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Teaching Copyright. As today's tech-savvy teens become increasingly involved with technology and the Internet for learning, work, civic engagement, and entertainment, it is vital to ensure that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities under copyright law and also how the law affects creativity and innovation.

Teaching Copyright

This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Purely Paperless. Make math meaningful, make math interactive…but most of all, make math FUN! The Ed Tech Roundup - The Roundup.

Library Lessons. We’ve been planning for quite some time to implement a cross-curricular research project with our sixth graders.

Library Lessons

This year, the project has finally come to life. Over the summer, all of our incoming sixth graders were required to read Wonder by R.J. Palacio. All of the content areas started the year using the content and themes from this book as an anchor. The Daring Librarian. Interesting Ways. Frit7234 - Twitter Search. Middle School Library Lessons on Pinterest. School Library Media Center on Pinterest. Chris Lehmann - Inquiry: The Very First Step In the Process of Learning. Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy (SLA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Chris Lehmann - Inquiry: The Very First Step In the Process of Learning

In November of 2012, Chris was named one of Dell's #Inspire100 - one of the 100 people changing the world using Social Media. In April of 2012, Chris won the Lindback Award for Excellence in Principal Leadership in the School District of Philadelphia. Tutorials. Georgia’s Virtual Library...bringing quality content to you!

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Video Tutorials Other Videos. Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo. Science of NFL Football: Pythagorean Theorem. Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes. JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template. CC Search. Math at the Core: Middle School. Mathalicious. Smithsonian Science Education Center - Middle School Teaching Resources. Middle School (Grades 6-8) Science Activities, Lesson Plans, Worksheets & Handouts.

Educational Games & Educational Activities for Kids. Buzzmath - Middle School Math Practice. Anytime, Anywhere. Middle School (Grades 6-8) Math Activities, Lesson Plans, Worksheets & Handouts. Middle School Math Blogs. Twitter – Follow @jreulbach Check out the fabulous middle school math teachers below!

Middle School Math Blogs

These teachers believe in the #MTBoS gift culture community as promoted by Dan, Kate, Sam, Fawn, Megan and every other math teaching blogger that I follow. We all give and share freely on our blogs and at webinars like Global Math. If you know of (or HAVE) your own fabulous Middle School Math blog and would like to be a part of our community – PLEASE add it to the comments below so I can add you to my page!

I Speak Math Materials by Julie Reulbach is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Share this: Fast Times of a Middle School Math Teacher. GamesSimsSocNets_EdArcade.pdf. Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) The following fun and engaging activities were designed to help you promote your library and engage youngsters at the same time!

Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

The contest, game, and scavenger hunt documents can be easily customized to suit your needs/library. Letterboxing | Poetry | Bookmark Contest | Mad Libs | Scavenger Hunts | Readers Theater "How to" Guide and Scripts | Letterboxing 15 Ways to Use Poetry @ your library® Poetry Programs @ your library® Bookmark Contest - Entry form for hosting a bookmark design contest with a theme of "So much to See. Bookmark Contest - Similar to the above entry form but the contest is not judged by children. 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom. Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry.

They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies. The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons. 1. Tweet about upcoming due dates or assignments. One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes. 2.

AASL_Learning_Standards_2007.pdf. Technology Integration Ideas that Work. Technology has become integrated in the classroom in so many ways, that we often don't even think about how we are using it.

Technology Integration Ideas that Work

The Education World Tech Team offers lessons and activities to help educators make better use of technology tools for instruction, and to help students improve their technology skills within the context of the regular curriculum. Free Technology for Teachers.

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom. Page 2. This awesome self-assessment was created by some awesome people in the State of California was adapted from the Technology Skills Matrix for students.

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Essentially, the idea is that “if students are to know these skills in various areas of technology at different grade levels, teachers and administrators should be proficient as well. This assessment can be … Continue reading. 15 Examples Of New Technology In Education. 8 Examples Of New Technology In Education by TeachThought Staff What latest gadgets and gizmos are going to change your classroom?

15 Examples Of New Technology In Education

Technology Tools. Education World offers new technology content every day.

Technology Tools

Some of our pieces related to technology tools can be found in this archive. We do update these aritcles reguarly, but given the changing nature of technology, we cannot promse that every piece will be on the cutting edge. Please visit our technology front page for the latest, most up-to-date tech stories. Social Media in the Classroom? In this information age, we can now talk to each other in ways we never imagined. Five for Fun Lots of image generators are available on the Web. Hardware and Software Essentials We asked members of the Education World Tech Team to tell us what hardware and software they consider essential -- or invaluable -- for todays educator? 10 Emerging Educational Technologies & How They Are Being Used Across the Globe. For over a decade, the New Media Consortium (NMC) has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale.

The NMC’s advisory board includes 750 technology experts and faculty members from colleges and universities in 40 countries, and is supported by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The NMC’s latest research efforts, the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition and the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition, were released this spring, and together highlight ten emerging technologies that will impact education over the course of the next five years: cloud computing, mobile learning, learning analytics, open content, 3D printing, MOOCs, virtual and remote laboratories, games and gamification, tablet computing, and wearable technology.

As an educator, you have probably heard about many of these technologies, if not all of them. Content Curation Tools. 10 Must Have Resources to Teach about Copyright and Fair Use. 1- Copyright Advisory Network. University of New Haven : Integrating Instructional Technology Into the Classroom. Introduction Teaching and learning can be enhanced through the effective use of technology. SLJ Reviews Duolingo for Schools. Duolingo has just released Duolingo for Schools for grades 6 and up, based on its very appealing free site for foreign language learners. The site hopes to become a top tool for language teachers and students.

Current offerings are English, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, and French, and the incubator shows other languages in the works. Duolingo uses a mixture of activities; students listen, speak, read, and type in a simple interface as they work through words and phrases. How Do You Know Your Students 'Got It'? - Work in Progress. The learning target was clearly labeled and expressed in more than one way. The lesson went according to plan; it was flawless. Students appeared to really understand what was going on. Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. Skip navigation. Teaching Copyright. Plagiarism Scavenger Hunt. Ethical Use In The 21st Century. Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.

If you've got lessons plans, videos, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. Plagiarism In The Classroom: Teaching Students About Plagiarism. For avoiding plagiarism lesson plans … ReadWriteThink provides teachers with a lesson plan for instructing students on the definition of plagiarism, the importance of citing sources, acceptable methods for paraphrasing and more. Literacy Strategies. Gradual Release of Responsibility Model for Strategy Instruction. Steps to Creating a Teacher-Powered School Guide.

Skip to main content teacher-poweredadjective. Learning technology for Math, Engineering, Science & Tech. Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual ... - Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey. Thoughts on education by Grant Wiggins. School Library Annual Reports: Connecting the Dots Between Your Library And Student Learning.

ProjectRED_TheTechnolgyFactor.pdf. Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning. If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the role of this institution? “Our whole reason for showing up for school has changed, but infrastructure has stayed behind,” said Diana Laufenberg, who taught history at the progressive public school Science Leadership Academy for many years.

Teacher Librarian. Teach Me: Student-Led Instruction Strategies. Creative Commons. NASA: Practical Uses of Math And Science (PUMAS) Connecting to Math in Real Life. Rethinking the Role of the Literacy Leader. The world's largest reviewer of books, multimedia, and technology for children and teens.

Education World: National Library Week Activities.