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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.

Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology. I really liked this website because it organizes applications by subject, grades, and skills. This gives teachers the opportunity to strategically pick applications to engage their students based on where they are individually.

Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology.

Video clip teaching student how to use Live text in case they ever need to go back and work on it themselves.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

A teachers classroom blog for her first grade students. I thought this would make a good example for seeing what a classroom blog would look like and how it can be useful to the students and parents.

A good example of blog being used in the classroom. This first grade teacher uses hers to interactive and leave messages for the parents of her classroom.

Kikutext is a service that makes it easy for teachers to communicate with parents using text messaging, so students perform better.

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.

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.

Classroom Apps Find educational apps for iPads, Chromebooks, Androids and Laptops but first start with a learning objective in mind.

This is a great resource for all teachers to find educational apps for every subject. It is simple to access. Simply use the tools provided to find the best Classroom Apps for your students. All Classroom Apps are recommended for teachers, by teachers!

Use the tool below to find the best Classroom Apps for your students.This is a great activity to start a lesson on technology use.

As we advance further into the 21st century, technology is becoming more and more integrated into our society. Smart phones are now commonplace, table

As we advance further into the 21st century, technology is becoming more and more integrated into our society. Smart phones are now commonplace, table

This article explains the benefits if blended learning. it focuses on four specific benefits of adding technology into the classroom.

As instructors, we are all information curators. How do you collect and share currently relevant content with your students? How do your students research and share information that they find with the rest of class? What tools do you use to manage or facilitate presentation of resources? Is it public?

This is an article describing 10 reasons why students cannot cite or rely on Wikipedia because of its low reliability and credibility.

Great source that shows students how Wikipedia is not a reliable source for information

Wikipedia is not a reliable source for Scholarly research, here why...!

Weebly is another place where you can create a free website for your classroom. it had a ton of designs and tools for teachers to use to keep parents and students up-to-date

Easy way to inform all of the students what is going on in the class

Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages.

Edmodo is an easy way to get your students connected so they can safely collaborate, get and stay organized, and access assignments, grades, and school messages. This final resource is a tool that you can create a page for parents and students to access with useful information related to the class. it works similar to a Facebook page, but is a more appropriate way to communicate.

How technology integration has made its way into special education rooms.