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NOW Classrooms, Grades 3–5
Developed specifically for grades 3–5, this resource presents classroom-tested lessons that help take instruction and learning to the next level through the use of technology.
Benefits
- Appraise how 21st century notions of literacy differ from traditional notions of literacy.
- Consider research that states why it is crucial to include digital tools in today’s classrooms.
- Learn how to enable students to create, communicate, collaborate, share, reflect, and assess through digital means.
- Gain step-by-step instructions for incorporating easily implemented digital tools into classroom practices, and see these tools and practices in action through vignettes.
- Receive tips for adapting the suggested digital tools and instructional strategies to meet the needs of different content areas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 1: Embracing Creativity
Chapter 2: Communicating and Collaborating
Chapter 3: Conducting Research and Curating Information
Chapter 4: Thinking Critically to Solve Problems
Chapter 5: Being Responsible Digital Citizens
Chapter 6: Expanding Technology and Coding Concepts
Appendix: Glossary of Tools and Terms
REPRODUCIBLES
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Introduction
- Blackboard
- Canvas
- D2L
- Edmodo
- Google Classroom
- Google Drive
- Moodle
- NOW Classrooms
- NOW Classrooms blog
- Otus
- Pearson SuccessNet
- PowerSchool Learning
- Schoology
- Seesaw
Chapter 1
- Adobe Spark
- Animoto
- Animoto Classroom
- Audacity
- Canva
- Chrome Web Store
- DinoSearch
- Educreations
- Explain Everything
- Flickr
- Fluency Tutor
- Google Drawings
- Google Sites
- Google Slides
- Haiku Deck
- iMovie
- Keynote
- Kiddle
- KidRex
- Lucidpress
- Magisto
- Microsoft Bing
- Photoshop
- PicCollage
- PicMonkey
- “Plan a Better iMovie Trailer With These PDFs”
- Safe Search Kids
- Screencastify
- Screencast-O-Matic
- TouchCast
- VoiceThread
- Voki
- WeVideo
- Yahoo!
- YouTube
Chapter 2
- Adobe Spark
- Animoto
- Animoto Classroom
- Blogger
- Classkick
- Formative
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
- Google Sites
- Google Slides
- Keynote
- Khan Academy
- Kidblog
- Mimio
- Padlet
- PlayPosit
- Prezi
- Promethean
- Quick Rubric
- Rubric Maker
- Schoology
- Seesaw
- Slidely
- SMART Technologies
- Stormboard
- Teaching Channel
- ThemeSpark
- WatchKnowLearn
- WordPress
Chapter 3
- Academic Kids
- BrainPOP
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Google My Maps
- iMovie
- Khan Academy
- KidRex
- KidzSearch
- Library of Congress
- LINER
- myON
- NASA
- Newsela
- Safe Search Kids
- Scholastic News
- Smithsonian Institution
- Smithsonian Magazine
- UND Department of Space Studies
- Symbaloo
- TouchCast
- TweenTribune
- WeVideo
- YouTube
Chapter 4
- Adobe Spark
- Dotstorming
- Formative
- Genius Hour, “Genius Hour Blog: Genius Hour Ideas”
- Google+ Communities
- Google Classroom
- Google Docs
- Google Forms
- Google Hangouts
- Google Sheets
- Google Sites
- Google Slides
- Haiku Deck
- iMovie
- Infogram
- Kahoot!
- Kevin Honeycutt
- Kevin Honeycutt’s 100 Years of Innovation Maker Challenge
- Lucidchart
- Lucidpress
- Microsoft Publisher
- Mystery Skype
- Our Really Exciting Online Project
- Padlet
- Photoshop
- Piktochart
- Plickers
- Prezi
- Projects by Jen
- Quizizz
- Skype
- Skype in the Classroom
- SurveyMonkey
- TodaysMeet
- TouchCast
Chapter 5
- Adobe Spark
- Animoto
- AutoRap
- Bill Nye
- Bitly
- Canva
- Common Sense Media
- Digital Passport
- Educreations
- Explain Everything
- Google Docs
- Google Drawings
- Google Earth
- Google Forms
- Google Slides
- Google URL Shortener
- iMovie
- Infotopia
- Internet Web Stats
- Kidtopia
- Library of Congress collections
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Lucidpress
- NetSmartz
- Padlet
- Safe Search Kids
- SchoolhouseRockTV1
- SurveyMonkey
- TinyURL
- TodaysMeet
- WeVideo
- Wikipedia
- Word Art
Chapter 6