Tapping into Digital Media

A colleague was sharing that her students didn’t know how to use a dictionary to determine how to spell a word or find a definition.  I wasn’t surprised!  Our students prefer finding what they need to know with the click of a mouse.  

Have you thought about tapping into the power of digital media and technology for teaching and learning?  The variety of information resources available online is simply staggering. Explore how digital media can promote students' active engagement, critical thinking, literacy skills and abilities to creatively show understanding.

Here are few sites for you and your students to check out!

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/index.htm

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html#

http://video.kidzui.com/

http://photopeach.com/

http://www.qwiki.com

http://tagul.com/gallery

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://www.onelook.com/

http://classtools.net/

http://www.watchknow.org/