Digital+Learning+Day

=Top 100 Learning Tools 2013 presented by Jane Hart:= toc media type="custom" key="24565906" = = =February 6 2013 is ** Digital Learning Day **=

Celebrate it with sharing the use of technology in your class.

See An Introduction to Technology Integration from edutopia.org on YouTube. Success stories of technology integration from edutopia

Here are some web sites that teachers use to integrate technology into classroom and engage students into global problems:

(from digitallearningday@all4ed.org )
 * Engaging Students in Civics**

When it comes to civic education, educators across the country have entered into a world of new possibilities. As with most things, technology and digital media have transformed what it means to be a citizen in the twenty-first century. The ways youth and other citizens in communities across the country access information, participate in the public sphere, and demonstrate civic skills have changed forever. Check out these digital civics tools:

More __ civics tools and resources __ are available on the Digital Learning Day website.
 * __ iCivics __ prepares youth to become knowledgeable, engaged twenty-first-century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials by producing educational video games and teaching materials that have been used in all fifty states. Started by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics works to reverse Americans’ declining civic knowledge and participation.
 * __ TakingITGlobal __ is an online community that empowers youth to understand and act on some of the world’s greatest challenges by facilitating global education, social entrepreneurship, and civic engagement for millions of youth worldwide.
 * __ the.News __ is a source of current events for teens for use at home, in the classroom, and during out-of-school time. It uses journalism and video to tell topical and relevant stories about subjects of interest. A production of McNeil-Lehrer Productions—creators of the News Hour with Jim Lehrer—the.News is a noncommercial, multiplatform tool designed to help teens acquire the knowledge and skills to become better citizens of the twenty-first century.