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Learning with Twitter Chats and Socratic Seminars in Virtual Spaces – Connected Learning Alliance
My fellow librarian Jennifer Lund and I had the opportunity recently to partner with IB Theory of Knowledge teachers Dan Byrne and Dr. James Glenn.
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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education: What do we really mean by effective online learning?
In a recent regional meeting of education leaders, a district curriculum director touted their subscription to EdPuzzle and praised its usefulness as a virtual learning tool. I did not say anything, but I sat thinking that we can do better than embe…
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Minor bridge modifications could help young steelhead escape from Hood Canal | Puget Sound Institute
Help could be on the way for migrating steelhead and salmon in Hood Canal, where many young fish are killed each year by seals and other predators that lie in wait at the Hood Canal floating bridge.
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This is the new skills gap for young people in COVID-19 age | World Economic Forum
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a projected loss of 195 million jobs, dismaying interruptions to education and a disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups, preparing young people to earn and thrive in a post-COVID world requires immediate atte…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Small, Potentially Annoying Change to Google Slides
From improved meeting controls to an easier way to add citations in Google Docs, there have been a bunch of positive changes to Google Workspaces (formerly G Suite) this fall. Now Google has made a change to Google Slides that could prove to be quit…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Story Spheres – Create Immersive Audio Tours of Interesting Places
Story Spheres is a neat tool for adding audio recordings to 360 imagery. Story Spheres lets you upload short audio recordings in which you describe to viewers what they’re seeing, the history of what they’re seeing, and the significance of what’s in…
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Google for Education: Teacher Center
Get started with tips and videos from educators on how to set up and manage your Google Classroom.
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Control Alt Achieve: Breakout Room Alternatives for Google Meet
Google Meet has an awesome built-in feature for Breakout Rooms, but unfortunately that is only available for people who are using the Enterprise version of G Suite, which means schools that pay for the Google tools.
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Control Alt Achieve: Google Meet Breakout Rooms
Breakout Rooms are an awesome feature of Google Meet that allow you to take all of your meeting participants and split them up into smaller Meets where they can work on group projects, have small group discussions, and such.
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Finally!: Solid cyberbullying data on tweens – NetFamilyNews.org
14.5There is no better source on cyberbullying than the Cyberbullying Research Center, at least in the US. And this month, National Bullying Prevention Month in the US, CRC, in partnership with Cartoon Network, released data on a whole new group of …
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Climate change causing irreversible shifts in unique Asian ecosystem
The desert-steppes in the southern Gurbantunggut Desert, where vegetation cover is less than 30%. One of the only plants that can grow in the sandy soils is saxaul (Haloxylon ammodendron), a shrub that is at risk of extinction.
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11 history podcasts. Cause . . . you know, squirrels. | History Tech
Back in the Before Times, I was traveling constantly. A lot of that involved hours of drive time. And so I did what many of you did. I listened to audio books. Well . . . I tried to. I never seemed to get the hang of it. You know, cause listening is…
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Design a Choose Your Own Adventure Learning Experience |
It’s only two months into the school year, and teachers are exhausted. This year has made everyone, regardless of their years of experience, feel like a brand new teacher. Teachers are designing learning experiences for a range of learning landscape…
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Superhero Bitmoji Headquarters – Classroom Powerups
A few weeks ago I wrote about a plan to have student create their own Bitmoji based Superhero Headquarters. It worked out pretty well. I collected their HQs into a site that I shared with them. The site will update automatically as the students’ upd…
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Now that I have enough distance from disaster distance learning, I definitely recognize the onset of depression about three weeks in, desperation mid-April, and a combination of relief and shame in late June.
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Weekly Challenges Update – Classroom Powerups
Last Tuesday I wrote about Fortnite’s Weekly Challenges and how we can all have a victory every class. This week I tried out this format. Interestingly, as is often the case, everything takes longer than I anticipated.
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Monumental 3D Project Idea – Classroom Powerups
So apparently my school is getting 2 new 3D Printers. For some reason I was asked to help select these printers and we decided on the Dremel DigiLab 3D45 3D. This model got rave reviews in PC World and the EDU version comes with 30 lesson plans and …
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What do highly effective teachers do in online classrooms? We combed through dozens of studies to find the best research-backed ideas. When online classes exploded in popularity a decade ago, the U.S.
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In distance learning, teachers can adapt many of the strategies they would use in the classroom to promote reading skills.
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Unboxing Video: A Fun Classroom Video Activity -Guest Post by Matt Miller – daveburgess.com
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Student Self-Instruction Grows Like a Garden | All Things Assessment
There were many fits and starts as I tried to find a topic that I felt might be relevant to discuss. Ultimately, I found it hard to write about assessment in isolation from the unfolding world events. So, I stopped writing and examined my recent exp…
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Assessment Transformation in Unprecedented Times | All Things Assessment
Many are predicting larger-than-ever achievement disparities due to the deep inequities in our system that existed even before this pandemic. Achievement gaps are the symptom of educational system deficits that do not serve all students well, in par…
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Bob Shepherd: The Hoax of Standardized Testing | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Bob Shepherd is an editor, author, and recently retired teacher in Florida. He worked for many years as a developer of curriculum and assessments. He posted this comment here. The dirty secret of the standardized testing industry is the breathtaking…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Create and Conduct Polls in Google Slides
Poll Everywhere is a polling tool that I’ve used off and on throughout the past decade. It’s a great tool for gathering questions from an audience, polling an audience, and seeing word clouds of sentiment from an audience.
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Ground Your Characters with All Five Senses
When I’m writing—these articles, for example—I often compose a kind of first draft in my head, and I usually do it when I’m out on a long walk with the dog.
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The Limits of School Choice | Diane Ravitch’s blog
There are many reasons to be concerned about the spread of school choice via charters and vouchers. One is that it reduces the funding available for the public schools that enroll the vast majority of students.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Bibcitation – Easily Create Citations in a Wide Variety of Styles
Last week I shared a tutorial on how to use the new citation generator that is built into Google Docs. One of the complaints I’ve already heard about it is that it only supports a few citation styles. If that’s your complaint about it, you might wan…
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Google Meet: See Yourself – Teacher Tech
The default in Google Meets video conferencing is that you are NOT a tile. You can find your video in the upper right hand corner of Google Meet. Go to the upper right hand corner of Google Meet and find your video. Hover over your video to find 2 i…
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Excerpt from Schools on Trial | Penguin Random House Canada
An all-in attack on the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change by one of the most passionate and certainly youngest writers of this subject.
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Phones in class don’t actually hamper learning – Futurity
Using your mobile phone in the classroom does not negatively affect your learning, according to new research. The result contradicts conclusions of previous studies. The researchers suggest that we should change the way we study virtual interactions…
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TPEP: New Student Growth Rubrics | Stories From School
We’re almost a decade into the “new” teacher evaluation program (TPEP), and this year OSPI has introduced a change that I think has the potential to shift the model closer to its intention: promoting improvement of teacher growth and practice.
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Getting Started with Teaching with Minecraft on the Chromebook – Google Slides
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10 Ways To Slow Down And Sleep Well After A Long Day Of Teaching – Smart Classroom Management
Teaching during Covid—be it online, hybrid, or in person—has brought about a whole new level of stress. And you must find a way to combat it.
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Positive Parent Calls and Texts Really Pay Off
Not long ago I was participating in a Twitter chat about technology in school. A question that tweeps (Twitter people) were asked to comment on was, “What is the most important technology you use on a day-to-day basis?”
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5 Time Saving Tips for Teaching with Spreadsheets – Teacher Tech
It’s my birthday and everyone knows no one loves a spreadsheet more than I love a spreadsheet! Here are 5 things you can do with a spreadsheet that will save you time! Spreadsheets recognize a pattern. Highlight the pattern and grab the fill square …
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A Principal’s Reflections: How to Create Effective Learning Playlists
Educators have been working valiantly to make either remote or hybrid learning work. In the midst of this challenging time, we have seen innovative practices embraced more at scale.
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Christopher Columbus, American Hero??? | Mike Kaechele
Nine years ago I was in my first year at a newly opened PBL school. My students were bused in from twenty districts across the county representing urban, suburban, and rural areas. We had a diversity of race, gender, and political views.
