Amazing blog posts from last week:
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Post It Notes need to be your new best friend | History Tech
Who doesn’t love sticky notes? Different colors. Different sizes. Plus . . . you know, they’re sticky. But they’re easy to underestimate. I mean, they’re literally a single use, throw away, forget about because their job is done, sort of thing.
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Tri-Fold Trick: Popsicle Stick Connectors – Classroom Powerups
Want to make “BIG” trifold board projects? The National History Day competition Exhibit categories gives competitors a “Box” of space 6 feet x 30 inches wide x 40 inches deep. This about the perfect dimensions for 2 standard trifold boards which is …
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The Best Of Smart Classroom Management 2021 – Smart Classroom Management
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Share this post: Educatorstechnology Formative assessment, game-based learning tools, Quizizz Quizizz is a game-based learning tool that you can use to engage students in deep and meaningful learning experiences. It allows you to create both teacher…
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Blockchain is only a game changer if players are stakeholders | VentureBeat
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Free Technology for Teachers: Nine Interactive Maps Depicting the History of the United States
American Panorama is a great resource from the University of Richmond that I first reviewed six years ago. Since then it has expanded from four interactive maps to nine interactive maps of United States history. American Panorama aims to be an atlas…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Six Reasons to Try Tract for Remote & Hybrid Learning
As we head into winter (in the northern hemisphere) there may be more opportunities to try new approaches to online and hybrid learning. One of those new approaches to try is using Tract.
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Esports in Minecraft Education Edition – The Other IT
If you aren’t aware, Esports is now the second most popular sport in the US, after the NFL. IN terms of participants, it is also second to only football when it comes to high school sports. We are not here to debate “whether playing video games can …
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Videos With Adobe Express
Earlier this week Adobe Spark was renamed Adobe Express. It still offers all of the great creation tools that made it one of my go-to video creation tools for the last half-decade. A couple of helpful updates were also included when Adobe Spark was …
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In Defense of Graphic Novels…Again – Pernille Ripp
Every few months, this notion of graphic novels as being something we need to push children out of comes into my life.
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Discover the science behind the Earth’s seasons, solstices, and equinoxes.
As the seasons change, the curious minds in your class may wonder why the number of daylight and nighttime hours also changes. You can spin the Earth’s trek around the Sun into fascinating lessons about the solstice and the science of the seasons.
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Deepwater Horizon: Analyzing Maps that Document an Oil Spill | Teaching with the Library of Congress
This post was written by Lesley Anderson, 2021-2022 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Regardless of how far students live from the coastline, studying an oil spill can pique their sense of curiosity and wonder.
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Scientists Create “Time Machine” Made of Human Cells To Reverse Pancreatic Cancer Progression
What makes pancreatic cancer so deadly is its covert and quick spread. Now, a “time machine” built by Purdue University engineers has shown a way to reverse the course of cancer before it spreads throughout the pancreas.
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Six Myths of Summative Assessment | All Things Assessment
Despite decades of research on sound assessment practices, misunderstandings and myths still abound.
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Paul Darvasi Gets Hit By the Serendipity Bug of Games | Episode 216 – Professor Game
Listen to this episode on your phone! Paul Darvasi, Ph.D., is an educator, game designer, speaker, and writer who works at the intersection of games, culture, and learning. His efforts directly or indirectly aim to envision and implement better ways…
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Pokemon Go Makers Partner With Museums for Real-World Metaverse – MuseumNext
The developer of the world’s first augmented reality (AR) platform to truly take off, Pokemon Go, has partnered with museums and other institutions for its latest release, Lightship.
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‘Playful by Design,’ a landmark report – NetFamilyNews.org
What better subject to zoom in on during the holiday season than play? I’ve written a lot on the subject, here, through the years but, in a way, this is Part 4 of a series I started in 2009 (here are the 2nd and 3rd parts).
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8 Ways to Grow Students’ Vocabulary | Cult of Pedagogy
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How to Use the Workshop Model to Foster Independence in Elementary School | Edutopia
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Audrey Watters “Takes on Ed Tech from Its Beginnings” | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Steven J. Koutsavlis, a research associate at the National Center on Privatization in Education reviews Audrey Watters’ new book on the history of education technology in schools. Its title is Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Use Formative to Build Questions Into Primary Source Documents
Formative is a great tool for creating all kinds of online activities from simple multiple choice quizzes to in-depth examinations for documents. One of the ways that I like to use it is to upload a document and then build questions into the documen…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Use Google Drive to Add Questions and Comments to PDFs
In my previous post I shared directions for using Formative to add questions to PDFs. Another option is to use Google Drive to add questions and comments to PDFs. Adding comments to PDFs in Google Drive is one of those little features that is quite …
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Easiest Way to Add Narration to Google Slides
When Google finally added native support for audio in Google Slides people were excited until they found out how clunky the process is. You have to first record the audio outside of Google Slides, then upload it your Google Drive, and then insert it…
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The IDEA charter chain is one of the largest and most aggressive in Texas. Betsy DeVos showered more than $200 million on IDEA to help it grow faster and to expand in other states. But IDEA, with so much state and federal money coming in, developed …
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Why school might look a little different these days | @mcleod
Below is a 15-minute video that I made for a school district’s families and community members. The first 3.5 minutes will sound familiar to those of you who’ve watched my TEDxDesMoines talk. After that, I branch into some new directions… Hope this i…
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College, Career, Or Whatever Readiness – The Jose Vilson
In recent times, the term “college and career ready” has come back into trend. It’s a term that first saw a spotlight during the Obama administration, when then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and company wanted to integrate the Common Core State…
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Cocohub – No code bot-building platform for video, voice, and text – cocohub
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Story Behind QWERTY – Why Keyboards Aren’t in Alphabetical Order
CNN’s The Story Behind QWERTY explains the origins of the QWERTY keyboard and why it is still the standard on computer keyboards today.
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