Here are some amazing blog posts from last week:
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Math Journals: Pairing a Metacognitive Practice with Adaptive Software |
An increasing number of school districts are investing in adaptive software to allow students to engage in personalized math practice. I often see students at the elementary level rotate through a station rotation lesson like the one pictured below.
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Over the past few months I have been mulling over some ideas for a set of talks I’m giving in the winter and spring for students, teachers, and parents on historical video games and gameplay as historying, the ways they represent the past, and the i…
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How To Avoid Losing Your Students’ Attention – Smart Classroom Management
There is a phenomenon I see again and again in the classrooms I visit. They’ll talk and move faster as if trying to finish before completely losing the class.
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Quick Start Guide for Adobe Spark for Education – Class Tech Tips
Creativity in the classroom is essential across grade levels and subject areas. Students can demonstrate what they’ve learned about a topic, synthesize information, and create a shareable movie, website or graphic with Adobe Spark.
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Getting Started with Applied Digital Skills – Mari Venturino
Raise your hand if you use any Google Apps (search, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, etc.) in your personal life? It’s as simple as this blog post, which I drafted on Google Docs, and inserted images and links.
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6 Appetite-Control Strategies that Helped Me Stop Overeating | MyFitnessPal
It can be hard not to overeat. You eat a healthy meal at home, think you’re doing well, then you head out (to almost any destination) and are surrounded by junk food. You get hungry, and pretty soon you’re at the local burger joint, diet forgotten.
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The Changing Roles of Educators – Reading By Example
My son did not want to practice his trumpet. He was finding anything else to do to avoid this daily task. To be honest, I felt the same way when I was in 6th grade and the novelty of playing the trumpet had worn off after about two weeks.
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Chart Maker for busy people | Chartify
Chartify’s chart creator currently only supports desktop browsers.
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Anyone who has ever spent a Sunday afternoon grading essay after essay has at some point wondered, “did anyone listen when I explained homophones?” This usually happened to me around the 27th essay of the day.
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A Spelling, Grammar and Word Checker for Students – Class Tech Tips
One of the great things about education technology is how when it is used strategically, it can provide an extra layer of support to students. If you’ve worked with students of any age, you’ve probably heard the same, “How do you spell this?” questi…
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Live Long and Prosper…: Still Teaching From the Grave
Last month I reread Carl Sagan’s Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the brink of the Millenium. It is Sagan’s last book, published in 1997, the year after he died from the rare bone-marrow disease myelodysplasia.
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Linda Darling-Hammond vs Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris
I recently published a post by Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris titled “Why It Matters Who Governs America’s Public Schools,” which took issue with some parts of a new report — “The Tapestry of American Public Education: How Can We Create a System of …
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Handful of Resources for Learning About Veterans Day
This Sunday is Veterans Day (many places will observe it on Monday). The following resources can help students understand the origins and meaning of Veterans Day including how it is different from Memorial Day. Bet You Didn’t Know: Veterans Day.
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Origins of Ingredients in Thanksgiving Meals
Last week I shared three Thanksgiving-themed projects that you can do this month. Of course, I have many more Thanksgiving resources bookmarked to share with you. One of those is an interesting video from It’s Okay to be Smart titled The Surprising …
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The centennial of the end of World War I is this weekend. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About World War I.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Build a Body – An Interactive Biology Lesson
Spend a few minutes using Build a Body and it is easy to understand why it was recognized by the National Science Foundation. In Sponge Lab Biology’s Build a Body students construct a human body system-by-system. To build a body students drag and dr…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Good Tool for Writing Reflections on Stories
Scholastic’s Character Scrapbook offers a good template that elementary school students can use to write about and reflect on the characters in their favorite stories. The template is quite simple to use. Students enter the name of a story and the n…
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Tech Transformation: Sleep and school start times
Since moving back to the UK I’ve been living in a village. It’s stating the obvious, I think, to say that village life is very different from living in Mumbai, a city of 22 million people. For me one of the biggest differences I’ve noticed is in the…
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5 mistakes your kids make while thinking historically. (And how you can fix them.) | History Tech
A big part of what I do every week involves spending time with teachers, especially social studies teachers, leading and having conversations around best practice, instruction, and assessment. And it’s almost always the best part of the week. Think …
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Personalizing the Journey for Our Students – The Principal of Change
The key to this question is not thinking like you but thinking about your students and their point of view.
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Using Book Creator for Formative Assessment – Class Tech Tips
What does it look like to check for understanding with digital tools? This is a question I’ve posed to teachers from different corners of the country. When speaking about the use of technology in the classroom, formative assessment is a hot topic.
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Larry Cuban: Who Says Classrooms Never Change? | Diane Ravitch’s blog
One of the favorite lines of Faux Reformers like Bill Gates, Lauren Powell Jobs, Michelle Rhee, etc. is that American schools haven’t changed in a century, maybe two centuries.
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3 Types Of Motivation – e-Learning Infographics
Whether its getting to the gym, writing that personal blog post, networking with professionals developing your app and more, we always need motivation to get these things done. Sometimes it’s tough to understand what motivates us best.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Visme – Great Tools for Making Flowcharts and Mind Maps
Visme is a graphic design tool that I’ve been using off and on for the last five years. Back when I started using Visme it was known as EWC Presenter and it was a good tool for designing slides and infographics. Recently, Visme added new flowchart d…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Knoema – Huge Collections of Data Maps and Charts
Knoema is a service that offers a huge collection of data sets and maps for public use. Knoema offers data maps and charts for almost every country in the world. There are dozens of data categories to pick from.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How GPS Works
From finding a place to eat in a new city to navigating a detour to geocaching, GPS is an amazing technology. But just how does GPS work? NASA’s eClips channel on YouTube has a good student-friendly explanation of how GPS works.
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I’m adding this new video (it may look like there’s nothing there, but click on it and it will play) from The Telegraph to The Best Sites For Learning About Prehistoric Cave Paintings:
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Windy: Wind map & weather forecast
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Why teachers should embrace digital devices in the classroom – UKEdChat
France’s recent decision to pass a law banning the use of cell phones, tablets and smartwatches at school for children under 15 is just the latest example of moral panic around new digital technologies, according to a University of Alberta education…
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Best Website Builders 2018 – Lab Tested Reviews by PCMag.com
Getting your message out these days requires good helpings of Facebook and Twitter, with maybe a dash of Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Tumblr. But that’s not enough: if you want an internet presence that truly represents you or your organizati…
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Gender myths dispelled by major new maths study – UKEdChat
A major study into maths attainment has found that boys and girls perform equally in the subject, dispelling long-held myths around gender and education.
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A Strategy for Effective Student Collaboration | Edutopia
To address the problem of group learning, a team must develop the ability to reflect on itself. Without intentional reflection, members of a team are unlikely to develop a collective sense of what is working and what is not, making improvement unlik…
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‘Geek Girl’ gamers are more likely to study science and technology degrees – UKEdChat
Girls who play video games are three times more likely to choose physical science, technology, engineering or maths (PSTEM) degrees compared to their non-gaming counterparts, according to new research from the University of Surrey Girls who play vid…
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Quotes and Descriptions to Inspire Creative Writing | Discover, Share, Connect
We are the kids nobody knows We are the kids nobody hears We are the kids nobody listens to. With tears streaming down my face, I could do nothing but sit cross-legged on the sandy shore and stare at the horizon in front of me.
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Silk – Interactive Generative Art
To save, right click the thumbnail and choose Save Image As…. Silk was made by Yuri Vishnevsky, with music and sound crafted by Mat Jarvis.
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IT IS BACK!! To-Do in Google Classroom – Teacher Tech
One thing that has been driving me bonkers about the new design in Google Classroom is the lack of ability to see if students have submitted work. The Classwork page does not indicate that students have completed work unless I click on the assignmen…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Parts of Speech Quest
ABCya offers hundreds of fun and educational games for elementary school kids. Parts of Speech Quest is one of the games that was recently featured on ABCya’s homepage. Parts of Speech Quest is a series of nine games that, depending upon your age, w…
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9 Scientific Reasons Reading Makes You Smarter – e-Learning Infographics
Other Infographics 9 Scientific Reasons Reading Makes You Smarter Infographic Be more empathetic Once in a while, readers will experience a deep sense of empathy towards fictional characters.
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Getting Into Gamification – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
First off, don’t go my route – it was long and painful! However, there are things I did that will help you to get into it all and get a great understanding of what gamification is all about.
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What The Election Results May Mean For Education | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Yesterday’s election will have a huge impact on education throughout the United States.
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English Learners in STEM Subjects | Science for All
Overview: The National Academies just released a new consensus study report titled English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools and Lives. Like other reports from The National Academies this report is free as a pdf or to read …
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NGSS Science Assessment Task Screeners | Science for All
Overview: Achieve recently released two tools for screening and reviewing science assessment tasks- the Science Task Prescreen and the Science Task Screener. These tools will be necessary additions to your toolbox of NGSS assessment resources.
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Tip of the Week: How not to teach the Holocaust & resources for doing it right | History Tech
Let’s be clear from the get go. It happened. We have hundreds of thousands, millions, of primary sources. We have photos. Government documents. Train timetables. Movies. We’ve got oral histories. Diaries. Letters. Court transcripts. There are prison…
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XP and Spreadsheet Pacer: CPU Vlog 11-5 – Classroom Powerups
My class just finished up our 2nd unit and students are starting to have some clarification questions about the XP Grading System. I am going on year 5 and thankfully I have some answers! One of their biggest concerns is knowing their “grade”.
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I’m a big fan of Choose Your Own Adventure Games – both having students play them, and having them create ones. That’s why I have The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories.
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7 Ways You Can Make Outdoor Activities Fun For Your Kids – e-Learning Infographics
Certain lifestyle changes in recent years have influenced the way parents are raising their kids. Back in the day, children would beg their parents to go out in the yard or the playground so that they could play with their friends.
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New Report Says Corporal Punishment Doesn’t Work | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
It’s always a big mind-boggling to me when I share a new resource on corporal punishment – either at school or at home. It is 2018….
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Free Technology for Teachers: A New and Easy ClassDojo Login for Students
Earlier this fall ClassDojo added new features to their digital portfolio tools for students and teachers. The highlight of those was the option for students to select the items that they want included in their portfolios. ClassDojo calls these stud…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Places to Find Free Music and Sounds for Multimedia Projects
From adding music to a slideshow to adding sound effects to videos to bumper music for podcasts, there are plenty of classroom projects that require free audio files.
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Free Technology for Teachers: MyBib is Back
The last time that I wrote about MyBib it was to report that I didn’t have any information about when it would be back online, if ever. That was exactly one month ago.
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Free Technology for Teachers: WWF Together – Revisiting a Favorite App
The World Wildlife Fund’s Together app has been one of my favorite iPad apps since the first day that I saw it more than five years ago. The app is beautifully designed to show the stories of endangered or threatened animals around the world.
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Civic Responsibility – Reading By Example
This post is a newsletter I am sending home to our elementary school families. Let me know what you think in the comments! -Matt
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Some Different Ideas to Increase School Sport Participation |
If I wanted to grow my blog audience, I could probably just write about youth sports, they are typically my most popular posts with anywhere from 2X to 10X the audience as when I write about other topics.
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Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: A Stunning Video of Arizona Monsoon Thunderstorms
Rarely does one see a weather video so stunning, so poetic, with music and imagery so in sync, and that vividly communicates the beauty and grandeur of the atmosphere . But this week I was privileged to view such a video of southwest U.S. thundersto…
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Deep under the Disneyland Resort Hotel in California, far from the throngs of happy tourists, laundry workers clean thousands of sheets, blankets, towels and comforters every day.
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Steps Teachers Can Take to Enhance Learning With Technology – Class Tech Tips
If you’ve ever walked across a conference expo hall or scrolled through your Pinterest feed, bright and shiny technology can instantly grab your attention. Making sure a new piece of technology or compelling digital resource is a good fit for your s…
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Creating An Exhibition Of Learning: Sparks & Stories – The Edublogger
All children have extraordinary stories to tell if we take the time to listen. All children have gifts and talents. Our job is to create opportunities and experiences that allow children to find themselves.
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Yes, I’m Telling You to Be Grateful for Stress – Technology Pursuit
It’s been a stressful past two weeks. I was senior sponsor for Homecoming. We’ve had daily rehearsals for our one-act play.
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3 Ways to Develop Leaders in Your School or Classroom – The Principal of Change
I used to get teased mercilessly by some saying that everyone in education can be a “leader.” If you think of leadership in the traditional context, it is more about positions of authority than it is about ability.
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A Principal’s Reflections: What Learners Really Need
A great deal has changed since I began writing this blog back in 2009. For starters, my primary device to connect on Twitter was a Blackberry. I didn’t even have a Facebook page until a year later.
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To Learn, Students Need to DO Something | Cult of Pedagogy
I first became aware that there might be a problem a few years ago, when one of my kids was studying weather systems: high- and low-pressure systems, cold fronts and warm fronts. We were trying to help her prepare for a test and also do some sort of…