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This article is about MERIT, a one-year program for educators of grades 4 through 12 that teaches teachers how to best utilize and integrate innovative technology in the classroom.

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Find out how schools are using iPads to provide special education students and their families a lower cost device that can assist them with communication and much more. Specific app titles are suggested for use.

Social media can be a wonderful way to generate student engagement in learning, but still must be introduced in a way that will excite students to participate.

A scientific study of the educational practicality of online education versus conventional face-to-face, brick and mortar environments. Issues of retention as well as escalated drop-out rates for online education are evaluated.

Sophia uses Web 2.0 tools and methods to create a crowd-sourced platform where information is organized in "learning packets" - bite-sized tutorials tagged to specific academic subjects or topics, including standards-aligned objectives. The packets can be created by anyone, anywhere using text, images, presentations, video, audio and more. Packets are rated for quality and evaluated for academic soundness by users and experts within the community.

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There are games and lesson plans designed by retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor . I suggest teachers choose a grade level as some of the subject matter could be for older students. Students can take the role in a court and argue an issue. I tried a sample and it was arguing for or against locker searches in school (students got to choose their side) Good for critical thinking. Many lesson plans about how our democracy works and history including branches of government, voting, and other civic topics.

This article is about the Big6 and how to use it with Web2. They talk about how to use the Big6 with email, online discussions, real-time communications, desktop teleconferencing and collaborative writing. It fits into the Research and Information Fluency Remixed. I liked the format on another site http://www.librarymediaconnection.com/pdf/lmc/reviews_and_articles/featured_articles/Eisenberg_May_June2010.pdf but found I had to put the address into Google in order to access it. The URL did not work.

A study showing how social networking is contributing to cheating.

There is so much information available now to people that plagiarism is easier and more tempting.

"Plagiarism is cheating, it is dishonest, and it is unethical." The first way to avoid students from plagiarizing is to set clear expectations in a written format that provides concrete examples. There are programs such as Glatt Plagarism Services that can be used to detect plagerism. By giving students a good background on the importance of citing ideas, topics, and quotes and providing them with how to cite correctly, they will be less tempted to plagiarize. As educators we can take many steps to provide support for our students so that they do not plagiarize.

Teachers and students using social networks for curricular work.

I use Edmodo as a social media "tool" to use as an extension of my classroom and the students love it.

This is a new solution (beta testing starts today) to help users improve information literacy. It is designed to give users a simplified and smart process for locating, anayzying and utilizing the right information. In addition it will increase dialogue between librarians, students and faculty - further engaging each in the process.

Canadian site. Tons of info here on media literacy, e.g. "Media Literacy: What is it? Why teach it?", lots of instructional and resource ideas.

I like how this site has options for many age ranges.