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Students pay more attention to texts than emails? Speak to them in their own language with tools that protect professional distance and privacy.

Group Text-Messaging Tools

In Tech for Teachers

Check out this tech-based alternative to counting raised hands.

Learner Response Systems (Clickers)

In Tech for Teachers

Cell phones: classroom menace or handy learning tool?

Cell Phones as Classroom Tools

In Tech for Teachers

Spotlight on Elementary Education

This nifty tool is not only fun to use, but also very useful in the history classroom! Students can use this free website to constructing their own short digital movies, in doing so they will learn how to utilize primary sources and develop their historical thinking skills. FIND OUT MORE »

Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

Voki

Bring history to life and protect student identity with personalized [...] »

Skype

Bring experts into the classroom or meet students from around the globe with [...] »

Set up and moderate an entire elementary class's worth of blogs at once.

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

See how one 8th-grade teacher introduced herself to digital storytelling [...] »

Using Facebook to Engage with Historical Figures

Students interact with history by creating Facebook fan pages for historical [...] »

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras!

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Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?

Factual accuracy isn't the main deterrent to citing Wikipedia.

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