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Journalist Maggie Farley has created a game called Factitious -- modeled after the dating application Tinder -- to help people distinguish between fake news and real journalism. Farley designed the game for middle- and high-school students, but she says it can be useful for all ages.

Insights from Our Office Aaron Weyenberg is the master of slide decks. Our UX Lead creates Keynote presentations that are both slick and charming-the kind that pull you in and keep you captivated, but in an understated way that helps you focus on what's actually being said.

IT Trends An Interview with the Center for Democracy & Technology's Michelle De Mooy To help school administrators, families, technology companies and state legislators sort through the patchwork quilt of state legislation on student privacy, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), an advocacy group, has developed a state-by-state survey of student privacy laws in partnership with the law firm BakerHostetler.

It's a number that tends to jumps out at you: one in every five students has dyslexia. That means there's bound to be at least one student with some sort of reading difficulty in pretty much every classroom. But teachers may not know how to help these students.

I just came across this wonderful graphic and thought you might like to have a look as well. This is a work done by our colleague Susan Xnevad. The graphic is designed in such a way to help teachers learn more about how to use SAMR model to integrate technology in education.

Some key goals for literacy are reading comprehension, being able to identify main ideas, and summarization skills. There are many excellent practices that can help students develop these abilities. Recently I came across a creative technique called " Text Reduction Strategy" ( see the article here by Andrea Heick at TeachThought).

I love this tool. It allows me to store my articles online, highlight, draw or write right on it, share with others. Allows for easy sign in with google, great for my students' research and close reading online skills. "Free PDF editor, online in your browser, desktop or mobile. Edit & share PDFs for free, send faxes from the browser - even on iPhone or iPad. No software, no commitment, & no strings attached."

Thanks for posting this! It's really helping me out.

great article about how to help students pick a good book.

I would share this resource during a PD session with teachers - they can use to find all sorts of lessons about a variety of subjects and topics. It can be searched by subject, topic, and/or standards. Helpful when you are looking for a lesson.