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Strategies for helping students understand challenging texts.

This video is introduces senior students to digital curation and the tools they can use to manage information.

One of a number of interesting science activities that could be offered in a makerspace. In this two-part activity, students design and build Rube Goldberg machines. This open-ended challenge employs the engineering design process and may have a pre-determined purpose, such as rolling a marble into a cup from a distance, or let students decide the purposes.

One of a number of interesting activities that could be offered in a makerspace. In this two-part activity, students design and build Rube Goldberg machines. This open-ended challenge employs the engineering design process and may have a pre-determined purpose, such as rolling a marble into a cup from a distance, or let students decide the purposes.

the four facets of information literacy - communication, problem solving, ways of thinking and information technology fluency

We had a successful meeting the other night where teacher librarians got together to talk about how they are creating maker spaces in their libraries. The ideas and approaches vary widely but they ...

visual literacy ◾A data visualization must have a beginning, middle, and end links to tools to create infographics, blogs and tutorials

Free Australian History podcasts by La Trobe University

How a Book Tasting Event was used as a way to get students to "sample" a variety of literary genres in order to find their preferred "tastes" in reading.

In a recent webinar, more than 90% of school leaders responded that they were leading an innovative school as a result of the implementation of technology. At the end of the webinar, when polled again, only one leader claimed to be leading an innovative school. The complete reversal was due to a presentation of the Six Questions that you will read about in this article.   This list of questions was developed to help educators be clear about the unique added value of a digital learning environment.

A great site for encouraging students to write. Includes an image gallery and a sound gallery as well as many examples of myths and legends.

A Uni student portal of resources to protect and learn about digital tattoos

portal to learning modules on library research, taking notes, etc useful for senior secondary students. great model for screencasting with their 3 minute videos.