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Teachers in Littleton, Colorado - like teachers in many places - are increasingly asking students to read and write online. Free tools like Google Docs have made it easy for students to work on the same piece of writing at home and at school, and have allowed teachers to explore collaborative writing assignments and synchronous editing with students.

When Taylor Ferguson started as a freshman at Towson University in Baltimore, she was already well ahead of her nursing program classmates. As a high school student in the Academy of Health Professions Program at Western School of Technology and Environmental Science, she had earned certifications in CPR and First Aid and had learned to take vital signs, make hospital beds, and communicate with patients, physicians, nurses and hospital administrators.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has already featured several of these tips and tricks that teachers and students can use to tap into the full potential of this phenomenon called Google. Adding to these resources is a very short, succinct and simple graphic that sums up 7 of the most important search tweaks that can render your Google search more effective and to the point.

Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don't have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs.

Michelle Pearson is a Teacher and Preservationist who was the 2011 Colorado Teacher of the Year and the 2008 Colorado Apex Technology Teacher of the Year. Laura Israelsen is a Teacher Librarian and 21st Century Learning teacher at Hulstrom Options K-8 School She was Head Teacher-Librarian of the 2010 Colorado Library of the Year.

Innovation is critical for business success, so we're constantly trying to build tools that enable our customers to do more. Starting today, you can use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other new and improved features in Drive search on web to find files easier and faster.

Advice from Common Sense Media editors. Clickbait, hyper-partisan opinion, and completely false information are running wild across the internet.

Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana of the Right Question Institute have a developed a wonderfully simple, fun, and highly effective exercise designed to encourage students to generate lots of questions. The process is explained in detail in Rothstein and Santana's book Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions -a must-read for teachers or anyone interested in improving education.

As school districts around the country consider investments in technology in an effort to improve student outcomes, a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that technology - when implemented properly -can produce significant gains in student achievement and boost engagement, particularly among students most at risk.

Michelle Pearson is a Teacher and Preservationist who was the 2011 Colorado Teacher of the Year and the 2008 Colorado Apex Technology Teacher of the Year. Laura Israelsen is a Teacher Librarian and 21st Century Learning teacher at Hulstrom Options K-8 School She was Head Teacher-Librarian of the 2010 Colorado Library of the Year.

Ancient civilizations quizzes and worksheets for preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade and 5th grade kids

As the new year approaches, the thought on everyone's mind is how to make 2015 even more interactive, educational, and engaging for STEM students than the past year. Indeed, it has become a national priority to develop new ways to entice students to STEM careers and offer engaging ways to teach STEM that dismantles old and less-effective learning methods.

Google Slides is an amazing tool to teach with. There are so many applications and unique ways to use Google Slides. Below is a crowdsourced presentation started by myself and @htullman of ways to use Google Slides to teach. Feel free to add a slide and to use the Slides presentation yourself!

Given space limitations, the illustrative texts listed above are meant only to show individual titles that are representative of a range of topics and genres. (See Appendix B for excerpts of these and other texts illustrative of grades 6-12 text complexity, quality, and range.)

We want students to move in class. Energizing Brain Breaks help students to be active in class and get refocused and refreshed. They are 1-2 minute brain and body breaks that are simple to implement in your classroom. They are perfect for your students as a transition exercise.

Without question, the Internet has changed the way we think and learn, and will continue to do so as our technology evolves. In particular, the ability to access enormous amounts of information at any time from almost any place is forcing schools to redefine the idea of a classroom and the way we approach teaching.

You are told your life is going to be special. You are told you will live the high life filled with beauty and glamor, money and more admiration than you can stomach. It is exciting. You are introduced to women who are older than you, and they are pretty.

I've been asked this question a lot and I hate it. I'll describe why in a bit, but for now I'll just change it to "does your mind do more or less the same thing when you listening to an audio book and when you read print?" The short answer is "mostly."