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Elementary Teachers
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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Interactive
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How Cells Divide
Grade Range: 3-5, 6-8

Explore the stages of two types of cell division, mitosis and meiosis, and how these processes compare to one another.

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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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Video
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Beaver Lodge
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5

Get an inside look at a beaver lodge as the Wild Kratts follow a beaver into his home built of sticks.

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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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Mobile Interactive
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Lunch Rush
Grade Range: K-2, 3-5

In this mobile game, your job is to serve up the right amount of sushi for each cast member without making them wait. Students learn and improve their addition, subtraction, and pre-algebraic skills.



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