Technology and Information Literacy
Re-imagining education may require re-imagining work
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Top Stops on the InfoLit Highway
- Common Sense Media Absolutely current. This site is an essential guide for information literacy, what to do, and what not to do. Teachers click here.
- NetSmartz Workshop Sponsored by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, this is a lifesaver site. Each subsite is specifically designed for: teens, tweens, kids, parents, and teachers.
- Creative Commons Resources for Teachers When you need to use copyright free images, video or music, you are probably using Creative Commons licensing in which licensing rights are given in advance. Learn how to use them.
- CLRN The California Learning Resources Network (CLRN) is your must-see site for before buying software.
- Citation Machine. This site helps both students and teachers learn how to cite research.
- American Association of School Librarians AASL provides a world of information. Check out their Toolkits.
- Infopeople Resources Free technology, library and information resources.
- Computer Science & Business for Middle School See what a middle school can do.
Tech Resources and Tools
Mind/ShiftDedicated to exploring how we think and learn. Sponsored by PBS station KQED. Focus on Tablets: The following Mind/Shift blogs explore the Someday/Monday dichotomy that teachers face, that is, how does one move from theory (sounds very cool; I’ll do it someday) to concrete application (it’s time to plan my lesson activity for Monday morning). They developed a compelling model that progresses from consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection.
Starting one-to-one:
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- Edudemic’s Best Technology Resources
- Click your area of choice: Best iOS Apps, Best Android Apps, Best Tablets, Best Laptops for Teachers.
- Teacher’s Guides to Technology and Learning
- Edutopia Exceptionally rich online magazine resource. Follow educational trends, project based learning or technology integration. Sponsored by the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
- Infinite Thinking Machine A high energy Internet TV show. Creative, innovative, engaging. Sponsored by Computer Using Educators (CUE).
- Intel Tools for Student Centered Learning Intel has been sponsoring the development of high quality teaching and learning tools for years.
- Check out Visual Ranking Tool, Showing Evidence Tool, and Seeing Reason Tool, and the Assessing Projects Tool.
- Collaboration The hallmark of modern technology in education may be the ease of interaction and collaboration. There are many tools to accomplish this.
- Google Drive Any Google Doc can be shared with another Google user. (Must have a Gmail account.) Real time collaboration.
- Blogs Have something to say? Start your own blog. Edublogs is great and targeted to education. You may choose any of a number of platforms. Google provides the free Blogger. Of course, WordPress is still the standard for many professionals (and it is what I use for Rick’s Blog). All are free.
- Twitter Used more and more as a back channel and educational tool.
- Wikis Try either PBWorks or Wikispaces. Here is an education case study.
- Tech Spotlight: Using what you see
- Teach better and more effectively with current technology
- Google Apps for Education: Deployment Guide This comprehensive guide produced by Google is primarily designed for IT administrators, but anyone who wants to know more about what goes on under the hood might take a look.
Cross-Curricular Resources
- Khan Academy Although the emphasis is on math and science, you can learn most subjects (including computer science) online using the video tool that has helped transform teaching and learning.
- FREE Federal Registry for Educational Excellence is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It is truly encyclopedic in scope, yet it is very well organized and easy to search.
- McREL Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), once a Federally sponsored regional education lab. provides excellent resources from lesson plans to research journals.
- WestEd Once a regional educational lab under the Federal government, it provides excellent resources for research about teaching and learning.
- Schrockguide Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything maintains a list of excellent Internet resources organized by Subject Access. It is extremely easy to navigate. You will also find Teacher’s Helpers and Kathy’s own new picks of the month. This site is a “must bookmark” for all.