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Week 1 suggested reading

Week 1 suggested reading

Week 2 Additional Reading: "This infographic and the following text from the Alliance for Excellent Education provides an overview of the challenges and the elements that leaders must address in responding to the challenges" from MOOC-Ed

Week 2 Additional Reading: "Jenifer O. Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, March 2013 provides a brief summary of the relevant research" from MOOC-Ed

Week 1 - Additional suggested reading: ["8 pages), by the Alliance for Excellent Education in Nov. 2012, summarizes the challenges facing education leaders; the changes needing in teaching, technology and the use of time in schools; and the characteristics of digital learning" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["pp 7-19. This is the national plan developed by the U.S. Department of Education, with input from a committee of national leaders in digital learning" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading: ["Each year, NMC analyzes the potential of emerging technologies for K-12 education and predicts, for each type of technology (e.g., tablet computing, game-based learning, augmented reality), the time-to-adoption horizon, ranging from one to five years. These are very valuable reports for keeping up with emerging technologies. A link to a short video summary is provided in the video resources section above" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["K. Walsh, Emerging EdTech Blog, Sept. 4, 2011. This blog entry provides more of a classroom view than the NMC report, and focuses on what's already happening, rather than what may happen in future years. It has a succinct list with links for examples, tools and more information" from MOOC Ed]

Week 1 Additional suggested reading ["NY Times, Nov 1, 2012. This article raises concerns about the impact of technology on students' attention spans and ability to persevere on challenging tasks, and approaches the question about how much schools need to adjust to students and how much students can be expected to adjust to schools" from MOOC Ed]

"This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer. Multi-touch books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iPad. Books with interactive features may work best on an iPad. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or later. Description The iBooks Author Starter Kit is a beginners guide to creating Multi-Touch books for teaching and learning. It walks a user through a set of step-by-step activities, and provides all of the materials - an iBooks Author template, color palette, copy decks, images, videos, keynote presentation, and more - needed to create an interactive book titled "The World of Living Gardens". "

Daily, child appropriate news in categories of war&peace, science, kids, money, law, health, arts, and sports. The same article can be viewed in multiple reading Lexiles. Many articles have short four question quizzes. The content can be used to lead classroom discussions.

Educational games and activities by grade and parenting topics such as homework, reading and math help; Internet safety, discipline.

Possible site to share with grammar school parents.

Direct link to sign up for online learning site that is usually premium. Great for PreK through at least first grade. Students earn tickets to dress characters, decorate a house, and get pets with reading and math content.

A series of books intending to be read aloud to 5-9 year olds focusing on digital citizenship. I wonder if anyone in RCAN has them.

Read through tweets that reference how Seesaw is being used by teachers.

Free books for kids. Teachers can set up free classes and student accounts.

On the origin of the moon. A little complicated for elementary maybe, but my 5th grade students found it fascinating. We read it together and I explained the complicated bits (they were even interested in centrifugal and centripetal forces!) Great fun.

Online Kids Educational Games - Taking Learning to a Whole New Level! At Turtle Diary, our mission is simple - to make learning fun for the little ones! Grade Pre-K to 5th Grade

Play educational kids games, computer games, printable worksheets and learning games online at turtlediary.com. Learn and play Free Games for Kids Online! This is a free website for toddler to 5th grade. It includes online practice, worksheets, video, lessons, etc. Teachers set up their class and students login to access the activities and view their progress.

I think this program is excellent because it provides training grounds to teach students how to use the internet for research. I love that it ranks sources by reading level! The video on the home screen is self explanatory.

Thanks. I have to play with this. It looks like it has a lot of potential!