Here are some great blog posts from last week:
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Brilliant is an educational platform to use in your teaching to help students in their STEM learning. It offers hands-on and interactive lessons created by teachers and educators from MIT, Google, Microsoft, Duke, and several other renowned platform…
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Who Created Maslow’s Iconic Pyramid? – Scientific American Blog Network
Abraham Maslow’s iconic pyramid of needs is one of the most famous images in the history of management studies. At the base of the pyramid are physiological needs, and at the top is self-actualization, the full realization of one’s unique potential.
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The 2021 Fall Foliage Prediction Map is a feature of the SmokyMountains.com website. The map displays a week-by-week prediction of when leaves in the continental United States will be changing colors from now through the end of November.
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What “Varsity Letters” Might Look Like In Middle School Esports • Teched Up Teacher
Eric Churus, head coach of the Burnet Barbarians from Burnet Middle School in Union (whose middle school team won the GSE Rocket League state championship AND beat the high school state champs last year) shared with us his vision for “varsity letter…
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Update your browser to use Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Sites, Slides, and Forms – Google Drive Help
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Free Technology for Teachers: Save Google Forms Responses in Progress
About a month ago Google announced that they were finally adding an autosave option to Google Forms. This new features lets students leave a Google Form and then come back to it later to finish answering the questions on it.
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Boxing Biomolecules – A Game for Organics
AP Biology students usually start the year learning about biological macromolecules. I often get students wondering why they are learning chemistry in biology class.
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Fear is not a Fertilizer: Stop Grading Quizzes – Classroom Powerups
My thought – An observation of a students demonstration of skill or content knowledge in relation to where the standards suggest they need to be. Ambiguous? Yes.
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How metal-infused jaws give some ants an exceptionally sharp bite | Science News
If you’ve ever felt the wrath of a biting or stinging insect, it may seem incredible that something so small can so easily slice or puncture human skin.
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Kimberly Palmer: Do video games level up kids’ money skills?
Every few days, my 8-year-old son, Neal, asks if he can “earn something” on Roblox, a popular online video game platform. That’s his way of suggesting I buy him Robux, the platform’s currency, in exchange for him doing a chore or extra academic assi…
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Free Technology for Teachers: 700+ Free Typing Games for Kids
TypeTastic is a site that offers more than 700 free typing games for students of all ages. I first reviewed TypeTastic a few years ago shortly after it was launched and only offered thirteen games. Since then it has obviously added hundreds of more …
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SAMR Alignment of Microsoft EDU for Student Assignments
I am once again amazed at how life works. There are countless projects that I have labored over for days or even over a period of months. Excitedly, I share them with the world only to be greeted with a yawn. My book is a great example.
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American Revolution Choose Your Own Fate Simulation – Google Slides
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I still remember how great that day was. I had rocked it in all five sections of my 8th US history class. I spent 55 awesome minutes each period highlighting the causes of the American Revolution. And. I. Killed. It. The kids clearly couldn’t get en…
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Promoting Literacy: Cultivate a Reading Culture – Dr. Catlin Tucker
Guest post written by Amy Tobener-Talley. September 8th is International Literacy Day, a great time to think about promoting a class culture that values reading. However, encouraging students to read in and out of class is challenging as small scree…
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Back in the spring of 2020, before my tween daughters became obsessed with Minecraft YouTube, I thought I had pandemic parenting figured out.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Blur Faces and Objects in Screencastify Videos
Earlier this week I published a post about Screencastify’s new feature for adding interactive questions into your videos. That’s not the only new thing that Screencastify offers in its updated video editor. Another great feature is the option to blu…
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River Runner Simulation | Science for All
Here’s a fun simulation for a Tuesday. Visit River Runner and then click anywhere on the map to place a single raindrop. The simulation then shows you where the raindrop ends up. Enjoy.
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For the first three days of summer camp, Stephanie Lucianovic’s 8-year-old son arrived home with tear-streaked cheeks. The causes varied — a skinned knee, another child kicking sand on his water bottle and other small bumps in days filled with climb…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Combine Canva and Google Drawings to Make Graphic Organizer Activities
Last fall I published some videos about using Google Drawings and Google Jamboard to create labeling activities, mapping activities, and some graphic organizer activities. Those all relied on using the drawing tools built into Google Drawings and Ja…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Create Comics With Make Beliefs Comix
Make Beliefs Comix is a good tool for creating comic strips for all kinds of purposes including teaching empathy, practicing writing in a new language, and telling fun stories. Last week I outlined those ideas and more in this blog post.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Generate Captions for Any Video
YouTube will automatically generate captions for almost any video that you find. Likewise, it will automatically generate captions for videos that you upload to your account. That’s great if you want to use YouTube.
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New Math Templates with Stacey Roshan — Pear Deck
One of the things Pear Deck does, and does really well, is help you think about how to frame different questions — and provide you the tools to be able to do that and have great discussion as a class.
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Words matter. I encourage people to choose their words wisely, because the words we choose have a powerful effect on other people. As this post showed, the words we choose matter not only for teachers, but for anyone else who plays an important role…
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Lessons from the Sandbox – Angela Maiers – Virtual Keynote Speaker – #YouMatter
As a teacher, I’ve seen extraordinary things happen in the sandbox. From friendships being formed to brilliant dreams explored, the sandbox was the place where we created, shared ideas, and learned to love, trust, and depend on one another.
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Difference Between a Chrome Profile and a Google Account
This morning as I was starting to get caught up on a backlog of email I answered a question from a reader who wanted to know if I had a video about Chrome profiles that she could share with her staff. I do, here it is.
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DC’s New YA Hero Celebrates Our Special Bond with Pets – GeekMom
DC Comics’ latest young adult super-duo is out to change the world for the better, and they are coming with big ambitions and even bigger hearts. Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero, by bestselling author E.
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5 reasons video games should be more widely used in school
In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, weekends and holidays. The new rule took effect Sep…
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The anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place on 9/11 is coming-up. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Trust is a Leader’s Best Friend
When I began the journey to become a school administrator many years ago, I took the typical courses that were required. These focused on topics such as school law, instructional leadership, change management, school finance, and curriculum developm…
