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Answers common questions about teachers using resources such as; What can educators use? How can they use it? Has some engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the subject

In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject. This website talks about copyright and fair use when you are using someone elses work.

In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject. This website talks about copyright and fair use when you are using someone elses work.

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Not to familiar with Twitter and what a Tweet is this link can help you understand it better.

To the Twitter-illiterate: The Anatomy of a Tweet. This infographic will clear things up for you right away so you can understand what you're looking at when you're reading a tweet.

This link may be helpful for students to understand copyright and creativity. It simplifies it to make it easier to understand.

This is a great article that gives information about: what project based learning is, why you should use it in your classroom, and how students benefit from it. This would be a great read for new teachers looking to gain a better understanding of project based learning, and it can also help teachers generate creative ideas to use in the classroom.

This is a great article that gives information about: what project based learning is, why you should use it in your classroom, and how students benefit from it. This would be a great read for new teachers looking to gain a better understanding of project based learning, and it can also help teachers generate creative ideas to use in the classroom.

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This is a really helpful website in helping to better understand the nine elements of Digital Citizenship. There are specific definitions provided to you within each of the nine elements.

Active Reading is a website that helps intensify the understanding of literature, instead of just reading it.

This article provides multiple videos showing how a teacher can use blendspace in the classroom. Since blendspace is our learning tool this week, I thought these videos would be helpful in helping the class understand how blendspace can be put to use in the classroom.

This article provides multiple videos showing how a teacher can use blendspace in the classroom. Since blendspace is our learning tool this week, I thought these videos would be helpful in helping the class understand how blendspace can be put to use in the classroom.

This helps students and teachers to develop information literacy skills so they can become competent finders, evaluators, and users if information mastering the art of curating.

Software that models Boolean operations. Uses key terms and graphical pieces to apply Boolean logic in visual way. Helps build mental model of search. Helps with comprehension and understanding of search.

Software that models Boolean operations. Uses key terms and graphical pieces to apply Boolean logic in visual way. Helps build mental model of search. Helps with comprehension and understanding of search.

Several options to continually assess students in many different ways

This article explores 15 Students Study Apps which help students enhance their subject understanding. Each of these Students Study Apps specializes in a specific subject, helping student retain long term memory.

Students use games, manipulatives, and computers to learn the advantages of using Boolean terms when searching the Web. The site will help you create a lesson to teach your students over boolean logic. With hand-ons and interactive activities, students will be able to understand the concept of Boolean Logic for when they search the internet.

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Our filter bubble causes Google and other search engines to limit our searches by personalizing them. Personalized filters look at what you click on first which will throw off the balance of the information you receive. This filter bubble is important to understand so you know when search engines are personlizing your searches so that you can learn how to balance your searches.

This website gives resources for teachers to assess their students' content knowledge in a technological way. Assessment of the instruction of content is essential for a teacher. These resources make assessment interesting and show results in a very visual way. This instruction benefits teachers as they get to realize what their students have actually learned. Often students do not want to show that they do not understand the content, these resources give students a chance to share their voice.

Understanding the Common Core State Standards

PBL Explained

This site provides a great summary of PBL, as well as informing the teacher why they should use PBL in the classroom. It is very thorough, and it provides external resources.

A website that breaks down the basics of project based learning into simple, and easy to understand ideas.