This section about evidence-based practices offers guidance on classroom strategies based on peer-reviewed research. Resources include articles, studies, technical reports and other current publications related to technology integration and education.

 

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Classroom 2.0 LIVE Conversations

Classroom 2.0 LIVE Conversations are community-scheduled opportunities to talk on specific topics with other members of the Classroom 2.0 using one of the online voice/video/sharing programs. Using this wiki page you can find discussions to participate in, or schedule to host additional ones.

Great Schools: The Parents Guide to K-12 Success

Founded by a former teacher, GreatSchools helps parents choose schools, support children's education and improve schools in the community.

Intel Education

Coordinate technology needs through Intel’s Education web site, which provides unit and lesson plans created by teachers, as well as other resources for math, science and technology.

Literacy - Teacher to Teacher

The annual Teacher to Teacher summer workshops sponsored by the U.S.Department of Education have become popular places for teachers to pick up lesson ideas and teaching strategies from accomplished colleagues (and share some of their own). This page collects the 2007 presentations and handouts from literacy workshop sessions around the USA. Materials are provided on teaching reading, comprehension, vocabulary and writing across the curriculum, working with struggling adolescent readers, narrative writing, expository compositions, persuasive writing, reading and writing in math and science and with limited English proficient students, plus literature and the arts. Browse dozens of articles and click anything of interest to read a summary. Middle grades teachers and literacy coaches will want to examine the several presentations on unlocking the mysteries of informational text.

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Open Educational Resources

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.

Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

Partners in Learning

The Microsoft Partners in Learning initiative supports the dual commitment by Microsoft to advance the quality of education and provide alternative channels for economic progress. By building partnerships with governments and schools around the globe, Partners in Learning works to integrate technology into daily teaching, learning, and research.

Professor Garfield

The Professor Garfield Foundation learning portal is an interactive online environment where children can safely explore, learn and creatively express themselves. It provides children, parents, and teachers an opportunity to enhance and support classroom learning in new and innovative ways.

Social Media’s Power to Promote Assistive and Learning Technologies

Discover how social media works, learn about the benefits to using social media in assistive and learning technologies, and explore barriers to social media practices in this brief from the National Center for Technology Innovation.

Technology and Teaching Children to Read (PDF)

This report is intended to provide background information that will help reading specialists, education technology specialists, classroom teachers, and special education teachers work together to understand, evaluate, and implement effective uses of technology within K-6 reading programs. It brings together the research-based guidelines for teaching children to read from the National Reading Panel report with information about the potential uses of multimedia digital technology to enhance reading instruction. It also provides background about effective reading instruction and potential uses of technology, and summarizes the currently available research evidence on ways in which technology can successfully enhance reading instruction in the elementary grades.

Education Development Center, Inc.

Technology Links for Reading Instruction (PDF)

This document addresses five research based components of effective reading programs. A supplementary chart further breaks down each component into skill areas and provides links to associate software and technology.

Texas Assistive Technology Network

Using Digital Mapping Programs to Augment Student Learning in Social Studies

This article from Innovate magazine combines scholarly and practical information to support social studies teachers as they develop digital mapping activities for the classroom. Co-author Thomas Chandler is an instructional designer at Columbia University, and his colleague Heejung An is an assistant professor of learning technologies with an interest in how K-12 schools use geographic information systems. They believe digital mapping is an authentic example of how technology can deepen student learning in social studies. They offer several models of practice, including an example from a North Carolina middle school. (Free registration required.)