What are some educational web sites, online games, or examples of educational technology that are useful in the classroom (either from a teacher or a...

Fortunately
for 21st century educators, the World Wide Web offers a plethora of resources online that enrich
learning significantly. The hard part is not to find them, but to keep up with them. The second
hardest thing is to keep them handy at all times through your activities. The third thing is to
decide how and when to use them in class.

One suggestion is to register into
a bookmark site such as Pinterest, Reddit, or Digg it. There are so many of them that you will
have a harder time deciding which to use than actually using it.

Once you
choose your bookmark, you should go to Simplespark which is a filtering website that gathers all
kinds of educational info and specifically choose "academic" or "education".
There, you will find many different sites that are worthy of bookmarking.

These days children are particularly interested in sites that keep up with their
progress, and not just allow them to play. For those there are:

• coolmath4kids
• abcya


• enchantedlearning
• grammargorillas


• funbrain
• ixl
• brainpop


• atomiclearning
• mrnussbaum
• national library
  of virtual manipulatives

These are just some of the thousands of
websites that are currently active for students to reinforce or enrich their skills in class.
When using technology, do your best to make it a PART of the instructional time and not to take
its time entirely. Some teachers have "Tech Tuesdays" or "Tech Thursdays" in
place to utilize the entire day for tech projects if the technology is available. Others have a
tech center in the classrooms and students rotate during differentiated instruction and flexible
grouping to complete projects there. Either way, ensure that there is a plan for the use of the
technology and not just for the sake of entertaining students.

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