Here are some more fabulous posts from last week:
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Project Drawdown: Everyday Solutions for a Changing Climate | Science for All
OVERVIEW: In the state of Washington we are committed to engaging K-12 students in learning about climate science and climate change.
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We. The Revolution | Gaming the Past
I should begin by noting that, despite its length, this is far from a complete review of all aspects of Polyslash’s French-Revolution-themed game, We. The Revolution.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use Book Creator’s New Autodraw Feature
At the beginning of this week Book Creator announced the launch of a new set of drawing tools that students can use in the creation of multimedia ebooks. Among those tools is a new feature Book Creator is calling autodraw.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Virtual Reality Smells
Virtual reality tours like those available through Google Expeditions (check out an exciting update) provide students with the opportunity to experience the sights and sounds of far away places that they may never visit. But there is one thing missi…
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BRYANT POND, Maine — EB Hoff, 14, was running for class treasurer of the Class of 2022. She announced her candidacy at her school’s wooden lectern, decorated with a drawing of a howling wolf.
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Technology Is Only Transformational If We Choose to Use It That Way – The Principal of Change
If you do not read Catlin Tucker’s blog, you should. I love the work she does, and her blog is a balance of posts on big-picture thinking with practical ideas and strategies for things that can be done in the classroom.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Change Your Blogger Favicon
Blogger is a popular choice for creating classroom blogs and personal blogs because it can be accessed through your Google account and because it is easy to use to start a blog. In a matter of a few minutes you can have a new blog up and running thr…
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Video: Taking a Ride on a Russian Icebreaker — The Adventure Blog
This stunningly beautiful video takes aboard a nuclear-powered Russian icebreaker as the ship plows its way into the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea.
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Engineering Design Anchor Lessons using Picture Books | Science for All
In my work with elementary students and elementary teachers (inservice and preservice) I love to use children’s literature to introduce the engineering design process in NGSS.
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I started this blog eight years ago as part of my master’s program. As it changed over the years, I drifted quite a bit from my initial purpose of sharing my classroom games on it. Of course, the ed-tech landscape has changed a lot since 2011.
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To sum it up, if you are a science teacher, here is your one stop guide to twitter. This post is full of resources, so be sure to check out all the links. One of my goals this summer is to be more active on Twitter.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Now You Can Share Kahoot Games in Microsoft Teams
Last week Kahoot released some game creation updates in advance of the ISTE conference. This week Kahoot made an announcement during the conference. That announcement was that you can now share Kahoot games in Microsoft Teams.
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Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.
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If you want to know about the next big thing in ed tech, you should know about esports. Here are takeaways from the “Esports in Education: Everything You Wanted to Know” session hosted by Microsoft that took place at #ISTE19.
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My SBG Journey: Kill Your Darlings – Classroom Powerups
Over the last few years I have had a lot of success with my karate belt inspired ranking system. The beauty of the system was that it worked as a voluntary leaderboard.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Book Creator Adds New “Magic Ink” and Autodraw Tools for Making eBooks
Book Creator, the massively popular ebook creation tool, has added a new set of drawing tools. A couple of the highlights of the new drawing tools are Magic Ink and Autodraw.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Two Lessons About Invasive Species and the Threats They Pose
My favorite bike training ride goes through a portion of the White Mountains National Forest on the Maine-New Hampshire border. As you enter the forest you’ll see reminders about not bringing in firewood from outside of the area.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Google Expeditions is Now Available on Chromebooks!
Google Expeditions is probably the most popular virtual reality app for use in classrooms today. One of the things that has kept it out of some classrooms is that it requires the use of a compatible phone or tablet. That is going to change this summ…
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In this teachable moment, Tammy shows a bunch of great ideas of how to integrate MinecraftEDU into your classroom. From Math to English this video has it all!
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“Mistakes That Math Teachers Make” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Mistakes That Math Teachers Make is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. This three-part series on mistakes made in math instruction “kicks off” with responses from Bobson Wong, Elissa Scillieri, Ed.D., Beth Brady, and Beth Kobet…
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Video: A Brief History of Yellowstone National Park — The Adventure Blog
Yellowstone National Park is one of my favorite places on the entire planet and this video is a good reminder of why. Not only is the park home to some of the most beautiful scenery found anywhere in North America, it also features an impressive arr…
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For the past couple of years I’ve been a live reporter at ISTE and for 2 years interviewed folks with my toddler, Savvy.
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Higher & deeper views of kids online – NetFamilyNews.org
A metaphor used by Global Kids Online researchers in a new blog post reminds me of research in the US that represented a huge digital youth milestone for me almost a decade ago – then of brand-new insights.
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You might know that I am a big proponent of PBL. I believe that as we work on helping students understand the content standards, PBL provides teachers with the how. I do hope you enjoy this content driven article.