Check out these great posts from this past week:
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Challenge Tips And Reminders – Student Blogging Challenge
With the Student Blogging Challenge beginning next week, let’s take a look at some tips for getting ready and getting the most out of the challenge. If you’re planning on taking part in the challenge, make sure you have registered either as a class …
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How To Have The Best Behaved Class In Your School – Smart Classroom Management
And now I’m doing something about it. You see, a small number of SCM principles and strategies are far more important than the rest. In fact, they form the very foundation of effective classroom management.
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Focus on the doing of social studies, not just the model | History Tech
Back in the day, Madeline Hunter ruled. I never actually met Madeline but for a time, it was like we were joined at the hip. College of Ed professors loved her. Principals loved her. Teacher observation and evaluation tools loved her even more.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Get Your Copy of the Free Practical Ed Tech Handbook
Last Sunday I published the updated 2019-20 version of my popular Practical Ed Tech Handbook. I started publishing one every school year in the fall of 2015. Each fall since then I’ve published an updated version. All together they’ve been downloade…
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‘Ingenious’ – A Cleverly Designed Game – GeekDad
Discover the cleverness of game design with Ingenious! Ingenious is an abstract family game for 1-4 players, ages 8 and up, that plays in 30-45 minutes. It is easy to teach, simple to learn, and its colorful appearance appeals to all.
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Steve Hargadon: The Game of School
A few years ago I gave a talk on education at a conference being held at Google’s main headquarters.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Whiteboard Videos in Wakelet Collections
A couple of months ago Flipgrid introduced a new feature that enables you to create whiteboard-style instructional videos to share with your students. That feature is called Flipgrid Shorts.
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“500 climate change denying scientists” – yeah, no. – Christy’s Houseful of Chaos
I’ve been bothering to engage with some of the climate change deniers on the Sudbury Star’s Facebook page. They link to a Brietbart article saying that there’s over 500 scientists that are petitioning the UN to say there’s no climate crisis.
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Video: Robot Gymnastics | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
erik_stein / Pixabay I’m adding this new video to The Best Sites To Learn About Robots:
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Movie-Making Activity to Strengthen Classroom Community – Class Tech Tips
Whether it’s the beginning, middle or end of the school year, it’s always a wonderful time to share stories! At the start of the school year, students can introduce themselves to their classmates while learning how to navigate new digital platforms.
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Control Alt Achieve: Spice Up Your Slides with 600+ Free Design Templates
Google Slides is an excellent tool not just for creating presentations, but for making eBooks, stop-motion animation, Choose Your Own Adventure stories, comic strips, and much more. However, one aspect that is a little lacking in Slides is the amoun…
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: AR-kid: Space
AR-kid: Space is an excellent iOS app for kids ages 4 on up and uses augmented reality to teach about Space. This is done through a robot named Cosmo who narrates through 4 different aspect of space: (i.e. rocket, orbit, moon, and solar system).
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Illustrated 6-Word Memoirs – Pernille Ripp
We continue to work on developing our writing communities, slowly settling into what it means to write together, to be writers, and to feel free to write. We have written directions, we have discussed the rules of writing, we have read great writing…
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Mo Physics Mo Problems: Evidence in Site
Are you open to your own evolution as an individual and as a professional?
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Replace Gifted & Talented with Inclusive Programs
In places like New York City students as young as four-years-old can take high stakes entrance exams for gifted and talented programs. To help their children get in to the gifted and talented programs, parents may pay for expensive test prep to give…
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The Nerdy Teacher: Using @PlayCraftLearn and @SeeSaw to showcase Design Thinking #MakerEd
I’m excited to showcase some student examples from the project that I created for my design class. These examples come from students in grades 6-8. First, I’d like to share the steps that were taken to get to this point in case anyone would like to …
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Assessment is the Engine | All Things Assessment
This past May, I upgraded my vehicle. Since February 2008, I’ve been driving a 2006 Ford F-150, which I owned primarily for towing my travel trailer, driving up to the ski hill, and navigating the mountain passes from the small town I lived within t…
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Scottish Witches – The Map Room
The University of Edinburgh’s online Witches map is the result of a data and visualization internship project—the intern cheekily referred to as the Witchfinder General—to put the data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database on the map.
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How to Write an Outstanding CV: 10 Useful Tips
According to the ever-helpful Wikipedia, a CV (or curriculum vitae) “is a written overview of a person’s experience and other qualifications.
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Excerpted from LIMITLESS MIND by Jo Boaler, copyright 2019. Reprinted with permission by HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Why Is Collaboration Important?
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How do you use technology to support readers in your school? If you are exploring reading tools for students, the team at Lexia has expanded its Core5 reading program.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Styles of Classroom Video Projects – Tools and Tips for Making Them
In the 2019-20 Practical Ed Tech Handbook I included a section all about student video projects. In that section I outlined seven styles of classroom video projects along with tools and tips for making each style of video in your classroom.
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What Greta Thunberg Told the UN Today | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke at the UN Climate Conference today. Trump skipped the meeting to attend a discussion of religious freedom. Last Friday, Thunberg inspired millions of students around the world to demonstrate on …
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How Do I Take Part? The 4 Step Process Explained – Student Blogging Challenge
Have you registered to take part in the Student Blogging Challenge? If not, click here to register as a student or click here to register as a class.
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Post-Lesson Reflection: What Do Students Think They Learned? |
In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. I’ve suggested that teachers build mechanisms into their lessons to collect formative a…
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inquiryHub (iHub) Biology: Free Full Year HS NGSS Bio Units | Science for All
The inquiryHub (iHub) biology landing page provides a full-year high school life science course that is 3 Dimensional and built for the Next Generation Science Standards.
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Oh, Aight [Giving Them The First Word] | The Jose Vilson
It always starts the same. I put up one finger, give myself a three-second time out and say, “I’ll be patient with you.” Student X does Action Y again. “That’s twice now and I’m asking you to please focus on the Do Now / Objective / Lesson for now.