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just like the titles advertises: free technology for teachers : )

Definitely a great place to start when looking for free tech in the teaching community for your school.

This week I am hosting some guest bloggers. This is a guest post from Susan Myers. A group from an intellectually disabled class visits the media center once a week. During the year, we made bird houses, conducted science experiments, used the catalog to locate books, and listened to stories.

This interview outlines how games can be used in math to differentiate instruction and provide helpful methods for learning math.

How Math Games Can Help Target Key Instruction Areas

Dr. Nanci Smith talks about the use of math games to differentiate instructions and reinforce skills.

Asking open ended questions was a topic that came up in my recent evaluation by my administer. This is a great resource for addressing this topic.

Two veteran educators from Fairfax County, V.A. are in the process of writing a book using anecdotal data from their experiences on how they believe the introduction of smart phones has severely decreased critical thinking and engaged learning in their respective classrooms. Joe Clement and Matt Miles "say the free periods that are part of their school schedule have deteriorated from lively talk among students and teachers to silent screen reading, each student in a little world," according to The Washington Post.

Here are some great ideas or teaching the children's' book the Polar Express.

Anne Beckwith

A support page for the presentation Digital Storytelling meets the CCSS

Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge. This page includes links to support the use of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning. If you find a link that is not working, please let me know the title and I will fix it.And, if you have another great digital storytelling site to share, let me know as well!