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For free classroom supplies, for Chemistry: Investigating Your World, click here.

Am I wrong to think that CPS will finally choose Google Apps for CPS, based on this CPS Department of Educational Technology web site?

https://sites.google.com/site/cpsedtechportal/home

And by the way…teachers?  Are you ready for some YouTube?!

https://sites.google.com/site/cpsedtechportal/internet-filtering

Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?.

Look here.

This is nice!

What do students really know about using technology?

“Digital natives”, in fact, appear to have a superficial understanding of the new technologies, use the new technologies for very limited and specific purposes, and have superficial information-seeking and analysis skills.”
The Digital Literacy of  “Digital Natives”

“Crap detection,” as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: “spamming.”
Crap Detection 101

Digital Literacy

Teaching Students to Effectively Use the Internet

Planning

I find this article interesting and informative.

How do you teach students to find and use images from the Internet?

Google Images Anyone?

Maybe you should see my post from August 23.

http://music.wbez.org/story/survey-one-three-cps-students-are-cyber-bullied-92410?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cpreducation+%28WBEZ+-+Education%29#

How To Do Everything On WordPress

http://edudemic.com/2011/09/how-to-wordpress/