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Teach With Technology: Everything You Need
Tips, ideas, and activities for facilitating learning through the use of interactive whiteboards, computers, and other technologies in your classroom
Interactive Whiteboard 101 — A Resource of Activities for Math Instruction
Grades:
Bring your math curriculum to life with your interactive whiteboard. In my last post, "Whiteboards 101: A Resource of Activities for Literacy Instruction," I shared numerous literacy Web sites and games to use on your interactive whiteboard. This week, click "read more" to see an extensive list of math games that will have your students out of their seats, up at the board, and exploring math concepts.
Blog Posts
Interactive Whiteboard 101: A Resource of Activities for Literacy Instruction
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Web-based lessons, activities, and literacy games to use on your classroom's interactive whiteboard
Computer Lab Activities
Computer Lab Favorites Student Spinner
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
Use these 50 fun activities to introduce a topic or enliven your computer lab time.
 Articles Do Your Students Know More About Technology Than You Do?Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 The new digital divide is not between the haves and have-nots. It's between kids and grown-ups. |
 Articles Inspiring Ways With WhiteboardsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Here is one school’s story of how to integrate interactive whiteboards into your current curriculum. |
 Book Lists Technology Tools, Organizers & TemplatesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Technology tools, organizers, and templates for teachers to use in the classroom. |
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 Blog Posts Five Fabulous Ways to Integrate TechnologyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Five quick fixes for teaching 21st-century skills in a low-tech classroom |
 Blog Posts Technology and the Great OutdoorsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 This summer, rather than venture outside, many students will succumb to television-induced comas or play an endless series of video games.... |
 Blog Posts Putting the Wow in Your Open HouseGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Flip videos, photo slideshows, webcameras and other techonology tools to help make your open house a success. |
 Articles The 6 Online Research Skills Your Students NeedGrades: 6–8 Techniques and strategies to fine-tune your students' online research skills |
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 Blog Posts Teaching Writing — Choosing TopicsGrades: 1–2, 3–5
This week I visited a classroom in a rural school up near the Vermont-Massachusetts border. While I was there, I struck up a conversation... |
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 Blog Posts Using Technology to Teach HolidaysGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Get ready to laugh, learn, and click links for some of the best holiday videos and sites the Web has to offer. |
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Book Resources, Books Science, Technology, and Everyday LifeGrades: 6–8 Developments in science and technology are explored in this eighth volume of "The Young Nation" series, including advances in electricity,... |
Online Learning Activities, Articles, Teaching Guides Take a Step Toward TechnologyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 Interactive learning can enrich your curriculum. Here are a Technology Specialist's best tips -- and our suggestions for how to realize them in... |
Teaching with TechnologyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 2010 National Teacher of the Year, Sarah Brown Wessling, offers ideas about ways to integrate technology into classroom teaching strategies. |
Teaching With Technology: Moving MachinesGrades: PreK–K While most high-tech activities are passive in nature, there are some that get children up and moving. Educators and parents can use music to get... |
Teaching With Technology: Look How They've Grown!Grades: PreK–K Buckleitner talks about sharing children's classroom accomplishments with parents by means of online computers and other software programs. For... |
Teaching With Technology: Liven Up Your Math Program - With a Touch of Tech!Grades: PreK–K Buckleitner discusses how to create an exciting environment that encourages math learning, and reviews Smart Toys. For more information, see the... |
