Teaching technology at Meyer Elementary School goes beyond showing kids how to use email and apps. Integrating technology with other content demonstrates how students can apply it to real-world, relevant situations.

Tech Literacy: Exploring Tools Through Content

At Albemarle County Public Schools, teachers use social media to get ideas for their classroom, for professional development, and to connect student learning to the real world.

Social Media: Making Connections Through Twitter

With Hampton High's tech instructional coach, teachers have found a confidant, subject-area expert, co-teacher, and PD coordinator at their fingertips, enhancing smart, school-wide tech integration.

Instructional Coaching: Driving Meaningful Tech Integration

While assessment is built into some games, teachers can assess learning after gameplay by having students create a mod or strategy guide, or develop game scenarios.

Using Games for Assessment

Game designers from Institute of Play share simple tips on how to successfully implement games in your classroom.

Managing Game-Based Learning in the Classroom

Teachers have a number of options for introducing students to a new game-based lesson, including the fishbowl, playing together, and beginning with a simplified version.

"Rolling Out" a Game in the Classroom

For parents, students, and administrators to make flipped learning a success, they must understand the best possible outcome and their roles in making it happen.

The Flipped Class: Getting Stakeholders on Board

Teachers become learning designers when given the space to collaborate by (among other things) cultivating trust, keeping it simple, and ensuring that it's student relevant.

There’s No "I" in Teacher: 8 Rules of Thumb for Collaborative Planning

Four kinds of tech tools -- screencasts, tablets, document cameras, and video cameras -- will help your students take flipped learning outside of the classroom.

The Flipped Class: Which Tech Tools are Right for You?

In the flipped classroom, more direct instruction time with students allows for formative assessment throughout the unit. Learn how to quickly determine who understands the work, and who hasn't even watched the video.

The Flipped Class: Formative Assessment

Technology Integration

Learn how one educator has found a way to put a single iPad to use so the whole class benefits.

Blended Learning - Working With One iPad

Flipped learning videos must encourage students to interact as well as watch. Here are seven low- and high-tech strategies to make sure this happens.

The Flipped Class: Overcoming Common Hurdles

Discover how some teachers have creatively applied the flipped learning model to increase quality class time in PE, woodworking, dance education, and elementary classrooms.

The Flipped Class: Is Flipping for Everyone?

Flipped learning gives teachers in-class time to support students on challenging material, provides early warning when they don't understand, and encourages them to ask questions.

The Flipped Class: Rethinking Space & Time

A school-wide approach to blended learning that allows teachers the flexibility to define and implement online instruction that meets their students needs.

Blended Learning - Making it Work in Your Classroom

Eighth-grader Quin uses his passion for electronics to teach fellow students about 3D printing, arduinos, and other hands-on lessons in STEM skills.

How the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Tech

Opportunities for student collaboration, peer assessment, and rigorous design challenges abound in the puzzle video game LittleBigPlanet 2, where users are given the same toolset as the game's creators to build and share their own levels.

Fostering Creativity and Community with a Platform Video Game

Co-director of the National Writing Project Elyse Eidman-Aadahl describes how the craft of storytelling is evolving, as new digital tools and communications technologies enable connections for content creators around the globe.

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on Writing in the Digital Age (Big Thinkers Series)

An Introduction to Technology Integration

Fifth-grade teacher Nicole Dalesio keeps her class motivated to learn by encouraging them to create multimedia presentations and projects using technology tools on the web.

Free Online Resources Engage Elementary Kids (Tech2Learn Series)

By cultivating strong school leadership, committing to ongoing professional development, and exploring innovative models like its tech-infused Future Schools, Singapore has become one of the top-scoring countries on the PISA tests.

Singapore's 21st-Century Teaching Strategies (Education Everywhere Series)

The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- onli

Big Thinkers: Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity

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Meet a Virtual Principal: How to Lead from a Distance

Anytime, Anywhere: Online Learning Shapes the Future

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Tech-Fueled Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction and Formative Assessment

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Best Multi-Part Documentaries

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