning community, go paperless, and lots more. My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

I chose this resource because it talk about six tools that help with teacher-parent communication. Being able to communicate with your students parents is a very important factor and it explains that and how to improve it. It discusses six different apps that are used in different ways and gives alternatives to the one he describes.

Common Sense Education provides a list of various tools that teachers can use to communicate with parents, whether they want to communicate via social media, use remind alerts, or start something like a class website.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

Resource #1: I chose this website because I thought it provided an affective video about cyber bulling and how it is affecting the students, along with resources for how to stop bulling. This is a great resource for teachers who want to present a lesson on how to stop bullying.