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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Make Good Explanatory Videos – The Minute Earth Style
Minute Earth is a popular YouTube channel whose videos I’ve featured a handful of times on this blog. Their short videos provide explanations of interesting science topics like why rivers curve, how some waves get so big, and why it is hot underground…
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9 Ways To Assess Student Learning Online – e-Learning Infographics
Assessment is simply the process of gathering information on what students know based on their educational experience. Assessment results are typically used to identify areas for improvement and ensure that course content meets learning needs. Obvio…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Activities for Teaching and Learning With Primary Sources
As a history teacher one of my favorite yet challenging things to do was introduce my students to primary sources. It’s great because it reveals to them a whole new world of research opportunities. There’s nothing better than a student saying, “wow!…
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Re-engage Children in Learning With Sphero BOLT – GeekDad
As schools across the nation and even the world have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning has been the prevalent means of education, there has been a concern over learning loss for these students.
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Could platforms design for 2nd chances?: Insight from key study – NetFamilyNews.org
No stage of life is easy, but being a teen is hard in a very particular way.
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Helping Students Analyze Primary Sources – History Gal
Do your students struggle with analyzing primary sources? Here are some things you can do to help.
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5 Ways to Gamify Your Classroom | ISTE
Many of our students are among the 155 million Americans playing video games regularly, and you might be, too. That’s a good thing.
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Gamification in the Classroom | First Steps to Gamify Your Classroom
When students are in the classroom things can get mundane. Yet when they are out of the classroom (or sometimes while they are in it) the first thing they reach for are their phones.
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Control Alt Achieve: Use Timestamps to make your YouTube Videos Better
When it comes to making a video engaging, most everyone will agree that shorter is better than longer. Like it or not, most of us have short attention spans and a long list of things we need to do. However, sometimes videos are simply not going to b…
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Adding Theme – Codename: Rip Van Winkle – Classroom Powerups
Adding a theme can provide a layer of fun and purpose to an otherwise dull assignment. While I was searching around for ideas on teaching Cold War Foreign Policy I stumbled upon this gamified lesson from 1999! Communism and Containment. Grade 10 Les…
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Earlier this week I shared five brainstorming warm-up activities and a video about how to use a new online brainstorming tool called Brainstormer. Of course, there are many tools for hosting collaborative brainstorming sessions including good, old p…
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Auto Submit Google Classroom from Google Form – Teacher Tech
If you add a Google Form to a Google Classroom assignment and the student fills out the Form it will automatically mark the assignment as done in Google Classroom. Only if the Google Form is the only attachment.
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Decolonising ecology? How to adopt practices that make science more equitable
Map showing the minimum estimate for each country of the number of bird speciesfor which the Latin binomial name is based on a European person. Hundreds of birdspecies have been named after European surnames, with most of these speciesoccurring outs…
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Assign algebra tasks to your students and see live feedback of their step-by-step work. Discover, create, and share engaging math activities for 4th to 12th graders. Move terms fluently to solve equations and explore the power of algebra without the…
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Teaching middle and high school students how to study helps them see for themselves why and when to use different strategies for learning. Self-regulated learning, or SRL, is not a new concept in pedagogy and has been considered a best practice for …
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Master View in Google Slides is Now the “Theme Builder”
If you logged into your Google Slides today, you may have noticed a new option in the “view” drop-down menu. Where there used to be a “master” option there is now a “theme builder” option. This change is purely cosmetic because nothing else changed.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Good Tools for Creating and Publishing Online Timelines
Creating timelines has been a staple in history teachers’ playbooks since the beginning of history. Writing a timeline is a good way for students to chronologically summarize sequences of events and see how the events are connected.
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Analyzing a Turtle Graph from Primary Source
One of the first things I teach AP Biology students is how to analyze data. This is a skill they have been practicing throughout high school, but science data can be challenging.
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An article today in The Harvard Business Review reported on new research identifying the conditions employees identified that helped them reach what they identified as their “full potential.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Warm-up Activities for Group Brainstorming Sessions
Yesterday morning I published a blog post and video about a new online brainstorming tool called Brainstormer. Writing that post reminded me of a set of brainstorming warm-up activities designed by Ethos3.
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Home Adults: Ideas for Creating Great Summer Reading Experiences – Pernille Ripp
I know many of us educators (and those at home) have been working hard all year to try to cultivate or protect a love of reading in our learners despite the incredible obstacles we have faced.
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Confirmation Bias And How To Embrace Being Wrong – #UX – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
When we design anything, be it user experiences, gamified experiences or even just Lego buildings – we become emotionally involved with what we are doing. We invest ourselves in the process and the outcomes of the process.
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Infographic: “15 Writing Lessons From Successful Authors” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
StockSnap / Pixabay I’m adding this infographic to The Best Writing Advice From Famous Authors: You can also find more infographics at Visualistan
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: What is atmospheric pressure? Why do we care about it? Part 1.
He asked: Since can’t feel it or sense it, why should we care? I was surprised by the question since atmospheric pressure is so important in meteorology and weather prediction. So let me give you a lowdown on pressure–by the time I finish, you will…
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Students might have concerns about getting vaccinated against COVID 19. Danny Muth, a talented teachers at our school, found that this video was a helpful one for our students to watch. We’re having the third vaccination clinic at our school tomorr…
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Paper STEM Activities! | Science Buddies Blog
Looking for last-minute STEM ideas for the end of the year, for after testing, for a classroom warmup, or for a rainy day at home? Try these paper-based STEM activities! Doing science and engineering activities doesn’t have to require lots of materi…
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Graphic Novel Class Library – 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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Surprisingly High Levels of Toxic Mercury Discovered in Greenland Glacial Meltwaters
New research from Florida State University shows that concentrations of the toxic element mercury in rivers and fjords connected to the Greenland Ice Sheet are comparable to rivers in industrial China, an unexpected finding that is raising questions…
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For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42 – Scientific American
Everyone loves unsolved mysteries. Examples include Amelia Earhart’s disappearance over the Pacific in 1937 and the daring escape of inmates Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin from Alcatraz Island in California in 1962. Moreover our interest …
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Reprinted from Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education. Copyright © 2021 by Alex Shevrin Venet. Shared with the permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. As a teacher, I know how important it is to create clear expectations f…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Virtual Tour of Washington With Dr. Jill Biden
Tomorrow at 1pm ET Discovery Education is hosting a free virtual field trip to Washington, D.C. for elementary school and middle school classrooms. The virtual field trip will take students to six landmarks in Washington, D.C. Along the way students…
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Free Technology for Teachers: New Text Overlay Options in Google Docs
Google has finally added a feature to Google Docs that many of us have been waiting a long time to see. That feature is the ability to overlay text on top of images in Google Docs! For years the only way to work with text and images in Google Docs w…
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Poor decisions made during the game development process can cause unexpected delays and costs. These setbacks can occur at any stage of a game’s lifecycle, from ideation to release – and beyond. At Unity, we’ve helped thousands of creators take thei…
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5 End-of-the-Year Activities – Dr. Catlin Tucker
As this year winds down, I encourage teachers to take the final weeks of the school year to create closure, collect feedback, and help students look forward. Needless to say, the 2020-2021 school year has been intense. Teachers and students alike ar…
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Smart Chips in Google Docs – i ❤ edu
Recently, Google has begun launching Smart Chips which allows users to quickly hyperlink and preview Google Docs, Slides, Drawings, Calendar Events, and email addresses within Google Docs.
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Spaces | Capture the moments where growth happens
Decorative Icon Resources Help Center Head to our one-stop shop for getting started & succeeding with Spaces Educator Blog Tips and tricks for transforming your classroom with digital portfolios Guides Browse our comprehensive guides to add to your …
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Ziplet | Student Feedback Made Easy
Teachers and students from over 10,000 schools, colleges and universities love using Ziplet every day.
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Combine uploaded files and website links in one location, then update, share and distribute!
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RazorArts home | Education through Entertainment
To test understanding , increase engagement, by adding Questions, Notes, Audio, Video, PPT and Animations to any point in a Video (Even YouTube)
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Empowering happier, healthier humans | Clanbeat
Free trial starts once you log in the first time. You can invite as many clan members to join as you want and enjoy all the features for 30 days for free. When logged in, select Billing from the top right menu and take it from there.
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Spinndle – your project organizer.
MANAGE STUDENT BREAKOUTS. Spinndle is a practice ground for students to build skills necessary for self-directed learning. On our socials threads students act as co-learners: supporting each other by sharing work, ideas and feedback on a peer feed.
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Every day students answer two questions about their well being.
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Deck.Toys – Learning Paths for Lesson Adventures
Creating lessons on Deck.Toys is fun for you too! Build complete lessons within minutes with your existing teaching content such as study sets, PPT or Google Slides.
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How to get your kids reading & loving it! Free Audiobooks and Ebooks Have Become My Family’s Obsession — Here’s How to Find Them!
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Integrate MURAL into your learning platform using our API. Contact us for more information. Schools like Stanford GSB, California College of Arts and Hyper Island are teaching the next generation of innovators using our solutions.
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Whiteboard.fi – Free online whiteboard for teachers and classrooms
Setting up a new class whiteboard is lightning fast! No registration or installation needed, and it works on all modern devices. Oh, and did I mention that it is free? When you create your class you will get a short class code.
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Ethnic Studies proponents say K-12 curriculum has remained largely Eurocentric and disconnected to the growing population of students of color in the U.S. It was November 1968, and studying the history and culture of non-White groups was still consi…
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Update your browser to use Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms – Google Drive Help
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As Americans, we have become all too familiar with the spread of a deadly virus and the terrible consequences of a delayed response to an outbreak. As a result of our experience, I’m wondering if some of us might have a more visceral sense about the…
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Some Favorite Picture Books to Highlight LGBTQ+ Experiences – Pernille Ripp
As June rolls nearer and we get ready to celebrate pride in my own house, I have been pulling books from our classroom collection to put on display.
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When a trillion dice are no better than a dozen. – Math with Bad Drawings
For my forthcoming book Math Games with Bad Drawings, I considered including a classic dice game called “Drop Dead.” It narrowly missed the cut. Strike one: the lousy name. Strike two: it’s a game of pure chance, with no room for decision-making. An…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Running Free Rivers
River Runner is a neat website that shows you how a drop of water travels from anywhere in the United States to the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, or the Gulf of Mexico. To use River Runner simply go to the site and click on any location in the …
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Free Technology for Teachers: Grackle – Check Slide and Document Accessibility
This spring we have some grackles nesting in our hanging plants and in the eve of our covered back porch. Every morning I take a quick look at them when I’m drinking my coffee and letting our dogs out.
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Top-down observation and feedback models are flawed. Time for change. | teacherhead
The more closely I work with teachers and schools/colleges, supporting CPD processes of various kinds, the more I realise just how woefully inadequate the standard ‘top-down drop-in and give feedback’ approach is..
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Note that the first column is sorted in ascending order. That’s very important: the results become erratic and totally unreliable if you don’t do that. Now, to save a bit of hassle later, it’s a good idea to name this table, so that you can refer it…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Evolving Instruction in a Rapidly Changing World
We all first learned of idioms probably during the middle school years in English class. There are so many out there, such as “it’s raining cats and dogs,” “you hit the nail on the head,” and “there are bigger fish to fry.