Here are more resources from this past week:
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On Authentic Reading Goals and Conversations |
The silence envelops us a few minutes into class. I look around and see one of my favorite sights in the world; kids reading.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: It’s Class Load, Not Just Size, That Matters
The 2017 school year has launched for students across the nation and that is when questions from passionate and innovative educators begin on how to support student learning. One common thread is the reality that learning can not be anonymous. You m…
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Farewell to Cassini, which found wondrous worlds not so far away | Watching Our Water Ways
I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the discoveries of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft — including the finding of water on Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus.
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My social media feed blew up a bit with comments from my educator friends following the airing of XQ: The Super School Live program. The program featured a project spearheaded by Lauren Powel Jobs (aka Steve’s window) and Russlynn H.
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Culturally Responsive Teaching: 4 Misconceptions | Cult of Pedagogy
“is about building the learning capacity of the individual student,” Hammond says. “There is a focus on leveraging the affective and the cognitive scaffolding that students bring with them.
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Four Tools for Interrupting Implicit Bias | Ready4Rigor
I will never forget my first experience with implicit bias as an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley. I had turned in my first in-class writing assignment in Medieval Literature. I loved the topic of courtly love and whatnot. The pro…
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The War on Public Schools – The Atlantic
The current debate over public education underestimates its value—and forgets its purpose. Public schools have always occupied prime space in the excitable American imagination. For decades, if not centuries, politicians have made hay of their supp
- 6 Android Apps to Try on a Chromebook | Shake Up Learning
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Better Formative Feedback: Work Worth Doing in a Place Worth Being | Getting Smart
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Redesign the Report Card | Engage Their Minds
I have been looking at alternate report cards lately – some that use standards based grading, some that assess 21st century skills, etc… As I did my research, I ran across an article from 2011 that appeared in Good magazine, challenging readers to …
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Harvest Moon Explained by NASA
The astronomical start of autumn is less than two weeks away. But this year the Harvest Moon that is typically associated with Fall is occurring a little later than usual.
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Free Technology for Teachers: This Little Change Can Save Your Laptop’s Battery
Earlier this morning in my post about customizing your Chrome settings I included the screenshot that you see in this post. That screenshot illustrates an advanced setting that you can use in Chrome if you are using a Windows or Linux computer.
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Free Technology for Teachers: What To Do When Your Work Is Plagiarized
As I noted yesterday in my post about how to share the blog posts you like, there have been a handful of edubloggers experiencing plagiarism of their work this week.
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3 Ways Educators Can Embrace Social Media to Increase Engagement | EdTech Magazine
You don’t often see social media and the classroom mentioned together in the same sentence — unless it’s to say one doesn’t have a place in the other. The reality is social media is engrained in all we do.
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Collaborative Google Slides Bell Ringer – Teacher Tech
Collaborative Google Slides is really one of my favorite favorite things to use in the classroom. Collaborative documents allow me to open up ONE digital file instead of 30. I am able to see students work while they work. I can comment and give feed…
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ClassroomScreen: A useful tool you can use tomorrow! – Primary Tech
Many teachers’ tech toolkits are bursting at the seams and sometimes it can be a good idea to use a few tools well, rather than jump on every new resource. However, it’s hard to resist a useful tool to help organise your classroom and provide struct…
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The Trouble With Types – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
Reading Time: 2 minutes (ish) No votes yet. Please wait… Player Types and User Types, I’m not gonna lie, I love ’em.
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Educators know that when it comes to gender roles, the media can do a better job of promoting more positive, accurate gender representations that give kids the freedom they need to be themselves. Parents agree.
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Math Activities with Adobe Spark
How do your students share their learning in the math classroom? When it comes to movie-making, designing a website, or creating a social media graphic, we don’t often associate these activities with mathematics.
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22 killer keyboard shortcuts (and a challenge!) for busy educators | Ditch That Textbook
Hunting and clicking is so slow. If you’re navigating your computer, laptop or Chromebook primarily by using your mouse or touchpad, you’re squandering valuable minutes every day.
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Schedule Assignments | 50 Things Book
Google Classroom allows for teachers to plan ahead and build content before sharing it with the students. After creating an assignment, instead of choosing “Assign” click the down arrow to open up a menu of options.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create a QR Code for a Google Form
This afternoon I received an email from a reader who wanted to know how to make a QR code for quiz that she had made in Google Forms. The process is rather straight-forward as it requires just one simple tool outside of Google Forms.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Citations for Beginners
EasyBib, the popular citation creation and management tool for students, recently published a new video that could help some students understand why they need to cite the sources of their information.
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New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “What are gravitational waves?” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
I’m a high school teacher in Sacramento, CA.
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Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: The importance of financial literacy
Financial and economic literacy is about understanding the importance of making appropriate economic choices on a personal level, as well as understanding the connection that personal, business, and governmental decisions have on individuals, societ…
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Memes: Fun waste of time or incredible literacy integration tool? | History Tech
We all love a good meme. Visual. Easy to understand. And just the right amount of snark.
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8 Proven Performance Practices from Billionaires and Elite Athletes | Inc.com
This article originally appeared at Fortune. Average is over.
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Responding to Disruptive Students | Edutopia
Negative attention, or punitive communication, is a common, unconscious habit of defense when a familiar environment feels unsafe or unmanageable. Educators may turn to it instinctively when they feel frustrated because they see their work being dis…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Customize Your Google Chrome Settings
Google Chrome has many excellent features, provided you know where to find them. If your school has made you switch to a Chromebook, you may find yourself having to use Chrome exclusively now. I made the following video to help new Chrome users loca…
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I’ve shared a fair amount about the issue reading on paper versus reading on a screen (see The Best Resources On Which Is Best – Reading Digitally Or Reading Paper?).
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Free Technology for Teachers: Six Ways to Create Screencasts on Chromebooks
The number options for creating screencast videos on Chromebooks has increased every year since Chromebooks first hit the market.
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Badass Teachers Association: XQSuperSchoolLive and High School Theatre by Cheryl Binkley
Originally posted at: http://ift.tt/2eZ5RHn On Friday Night Sept 8, Laurene Powell Jobs produced a star-studded TV show, XQSuperSchoolLive that was broadcast on all four major networks simultaneously.
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Laura Chapman: Why The Gamification of Education Fails | Diane Ravitch’s blog
I wrote a post about my experience playing “Words with Friends” and how my intrinsic desire to play the game was undermined by the offer of digital badges.
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Trump’s War on Science | Diane Ravitch’s blog
We need science more than ever, as our world is rocked by natural and people-made disasters. Yet two words are banned the Trump administration: climate change.
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Edify Engaging Creativity Tool for Classrooms – Class Tech Tips
Are you looking for new ways to create learning videos, presentations, infographics, and GIFs in your classroom? A few weeks ago I had the chance to take a look at Edify, a powerful creativity tool for educators.
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“Mistakes new Teachers Make & How to Avoid Them” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Mistakes new Teachers Make & How to Avoid Them is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Michael Janatovich, Sarah Thomas, Roxanna Elden, Kristi Mraz, Christine Hertz, and Julia Thompson explore….common mistakes made by new …
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Fun Geography Game for All
Earlier this week Maps Mania published a list of ten geography games that are based on Google Street View imagery. Looking through the list reminded me of a geography game that is fun although it is not based on Street View imagery. That game is Gam…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Copyright Lessons for Students and Teachers
As many of you know, I spent much of my week dealing with a copyright infringement issue. As a result of that I have been doing more reading about DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) than ever before. One piece that I read was this article from …
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Why Your Students Need To Play – Smart Classroom Management
First-time visitors to SCM are often drawn to articles that deal with boundaries. They want to know how to set limits and hold students accountable.
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How school leaders can combat ‘filter bubbles’ and ‘fake news’ | @mcleod | Dangerously Irrelevant
Information literacy has been a hot topic of recent conversation. Many folks believe that web sites that traffic in false information and ‘fake news’ may have influenced the last United States presidential election.
