School library media Kids, an innovative new site packed with games and book trailers, is designed to provide a fun, interactve learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! Students can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines.
Behind the rhetoric and politics, education is about the outcomes it achieves for its learners. More than being about the nuances of technology, learning space design, curriculum structures and pedagogical practices schools should have effective answers to questions that focus on what they hope to achieve for their learners. How we answer this question should then dictate the measures we utilise to achieve these goals and it is to these ends that we must apply our efforts.
wiki with descriptions and links to 21st century resources: social bookmarking, wikis, digital storytelling, creative tools, digital literacy, copyright, etc.
imple to create flash based literacy games that you can either get your students to create or simply make the yourself. The game options are very simple in nature offering hangman, wordsearch, question and answers, anagrams and multiple choice but the point of what2leaarn is that students will really appreciate the opportunity to create and share their games with classmates.
more than 2,000 pre-K-12 resources, including:
* math, ELA, science and social studies for grades pre-K-8;
* resources designed to promote middle school literacy;
* Regents-aligned resources in Global History and Geography, U.S. History, Living Environment, Earth Science, Physics and Chemistry;
* tools that let you save and organize resources to share with students and colleagues.
"This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support speaking, listening, reading and writing skills."