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"StudySync is a powerful digital literacy curriculum designed to advance reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking and listening skills, with optional print support for districts in transition"

A great way to keep track of sources and notes associated with them as well as keeping track of the success of the students! Noodletools is a way to show students how to find credible sources and how to lay out notes, a great skill to have!

theSkimm makes it easier to be smarter. The Daily Skimm is delivered to your inbox each AM, giving you all the news and info you need to start your day.

Looking for an educational search engine? Use iSeek to find safe and trustworthy sources when researching on the Internet!

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Mind Meister is a free application used to create mind maps. Students can work collaboratively on group projects, sharing ideas and seeing how everything relates. Teachers can use it to break down hard concepts. It promotes higher thinking and is visually stimulating.

With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Make remote design work Online brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration. Here, I am using the platform in order to have students critically engage in an information/media literacy lesson aimed at evaluating the credibility/validity of independent and group research.

Engaging videos to supplement or be used for a lesson. Teachers can create leassons or take from lessons done by other contributors. The videos promote criticaal thinking skills on more levels than one!

Discovery Education's Puzzlemaker provides teachers, students, and parents, the tools necessary to create crossword, puzzles, word search puzzles, mazes and more online!

Mindomo is a visually appealing and collaborative tool allowing students to create minds maps, concept maps, and outlines. Students become skilled at brainstorming questioning, analyzing, synthesizing, problem solving, etc, helping improve student's critical thinking skills.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Create a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

Join over 3 million students, teachers, and parents using our free math game for Grades 1 - 8. Prodigy is a strategic math game that helps develop critical thinking, decision making, and math skills for younger students.

Instagrok is a great tool to use with students who are learning how to conduct online research. Students and teachers can access this application on any device. Teachers can create free student accounts and their own dashboard to assign tasks, provide search guidelines, and monitor student progress. To access all of the dashboard features, there is a relatively affordable yearly subscription. Through customized searches, students are able to read and assess information, take notes, create concept maps, and cite sources. Instagrok can also help students to collaborate on group projects and develop critical reading skills while collecting information for papers and assignments.