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This is yet another Webquest on World Hunger done by a student to help other students recognize important issues like world hunger. She utilizes an article from the United Nations. 

A Webquest found through using Google about World Hunger. 

A webquest on World Hunger - Something that might be hard to talk about in schools because some of our own students might be hungry - but vey important!

This is a great article on what our students, the "Digital Natives" can teach us about technology! I have highlighted what I found to be the most interesting and insightful quotes from the article!

A collection of maps related to Internet use

This is a great video about children asking if their teachers are prepared to teach them about technolgy 

Thanks Sharon, I thought that it was a great video too, and I liked the kids eyes and faces he made! haha I didn't even know he was pointing to a place in Canada, good job picking up on that !

Are we prepared to teach the "Digital Natives"? This is such a cute video I couldn't help but share. The young boy asks a very important question- are we preparing our students to enter the digital world?

Interesting editorial accompanying recent research suggesting fast-paced cartoons impacted children's executive functioning. Notes the competing viewpoint--the digital native generation is adapting to the "ways that will make it well suited to the fast-paced world they will grow to inherit"

Part 2 of the Prensky's 2001 articles on Digital Natives. This one focuses on scientific evidence to back up what he said in part one. It also includes this interesting quote about the attention span of digital natives, which seems to contradict other research on multi-tasking: "Their attention spans are  not short for games, for example, or for anything else that actually interests them. As a result of their experiences Digital Natives crave interactivity-an immediate response to their each and every action. Traditional schooling provides very little of this compared to the rest of their world (one study showed that students in class get to ask a question every 10 hours). So it generally isn't that Digital Natives can't pay attention, it's that they choose not to."

Interesting read on the school's role of preparing students for the cyber world.

Here are some cool infographics about the world population.

Copyright do's and don'ts

An interesting commentary on what digital natives are doing with technology. It seems a little too optimistic, however, but the possibilities for positive enrichment for kids and teens with technology is compelling.

How can you protect your students' online privacy?

Example of data visualization applied in the real world.

I just thought this was really cool and possibly a way to introduce a unit on oceans

Great site for maps, maps, and more maps! Map puzzles too. 

Fabulous resource for Asian art collection, education resources and program information. Great for units about China, Japan, India, and other cultures. "On-line home of one of the largest museums in the western world devoted exclusively to Asian art and culture"