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"This FINAL list has been compiled from the Top 10 Tool Contributions of 278 Learning Professionals worldwide, whose individual contributions you can read here"

"Easy Portfolio is the easiest and most powerful way to create an electronic ePortfolio. Let your digital and analog work shine with this professional and truly gorgeous tool. Students and Teachers will be able to capture and share their work with ease allowing them to showcase their learning in ways never before possible. "

"Easy-to-use tools help students break down writing tasks, while giving teachers and administrators the power to create assignments, real-time assessments, and standards based grading"

"Free Online Automatic Text Summarization Tool"

"Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories."

"Dyslexic Teen Shares Use of Classroom Literacy Technology Tools for Success"

"Rather than structure my presentations by tool, or by app, or even by project, I organized myself around desired student outcomes - aka. what students can actually do. However, before addressing that question, I asked not only WHY iPads but WHY Technology? Because…. I want my students to communicate in complex and modern ways. I want my students to make their thinking visible as an alternative assessment. I want my students to document their thinking as they work through a process. I want my students to have multiple ways through which to interact with learning objects."

"Text Help has made a new toolbar available for free for anyone who uses Google Docs and the Chrome Browser. What is now possible is dual highlighted (two colors) text to speech in Google Docs! This is huge, an amazing benefit for our struggling readers, writers and researchers."

For educators and policymakers, one of the keys for effectively responding to this generation is remembering that educational technology is both a tool and a game changer

"Homework continues to be a controversial topic today. The debate over homework is an old one, with attitudes shifting throughout the debate over the years. Proponents and opponents make cases to support their views on the necessity and importance of homework in the development of the student and the construction of knowledge."

"Listed below are general interactive and online tools that may assist with projector use"

"At Challenge Success, we believe that our society has become too focused on grades, test scores and performance, leaving little time and energy for our kids to become resilient, successful, meaningful contributors for the 21st century. Every day, we provide families and schools with the practical, research-based tools they need to raise healthy, motivated kids. Success, after all, is measured not at the end of the semester, but over the course of a lifetime."

"Using RabbleBrowser, one person can lead or facilitate a shared experience with an unlimited number of locally connected peers. As the leader browses the Web or views files, the others in the session with them will see the path they are taking. Integrated group chat, private chat and bookmark sharing keeps the collaboration levels high. Using the easy integrated social tools, anyone in the session can share URLs to the Web via email, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook."

"My students -- who I surveyed last week in an attempt to gather some feedback about the unit overview sheets that my learning team developed together -- really dig the tool that we're using to give them opportunities to reflect on what they're learning."

"Student friendly learning goals force teachers to clarify key outcomes together, make it easier to integrate student self-assessment into your lessons, and serve as the perfect tool for communicating essential standards to parents and practitioners beyond your classroom. "

"Learning Forward's Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core is a multidimensional initiative focused on developing a comprehensive system of professional learning that spans the distance from the statehouse to the classroom. With an immediate focus on implementing Common Core State Standards and new assessments, the initiative provides resources and tools to assist states, districts, and schools in providing effective professional learning for current and future education reforms. "

"As many schools and districts are now rushing to buy every student a digital device, I'm concerned that most one-to-one implementation strategies are based on the new tool as the focus of the program. Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources."

"Creative Book Builder is a fantastic app that allows students to create books in epub format, which can then be exported to iBooks and shared with others. There are a variety of instructional uses for this app, from using it as a publishing tool for project-based learning to a summative assessment at the end of a unit.  Students can embed images, audio files, video files, and write text.  The advantage of an epub document over a PDF document is that all of the media will be preserved and available for readers to interact with when the final product is published.   Depending on how you use Creative Book Builder with students, this app can help students complete tasks that align with every level of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy.  Explore the different ways this app can be used at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy."

"Haiku Deck is a great iPad app for building academic vocabulary - and its free. It provides a student-friendly tool for teaching common core vocabulary standards with motivation and creativity. Good defining skills are rooted in collaborative negotiation of meaning rather than memorizing glossaries and testing via two-column matching questions. "

"Join the maker movement! There's a technological and creative revolution underway. Amazing new tools, materials and skills turn us all into makers. Using technology to make, repair or customize the things we need brings engineering, design and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. The active learner is at the center of the learning process, amplifying the best traditions of progressive education. This book helps educators bring the exciting opportunities of the maker movement to every classroom."