More amazing blog posts from this past week:
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Free Technology for Teachers: Daddy, What Are Hiccups?
My youngest daughter had hiccups twice this week. On Friday morning she asked, “what are hiccups?” Fortunately, I knew the answer. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a great way of explaining involuntary muscle contractions to a three-year-old.
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Nancy Bailey: Is EdTrust Behind the Renewal of Standardized Testing? | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Nancy Bailey explains why we should worry about who is making the decisions at the U.S. Department of Education before any of its top officials have been confirmed. She suspects it is Education Trust, which favors charter schools and high-stakes tes…
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Thom Gibson on Designing Student Jobs that Empower the Classroom Community – John Spencer
Teachers have been using student jobs for years but sometimes a classic idea can use a makeover in an age of hybrid learning, remote learning, and blended learning.
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Curious About The Esports Education Playbook? • Teched Up Teacher
It’s hard to remember a time when video games weren’t a major part of our lives.
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Boss Fight Assessment – Special Power Cards – Classroom Powerups
Mr. Powley is a 14 year teaching veteran and is currently the dual enrollment American History teacher at the #1 ranked high school in South Carolina. For the last several years he has transformed his classroom based on the principles of game inspir…
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Review— ′Bug Lab for Kids′- Beetles, Butterflies, Spiders, Arthropods! – GeekDad
This book by John W. Guyton has at its core a deep respect for what kids age 10 and up can do. I think it is the best book of its kind I′ve seen in a while, and here are 5 reasons why: By anticipating the major drawbacks of dealing with bugs.
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NetFamilyNews.org – Kid tech intel for everybody
So back to trust and civility. “We need to protect this treasure,” said Robin Raskin, founder of Living in Digital Times, as she and Larry Magid, with whom I co-directed ConnectSafely.
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Astronaut Suni Williams explains the importance of exercise while in space.
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exercise in space : Space and Astronomy news daily – SpaceInfo.com.au
NASA astronaut Nicole Stott exercising aboard the International Space Station. Astronauts lose 40% of their capacity for physical work over long periods. Astronaut muscles waste away on long space flights, reducing their capacity for physical work b…
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Exit Ticket Astronaut Exercise Equipment Project – Google Forms
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Also, should newspapers remove or update pieces on people years after they have run? From the News Literacy Project.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Record a Video in Gmail
Sometimes it is easier to reply to an email with a video than it is to write out a reply. For example, when a colleague asks me for help with Google Classroom I could write step-by-step directions or I could record a short screencast that would acco…
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Old Habits Die Hard: How Learning Goals can Stifle Deeper Learning – LUSTRE
Everyday, in classrooms across the country, many teachers begin their lessons with what are commonly known as Learning Goals, Targets, Objectives or Intentions.
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Eating your own social studies dog food | History Tech
“Critics warned that the sequester would cause hardship throughout the country, but congress-folk didn’t care — until they had to share in the pain.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Kahoot Acquired Whiteboard.fi – What Could That Mean for You?
Last spring I got quite excited about a new online whiteboard tool called Whiteboard.fi. A lot of other people did, too. This blog post that I wrote about Whiteboard.fi had more than 100,000 hits! The success of Whiteboard.
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California: Nearly 50,000 Teachers and Parents Say NO to Biden Testing Demand | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Educators Call on State Board of Education to Seek Waiver from U.S.
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Control Alt Achieve: Play the “Royal Game of Ur” with Google Slides and Drawings
As I have mentioned before, I am a big fan of board games and card games and dice games and most any game. They are a great way for people to connect, as well as build critical thinking skills.
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Mission To Mars Project 11/4/20-1/6/21
Microsoft Sway student presentation.
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OPINION: How the racism of ‘good’ teachers can hurt kids
Racism shows up in schools in a variety of ways. One is in the harsh disciplining of Black students compared to white students.
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“Laura! Mary! Carrie! Time for school!” Pa shouted, the merry twinkle in his eye alerting Laura that something either very good or very dangerous was up. With Pa you just never knew. “But Pa,” Laura replied, “the scarlet fever is raging through our …
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Earth Day Coding Recycling Sorting Activity | Our Family Code
This Earth Day coding recycling sorting activity teaches children how conditional statements and variables work and how logical reasoning plays a role in learning how to recycle common household materials!
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4 C’s Interactive Presentation – i ❤ edu
Hello EDU Friends! I hope you are surviving this crazy world that we are living in right now. Whether you are in distance learning, hybrid, or fully back in the classroom, I hope you and yours are safe, healthy, and happy.
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3-2-1 Waterfall! – Mari Venturino
We all have our go-to classroom strategies.
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NextGen Time: Tools for Science Instructional Materials Review | Science for All
For the past several weeks I have been involved in an online training of NextGen Time– a set of tools and procedures for evaluating, selecting and implementing new NGSS-based science instructional materials. The NextGen Time tools are the result of …
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Google Workspace for Education users finally have a way to make sure that students aren’t hanging out in a Google Meet without a teacher. Yesterday afternoon Google announced that teachers can now end Google Meet calls for all participants at once.
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When They Abandon Book After Book After Book – Pernille Ripp
“….well, I didn’t finish any books last year…”She turns to me and smiles. “What do you mean?” I ask, not sure I have heard her correctly, after all, I know what amazing work they do in 6th grade. “….I just stopped reading them, I didn’t finish them.
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Schools must still give standardized tests this year, Biden administration says – Chalkbeat
The Biden administration said Monday that states must administer federally required standardized tests this year, but schools won’t be held accountable for the results — and states could give shorter, remote, or delayed versions of the exams.
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Elizabeth Ann Is the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret |Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
The creature, the first cloned endangered species native to North America, could provide the fragile population with desperately needed genetic diversity Scientists have successfully cloned a wild black-footed ferret that died more than 30 years ago…
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From scavenger hunts to Pictionary, we’ve gathered a batch of virtual games to get students talking, laughing, and engaging with peers.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create a Google Slides Template
A couple of weeks ago I published directions for creating and editing master slides in Google Slides. Last week I received a follow-up question regarding using those edited master slides as a template for other presentations.
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Free Technology for Teachers: What’s New in G Suite for Education – It’s Not Called That Anymore!
If you’re curious about what’s new with Google Workspaces for Education and the various versions of it, watch this short video in which I provide a run-down of the changes. I also made a short slideshow about the changes. You can see those slides he…
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CURMUDGUCATION: Khan Academy Makes Its Next Big Move
The Khan Academy (aka that library of instructional videos that come in varying degrees of accuracy) is finally ready to take its next step and morph into an on-line-ish micro-credential competency-based school-ish thing.
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Why You should Ban Debate in Your Classroom | Mike Kaechele
I am a fanboy of the Anti-Social Studies podcast. Most of the episodes are about history or the history behind current events.
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Control Alt Achieve: 50+ New Google for Education Features
In case you missed it, or are just trying to review through everything that was shared, I have made an easy to browse bulleted list of everything that was announced in the event.
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Why “undo” Is Critical To Ludic Design – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
Ludic, or playful design, involves designing products or experiences through the lens of play. How do you make people feel safe to explore, encourage experimentation and even add some fun?
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