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As iPads continue to invade classrooms all over the United States, the schools that have not already integrated them as learning tools are starting to feel an increasing pressure to allow iPads in the classroom. The first educational institutions to hop on the iPad bandwagon were higher education institutions and high schools.

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.

This website is a great resource for technology in education. There are numerous articles you can read about educational technology.

This article is a great list of open educational resources available to everyone.

Awesome way to explain what a tweet is and how teachers can use it for education!

This is a good site to learn how to use twitter for educational purposes. It explains how social networking and microblogging platform works.

Pinterest can be used as a guide for your creative ideas as you plan your lessons. By simply searching for words such as educational technology and lesson planning you can get a plethora of ideas regarding those areas.

This is a social network that allows educators and professionals to connect with their colleagues to collaborate ideas and eventually form their own professional learning communities.

Social media can be great tools in education. Yet, many teachers remain reluctant to use them. Blogger Matt Davis has gathered some of the best resources to help teachers use social media with their students.

Social media can be great tools in education. Yet, many teachers remain reluctant to use them. Blogger Matt Davis has gathered some of the best resources to help teachers use social media with their students.

Article regarding how to build a PLN. Contains a chart and 2 screen caps in order to illustrate its point. Also has a helpful list of links that have been organized into a step-by-step process for starting a PLN.

This site covers the importance of PLNs within the topic of continuing education and independent learning. It discusses the importance of staying up to date and in communication with other professionals in the same field.

Weebly for educators is a free website generator for teachers with many options for building your website including polls, surveys, contact information forms, and many more build ins!

This video emphasizes the power of twitter among educators. It highlights a lot of great teachers that use twitter. You should really check it out and follow some of them!

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

This resource gives a list of 20 skills that educators should have and resources to help you learn. After the initial list, the article shares different tutorials for each skill. This would be an extremely helpful resource for teachers who don't know how to do something like work spreadsheets.

This article describes what information literacy is and how to use it with technology. In addition, the article gives a description on how it is used in higher education and pedagogy. As you read further into the article it describes the standards and assessments applied to information literacy.

This is information on information literacy for the higher education students.

This is a great resource for knowing the Information Literacy standards.  As a teacher, these will important to know

8 Educational Apps To Create Digital Portfolios. These are the best apps available to create a portfolio for students, there are multiple kids of technology compatible with these apps as well depending on the access one has to different kinds of technology.

Site shows how to evaluate educators in Oklahoma

Site shows how to evaluate educators in Oklahoma

This fascinating website falls under the "finding information/resources" section of week 6, as it offers nearly 200 specific YouTube channels that can be used in the educational field. This site even includes an "Office of EdTech" component, which students can use to practice using technologies and their educational points. In the same way, teachers can use it to incorporate technology into lessons. This webpage serves as a means of finding resources, because it offers and describes numerous YouTube pages that present information on many needs and topics.

A short video on the history of technology in education from SMART.

A short video on the history of technology in education from SMART.

A short video on the benefits of using educational technology.

A short video on the benefits of using educational technology.