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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.

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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.

Brain breaks have been all the rage for quite some time now. We've learned that regularly incorporating short movement activities into the instructional day not only allows children to get their 'wiggles' out, but energizes them and increases their ability to focus on the next learning activity as well.

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.

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As experienced teachers, we've been conditioned to reach for curriculum when we have something new to bring to the classroom. But as digital age educators, we also know that kids do best when they can learn something authentically, by figuring out their own answers to real-world problems that are relevant to their lives.

By converting our sims to HTML5, we make them seamlessly available across platforms and devices. Whether you have laptops, iPads, chromebooks, or BYOD, your favorite PhET sims are always right at your fingertips.Become part of our mission today, and transform the learning experiences of students everywhere!

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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.

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.

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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.