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ARGs Rock!
Attention Gamers! This new ARG allows you to explore history while playing. What’s an ARG you ask? If you are not familiar with Alternate Reality Games? Visit...
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High-Tech Teaching in a Low-Tech Classroom
By Jennifer L. Barnett As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. But in many districts, the one-computer...
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Living and Learning with New Media
I love the MacArthur Foundation because they fund the coolest things. In this case it began as a five year 50 Million dollar initiative that began in 2006. One of the products of this initiative was a...
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Eschool News: How to teach young children in the digital age
Tech-savvy younger students need equally tech-savvy teachers, says a new report that makes several recommendations for rebooting early learning From staff and wire reports Read more by staff and wire...
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WhizIQ: 5 Uses of QR Codes in the Classroom
You’re probably used to seeing one-dimensional, traditional bar codes printed on clothes or groceries. Today, Quick Response (or QR) codes are coming into fashion. These 2-dimensional codes consist of...
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T&L: Curation is the new search: seven tools you may not know you can search...
by Joyce Valenza This year, I am teaching my kids to curate. While this is an exciting way for learners to discover how to manage their information worlds by consciously selecting and aggregating a...
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Know Your Meme
by KellyAnn Bonnell Teaching means learning a new vocabulary every few years. Keeping up with what is relevant in the lives of today’s student can be a challenge. Here’s a great resource that will keep...
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News Literacy Project: Free Professional Development Webinar
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an innovative national educational program that mobilizes seasoned journalists to work with educators to teach middle school and high school students how to sort fact...
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Center for Independent Thought: Stossel in the Classroom
by KellyAnn Bonnell Recently I ran across a new resource that I think some of you might really like. Stossel in the Classroom provides a DVD and Teachers Guide of segments John Stossel has done that...
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Recently I stumbled on to a podcast that combines movies with psychological traits. This is the kind of information that can be really valuable when an educator is looking to ingrate popular culture...
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