Kids love using technology so why not capitalize on technology to build student reading skills especially for English Language Learners and struggling readers?  The Lit2Go website (see link below) has some great books that you can download to your classroom computers or  iPods. Students can listen to the stories while reading the text or simply [...]

As more and more students have ready access to the internet, doing “old fashioned research” in the library with encyclopedias and reference books has become a thing of the past. In the July/August 2008 issue of Atlantic Monthly, author, Nicholas Carr alleges in his article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” that internet search engines have [...]