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Good article on the importance and relevance of teaching digital citizenship in the classroom. Includes helpful resources as well.

Teachers can use this to ensure that their students are successfully being a digital citizen

This website explains how using youtube is helpful in today's society of teaching. With tutorials and other important videos it can be essential to have a youtube channel to provide a project based learning assignment or a show how.

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.

This is a great article to read over when considering a classroom management system in your own classroom.

This website allows teachers to give helpful tips in classroom management by integrating technology. And also suggests not to only have a well-planned lesson, but also a plan B.

Yolink is a free tool that works like "x-ray vision" to help you browse through search results without even opening them. It is integrated into SweetSearch, and can be used on other search engines through a browser add-on.

With Google Custom Search, add a search box to your homepage to help people find what they need on your website. This will be great in a classroom because it allows you to limit the students search to only sites that you prefer.

This resource helps educators learn how to take a whole-community approach to empowering students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly.

PDF file containing 10 tips to help kids post wisely online. Some examples are: Think about the reader; remember the golden rule; keep relationship details to yourself; don't brag; etc.

This resource is great for new teachers who are looking for different types of technology to use in their classroom. This article lists tools that teachers can use for student learning, lesson plans, and general tools like EverNote that help teachers stay organized.

A great resource for teachers who are stumped on how to integrate technology into their existing classroom. Includes how to get started as well as ideas like, "if you have an interactive whiteboard", "if you have computers in your classroom", etc.

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Integrating Technology in the classroom with some examples on what to use for the technology available.

Educational books, materials, and resources to help your child achieve success every step of the way. Provides material for grades Pre-K-12th

This chapter pulls the baby elephant as the subject and talks about an elephants life from birth to a few months old. The article talks about what baby elephants look like, how they get nutrients, and how they are taken care of in the herd.

This resource is excellent because it provides a definition of a what a Wiki is, what the benefits for use in the classroom are, and provides examples of how a Wiki could be used in different content areas. It has videos that help expand on the topics included. It also includes some tips on how to create these resources and use them effectively in the classroom.

Using technology in the K-12 classroom has benefits for students and teachers alike. Find out how it engages active learners, facilitates collaboration, and helps teachers succeed.

This article gives 5 good reasons why technology should be used in a classroom, not only by teachers, but also by students. The 5 things are: engages students and creates active learners, encourages individual learning and active growth, facilitates peer evaluation, prepares students for the real world, and creates more engaged and successful teachers.

Think that integrating technology into the classroom will only distract students and marginalize educators? Think again. Since students are already interested and engaged in technology, teachers can harness that attention for educational purposes. Incorporating the internet, laptops, tablets and even smartphones into the curriculum has many benefits for teachers and students alike.

These OWL resources helps to see if a source is credible or not.

Using research 

With this ed tech guide, teachers will find easy ways to use technology in the classroom.

This is a great article on 12 ways to use technology in the classroom

I like this article.

A Kid-Friendly search engine. "Safe search for kids, by kids!"

A kid safe search engine that contains quality information

A reliable search engine

We choose this because it has data on the impact of technology on student achievement, and tips to ensure that classroom computing helps, rather than hinders, the learning process.

Great article that gives the pros and cons of one to one computing in the classroom. It basically says that one to one computing is great, but it can also cause a lot of stress and headaches if not used properly.

Sometimes technology integration and 21st century skills are difficult to measure in the classroom. Having a checklist of standards can help you orient lesson plans and achieve goals within your classroom.

Having a copy of digital learning standards that presents them in a way that is easy to understand as well as broken down into understandable chunks will help as we work through digital portfolios and their relevance in a 21st century classroom.

This link goes to the six National Educational Technology Standards for Students.

a Quick summary of teaching standards at iste.org