More great blog posts from last week:
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If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll see that I recently tweeted that one of my new goals is to use Pear Deck to create student-paced activities with questions that ramp up in difficulty to help students discover new ideas & promote higher-order thin…
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Google Classroom Popsicle Sticks – Call on Students – Teacher Tech
If you use Google Classroom you can call on students randomly from within the Google Classroom App. This works only on your phone or iPad (or using the Google Classroom android app on a Chromebook.) This currently does NOT work on the web version of…
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Natural Inquirer >> Science Journal for Students >> Scientist and Engineer Card Series
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Gaming’s Not Just for Kids: What Educators Need to Know About eSports — Mike Washburn
League of Legends, DOTA 2, Heroes of the Storm and—of course—Fortnite. You may recognize these as titles of popular video games, even if you aren’t strictly a “gamer.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Shapes and Drawings to Google Docs
Yesterday morning I had a colleague come into my classroom to ask me how she could create a document that had some arrows and boxes in it. Basically, she was trying to replicate and then slightly modify a diagram she’d seen in a textbook. I showed h…
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12 social media-inspired Google Slides templates – Ditch That Textbook
Students use social media all the time. Let’s put those skills to use! In these social media-inspired Google Slides templates, they can show what they know with their favorite apps. No matter the age — kindergarten to high school senior — students…
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The Smallest Ideas that are Helping Me During VIrtual Teaching – Pernille Ripp
I don’t think I have ever gone so long without writing on this blog. Through job changes, house moves, the birth of our twins, and then the birth of a very premature baby, this blog has been constant.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Good Video Lessons About Cyberbullying and Digital Privacy
Students in my school district, like students in many other school districts, have more unsupervised time on their hands than ever before.
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Transform Worksheets Into Interactive Online Activities for Students – Class Tech Tips
This post is sponsored by TeacherMade. All opinions are my own. How can you turn passive learning into a more active and interactive experience? More students are working online than ever before and more teachers are looking at ways to use classroom…
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5 Classic Halloween Specials (That Aren’t ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’) – GeekDad
Today is October 1st or, as we call it in my house, the 1st of Halloween. For many families like mine, this marks the true arrival of autumn and a solid 31 nights of decorations, costumes, seasonal music, and monster media. For those with smaller ch…
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Well, it’s been a while. Between some unplanned family obligations and a variety of work related stuff, History Tech got pushed off the front burner, then the back burner, and eventually ended up somewhere into one of those cabinets where you store …
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6 ideas for infusing choice into the math classroom – Ditch That Textbook
This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.com. I love the idea of giving students choices in the classroom.
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Using Scavenger Hunts to Get Students Moving in Virtual Learning – John Spencer
When we hear the terms “virtual learning” or “remote learning,” it’s easy to imagine students spending eight hours a day in front of a screen. However, as educators, we know that this approach isn’t developmentally appropriate.
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What can food trucks teach us about virtual and hybrid learning? – John Spencer
When we think of innovative companies, it’s easy to imagine an open-air tech startup with ping pong tables and free drinks and huge windows and chairs so modern you’re not sure how you’re supposed to sit in them or look at them.
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Control Alt Achieve: Using Rubrics in Google Classroom
Rubrics are a popular and helpful tool for assessment.
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How to Teach When Everyone is Scattered | Cult of Pedagogy
Let’s go back for a moment to a simpler time, back to 2019 when you may have “struggled to differentiate.
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Peel The Fruit Slides Activity | Engage Their Minds
I am a gigantic fan of Harvard’s Project Zero Thinking Routines. As distance learning has become a necessity for many teachers and students, I have been pondering what these routines might look like when conducting virtual discussions.
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Mapping Climate Risk in the United States – The Map Room
Climate change isn’t just one thing: rising temperatures, or sea level rise. It’s also changes to rainfall, increased risk of wildfires, more powerful hurricanes.
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Free Technology for Teachers: “Whoa!” – This Is Why We Should Review Search Strategies Every Year
During last week’s episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff I shared a little story from earlier that day in my classroom. The story provides a good reminder of why we should review search strategies every fall even if we thin…
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The past seven months have been a big strain on families like Mandi Boren’s. The Borens are cattle ranchers on a remote slice of land near Idaho’s Owyhee Mountains. They have four kids — ranging from a first grader to a sophomore in high school.
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For Some Kids, Remote Learning Round 2 Is A Dream Come True | HuffPost Life
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Why We Need to Open Our Virtual Classroom Doors and See Each Other Teach – KATIE MARTIN
I asked a group of teachers how they were feeling. At first one asked, do you really want to know? Yes, I responded, I really want to know how you are feeling. One teacher shared, It’s up and down like a roller coaster.
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G Suite Updates Blog: Google Meet attendance reports available now for education meetings
Participant’s name Participant’s email Length of time a participant was on the call, including when they joined and exited Once a meeting is finished, you’ll receive an attendance report via email.
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10 Google Tips for Remote Learning | Shake Up Learning
Remote learning has sent teachers and schools into high gear! We are all trying to figure out what works. In this post, I’m going This has never been done before, not like this, so cut yourself some slack. We are all learning together!
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Support Online Learning with Powerful Thinking Routines |
Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education has created a collection of Core Thinking Routines as part of their Visible Thinking Project. Teachers can view the entire collection on the Project Zero website, where each routine is described…
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Precision In Language – The Reflective Educator
“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least-at least I mean what I say-that’s the same thing, you know.” “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter.
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A Principal’s Reflections: High-Agency in the Remote and Hybrid Classroom
Educators desperately want and need support. They need practical strategies that are not just effective but also can be developed in a reasonable amount of time.
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