Agent SmithChallenging the matrix of traditional, boring education.

• Security, Privacy, and Online Safety Brochures and Fact Sheets

  These free, downloadable resources discuss computer security, information privacy, and online safety issues, and can help you avoid or correct potential problems.

  tags: internet safety security digital-citizenship microsoft

• 12 days of Christmas numeracy – Resources – TES

  Numeracy activity based on 12 days of Xmas. Qus/tasks can be differentiated to suit abilities – How many gifts were given on Xth day? How many gifts altogether? How many Partridges in a Pear Tree were given?

  tags: education lessons christmas numbers math

• Ride the Polar Express

  Activities related to the movie/book The Polar Express

  tags: education activities christmas books polarexpress

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• Budgeting: A Visual Guide to How Small Cutbacks Lead to Great Savings – Quicken Support

  tags: budget money infographic

• BC Hydro – Energy in BC

  Information about hydroelectricity

  tags: science energy water

• Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Free Online Drawing Tools

  tags: education drawing tools online

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• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Search Tools and Tactics Teachers and Students Need to Know

  Must-read article by Richard Byrne about what to know when teaching search skills to students.  Parents often question when I teach this unit, but kids aren’t the innate searchers we think they are, and learning how to search efficiently is a CRITICAL skill! 

  tags: search resources lessons

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• The Great Energy Challenge — National Geographic

  Resources regarding Energy consumption from National Geographic

  tags: energy Science environment

• Wolfram|Alpha for Educators

  Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.

  tags: search resources lesson plans

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• Kerbal Space Program

  Design your own space program, test rockets, fly to space!

  tags: space game

• Teaching Channel: Videos, Lesson Plans and Other Resources for Teachers

  watch real teachers in action in the classroom

  tags: teaching teachers videos professionaldevelopment

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• Media Awareness Network (MNet) | About Us

  MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media literacy and digital literacy programs since its incorporation in 1996.

  tags: media media-literacy

• Turkish Photographers Capture Climate Change : TreeHugger

  A Visual look at the evidence of climate change, through the eyes of photographers.

  tags: photography climate change

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• Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Improving Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking Skills with Media

  Wes Fryer is such an inspiration to me- not only the way he mentors teachers and students in the area of digital media, but also the way he is raising his own kids to be tech-geniuses! I have a budding techie daughter who wants her own web show thanks to Mr. Fryer’s daughter’s cooking videos.

  tags: thinking reading writing media media-literacy

• Tech Transformation: Media Literacy: the language of sound and images

  I like this idea for having students evaluate the media they are using:
  students, for example, can ask:
  Who created or paid for the message?Why was it created?Who is the message designed to reach?How does the message capture the audience’s attention? How might different people understand this message differently?What values or points of view are included or excluded and why?  Where can I find out more to verify the information?What can I do with this information?

  tags: technology literacy media media-literacy

• Do Now | Edspace

  Do Now is a new series of activities for middle and high school teachers designed to engage students to respond to current issues through the use KQED’s award-winning online media resources and social media tools like Twitter.

  tags: education currentevents current news writing

• Scratch – Make a quiz – Resources – TES

  Activity sheet for students to make a quiz in scratch

  tags: Scratch programming

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• pageOrama – one page at a time

  easy fast standalone web pages

  tags: website web2.0 webdesign tools

• Webrangers

  cool activities for learning about national parks

  tags: nationalparks socialstudies

• Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites

  Study on teen social media use and behavior

  tags: social media facebook

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• Literacyhead – Reading and Writing Lessons Using Visual Art

  Welcome to Literacyhead! We gather visual art and organize it in reading and writing lessons and tools. From comprehension strategies to writing workshop mini-lessons, Literacyhead uses visual art to teach reading and writing standards in ways that are engaging and accessible to students with different needs.

  tags: literacy reading visual art

• Project Look Sharp – Media Literacy Lesson Plans – Ithaca College

  Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide lesson plans, materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels.

  tags: media-literacy media education technology

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• justbeamit.com

  an easy way for students to send files to their teachers

  tags: file sharing collaboration

• Web 2.0: Practical Apps for Instruction

  a list of web 2.0 activities by subject

  tags: web2.0 activities ideas reading math Science

• InfantSpelling

  Spelling and phonics activities

  tags: spelling languagearts phonics

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