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Digital tools. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. Ipad. Education - Apps. Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally. The Interactive Whiteboard for iPad. Classroom Management, Monitoring, and Corporate Training Software. Common Core Curriculum Maps. These digital resources and tools for creating, collaborating, researching, and sharing can be found in the Common Core Curriculum Maps.

Common Core Curriculum Maps

This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, as the technologies are constantly evolving. Consider it a beginning! Free Online Resources Bookmarking These programs allow teachers to store bookmarks in one place, and allow others to access them. Edmodo Edmodo is an easy and engaging way to manage assignments, provide a way for students to communicate and create an online classroom. Edmodo Glogster Students can easily create and share interactive posters. Glogster Google Docs Google Docs is “storage in the clouds” — a place that allows many students to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms.

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Common Core Online. Beginner 1: Picking the right search terms. Tablets in the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year - Peter Kafka - Media. Data Visualization and Infographics Resources - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Data visualizations and infographics can make complex datasets easier to understand and comprehend.

Data Visualization and Infographics Resources - Smashing Magazine

By creating a graphical represenatation of data and statistics, complicated concepts and information can make more sense in less time. Many visualizations focus on representing a specific set of data or statistical information. Others focus on less-concrete topics, providing a visual representation of abstract concepts. Generally speaking, the first type appear more like graphs or charts and the latter are often more creative and imaginative. But visualizations and infographics can be used poorly, too. Also consider our previous articles: Classroom 2.0.

iPad AND iPod Resources and Lessons. 20 Interesting Ways* to use an iPad in the Classroom. THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education. Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Bloomin' Apps. This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.I have created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others.

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Bloomin' Apps

Cogs of the Cognitive Processes. Obama wants schools to speed digital transition. The Obama administration is asking every U.S. school to accelerate the transition to digital textbooks.

Obama wants schools to speed digital transition

Obama's goal: an e-textbook in every student's hand by 2017. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will recommend today at a summit of industry and education officials that states modify the textbook adoption process, allowing K-12 schools to use taxpayer funding once reserved for printed books on iPads, Kindles and the like — as well as software.

They'll begin pushing publishers, computer tablet makers and Internet service providers to work together and lower costs if they want to sell their products to the nation's 50 million schoolkids. Administration officials say Web-connected instructional materials help students learn more efficiently and give teachers real-time information on how well kids understand material. Matt MacInnis, founder and CEO of the e-textbook company Inkling, says the transition is essential. Mobile Education and the Wireless Industry. At the recent CTIA WIRELESS show in New Orleans I was so astounded by how wireless has truly revolutionized the area of mobile education that I thought it would make sense to briefly investigate the intersection of mobile broadband and education.

We visited a local public school in Arlington, Virginia to get a sense of how they are integrating this new tool into their lesson plans. We also just filed a paper with the FCC describing the benefits of mobile education and highlighting several of the advantages that arise out of employing mobile devices in a classroom setting. Gone are the days of blackboards and chalk and in are the days of iPads and smartphones. We visited a math class where everyone in the room had their iPad, Nintendo DS or iPod Touch out, ready to participate in the next interactive activity to facilitate the day’s lesson.

You should check out the video . Free homework help, online interactive learning games and student resources. 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom. Pages Friday, October 7, 2011 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom.

39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom

Apps in Education. iPad Apps for Education. Add As the first real contender in the category of streamlined computing tablets, the iPad has captured its share of hype. The iPad’s potential remains undeniable, particularly in education. Education is discovery, education is interaction, and education is exploration. These are all activities facilitated by the iPad. And it is easy enough to use to be effective in early childhood education. I believe that the ultimate goal of the iPad (and its future ilk) is to be so intuitive that the user will forget they are interacting with a piece of technology. The iPad (or any technology) will not replace live instruction, as some have suggested, anytime soon.

iPads in Education. iPads in the Classroom. Florida digital testing push: Florida schools seek more technology amid state push for digital texts and testing. By Erica Rodriguez, Orlando Sentinel 10:25 p.m.

Florida digital testing push: Florida schools seek more technology amid state push for digital texts and testing

EST, July 1, 2012 Students at Lake Minneola High School spent the year reading from shiny, new iPads instead of textbooks, something many say helped them stay engaged with schoolwork. At the first-year school in Lake County, almost 2,000 gadgets infiltrated the classrooms. Theater students rehearsed with iPads instead of paper scripts, and math students could watch their teacher via pre-recorded videos from home. Your World. Your Books.

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iPads in Education.