Ed Tech @ OSU

Students need to know how to find and curate information from the web. Learning how to effectively search for information on the Internet is something that teachers are not teaching their students how to do because they assume their students know how to conduct an effective search. Provided in this link is searching skills and vocabulary that will help teachers teach their kids how to effectively search.

Cheating isn't something that a few bad apples do every now & then, it proliferates. In a 2010 survey of teenage students, 1 in 3 admitted to plagiarizing. Therefore, plagiarism is not a problem that teachers can ignore. Technology has brought ease to plagiarism with easy, quick access to information. This guide will help teachers find tools for detecting plagiarism.

Ways and ideas to prevent plagiarism in your classroom. Teaching students, especially those that are young, not to plagiarize is in important. Some ideas of how to avoid having to deal with plagiarism in the classroom are provided.

Plagiarism is a hot topic in the academic world, but it applies in all aspects of our lives. This is a guide to show your students that may help to prevent plagiarism. Especially applicable to high school and older grades, the students can do a self-check to see if their writing is authentic. This self-check will help them find out the types of plagiarism and the severity of it.

New app promises educators they'll spend less time photocopying and more time teaching. Google Classroom is a great way for students and teachers to communicate, collaborate, share assignments and get graded. Google Classroom brings together many different features of Google; therefore, allowing students to search on student-friendly, custom search engines. Google Classroom will also allow students to continue using many other great Google features that are reliable such as Google scholar.

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.

To help teach your students about plagiarism, this lesson plan will guide teachers with activities and videos. There is a kid-friendly video about what plagiarism is. There are also many activities that you can use with your kids to give them a better idea and help them visualize what plagiarism is.

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.

Includes games and interactive activities that mirror or are in the style of classic artists.

Launch Pad is an educational website that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art by young authors and illustrators. It also includes book reviews and writing tips.

Launch Pad is an educational website that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art by young authors and illustrators. It also includes book reviews and writing tips.

A site for teachers to find funding that's right for their needs.

Moodle is a open-source Learning Platform. Moodle is used by millions of educators globally. One of the most popular Web-based learning systems on the web.

A collaborative list of ten of the best social bookmarking sites for educators, along with a brief summary of each site.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Blendspace for Schools: Student on the App Store. Download Blendspace for Schools: Student and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Students in the schools will be able to use this app to create their own blend space. If school districts have tablets or Ipads this will be a great app for them to use. Students can create presentations.

Free Technology lesson plan for grades K to 5. This is a great website to find free lesson plans that you can find grade specific content. I choose to use a lesson that was for K-5 and explained how technology works.

A mobile-capable virtual tour of the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. This website is great to be able to go look at different things around the US or the world. Especially if a school district doesn't have a lot of money or if it isn't realistic to be able to travel to a certain destination. It will useful to use this tool when learning certain topics.

Socrative is a great website that can be used in the classroom to take online quizzes where the teacher can see the students answers, It would be very beneficial in upper elementary and above.

This resource is basically an online library complete with a librarian that kids can email their questions to for help finding references.

A resource for math questions of all types.

An educational website that supports the exchange of info between students and adults outside of school.