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Create animations with ABCya Animate

Create animations with ABCya Animate | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"ABCya Animate  is a fun tool from ABCya that enables students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames. On ABCya Animate ..."

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RWT flip book - Free flip book creator for klids

RWT flip book - Free flip book creator for klids | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Read Write Think offers a lot of great tools to help you get your students interested in writing. One of those tools is the RWT Flip Book ..."

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Twelve educational technology concepts every teacher should know

Twelve educational technology concepts every teacher should know | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Incorporating technology into the elementary and middle school classroom ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: Character Scrapbook - A template for reflecting on stories

Free Technology for Teachers: Character Scrapbook - A template for reflecting on stories | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Scholastic's Character Scrapbook provides a nice template that elementary school students can use to write about and reflect on the characters in their favorite stories  ..."

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Forty of the best elementary learning apps for students

Forty of the best elementary learning apps for students | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
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Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Dice - A fun math activity on iPads

Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Dice - A fun math activity on iPads | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"5 Dice - A Fun Math Activity on iPads via Free Technology for Teachers - 5 Dice is a nice iPad app .."

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Using computers widens the achievement gap in writing, a federal study finds - The Hechinger Report

Using computers widens the achievement gap in writing, a federal study finds - The Hechinger Report | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Can elementary-school children show off their best writing on a computer? The research arm of the U.S. Department of Education was curious to learn just that. In 2012 it handed out laptop computers to more than 10,000 fourth-graders and asked them to complete two 30-minute writing assignments ..."

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"The use of the computer may have widened the writing achievement gap."

Students in the 20110 research were different than the 2012 students but the large samples of students adjusted to mirror the nation's demographics give trustworthy research. 

Schools should try to spend some time teaching young student how to type and edit on a keyboard to prepare them for annual tests by computers. 

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Amy Argenal's comment, April 28, 2016 10:24 AM
Great way to use the prompts! And always have 3 points!
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The social media game elementary school students should be playing | Tech Learning

The social media game elementary school students should be playing | Tech Learning | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I'm a student voice advocate. Fortunately, my employer supports this and as such, we have been incorporating the voice of students in the guidelines around social media (You can see the teen guidelines at schools.nyc.gov/socialmedia) ..."


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PuppetMaster - A great app for creating animated movies

PuppetMaster - A great app for creating animated movies | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"PuppetMaster is a free iPad app that kids can use to create animated movies. The app is designed for elementary school students and ..."

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Eight must-have elementary school apps and tools

Eight must-have elementary school apps and tools | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Introducing elementary students to technology can be a great way to bring some fun into the classroom. With the right apps and tools, educational technology can help elementary students learn basic skills or practice math and reading ..."

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  1. Flocabulary
  2. PopGeo USA Geography
  3. TeachMe Kindergarten
  4. SpellingCity
  5. Story Creator
  6. Sushi Monster
  7. Todo Math
  8. News-O-Matic
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Evaluating websites as information sources

Evaluating websites as information sources | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Using a six-point strategy, teachers can help students learn about responsible web research by assessing the validity of most information that they’ll encounter online ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: My three favorite video creation iPad apps for elementary school

Free Technology for Teachers: My three favorite video creation iPad apps for elementary school | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Over the last month I have spoken at conferences all over the United States. Creating videos with students is was the topic of one of my most popular break-out sessions during that time. ..."

  1. ChatterPix Kids
  2. Tellagami
  3. Shadow Puppet Edu
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Design thinking for kids

Design thinking for kids | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"New products and programs introduce elementary students to design thinking, though little research exists on its effectiveness ..."

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Cool Tool | Bookopolis

Cool Tool | Bookopolis | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"This is a kid-friendly social network and book discovery tool that ignites a love of reading in elementary and middle school students. It’s like Goodreads made just for young people with built-in edtech tools for teachers ..."

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Free Technology for Teachers: Jellybean writer - An online tool for creating picture books

Free Technology for Teachers: Jellybean writer - An online tool for creating picture books | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it
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Toward a childproof Internet

Toward a childproof Internet | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"A handful of entrepreneurs are trying to build web services for young children, including at a company called Kuddle, which has a mobile photo-sharing application aimed at the elementary and middle school set ..."

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