Here are last week’s selection of great blog posts:
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Several readers of this blog asked that I provide a summary of my views on global warming. To respond to these requests, I dedicated most of my Friday podcast to this issue–so please check it out (you can access the podcast below or through your fa…
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The First Step With An Out-Of-Control Class – Smart Classroom Management
It’s not to teach your classroom management plan. With an out-of-control class, bringing up rules right away will fall on deaf ears. No, the first step after losing control or taking over an unruly class is to remove excitability.
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What Is Behind the Attack on Critical Race Theory?? | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Very few of its critics can define CRT. Most seem to think it means teaching about racism today. They prefer to believe that racism ended with slavery. They are wrong. Numerous states have passed laws banning the teaching of critical race theory, ev…
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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education: What Is “Student-Centered” Instruction?
To begin, if there is one right answer to a task, it’s not student-centered. It’s students figuring out the answer the teacher wants.
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Good Source of U.S. History Lesson Starters
When I taught U.S. History one of my go-to methods for starting classroom conversations about a new topic or unit was to give my students an interesting image or a short primary source document to review and ask questions about.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Good Tools for Creating Infographics
Yesterday morning I got an email from a reader who was looking for some suggestions for tools that her eighth grade students could use to create infographics.
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Epic Games and LEGO Are Working Together To Create a Child-Safe Metaverse Space – IGN
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PlayVS strong-arms teachers into using esports platform, educators allege – The Washington Post
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How the Metaverse and Gaming can transform education | ASU+GSV 2022 – YouTube
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If you’ve seen me present virtually, you’ve seen me use mmhmm to do an over-the-shoulder slides look & easily toggle between screen share & my camera. What you don’t see there is the power of mmhmm to record & share to empower students with resource…
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The Nerdy Teacher: Coolest Projects from Raspberry Pi #MakerEd
If you are looking for a fun way to bring a design challenge to your students, please take a moment to check out Coolest Projects from Raspberry Pi. Coolest Projects provides all of the information a student and a teacher needs to be successful.
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Schools Matter: Over 1,000 Books Banned During the Past Nine Months
Book bans in public schools have recurred throughout American history, and have long been an issue of concern to PEN America, as a literary and free expression advocacy organization. Over the past nine months, the scope of such censorship has expand…
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Datafied Childhoods the book – NetFamilyNews.org
A grabbier headline might be “Screens are watching us back,” but that would be like so many scary news headlines parents are subjected to. More importantly, it’s only a small part of all that this important new book – Datafied Childhoods, by Profs.
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Control Alt Achieve: You can do that with Docs, Slides, and Sheets?!
I recently had the privilege to present a session for Google’s series of “Did You Know?” webinars. These are a collection of 8 sessions covering a wide range of Google tools for schools.
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Materials: Students were given a worksheet to write answers and show their work. Students also required a laptop with which to work on. Time: Students had 40 minutes to complete the task. Only a hand full of the students were able to finish in the t…
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It Takes Two Creator Shared How Filmmaking Helped the Game Mechanics
Josef Fares explained why such mechanics as the game’s Street Fighter section are not used more.
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Building Up or Breaking Down: How Assessment Impacts a Culture of Learning | All Things Assessment
Have you ever started a new book and just . . . lost interest? Have you ever started a book and found yourself so enthralled that you could hardly put it down? Each school year, educators have the opportunity to write a new story—and the beginning o…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Free Design Skills Course for Students
As you probably know, I am a huge fan of Canva. I use it on a daily basis to create YouTube thumbnails, presentations, and teaching materials like my new Around the World With Google Earth activity.
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First All-Black Everest Team Heads to Himalaya | The Adventure Blog
Now that April has arrived, the mountaineering world is once again turning its attention to the Himalaya. In the Nepali capital of Kathmandu, climbers are now arriving in droves and are preparing for the epic challenges that now lie ahead.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five Image Editing Features Built Into Google Slides
Regular readers of my blog probably know that I’m a big fan of using tools like Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud Express, and Pixlr to edit and enhance pictures. But sometimes those tools feel like they have almost too many options.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Shifting Our Practice
In my previous post, I dove into the concept of shifting our focus from “what” to “who” in order to set the stage for personalization.
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