Here are more blog posts from last week:
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How To Be Consistent From The First Day Of School To The Last – Smart Classroom Management
There is great freedom in consistency. Because when you follow your classroom management plan to a tee, you remove the guesswork.
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Using Computers in the Classroom: Shifting from Consumption to Creation |
In the last few months, I have read several articles about increasing pushback against the use of technology in schools.
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Responding to “Scientific Evidence That Disproves Evolution” | Science Education on the Edge
When I teach my students about the evidence for species change I am often confronted by parents (and students, teachers, and school board members) who want to influence what students will learn.
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SeeSaw is a digital portfolio tool that I have used and recommended since shortly after its launch in 2014. After initially launching as an iPad app it quickly evolved to become tool that can be used on Android devices, on laptops, on desktops, and …
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Mindful Listening – Reading By Example
It is a privilege to write professionally once again. This is my first blog post in over a year since the day I experienced a stroke and everything stopped. Once I was back on my feet, I realized that I had been given a second chance at life.
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No #ISTE19 Fomo: Join the #NotAtIste19 Community and Start Learning
ISTE19 is here and the #notatiste19 community is ready to embrace the learners everywhere you cannot go to ISTE19 in Philadelphia. No fomo! Let’s go! The #notatiste19 hashtag is already hopping.
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Progress: My Desert Island Gamification Element – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
You want to use gamification as part of a solution you are building, but resources are limited and you can’t take a fully gamified approach. What is the one gamification element that you would insist was included, no matter what? For me, it would be…
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10+ QR Code Activities to Inspire Curiosity and Engage Learners – Teacher Reboot Camp
Recently I presented a webinar for Simple K12, 10+ QR Code Activities to Inspire Curiosity and Active Learning. Below are the slides with example activities and resources.
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Stephen Suitts: The Racist History of “School Choice” | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Stephen Suitts is an adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for the Liberal Arts. He is the author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution.
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RealClearHistory. Hiding there in plain sight. (With maps. Lots of maps.) | History Tech
For a while now, I’ve hung around over at RealClearPolitics. For a poly sci junkie, it’s a great place to spend a few minutes or a hundred, digging into polls, commentary, and election gossip.
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With the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 almost upon us, there’s been an uptick in moon-related content, which includes moon-related map content. For example: New Exhibition.
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Anderson Edtech: Pear Deck for #MicrosoftEDU
For several years now, I have been hawking the awesomeness of Pear Deck, first from its origins as a stand-alone application, then to its partnership with Google with the Pear Deck for Google Slides add-on.
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Daniel Errico discusses new LGBT-friendly series “The Bravest Knight” – GeekDad
When I first received screeners for The Bravest Knight, I was stunned. The new children show on Hulu was charming, featured a hero that married his prince instead of his princess, and was easily one of the best LGBT depictions I’ve seen in children’…
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The Teachers Tell Us… – Pernille Ripp
A reflection… Working through my keynote for this morning and I keep coming back to this moment from my own students – I asked my students who the “bad” kids were and they answered, “The teachers tell us…” Even though I was there to witness it, it s…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Adobe Spark Now Has a Collaboration Option
Adobe Spark has been one of my favorite video creation tools since its launch in 2016. It can also be used to make simple web pages and graphics.
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UnEssay Project: Creative Production – Classroom Powerups
In the Spring semester, in addition to my High School work, I will be teaching HIS205: American History through Pop Culture for my local university.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Socrates
Socrates is an innovate new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction for each student through a unique game based learning system.
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Free Technology for Teachers: More Immersive Reader News – Thinglink Integrates Immersive Reader
Earlier I shared the news that Microsoft is adding their popular accessibility too, Immersive Reader, to Microsoft Forms.
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What do people truly believe when it comes to climate change? | Watching Our Water Ways
Nationwide polls show that more and more people believe that humans are responsible for increasing greenhouse gases and thus altering our climate — including unusual changes in weather patterns, rising sea levels and disruptions in the oceanic food …
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Free Technology for Teachers: Interactive Maps of Migrations and Changes of Seasons
Over the years I’ve featured Project Noah and the USA Phenology Network’s maps as platforms through which students can track the changes of seasons in North America. Recently, through the Maps Mania blog I learned about another good site that studen…
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Meditation: Sitting with Your Basic Goodness : zen habits
There is a part of us, in all of us, that worries that we’re not good enough. Not good enough to succeed, to handle the chaos of life, to be loved.
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When it comes to media literacy and our collective inability to tell fact from fiction online, there’s a lot of finger-pointing going on.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Create Rubrics in Google Classroom – Coming Soon!
Last year Google added a comment bank option to Google Classroom. That feature, demonstrated here, can save you a lot of time when giving your students feedback on their assignments. Today, Google announced another grading feature that teachers have…
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Board Game Inspiration: Pandemic – Classroom Powerups
Master Heebs (@MrHebertPE) has this really interesting tool in his classroom called a battleboard. It is a table in his classroom with a 3d battlefield where students can have a D&D style board game battle. To learn more check out his site mrhebert.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Timelines as Portfolios
Last month I featured some of my favorite tools for students to make digital portfolios and tools for students to use to create multimedia collages to celebrate the school year.
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Game-Based Learning For Corporate Training – e-Learning Infographics
Game-Based Learning For Corporate Training – Infographic eLearning can be made more effective with the elements of Gamification wherein gaming elements are added into an eLearning course to craft a highly effective and engaging learning experience.
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Control Alt Achieve: My 2019 ISTE Sessions
I am excited and honored to once again present at the 2019 ISTE Conference in Philadelphia this June 23rd through 26th. I always look forward to this opportunity to see old friends, make new friends, share some ideas, and learn so many new things fr…
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: 3 Things To Remember For Every Conference
Written with my friend Shaelynn Farnsworth we break down the simple things any learner can do to make the most of their conference experience.
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Deepfakes in the Classroom – Philly Teacher
Just this past week, a video of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg emerged on Instagram that featured a real video address with lip synced audio that refers to the power that Facebook has built using its users’ data.
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Fortnite in the Classroom by @mr_isaacs – Teacher Tech
There’s no doubt that Fortnite is relevant to our students. It’s received plenty of press, both good and bad. At the core, Fortnite is a first person shooter that falls into the Battle Royale genre of games.
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Bringing slave dwellings out of the shadows with Google Street View
Editor’s note: In honor of Juneteenth, we’re sharing this story about a Google Earth Outreach project that highlights African American history.
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2019 summer reading list: 7 books that are gonna make me smarter | History Tech
Smarter. That’s the goal. Most of you already know about the History Tech summer reading program. For years, I’ve been intentional about selecting a stack of books to read through the summer months.
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Watch educator Tiffany Wilson from Cherokee Country School District teach food chains and energy transfer to her fourth grade students. Students use Minecraft: Education Edition to explore biomes, research ecosystems and design models of food chains.
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A Lever and a Place to Stand: Copy an Entire Google Drive Folder
About three times a year I teach a Google basics course at Lake Erie College. When I teach the class, I share a folder of assignments and resources with the class members.
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Back in March Google launched “Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?” for use in the web and mobile versions of Google Earth. Then in May a second Carmen Sandiego game was added to Google Earth. Today, Google added a third Carmen Sandiego game t…
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To sum it up, most science teachers are teaching subjects they were not trained in college to teach, but there are many internet and book resources out there to help. Many science teachers with 5 years of experience or less are teaching subjects in …
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Free Technology for Teachers: Kahoot Adds New Game Creation Options
In advance of next week’s ISTE conference, Kahoot has unveiled some new features that teachers have been asking for. Now when you create a Kahoot game you will have 25% more space to write your questions. You’ll now be able to drag-and-drop your gam…
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Google Releases Third Carmen Sandiego Game | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Google has released their third online Carmen Sandiego game. This one is called The Keys To The Kremlin Caper.
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When Were We Ever Indivisible? [A Reflection on NYC Schools Chancellor Carranza] | The Jose Vilson
A newspaper in the city recently reported that nine New York City councilmembers have called for NYC schools chancellor Richard Carranza’s firing, saying he’s more focused on “ethnicity instead of efficacy” and prefers to pound the pavement with his…
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Do You Have a “Stop Doing” List? | All Things Assessment
One of my favorite activities when working with teams at this time of the year is to have them create a “stop doing” list.
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New facts and findings about the European green crab invasion | Watching Our Water Ways
The ongoing story of the European green crab invasion offers us scientific, social and even psychological drama, which I would like to update by mentioning four new developments: The somewhat mysterious finding of a partially eaten green crab on the…
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I’m a nerd. On the weekends I love to indulge in comic books, sci-fi, horror movies, and tabletop role-playing games. During the week I spend part of my time as an experience designer as an…
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On Friday, the front page of the Seattle Times had a terrifying story about Seattle heat waves that could kill hundreds— in fact, over 700 per event. And that only by rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions, might our fellow citizens be saved.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Education for the 4th Industrial Revolution
“Don’t prepare kids for something. Prepare them for anything!” I remember a world without the Internet, smart devices, mobile phones, 3D printers, and 4K televisions sets. After all, this was the world that many of us grew up in.
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Los Angeles Times: What Tony Thurmond’s Charter School Task Force Recommended | Diane Ravitch’s blog
A few months ago, Governor Gavin Newsom and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond appointed a task force to make recommendations to the State Legislature about the needed reforms of the state charter law.