The Media Awareness Network has designed materials to help teach digital literacy skills that include "managing online safety and privacy, understanding intellectual property and copyright, behaving ethically online, researching and authenticating online information, managing online relationships, dealing with cyberbullying, understanding and recognizing online hate, identifying and deconstructing online marketing, and knowing how to harness technology to speak out on issues that you believe in."
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The Mission statement of Assistive Media is "to contribute to the educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standards for people with disabilities by producing and providing free-of-charge previously published journalistic and short subject literary works in easily accessible spoken-word audio through the highest standards of nonprofit service." (Image from http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=2352)
"Pronunciator (http://www.pronunciator.com) is a free and comprehensive self-paced language-learning program offering 3 million self-guided lessons across 60 languages. Each lesson is accompanied by a native speaker, a culture-neutral pictogram, and a translation in your selected language."
Check out this MindMeister map that provides links to free online tools including images, videos, collaboration, talking notes, bookmarks, brainstorming/mind mapping, communication, office software, search engines/information, audio, store/share, and maps.
"Welcome to the BalancEdTech wiki! We believe educators must be knowledgeable and comfortable with curriculum, pedagogy, and technology in order to "teach". Our blog posts, articles, presentations, workshops, and consulting focus on helping educators weave curriculum, pedagogy, and technology into engaging and rigorous learning. We also believe people learn best by doing AND reflecting, both of which are integral to our workshops." (Workshops available at wiki.)
Welcome to the new daily puzzle from Google. There is no right way to solve it, but there's only one right answer. Find the answer with your creativity and clever search skills.
NaturalReader is a text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. In other words, it allows you to listen to text instead of reading the screen!
The Creative Storytelling Platform - The most interesting stories tend to be the ones that deviate, go off-track a little, and take a tangent. It makes a story richer.
"CiteThisForMe is a free generator tool designed to help students prepare their whole bibliography or reference list quickly and easily. It uses the Harvard referencing style, one of the most common referencing styles in academia."
Thanks to the Internet, you don’t have to take on mountains of debt to snag a piece of that educational pie. Many Ivy League schools have online coursework available for free.
"Texting in school is a very popular topic with people able to argue both sides. Some schools are teaching text speak or SMS in school. The students put together glossaries and compare their versions to the formal written language. Many might argue but listed below are ten reasons schools should teach text speak."
"At Visionlearning, we've developed a set of peer-reviewed materials for learning science including modular readings, interactive multimedia, and a glossary - all available for free on the web in both English and Spanish."
UNESCO has put out a publication, Media and Information Literacy, that “is pioneering for two reasons. First, it is forward looking, drawing on present trends toward the convergence of radio, television, Internet, newspapers, books, digital archives and libraries into one platform – thereby, for the first time, presenting MIL in a holistic manner. Second, it is specifically designed with teachers in mind and for integration into the formal teacher education system, thus launching a catalytic process which should reach and build capacities of millions of young people.”
"Augmented Reality seems popular at the moment although many people think it is still beyond our reach as content providers. This has changed recently with the development of a new range of Apps that allow you to implement AR features on your iPad. Have a look at the three we have featured here for a peek at the way educational information could be presented."
Combine 29 fifth graders, 15 iPads, and one gifted teacher and what do you get? A truly transformed classroom. Also available as an eBook for iOS devices: ht...
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