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EiE is an excellent inquiry-based STEM curriculum that teaches students thinking and reasoning skills needed for success. Built around the engineering design process, EiE teaches kids how to solve problems systematically... creating skills, optimism, and attitudes important for their futures. Life is not multiple choice. Grades 1-8

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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

We decided to include this resource because it tied in with the idea of collaboration tools presented in this weeks reading. This is a tool for using Skype in the classroom developed by teachers. Two classrooms Skype in with each other and attempt to figure out where the other class is from. It involves collaboration with teachers from across the nation and across the world. It has cross-curriculum aspects as well and can help engage students in multiple subject areas

This gives multiple different ways of presenting a lesson.

This website provides multiple apps for teachers to use. The apps provided on this website support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, which is also explained on this website. Browse this website for fun and educational apps to better the technology in your classroom!

Includes all the Bloomin' versions in one place! I chose this resource for chapter 8 because it contains rubrics and guidelines for educational apps. These rubrics will be a useful tool to refer to when trying to decide if an app should be used in the classroom.

This a good resource to look for apps and websites based on Bloom's Taxonomy. It separates the apps based on levels of learning from surface to deeper learning.

This website defines technology integration and gives different examples of what that integration could mean. It also gives various examples of ways/games/activities to use for learning while using technology.

This Edutopia offers an easy to understand definition of technology integration and how to SUCCESSFULLY implement it. It also provides the reader with differing avenues and examples on how to use technology in the classroom.

An article about how to integrate technology into classrooms, and some examples of what to use

I chose this site because it's from the Williams Institute at UCLA. It's a full article from a reliable source. It's for teachers to learn more regarding how to understand these different families.

This website is great! It has information on multiple technology tools you can use in the classroom. On the side bar you can choose any grade level and subject area and find online activities for students to play with and enhance their learning. I chose this resource for chapter 4 because it is a great site for educators to find activities and ideas on how to integrate technology into their classroom.

This article list and describes different tools to be used for technology integration. It gives examples for not only teachers to use, but also for school administration. It also gives quoted remarks on technology in the classroom from student perspectives.

The ChronoZoom curriculum (ZIP, 21MB) is supported by the National Council for the Social Studies, Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and the National Council for History Education. ChronoZoom is an online tool that shows how time is both horizontal and vertical, meaning that multiple events are taking place at the same time in different places, impacting one another.

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