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Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: My Forecast Discussion for Saturday, July 13: An Experiment
I wanted to try a new way to interact with all of you, doing a narrated description of the weather situation, with lots of weather graphics and loops. Check the video below out, and let me know if you think this is something I should try again.
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Is Gamification Manipulation – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
Is gamification a form of manipulation? This is a question that comes up over and over again in my world.
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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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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Kami
Kami is a very handy learning tool that acts as a digital pen/paper to let students annotate on assignments, PDFs, ebooks, and more to interact w/ their peers and teachers. Also, there are a lot of tools that lets students, draw, comment, etc. to he…
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Getting to Know Our Students Survey – Pernille Ripp
Every year, I do several surveys at the beginning of the year, I don’t think I am the only one.
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Free Service That Lets You Print Almost Any Poster
Canva is a great service for designing all kinds of graphics for online and offline use. Canva includes a gallery of templates for making classroom posters. Once you have designed your poster you can use Canva’s print-on-demand service to have it pr…
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Larry Cuban: AltSchool Collapses, Reborn as a “Learning Platform” | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Larry Cuban recounts the short history of AltSchool, which was intended to be a progressive moneymaker but flamed out and has been replaced by another company called Altitude Learning. Another chapter is added to the annals of the for-profit educat…
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Free Technology for Teachers: NowComment – A Good Tool for Hosting Online Discussions
NowComment is an interesting tool for creating online conversations centered around shared documents. While you could do something similar in Google Docs, NowComment was designed for hosting threaded discussions and works with a wide variety of docu…
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The Nextgenscience.org site continues to highlight exemplars of NGSS-based instructional units with their Quality NGSS Units. One of the latest is a 1st grade unit– which is great because many of the initial science units to arise have tended to be …
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Inclusion as the Norm – The Reflective Educator
At a conference in Burnaby last Spring, the keynote speaker, Shelley Moore, shared a graphic similar to this one. The green circles are typical learners and the red, yellow, and blue circles are people with learning differences.
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DIY community care: 1 sign of a new Net safety era – NetFamilyNews.org
It’s a sign that we’re in a whole new era in online safety now: young users increasingly taking things into their own hands. You might call it “DIY Internet safety.” It’s not all good news, but it’s also not all bad (not that DIY is the all of the n…
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How Gamification Can Support Typing Practice – Class Tech Tips
This post is in partnership with Typing.com. All opinions are my own. Do you use a typing practice program in your school? Typing.com is a popular typing tutor, used by millions of students, educators, and professionals worldwide.
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Hubert is a new – and free – chatbot that teachers can have students to use to evaluate classes. Then, the site uses Artificial Intelligence to analyse the results.
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The humanities are “useless.” (Unless you want a job. Or to change the world.). | History Tech
As my two kids weaved their way through middle and high school, they experienced the first waves of STEM, Career Pathways, and the focus by school districts on specific technical skills.
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Princeton University: Climate Stabilization Game | Science for All
If you are a high school science teacher looking for some engaging and thought-provoking climate science learning activities, then here is a great resource for you.
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Google Translate Gets An Impressive Upgrade Today! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
As most of us know, Google Translate is pretty amazing, and it’s camera translation ability (show an image of a sign or text and get it automatically translated) got even more so today.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Satellite Observations of Arctic Change
Satellite imagery gives students, teachers, and professional researchers access to lots of information to analyze and interpret. Through timelapses of satellite imagery students can see how landscapes and seascapes change over time. Some timelapses …
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I updated two of my popular lessons recently: Simple Animations Using Google Slides Interactive Stories Using Google Slides Students love both of these simple projects and the lessons come “ready to assign”.
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Books for Teachers to Read – Josh Stumpenhorst
I struggled with suggesting a book for this given that it truly is a “new” phenomenon within young adult literature. I am sure more books will come out with this topic but two jumped out at me as critical reads for two different reasons. The first i…
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Mitchell Robinson: Tax Credits Are a Zombie Idea | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Mitchell Robinson of Michigan State explains why “tax credit scholarships” are a zombie idea. They are consistently rejected by voters, they fail to educate students, yet they never die.
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Scavenger Hunt: Get Kids Talking on the 1st Day of School |
Relationship building needs to start on the first day of school if teachers are going to cultivate a community of learners willing to take risks and engage with one another.
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Hacking the Marshmallow Challenge – Shifting Phases
I use the Marshmallow Challenge at the beginning of every year. I used to do it the way it’s proposed by its originator, Tom Wujec, and widely written about. (TL;DR: you have to build a tower out of spaghetti, string, and tape, with a marshmallow on…
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12 Ideas for Amplified Forms of Digital Storytelling | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog
Storytelling fascinates me… Digital storytelling even more. Over the years, I shared my thinking and experiments around digital storytelling here on Langwitches, to one post in particular, I keep coming back to: Digital Storytelling- What it is and …
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History and Game Links April – June 2019 | Gaming the Past
Historical Video Games From Village to Empire Steam blurb: “From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting.
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Think Twice Before Doing Another Historical Simulation | Cult of Pedagogy
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A Lever and a Place to Stand: A Crash Course in Newton’s Laws
When I started teaching, my assignment was 4 sections of physical science; one of my favorite lessons was the science of seat belts. We used Newton’s First Law as a starting point for trying to convince kids to wear seat belts by presenting data and…