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Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core-aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.

Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core-aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.

Newsela provides students with articles across all subject areas that can be adjusted to different reading levels, allowing all students access to the same content, no matter their skill level. Teachers can create questions to accompany articles assigned to students, and students can annotate and respond to questions.

Remember when taking a field trip involved packing a sack lunch, getting on a school bus with the entire third grade and riding to the nearest museum? It was an all-day experience that involved sightseeing, but only in fairly close proximity to your school building.

Google Chrome for iOS has a new update that will enable users to scan QR codes and barcodes.

Augmented reality (AR) has been touted as a cool new technology that can help people see things they otherwise wouldn't without computer-generated sensory input. But a recent study found that AR can help students better understand certain complicated science concepts than those who did not use any AR device.

While the word "literacy" alone generally refers to reading and writing skills, when you tack on the word "digital" before it, the term encompasses much, much more. Sure, reading and writing are still very much at the heart of digital literacy.

This article has a lot of good resources for teaching digital citizenship, particularly for elementary educators.

Free website containing kids news articles, kids current events, kids news on science, sports, and more! Great way to bring current events into the classroom and discuss credible sources. Contains comprehension questions, critical thinking challenges and vocabulary lists to push students to learn more about a topic.

Before LeVar Burton was Kunta Kinte in the 1977 TV miniseries Roots or host of the long-running and much-loved PBS children's show Reading Rainbow, he was a little boy watching his mother read piles of books in their California home. It was that scene that would spark in the actor a lifelong passion for ­storytelling.

It may look harmless enough, with its random pattern of tiny black squares on a white grid, but the next time you scan one of China's ubiquitous QR codes, you could end up seriously out of pocket....

Although QR codes have long since lost their shiny, new glow, the technology hasn't lost its value in education. The rise of one-to-one computing and bring-your-own-device programs in K-12 schools means students access digital learning tools more than ever before.