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OCTOBER 2 - 9, 2012 
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Mobile learning. What are the pros and cons? Do mobile devices enhance your lessons or take something away? Are they something more teachers should use in their lessons, or are they too big of a distraction? This week IPTV Education focuses on online resources that can help engage your students and explores the issues of what mobile devices may take away from classroom learning.
Online Resource
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MindShift: What You Need to Know About Mobile Devices
Professional Development

For those just wading into the land of mobile devices for learning, MindShift, a public media education blog, offers useful information about the pros and cons of mobile learning.

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Video 
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Digital Media: New Learners of the 21st Century 
Professional Development 

The film, targeted at parents, teachers, and anyone concerned about education in America, explores how exceptional educators are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students' curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.

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Video
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The Day Carl Sandburg Died
Grade Range: 9-12

Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He was the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and another for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. Watch this American Masters biography and explore some of Carl Sandburg's best works online.

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Interactive
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Conquistadors
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

Students can use this interactive that profiles the explorations and exploits of four key European conquistadors.

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Lesson Plan
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FRONTLINE: Growing Up Online
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

This FRONTLINE lesson plan takes students inside the private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming the experience of adolescence.

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Video
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Distracted by Everything
Professional Development

These interviews from FRONTLINE explore how technology is transforming our culture and help explain ways to educate children for the digital age.

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Interactive
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Literary Elements Map
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12

With this interactive, students focus on the key elements of a story: character, setting, conflict, and resolution.

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