Finding the Time

It's hard to feel inspired and overwhelmed at the same time. I truly want to offer my students a 21st century education that allows them to share and display their learning with the technological resources that are available to them. We are all familiar with research that points to technology as the vessel for students to develop higher order thinking skills, but when it comes down to it, this picture says it all.

Common advise would say start slow and pick one thing to start with and build from there, this sounds easy but with so much new information being introduced at once about different resources it can be difficult to pick that one item to integrate into learning practices, in order to get the "most bang for your buck." We teachers know that trying something new requires extra planning, which means extra time, which leads to the "when" that no one has an answer for. Here are some links that should help to alleviate "the when" and make it easier to understand just how you could use some tech resources in your classroom.

1. iPad Apps for collaborative learning
2. iPad Apps by grade level
3. Ways to use Skype
4. Twitter 

Or if you feel confident in the quality of your Web 2.0 Classroom check out these other ideas! All of these links are posts that came from the edudemic blog, which is worth "the time" when you have it.