Here are more amazing posts all from last week:
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Stain Solutions | U of I Extension – Chemistry
We have put together a comprehensive list of stain solutions. Each solution contains the supplies you will need and the preferred method for cleaning the stain. You can browse through the list below or use our search toolbar.
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Tools To Use For Students To Set Up Teacher Appointments | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Now that the state of California has decided most schools are beginning the year with distance learning, my mind is beginning to plan and to race… One question I’m dealing with is how to schedule students for virtual individual meetings.
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In-Person School Is Not Happening; Make Remote Learning Better
There are few places in the US where the level of COVID-19 in the community is low enough to manage with the available testing and tracing capacity. In those areas, it could actually be possible for schools to return to in-person teaching.
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Gina Bellafante: Schools Beat Plagues with Outdoor Education, Why Can’t We? | Diane Ravitch’s blog
This is a terrific article that appeared in the New York Times by the regular city columnist Gina Bellafante. It is about how schools beat plagues in the early 20th century by opening outdoor classes.
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Practical Strategies for Flipping Our Classrooms this Fall with Kate Baker
Blended learning and distance learning will be different this fall. Dig into flipping your classroom and how it looks when you teach effectively in an online classroom. How do you use video effectively? Get Credit! Some schools, districts, and organ…
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Focus on feedback: When checking for understanding, it’s important to communicate the feedback that comes from it. As a teacher, you can provide written and/or oral feedback through videos or sound recordings.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Lessons on the Chemistry of Coffee
One of the things that I’ve missed the most over the last few months is going to my local coffee shop (Cafe Nomad) and having some of the excellent coffee that they brew. Try as I might, the coffee I brew at home just isn’t the same quality of what …
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Many of my freshman students come to my class with only limited skills in graphing and data analysis. I spend time during the first chapter (scientific method) giving them practice with making graphs and analyzing data.
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Endeavor RX, the First Prescription Video Game, Won’t Be the Last | Observer
Late last month, the Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing for the first prescription video game to treat ADHD in children, a game titled Endeavor RX from Akili Interactive.
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Avoid magical thinking: ‘Design for online’ this fall | @mcleod | Dangerously Irrelevant
As coronavirus cases continue to increase across the country, numerous school districts are reluctantly announcing that they will be doing ‘remote learning’ again this fall.
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What Teachers Want You to Know About Reopening Schools | by Sarah Gross | Jul, 2020 | Medium
All over the country, schools are developing reopening plans. All over the country, teachers want nothing more than to go back to normal. But what happens when a teacher is asked to choose between their health and their livelihood?
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Yup. New ‘Blue Whale’ with a Momo-style twist – NetFamilyNews.org
Here we are again. Remember “Blue Whale,” then “Momo”? Well, the B.W. challenge, or self-harm “game,” has been warmed over and repackaged with a new name and face with the creepiness of a Momo. This time it’s a weird, scary version of the cartoon ch…
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Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Ways to Make Whiteboard Instructional Videos in Your Web Browser
Over the last few months I’ve written a bunch of blog posts and made a handful of videos on simple ways to make whiteboard instructional videos in your web browser. These have been popular, in part, because this style of video can be made using tool…
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Free Technology for Teachers: 500+ Icebreaker Questions
Believe it or not we’re closer to the start of the new school year than we are to the end of the last one. Whether we’re going back into our physical classrooms or staying in an online environment, we’re going to need to get to know our new students…
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What These 6 Food Cravings Really Mean, According to an RD | Nutrition | MyFitnessPal
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Learning, Leading and Reflecting: You should read: No More Telling As Teaching
Direct instruction or lecturing have always played a significant role in classrooms, but is it really the best way to engage students in the content? No More Telling As Teaching does not demonize lecturing like the title may imply.
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10 Jamboard templates for distance learning – Ditch That Textbook
This post has 10 engaging ideas for using Jamboard in your class that will get your students working together, even though they may not be face to face. This post is written by Kris Szajner, a tech integration specialist and former kindergarten teac…
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We are one day away from the release of the Kansas State Department of Education’s Navigating Change document. The document is currently in the hands of the state board of education for final approval and if they sign off on it, then we’ll all final…
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Engaging Writing Prompts and a Platform for Publishing Student Work
Write About is a “classroom writing community and publishing platform.” What makes it a powerful EdTech tool is a combination of engaging writing prompts and a flexible platform for publishing student work.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Doozy – Create and Play Fun and Educational Quiz Games
Doozy is a neat service for creating online quiz games that you can share with anyone and they can play without having to register for an account. The quiz games that you create on Doozy can be multiple choice or short answer questions.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Book Creator Adds New Options for Copying and Re-using Pages
Book Creator is one of my go-to tools for making ebooks and digital portfolios. In fact, I like it so much that it’s one of the featured tools in my Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp. And now there is a new feature that makes Book Creator better…
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Wednesday’s “Must-Read” Articles About School Reopening | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Most Big School Districts Aren’t Ready to Reopen. Here’s Why. is from The NY Times. Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains is from The Daily Beast.
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Fabricius by Google Arts & Culture
A tool using the power of AI to help decode ancient languages
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Historian and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois also discovered his blackness — and its undesirability — at school.
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Learn how you can improve your instructional strategies and engage your students straight from the experts.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Updated and Easier Way to Schedule Events in Google Calendar
This morning Google announced a small but helpful change to Google Calendar. The web browser version of Google Calendar will now present you with more options when you initially schedule an event on your calendar.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Anonymous Users Blocked from Google Meet in G Suite EDU
A couple of weeks ago Google announced that seven new features would be added to Google Meet over the coming months. According to an announcement on the G Suite Updates Blog the first of those started to roll out today.
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3 Types of Learning Crucial for Educators – George Couros
These three ideas are something that I believe schools should be intentional about in their practice, as it is beneficial to learning now and in the future. “The classroom as a whole is always way smarter than the teacher as an individual.
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Learning is Feedback: And how to do it online – Joel Speranza
Let’s imagine you walk into a class of 25 students and begin teaching. You are about to receive ALOT of feedback. The moment you finish that sentence, you’ll be receiving feedback. It’s in the student’s eyes.
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5 reasons why online learning is a crucial part of education
Education technology refers to a range of technology, programmes and software that are used to facilitate learning.
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Dynamic Learning v. Static Learning (DO THIS, NOT THAT) | Shake Up Learning
Do This, Not That! Here’s a handy infographic to help you see ways to create more dynamic learning experiences!
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GitHub – QuirkyCort/gears: Generic Educational Robotics Simulator
Generic Educational Robotics Simulator. Contribute to QuirkyCort/gears development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Robot Virtual Worlds | ROBOTC | VEX & NXT Simulator
The Virtual Brick for MINDSTORMS is a tool designed to help educators teach mathematics, computational thinking skills, and programming through simulation. The Virtual Brick is compatible with the NXT-G, EV3, and LabVIEW for LEGO Mindstorms programm…
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GearsBot ▶ World Reset
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The media blitz about school reopening continues. Here are four from the past twenty-four hours that are worth a read.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Purchasing Devices Does Not Equate to Learning
The COVID19 pandemic unearthed many harsh realities for education across the globe. One of the more glaring issues was the vast digital divide that still exists in many places, especially the United States.
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How 2020 Remapped Your Worlds is from Bloomberg and is a good lesson idea – have students draw maps of how “their” world looks right now.
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Full Sail Science: The Twitch Inspired Classroom
I’ve been streaming on Twitch for almost a year now. The experience has been amazing. My online connections to wonderful people has expanded and strengthened. I had several goals when starting the journey as a streamer. One was to improve my practic…
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If the coronavirus is really airborne, we might be fighting it the wrong way | MIT Technology Review
Airborne transmission would mean there are certain solutions we really need to focus on.
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