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Lists Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources to help readers get started in Mobile Learning (mLearning).

Well, which one are you?

These essays are outstanding examples of the words and thoughts of great teachers.

The days of shuffling that 10-pound textbook to class or those countless fiction novels in your backpack are coming to a close. Check out these five digital text services.

For Scott Newcomb, a fourth-grade teacher at St. Marys Intermediate School in St. Marys, Ohio, using smartphones in the classroom helps him teach math to his technology-savvy students in new ways.

Find out the technical and instructional implications of the iPad in the classroom.

Bookemon is a great website for educators. It allows its users to create, read and share books online. It is basically a " personal, digital and professioanlly printed book creation and sharing utility." Users can easily, without the need for any HTML coding or any other advanced technological wizardry, upload their graphics, documents, photos and turn them into awesome books. If you are looking for a free platform where you can get free tools to create your books and also host them then Bookemon is the right solution for you.

For all of their benefits, paper textbooks are heavy, expensive, and often out of date by the time students get hold of them. Like I said on 1/19/12, "Game-changer"

Frog Dissection is an ethical and educative alternative to real animal dissections. Available for desktops, laptops, Macs, iPads, netbooks and interactive whiteboards, students can learn all about frogs and their biological functions, without unnecessary loss to animal life.

Released in August 2011, Cell & Cell Structure has helped middle school students understand the intricate functions of the smallest form of life. Cell and Cell Structure provides an in-depth understanding of cell functioning and structure, supported by interactive activities to test recollection and emphasize cell parts and functions. Specifically designed for middle-school students, this app complements life-science curriculum.

Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. While many teachers are spending hours a day creating their own activities for their interactive whiteboards, there are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students.

Dollar General Literacy Foundation Summer Reading Grants provide funding to local nonprofit organizations and libraries to help with the implementation or expansion of summer reading programs.

New Rules -- and Labels -- for Schools
Under No Child Left Behind, all New Jersey schools were determined to have made or not made “adequate yearly progress” (AYP) targets among every subset of children. If they did not -- and last year about half of all schools did not -- the schools faced a range of sanctions as more years passed.

Under the new system, New Jersey schools will now be divided into five categories, each with their own consequences:

Priority Schools: The 5 percent lowest-performing schools in overall achievement, give or take some leeway for those showing progress. 

Focus Schools: The next 10 percent of schools with the widest gaps in achievement between different subsets of students. 

At Risk Schools: Another 5 percent of schools that are on the cusp of being Focus or Priority schools, where they failed to meet progress targets for two consecutive years. 

Reward Schools: The schools in the top 10 percent of achievement overall or having the narrowest achievement gaps.

A new review of the research about The Incredible Years, an intervention composed of training programs for children, parents, and teachers intended to reduce children's aggression and improve their social skills, has found no clear conclusions can be drawn about the program's effectiveness for preschool age children with disabilities.