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Online Resource
 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
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
NOVA Elements iPad App
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
"NOVA Elements" lets you explore an interactive periodic table, build the elements, play a game hosted by The New York Times technology correspondent David Pogue, or watch the two-hour NOVA program, "Hunting the Elements."
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Video
 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
 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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Lesson Plan
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
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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Mobile Interactive
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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Interactive
 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
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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Video
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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