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• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Accessibility for Everyone – A Book to Help Educators Create Content

  All schools receiving public funding must make content accessible to everyone including those with disabilities. If your school or district is interested in helping staff understand why this is important, then consider Accessibility for Everyone for…

• A Simple Exercise Program For Teachers – Smart Classroom Management

  But exercise can also make you a better teacher by improving your cognitive ability, energy level, and the amount of stress you experience. It gives you greater confidence and comfort in your own skin, which translates to your ability to build behav…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Book Creator Adds New Accessibility Features

  Book Creator is a tool that I have been using and recommending for years for making multimedia ebooks. You can use it as an iPad app or in your web browser. This week Book Creator announced that it now works in Microsoft Edge as well as Chrome and S…

• Announcing the Desmos Middle School Math Pilot – Des-blog

  At Desmos, we love doing math on paper and we have also seen the unique power of computers to provoke wonder, enable mathematical creation, and connect ideas together. Thousands of teachers have experienced that power in our supplemental activities.

• Mo Physics Mo Problems: Tour Creator Unleashed

  Loved seeing this use of Google Tour Creator to go beyond geography projects.

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 15 Sites for Graphic Organizers

  “A graphic organizer, also known as knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram, is a communication tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas, and the relat…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Google Forms Tutorials for Beginners

  Last night my friend Beth emailed me to ask if I had any tutorials for beginning Google Forms users. My answer was, “I sure do!” These were the three Google Forms tutorials that sent to her to share with the group of teachers she’s working with righ…

• At last: Sext ed based on facts not fear – NetFamilyNews.org

  In 1978, an award-winning documentary showed a group of teen juvenile offenders being taken to a New Jersey maximum-security prison, where for three hours “a group of inmates known as ‘the lifers’ berate[d], scream[ed] at, and terrif[ied] the young …

• Civilization Series Bibliography | Gaming the Past

  Enough interest in research about the Civilization series pops up every so often, that I thought a quick bibliography might be helpful to refer to. I have more to add, but here’s a good start. Burns, A. (2002). Civilization III: Digital game-based l…

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• how-find-games-classroom-learning – Edutopia

  Playable on multiple platforms, it’s a beautiful and haunting game with a watercolor aesthetic.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Rubrics and Originality Reports in Google Classroom

  Last week Google announced that Originality Reports in Google Classroom would soon be available to all users with the limitation that you could only run three reports unless your school subscribes to G Suite for Education Enterprise Edition (the pai…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Creative Strength – A Student Video Contest

  Creative Strength is the title of the latest Next Vista for Learning video contest. Like previous Next Vista contests, this one is open to students and teachers.

• Four New Videos On Climate Change | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  GoranH / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change:

• Need election resources? iCivics can help. | History Tech

  We all love iCivics. And why not? Tons of useful tools. Simulations. Games. Lots of teaching materials. Oh, yeah. And it’s all free. If you’re not super familiar with iCivics, it’s good to know why it exists.

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• Free Technology for Teachers: Vortex by ClassTools – Create Your Own Sorting Game

  Vortex is the latest game template published by ClassTools. Vortex lets you create an online game in which players have to sort words or phrases into up to four categories. Vortex replaces the Dust Bin sorting game that ClassTools used to offer but …

• Powered UP XP Grading Pt 2: Case Study – Classroom Powerups

  The Multiple Choice exam is a classic traditional grading method that does not fit nicely into an Standards Based Grading model. In the Fall semester I worked out a system for incorporating the district mandated 55 Multiple Choice Question Common As…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Math Attax

  Math Attax is a super-fun free mobile (iOS/Google Play) Math game that helps students w/ their basic Math skills (i.e. addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.). This is a 2 player game where students move their player up/down a grid while trying…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Storillo

  Storillo is an innovative new tool for group writing projects. Storillo makes it easy for educators to create projects and then organize groups for students to work on together.

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Story Composer

  Story Composer is an innovative multiplayer iOS game that helps students develop their story composition skills. This is done through the use over 240 animated images where students pick and choose which pictures to structure their story from the be…

• What’s Hot (and Not) in Google Classroom with Alice Keeler @coolcatteacher

  Google Classroom is a tool that can help build relationships between students and teachers. But not everything is perfect. Google Classroom Guru Alice Keeler talks about what is hot and not in Google Classroom and how teachers are using it to teach.…

• Bloom’s Taxonomy is a Ladder, not a Pyramid | Mike Kaechele

  In PBL workshops with teachers, I ask them to describe the skillsets of the Ideal Graduate from their school. I once had a high school teacher say, “I want my students to be able to write a complete sentence.”

• A Few Favorite Books from Our Classroom for Teens Who Say They Can’t Find a Great Book – Pernille Ripp

  One of the many benefits there is from being an educator who reads a lot is that I get to create many different reading lists in my head.

• A Beginner’s Guide To Copyright And Creative Commons (Simple Explanation For Teachers And Students)

  Plagiarism and copyright infringement are not new in the education world. However, it wasn’t so long ago that students mainly needed to know that they shouldn’t copy from textbooks or other students. Then things started to get digital.

• History at the movies: The 20 best films of the decade and how to use them | History Tech

  There’s nothing like watching a movie in a big screen theater – the kind that bans small children and has heated reclining seats –  holding a mega-tub of popcorn with a side of nacho cheese and a Diet Pepsi. And it’s even better when the movie is hi…

• Know Better and Do Better | All Things Assessment

  I plan to explore self-assessment with my blogs this year. One of my favorite things about writing for this blog is that it causes me to reflect and formalize my own thinking about assessment topics.

• Mo Physics Mo Problems: Flipgrid Camera Guide Updated

  Check out this guide to the new camera features in Flipgrid.

• Quick Educator Review – When Rivers Were Trails | Gaming the Past

  What it is: A FREE, beautifully illustrated, choice-based interactive text for Mac and PC with just a bit of a resource model. Players read about the main character and make choices by clicking on the relevant text with the mouse.

• Designing a Kinesthetic Station: Get Kids Moving in Math Class |

  Can the Station Rotation Model work in a math class? I get this question a lot. I’ve coached math teachers who struggle to imagine designing their lessons using this model because the curriculum is so linear.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create an Online Sorting Activity Using Google Sheets

  Flippity is a great source of templates for making online games, flashcards, and quizzes. Recently, Flippity added a new template that makes it easy to create an online sorting activity based on information you provide in a Google Sheet. Flippity’s …

• 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.

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Story Wheel

  Story Wheel is an excellent educational app for students wanting to develop their Language Arts skills. This is done through a super-fun iOS game where 1-4 students spin-a-wheel and develop a story by recording audio to the picture the wheel lands o…

• A Gamer’s Glossary of Terms and Acronyms | B&H Explora

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Sharing Diigo Links and Resources (weekly)

Here are more amazing blog posts from this past week:

• Learning by Doing: The Power of Immersive Learning Experiences. – Go Where You Grow

  This article appears in the most recent edition of Creative Teaching and Learning Magazine. How did you learn to ride a bike? Or learn how to swim? Think about what that experience was like for you. Then consider how babies learn to walk. Picture an…

• Which is bigger? | @mcleod | Dangerously Irrelevant

  I started a new principal licensure cohort this spring. On the second night of class, I had an awesome discussion with a couple of high school teachers about the perpetual issue of forcing students to learn math that they likely will never use again…

• PZ’s Thinking Routines Tool | Project Zero

• Classroom Games and Tech – Ed-Tech to Engage and Inspire: Our Best Interactive Story Project Yet

  I’ve been experimenting with interactive story projects for a couple years now and this past week we worked through our best one yet. Sample resources and tutorials are included below.

• Astronomers Reveal Interstellar Thread of One of Life’s Building Blocks | ESO

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Publish a Google Calendar Without Showing All Event Details

  Yesterday, I received a question on an old YouTube video of mine in which I demonstrated how to embed a Google Calendar into Blogger. The video is seven years old and Google Calendar has changed a bit since then, but the question was still a good on…

• John Merrow: Insect-Based Teacher Training, Parts 1 & 2 | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  John Merrow learned about the latest trending idea in teacher training. Give a teacher a script, put a “bug” in his or her ear, and let the teacher follow instructions. This is what he calls “insect-based” teacher training.

• Analogue vs Digital Gamification – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert

  When looking at gamification, it can be a daunting task. There are dozens of gurus, platforms, off the shelf products, bespoke products, decks of cards, frameworks, snake oil sellers, blogs and more. There are so many choices, one could be forgiven …

• Are you being catfished? | open thinking

  This post was written jointly with Katia Hildebrandt and also appears on her blog. Catfishing schemes, or romance scams, continue to plague social networking services.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Chrome Media Hub – Manage Background Video and Audio

  Like a lot of people, I have a habit of leaving a bunch of Chrome tabs open even if I’m not actively using them. It’s not the best habit because it does unnecessarily use resources. It can also contribute to the annoyance of having a video or audio …

• Free Technology for Teachers: Google Classroom Originality Reports Expand Next Week

  Back in August Google unveiled Originality Reports as a beta product in Google Classroom. According to an email that landed in my domain administrator account this afternoon, Originality Reports will be available in all G Suite for Education domains…

• Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020 – The Map Room

  Christopher Tolkien, the third son of J. R. R. Tolkien and the executor of his literary estate and editor of his posthumous works, died yesterday at the age of 95.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Keeping Track of Students’ Websites

  A couple of months ago I wrote about how my students are using Google Sites as digital portfolios this year. Fortunately for me, this year I only have twenty-five students’ sites to keep track of. Years ago I had more than one hundred to keep track …

• Powered Up XP Grading Pt 1: Introductions – Classroom Powerups

  This year I have been exploring Standards Based Grading (SBG). When planning for the semester I decided to use the Power Law Mastery Calculation and the Teacherease.com online gradebook for my 5 dual enrollment HIS201: American History to 1877 class.

• New National Geographic Video: “Volcanoes 101” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Pexels / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from National Geographic to The Best Sites For Learning About Volcanoes:

• Send An Ed-Related Research Question To One Of The Regional Educational Laboratories – And They’ll Answer It! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

• The Digital Divide is Not Binary: The Five A’s of Technology Access

• Meet our Emergency Stash Cart – Pernille Ripp

  A few weeks ago I came across a genius idea from my friend, the incredible Julie Jee. She showed images of a plastic rollaway cart filled with emergency supplies that her students had requested.

• 3 Alternatives to Reading Logs | Edutopia

• 8 Tips For Sharing Your Blog Posts On Twitter – The Edublogger

  So you’ve been busy working on a blog post and you’re finally ready to hit the publish button. Fantastic! One problem: just because you publish a post, doesn’t mean anyone will know about it or read it.

• Earth and Environmental Science Exam Review – Mrs. Harris Teaches…

  In North Carolina, Earth and Environmental Science is a required high school science course for all students. For this class, I generally have center rotations for review before a unit test (with one center being Jeopardy), but as part of the final …

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• Free Technology for Teachers: A Great Update to Screencastify

  Screencastify is a tremendously popular screencast recording tool. A large part of its popularity comes from being easy to use on Chromebooks. In fact, last fall I helped eighth grade students use Screencastify in conjunction with Brush Ninja on the…

• What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

  Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach.

• NASA Intern Discovers Planet Third Day on the Job — The Adventure Blog

  This story has been making the rounds the past few days, but it was so good that I had to share it anyway. Late last week, it was revealed that a 17-year old high school student by the name of Wolf Cukier made a major discovery while working as a su…

• More Dangerous than Technology | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog

  I don’t know about you, but I am really worried! I am worried when I read about democracies being threatened due to misinformation, strategic fake news, the lack of critical thinking skills of citizens (of all ages) and information illiteracy… and n…

• The Beginner’s Guide To Adaptive Learning – e-Learning Infographics

  Here are 5 questions for adaptive learning to consider. Adaptive learning is a technique that uses technology and data to address each learner’s trouble spots by automatically providing individual support, thereby making learning more effective.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Upload a Podcast to SoundCloud

  Yesterday, I shared an update about NPR’s 2020 Student Podcast Challenge. One of the requirements for participation in that contest is that teachers have to upload students’ podcasts to SoundCloud.

• Sharing info, as changes in ocean chemistry affect Northwest waters at alarming pace | Puget Sound Institute

  It was fairly alarming, even to scientists, to hear the latest research regarding ocean acidification — a powerful change in ocean chemistry that results from excess carbon dioxide passing from the atmosphere into the oceans of the world.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Signing Into Chrome vs. Signing Into Your Google Account

  Last week my friend Beth Still asked me if I had a video that showed people how to sign into Chrome and switch between Chrome profiles. She mentioned it because she was helping some people who were confused about the difference between signing into …

• Where Does Your Electricity Come From? – JPUD

  “As water flows through a powerhouse, the pressure of that falling water turns a large turbine that looks like a ship’s propeller. The spinning turbine turns a shaft that rotates a series of magnets past copper coils in a generator to create electricity. From the powerhouse, transmission lines carry electricity to communities, where local utilities distribute it to consumers.”

  • As water flows through a powerhouse, the pressure of that falling water turns a large turbine that looks like a ship’s propeller. The spinning turbine turns a shaft that rotates a series of magnets past copper coils in a generator to create electricity. From the powerhouse, transmission lines carry electricity to communities, where local utilities distribute it to consumers.

• Working With Your IT Department To Start An Esports Team • Teched Up Teacher

  When starting an esports team a lot of time and consideration is spent meeting the needs of stakeholders like students, administrators, and the board of education. A vital, yet often overlooked stakeholder in your esports journey will be the IT depa…

• Free Technology for Teachers: A Student Podcast Contest

  For the second year in a row NPR is a hosting a podcasting competition for students in fifth through twelfth grade. To enter the challenge students have to create a podcast that is three to twelve minutes long. Unlike last year, this year students c…

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Sharing Diigo Links and Resources (weekly)

Here are more great blog posts from this past week:

• #TechTeamwork: Taking Tech Integration Higher! – Technology Chatter

  Does technology improve learning or hinder it? A lot has been written and will continue to be written about whether technology improves learning or hinders it.

• Mo Physics Mo Problems: Pear Deck & Immersive Reader

  What is Immersive Reader & How Can You Get It In Pear Deck?

• Tools, Platforms and Visible Thinking Routines: Upgrade your KWL Chart to the 21st Century | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog

  This is the third post in a three part series of posts around the KWHLAQ chart and its use for reflection, metacognition and documenting learning.

• Free Technology for Teachers: A Mostly Complete Guide to Classroom Blogging

  Over the last couple of weeks I’ve published some lengthy blog posts about classroom blogging activities and tools for classroom blogging. Those posts were excerpts from a longer piece that I’ve been working on. That longer piece is almost done.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use the New Creative Commons Chrome Extension

  Earlier this week Creative Commons released a new Chrome extension that enables users to find Creative Commons licensed images without having to leave the browser tabs their currently viewing.

• Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » PISA Peculiarities (3): More Fear, Better Scores

  Fear of failure improves academic performance. That’s a conclusion one can draw from PISA’s analysis of its data. This is true at the system level.

• Lawnmower Parents Are the New Helicopter Parents

• LIGO Hanford’s twin observatory makes important detection | Tri-City Herald

• 5 Video Projects for Student Readers (feat. Adobe Spark) – Class Tech Tips

  How do your students share their reading experiences with the world? Movie-making activities help students talk about favorite books. They can use this format to share what they’ve learned from reading.

• The Rural Schools Conundrum – Have You Heard

  Have You Heard heads to rural Wisconsin to investigate a puzzle. Communities in the “reddest” parts of the state keep voting to hike their own taxes to pay for schools, even as they elect and re-elect politicians who enact cuts to school funding.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Dozens of Fun, Hands-on Science Lessons

  Science Snacks from Exploratorium is a great collection of hands-on science lessons for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. I’ve been recommending it for years and recently revisited it to discover that more activities have b…

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• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Discovering (Again) The Awesomeness That Is #FETC!

  January 14-17, 2020 brings us another awesome gathering of educators from all over the U.S. and beyond. Descending on sunny Miami, Florida the FETC Conference kicks off with tons of opportunities for all of us to learn, share and grow.

• NCLB Was Signed into Law By President George W.Bush on This Day in 2002 | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  On January 8, 2002, President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind law. Thus began an unprecedented federal intrusion into state and local education.

• My SBG Journey: Fall 2019 1st Semester Reflections – Classroom Powerups

  We are finishing up my 1st semester using Standards Based Grading and boy was it a learning experience. Here are a few quick thoughts and reflections as I prep for next semester. 1. SBG worke well for skills based stuff.

• Are Schools Ready for Competitive Video Gaming? By Including Girls and Downplaying First-Person Shooters, Cleveland Teacher Hopes to Chart New Course for ‘Esports’ | The 74

• Why Struggle Is Essential for the Brain — and Our Lives | EdSurge News

• Quick Ideas for Getting Started with Augmented Reality – Class Tech Tips

  What augmented reality apps for kids can you use in your classroom? In this blog post, you’ll learn about some of my favorite augmented reality apps for students — along with quick ideas for getting started with augmented reality this school year.

• Rate of ocean acidification may accelerate, scientists warn | Encyclopedia of Puget Sound

  Ocean acidification, which threatens sea life throughout the world, is affecting Pacific Northwest waters — including the Salish Sea — sooner than most regions around the globe, according to ongoing studies.

• 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2020 | Cult of Pedagogy

  As I do every January, I’m releasing an all-new update of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech. If you’re not familiar with the guide, here’s a quick video I made last year to give you an idea of what it is:

• Type with your voice – Docs Editors Help

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 50 Sites/Apps for Educational Games

  Game Based Learning is a great way to integrate technology into the classroom as well generate excitement for students. This list not only covers a wide range of subjects, some of these sites have educational portals that allows educators to track a…

• Reconsidering College as “The Goal” | Stories From School

  Let’s say a prototypical U.S. graduating class has one hundred students. Of that hundred, sixty-seven enroll directly into a two- or four-year college. (Source: National Center for Education Statistics)

• An Alternative to Standardized Tests for School Accountability | Multiple Pathways

  What if we had a better choice than standardized test, that could tell educators useful information about what actions really needed to happen to help students learn better? What if we could focus on assessing what really matters in schools? I recen…

• Top 2019 ARVRinEDU Resources

• Free Technology for Teachers: A Comparison of Multimedia Timeline Creation Tools – Updated

  Making a timeline is a “classic” history class assignment. When I started my teaching career my students made timelines on big sheets of paper. Later I had them use some online programs that let them include some pictures and links.

• New Year Resolution: Trim the Fat on Your Lessons

  For many, the new year inspires new resolve to move more, eat better, and shed excess weight. I have never been a big fan of drastic new year resolutions, but this year I began to think about how teachers can trim the metaphorical fat on their lesso…

• The 2010s of Math Edtech in Review – dy/dan

  EdSurge invited me to review the last decade in math edtech. Entrepreneurs had a mixed decade in K-16 math education. They accurately read the landscape in at least two ways: a) learning math is enormously challenging for most students, and b) compu…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Writing Pal

  Writing Pal is an excellent site for students looking to strengthen their essay/writing skills. This is done through video lessons, game based learning, and individualized formative feedback.

• Speaking to G12s about Digital Wellness | Tip of the Iceberg

  When I was first asked to speak with G12 students about Internet Safety and Security, I’ll admit I died a little inside.

• 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.

• Mandolorian vs Star Wars Sequels: Begin with the End in Mind – Classroom Powerups

  I was listening to Chris Ryan and Sean Fenessey on The Watch podcast as the were talking about the Disney+ series The Mandalorian and of course it gets me thinking about lesson planning .

• Physics Simulation: Newton’s Second Law

• Force, Mass, Acceleration | Zona Land Education

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Combine Multiple Google Forms Into One

  Import questions is one of the many useful, yet often overlooked functions in Google Forms. The import questions function lets you draw questions from your existing forms to use in a new form.

• Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » PISA Peculiarities (1): Why doesn’t growth mindset work for Chinese students?

  Having a growth mindset is negatively associated with academic performance for participating students from China (Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang or B-S-J-Z China), according to the 2018 PISA results.

• How to Teach Presentation Skills, New Technology and Research Using CES @coolcatteacher

  The Consumer Electronics Show is in Las Vegas this upcoming week, January 7-10, 2020. In the fall semester, students present about historical figures in computing. However, in January, we turn the spotlight on analyzing new technologies with a criti…

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Is Coming Up – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Martin Luther King Jr. Day will take place on January 20th this year.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Tips for Creating Translatable Content

  If you work in a school where English is not the first language of all students then families may have a hard time understanding what is happening in schools. This is because families are unable to access content due to language barriers.

• Jeff Bryant: Has the Democratic Party Really Reversed Course on the Failed Agenda of Charters and Testing? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Jeff Bryant attended the Presidential Forum for Democratic candidates in Pittsburgh, and he watched to see how the candidates reacted to the Bush-Obama-Duncan agenda. Michael Bennett was the only one to endorse it, and he got a tepid reception.

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• The future of work won’t be about degrees, it will be about skills

• The future of work won’t be about degrees, it will be about skills

• This District Rolled Out Minecraft and Teacher Collaboration Skyrocketed | EdSurge News

• • Chart: The Shocking Size of the Australian Wildfires | Statista

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• Signing Savvy | ASL Sign Language Video Dictionary

• Angie Sullivan Tells Every Nevada Legislator to Read SLAYING GOLIATH | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Angie Sullivan teaches in a Title 1 elementary school in Carson County, Nevada. She teaches the children who were left behind.

• Simple Exercise: Help Students Analyze Their Growth Over Time

  Students rarely recognize how much progress they are making over the course of a semester or school year. Their school days tend to be a blur of information, assignments, and activities.

• Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » More and Different: The Impact of AI on Future Jobs and Education

  “Better-paid, better-educated workers face the most exposure” to AI, concludes a  recent report about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on jobs in the future. This conclusion should make us question the widely held belief that our children shoul…

• Young Indigenous activists lead climate justice action in Alaska (Raised voices) — High Country News – Know the West

• Fortnite Creator is Buying Entire Forests to Prevent Them From Being Chopped Down – Healthy Food House

• A billion new players are set to transform the gaming industry | WIRED UK

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• At last, the days are getting longer – Yummy Math

  What’s your guess?  How fast are the number of daylight hours changing each day?  Will the changes be dramatic or subtle?

• The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

  For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (…

• Spoilers: Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker (and the Fall of Consequences) – Classroom Powerups

  I took my boys to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker this week. Since The Force Awakens came out in 2015 both of my older boys have been all in. They know the lore and the characters and have embraced the entire mythology. I was pleased with the 2…

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• Curriculum Soup: Shopping Online for Supplemental Lessons? | Stories From School

  We are putting on our annual black-eyed pea soup to ring in the new year, and it’s just in time to send out some blessings to my educator network.

• Science Assessment Updates (WA State)

  We are happy to announce that the WCAS training tests have been expanded. The training tests are available through the WCAP Portal. Students who take online assessments need opportunities to explore the features of the test and practice using the to…

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Make an Interactive Graphic With Canva

  One of the many neat things that you can do with Canva is create interactive infographics. In fact, you can use nearly any design template in Canva to create interactive graphics.

• Reader: I Taught SAT Prep. It’s a Sham. | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  An anonymous reader left this comment about the SAT. Once upon a time, 25 years ago, I ‘offered’ SAT tutoring (at a rather high price of $50/hr.) to denizens of a tony private school. I could charge that much because I ‘got results’. But, it was rat…

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