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Teach Better by Doing Less – The Reflective Educator
There are two common activities teachers do that have either little to no impact on student learning but which do take teachers a tremendous amount of time, time that could be better spent on other activities.
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What is the New Visions Mathematics Curriculum?
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Augmented Reality | Hide messages in the real world | WallaMe
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10 Easy Ways to Motivate Your Students by @RichardJARogers – UKEdChat
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Insufficient sleep in children associated with poor diet, obesity and more screen time – UKEdChat
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Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: Fog and Roadway Icing: The Warning of the Husky Bus Crash
Yesterday, a bus with a number of students of the Husky Band overturned on Interstate 90 just west of the town of George, Washington (see map below) as they headed to the Apple Cup game in Pullman. A number of students sustained injuries, but thankf…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Access and Use the Blurring Tools in YouTube’s Video Editor
This is the time of year for winter concerts and plays at schools. If the ones at your are anything like the one I attended last week, there will be plenty of parents recording the performances. And I’d guess that you or someone from your school wil…
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How Technology Helps In The Education Of Special-Needs Students – e-Learning Infographics
Special-needs students who have, in the past, faced particular learning challenges in the classroom have benefited from the introduction of technology.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How Frost Appears on Plants – A Science Lesson
Here in Maine we’re way past worrying about frost in the morning. That’s because we’ve already had a few snow storms. But some of you may have frost on plants in the morning. SciShow Kids has a new video all about what causes frost to appear on plan…
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Filling a Makerspace Room – Classroom Snapshots
Wondering what to start collecting and purchasing for your STEM/STEAM makerspace room? I started this growing list to help guide what’s added to our elementary STEAM makerspace. Do you have any additions I could make to this list? Comment below or…
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Low streamflows have constrained the salmon migration this fall | Watching Our Water Ways
If you are hosting out-of-town visitors this Thanksgiving weekend, it might be a good time to take them salmon-watching — or go by yourself if you get the urge to see one of nature’s marvelous phenomena.
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John Thompson: Goliath, King of the Zombies | Diane Ravitch’s blog
John Thompson here writes about his reaction to the annual conference of the Network for Public Education, where the implicit theme was that David is beating Goliath, but Goliath just keeps stumbling forward, crushing public schools and advancing pr…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Wakelet Now Lets You Copy and Build Upon Collections
Wakelet is free bookmarking and note-taking service that I’ve been using since April when I started looking for alternatives to Padlet. On Wakelet you can create collection and sub-collections of notes, bookmarks, and pictures.
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Royalty Free Music by Bensound
You can use this music for free in your multimedia project (online videos (Youtube, Facebook,…), websites, animations, etc.) as long as you credit Bensound.com (in the description for a video). For example: Music: https://ift.tt/1R9NTfT
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Free Technology for Teachers: Bensound – Free Music for Video Projects
On Tuesday I wrote about the impending closure of the Free Music Archive. In that post I shared some other sites to find free music to use in your multimedia projects. Thanks to an email from Kari Kakeh I’ve learned about another good site to find f…
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7 geography tools that mess with your head. Cause that’s a good thing | History Tech
We all know that I spent a significant amount of my formative years digging through old National Geographic maps. You know the ones I’m talking about. They got slipped into the middle of the magazine and unfolded into poster size after you discovere…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Make a QR Code for Just About Anything
This fall there seems to be a renewed interest in QR codes, at least amongst readers of this blog. In just the last two weeks I’ve answered a half dozen emails with questions related to QR codes.
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Using Technology to Humanize – The Principal of Change
I have been an advocate of technology in education for a long time. But I have been an advocate of “people” for my entire career.
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I’ve seen this particular incorrect answer from dozens of students over the last several weeks. The work for 10 and 15 marbles is incorrect, but it isn’t a mistake.
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Tweens are smart about smartphones: Study – NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org
Everything about this study is smart — the 10-14 year-old respondents (average age 11), what the authors are modeling for pediatricians and parents, and the tweens’ answers. For example, when asked what age kids should be given mobile phones, one an…
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Answerables
Answerables the innovative educational tool that combines the best features of game based learning w/ a learning management system has just released their free iPad app.
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Free Music Archive is Closing – But Not All is Lost
For the better part of the last decade the Free Music Archive has been one of my go-to places to find free music to use video projects. Unfortunately, the end is near for the Free Music Archive.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Change Coming to Your Google Account’s Sign-in Screen
Starting next Tuesday you might notice a small change to the sign-in screen for your Google account. The change is that you will see a box around the “email or phone number” field on the sign-in page instead of just a single line.
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what giving students choice looks like
1. People to Work With. Give students the chance to choose whether to work independently or with another student(s). As a teacher, you can still maintain some control by giving students input.
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Three Ways You Can Improve Your Math Textbook Tomorrow – Achieve the Core Aligned Materials
In my work as a Mathematics Specialist at Student Achievement Partners, I get the opportunity to talk to and work with educators from around the country. Often, especially in conversations with elementary school teachers, we talk about challenges wi…
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Teach Students How to Give Peer Feedback – Teacher Tech
Peer feedback can be powerful for learning, but only if students do a good job at it. Analyze and critique can be higher critical thinking levels than doing the task in the first place. I guarantee if you ask students to give peer feedback the quali…
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In the previous article, I wrote about the basic motivation principles for setting up a great gamification model. In this one, I would like to tell you what I learned about failing and why it is a critical element in gamification.
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The Benefits of Gamification for Call Center Managers | Fonolo
Attention all call center managers: It’s time to talk about you. Picture it: You are the fearless leader of a call center team in 2018.
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Making the decision to move from my high school English Literature and Composition job after 15 years to build a makerspace and support tech integration for teachers, was very tough. I loved working with students and helping them read and evaluate t…
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Nobody Knows Anything: Why Skipping Playtesting Is Inconceivable | David Mullich
Last week plagued us with at least three deaths of figures in the entertainment industry. The death of beloved Marvel Comics editor and Marvel film cameo star Stan Lee made front page news around the world.
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Atlas Obscura Shares Your D&D Maps – The Map Room
Remember how Atlas Obscura put out a call for Dungeons & Dragons maps? They’ve received a pile of entries and are featuring two dozen of them: “[Y]our D&D maps are more incredible than we could have imagined. Every single one calls out for explorati…
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Where Apple Maps and Google Street View Will Be Driving (or Walking) Next – The Map Room
Apple now has a fleet of cars collecting data for Apple Maps. Since they’ve been making a point about consumer privacy lately, this page lists where their cars are going to be in the coming weeks. (AppleInsider notes that some of that data collectio…
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Amusing Monday: New satellite enhances images of East Pacific region | Watching Our Water Ways
An amazing new satellite, designed to peer down on the West Coast and Hawaii, started transmitting stunning images last week, when heavy snows blanketed parts of Alaska while California wildfires sent plumes of smoke into the air. The satellite is c…
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Showcasing Class Blogs! – The Edublogger
Do you enjoy seeing what’s happening in other classrooms to get new perspectives and ideas? Or maybe you’re looking for other classes around the globe that your students can connect with? We’ve just updated our list of class blogs!
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Another Test? How to Plan Assessments So Students Can Learn | All Things Assessment
Ever feel like you are giving assessments all the time? Between the pretest, post-test, quizzes, district benchmarks, state interim assessments, or other nationally normed progress monitoring assessments, when is a student supposed to learn? When is…
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Why choice matters to student learning?
Student choice builds ownership in the learning. Student choice allows students to display their learning in the way that they feel best represents their knowledge.
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Control Alt Achieve: Adding and Using Comments on Screencastify Videos
There are many excellent screen recording tools available, but one of my favorites is the Screencastify Chrome extension. It is simple to use, has lots of nice features, works on Chromebooks, and is free for videos up to 10 minutes long.
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Classroom Games and Tech: A Quick, Simple Google Chrome Extension for Student Video Responses
Here’s the most popular tool I showed at the miGoogle conference recently. It’s a simple Chrome extension from Alice Keeler called Webcam Record.
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Welcome to Discovery Education Canada – Total Education Solution in Canada
In case you missed it, check out our monthly Newsletter. We have included timely content, resources, and events to engage your students inside and outside of the classroom.
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Gamification can help education — here’s how | VentureBeat
Teachers and parents hear it over and over again: “make learning fun” to keep kids engaged. Gamified education apps for use outside of the classroom have proliferated, leading students to expect gamification when they’re back inside of the classroom…
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A Student’s Guide to Using Google Sheets – Teacher Tech
Using a spreadsheet is a life skill. In the real world, successful people use spreadsheets. I have created a Google Doc with 4 essential skills that if students can do just these 4 things they can use spreadsheets for assignments.