Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning

No matter what you teach, research and reading skills are embedded in your course, and Common Core has made that more explicit. Fortunately, there are some excellent tools that can help you address these massive, somewhat intimidating tasks.

*I recommend communicating with your colleagues to determine what is the best option for your building or district. That will help with consistency for students and teachers.

Annotation/ Note-taking Tools (there are too many to list. Here are some that I think would be most functional and user-friendly)

• Bounceapp.com (copy and past a link to the site and then make notes. Send or store link of annotations wherever you want. No sign-in)
• You could also guide students to one of these web research tools. (note that these all require logins, but they allow users to store and organize all research in one place)
• Evernote is one of several quality note-taking applications that could work. Click the link for details about how.
  
• Students could also set up everything in Word or Google Docs> They would have to copy and paste links/ text, then make notes in the doc and not in-text like they could in the other tools.
  
• Highlight, add notes in diff. color or add comments
• Teacher could create template if desire, like this: link

Source Gathering/ Evaluation/ Credibility Tools

• Activities on website evaluation (for students- some are dated)
• Have them use Google Scholar or Sweet Search (credible sites only) for finding higher-quality resources.