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Middle Technology That Powers Up Learning by Kara Coggeshall and
Jim Doherty |Grades||5 – 8| A team of seventh-grade teachers
tailors their language arts and reading instruction to take
advantage of the valuable resources available on the Web, as
well as students’ natural enthusiasm for the medium. By
designing lessons to activate prior knowledge, offering lists of
relevant Web sites, and linking these activities to reading and
writing, teachers found that students were more engaged, that
they learned more material more quickly than through traditional
print alternatives, and that they more willingly incorporated
reading into their lives. Coggeshall, Kara and Jim Doherty.
"Technology That Powers Up Learning.