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Amazing blog posts from this past week:

• UDL Flowchart

  Is there a clear goal, aligned to state standards, for the lesson? Note: It must be clear to all stakeholders what students should know or be able to do as a result of the lesson.

• Seven Keys to Effective Feedback – ASCD

• When Students Learn to Choose, They Choose to Learn

  • • Choose: When offering students choices about their learning (for example, two different ways to practice a math skill or three different articles to prepare for a class discussion), give them a bit of time to examine the options and think about which might be a good fit for them.
    • Do: As students are working, support and guide their work. If needed, you might help students refine, change, or reflect on choices they have made.
    • Review: After students finish their work, give them time to reflect on the work they have done and the choices they made. This helps build skills of metacognition and enables students to become better at making choices in the future.

• Would_You_Rather UDL Edition

  Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that helps educators establish firm goals and flexible means, so all students have equal opportunities to access grade-level instruction in inclusive classrooms.

• UDL On Campus: Learning Goals

• The Sum of the Tumult: 20 Indispensable Life Lessons Learned After 20 Years of Teaching | by Paul Darvasi, PhD | Medium

• Chimacum Elementary teacher wins national award | Port Townsend Leader

  Trapping fish and playing Minecraft sound like a great way to spend weekends as a kid, but award-winning teacher Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. doesn’t make his students wait.

• EarthSky | Summer meteors 2022: Moon-free in late July and early August

  Summer meteors 2022. Late July and early August are a good time to start watching for Perseid meteors, before the moonlight interferes in the morning sky. The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 11-13, but builds gradually starting in early August.

• Three Ways to Empower Students to Own the Classroom Culture – John Spencer

  When AJ Juliani and I co-wrote the book Empower, we focused on the ways that students could own the learning process. It’s the core idea of shifting from being teacher-centered toward being more student-centered. We often talk about what it means to…

• Learning Invitations – 3 Way To Get and Keep Students Engaged

  My father was a big fan of Will Rogers, the vaudeville cowboy who, if you’re not familiar with him, could best be described as a comedian/philosopher. One of his most memorable quotes was,“ you never get a second chance to make a first impression.”

• The critical link between scholastic esports and career pathways education

  When I first approached my administration back in August 2021 about implementing a scholastic esports program at school, I had imagined facing significant opposition to the idea, and, in preparation, had rehearsed my talking points and done my resea…

• A paralysed man thought about walking. His exoskeleton did the rest. | Mashable

• This Mushroom-Based Leather Could Be the Next Sustainable Fashion Material | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

• Minecraft and NFTs | Minecraft

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• Know Your Why!: Collection of Digital Collaboration Resources for Teachers and Learners

  My “why” has always focused on how the 4 Cs can be used to support student growth and engagement in my classroom. I believe creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration are essential in all classrooms.

• Using Minecraft to Launch An Esports Program | Tech & Learning

  School leaders who are hesitant to get started with esports or aren’t sure what game to get started with are often overlooking an easy point of entry for their competitive team or club: Minecraft. What makes Minecraft a great entry point for esports?

• How to create inclusive learning environments with UDL

  What are inclusive learning environments, anyway? Putting a definition on this complex concept is deceptively tricky. Environments aren’t just spaces that we exist in; they also encompass the culture in that space. Here’s how I define it:

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• What jobs will still be around in 20 years? Read this to prepare your future | Employability | The Guardian

• CBC Radio

  There’s nothing quite like exploring an unfamiliar terrain and discovering something entirely new. It’s a feeling Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras of the U.K.’s Natural History Museum knows well.

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• My @TED_Ed Talk – Classroom Tech for Classroom Equity: How to use simple tech apps to support ALL learners #TechWithHeart @TEDTalks #TEDTalk #edtech #education | techieMusings

  I’m extremely honored & excited to share that my TED-Ed Educator talk was selected and published! I hope you find my message inspiring, applicable, and relevant. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if I can further support you in bringing these ideas…

• Want Girls to Pursue STEM Learning? Hear What Female NASA Scientists Have to Say

  Gena Henderson, chief of the integrative operations branch of exploration systems and operations division at NASA, said her love for STEM began at an early age. Henderson grew up about 50 miles from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and would watc…

• Review: ‘How to Teach Grown-Ups About Pluto’ – GeekDad

  In recent months I’ve been increasingly busy (a sign of which is that I started this post at the beginning of July and am finishing it on the 27th!). Meanwhile, lots of great books have been dropping through my letterbox and I’ve struggled to find t…

• The Development of Mathematical Reasoning

  Check out this exchange I recently had on Twitter. I was discussing frustrations of middle school teachers:

• Why Doesn’t Everyone Teach Real Mathematics?

• Gaming time has no link with levels of wellbeing, study finds – BBC News

• GPS Negatively Impacts Spatial Memory – The Map Room

  Rebecca Solnit points to a 2020 study that attempts to measure the impact of using GPS navigation devices on our spatial memory. After assessing 50 drivers, researchers found that drivers with more GPS experience had worse spatial memory when naviga…

• Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms | NHGRI

  The Talking Glossary features more than 250 common genetic terms pronounced and explained in an easy-to-understand way by leading scientists and professionals at the National Human Genome Research Institute.

• Engineers use electrolyte to create high-capacity batteries that operate in extreme temperatures | Beta site for NSF – National Science Foundation

  Engineers at the University of California San Diego supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation have developed a reliable lithium-ion battery that functions in extreme cold and heat.

• 20 ways to use Pear Deck to engage students – Ditch That Textbook

• 5 Good Apps for Writing Math Equations | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  Here are four excellent Chrome apps specifically curated for Math teachers and students. These apps are ideal for writing, editing and viewing math formula whether they are simple or complex.

• William J. Mathis: The Insurrection: Will the Center Hold? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  William J. Mathis, Ph.D., has served as a school superintendent and vice-president of the Vermont state school board. He also served as Managing Director of the National Education Policy Center and is the president-elect of the Horace Mann League of…

• Why Centrism Won’t Save Democrats or Democracy, or Address the Insecurity that Plagues Americans

  Republicans lead.  Democrats follow. And that makes all the difference.  Libertarian and wealth-protecting Republican ideologues invest to influence and change most people’s normative ideas and values, whereas Democrats seek to discern and appeal to…

• Gaming does not appear harmful to mental health, unless the gamer can’t stop – Oxford study | University of Oxford

  The research, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, found no ‘causal link’ between gaming and poor mental health – whatever sort of games are being played. But Professor Andrew K.

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• Landsat turns 50: How satellites revolutionized the way we see – and protect – the natural world

• Introduction to Computer Science with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade

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• If You’re Still Calling Your Class These 3 Things, It’s Time To Reconsider – We Are Teachers

  Babies, kids, scholars, minions, the list goes on. There are dozens of names that teachers call their students, but are certain choices better than others? Take a spin around the Internet and you’ll find LOTS of opinions on this subject. So what’s a…

• Librarians Are Targets for Fascists | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes a post on her blog about threats to democracy. One of this is described in this post: the threats to libraries and librarians by extremists who want to ban books.

• Berkshire and Schneider: Voters in School Board Elections Reject Slanders Against Their Public Schools | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Hello, Democrats! Wake up! Journalist Jennifer Berkshire and historian Jack Schneider report that voters in school board elections are not falling for rightwing slanders of their public schools and teachers!

• Attend an Edcamp – Digital Promise

  Educators searching for voice and choice in their professional development attend Edcamps to learn, share, and connect.

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• Free Technology for Teachers: Double Rainbow Lessons!

  My daughters love rainbows. They have rainbow dresses, rainbow bracelets, rainbow stickers, and anything else that can have a rainbow on it.

• Social-Emotional Learning Part I: Self-awareness – Dr. Catlin Tucker

  In my previous blog post titled “Social-Emotional Learning Series: Cultivating Skills All Students Need to Thrive,” I identified classroom management, lack of engagement, and general student apathy as challenges that plagued the 2021-2022 school yea…

• Need some social studies strategies for back to school? How about seven? | History Tech

  After the last few years, there’s not much that surprises me anymore. It’s been such a weird two and a half years of school. (And for classroom teachers, an incredibly challenging and difficult time.)

• Schools Matter: Why White Nationalist, Larry Arnn, Says Professional Teachers Are the “Dumbest”

  In 2011 the neo-conservative website, Human Events, published its list of the ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Coming in at #5, right between The Kinsey Report and Das Kapital, was Democracy and Education by John Dewey.

• How To Build Powerful Reasoning Using Problem Strings – Grassroots…

• Bite Sized Learning – Learning from Liljedahl’s Thinking Classroom

• Video: “The Rise of Global Literacy Rate Since 1980” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  sof_lo / Pixabay I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For World Literacy Day:

• Mercedes Schneider: Kentucky Teacher of the Year 2022 Resigns | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Mercedes Schneider writes here about the decision by Willie Carver, Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year, to resign. Carver testified before Congress and described the indignities he endured because he is gay. Carver is a highly qualified, highly exp…

• Georgia: Will the State Ban Teaching the Truth About Racism? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Maureen Downey of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted a guest column by two university scholars in Georgia, warning about the dangerous legislation now under consideration. T. Jameson Brewer is an assistant professor of social foundations of edu…

• A Principal’s Reflections: Get Students into the Learning Pit

  In life, I would wager that the majority of us prefer the path of least resistance. After all, this is human nature. While we avoid challenges for many reasons, our mindset often keeps us from pushing ourselves if we are comfortable where we are at …

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• The Biden-Harris campaign has launched a ‘Build Back Better’ map in Fortnite – The Verge

  With just a few days to go before the November 3rd presidential election, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign has launched a new custom map in Fortnite.

• Why You Shouldn’t Correct Student Work – Smart Classroom Management

  Admit it. You can’t stand correcting daily work.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Anatomy of a Killer Class or Webinar Agenda

  · 4 #EdTech Blogs to Bookmark · 9 Must Read Blogs for Innovative Teachers · 10 Digital Citizenship Bloggers to Follow · 10 Education blogs worth following – eSchool News · 11 Ed Tech Bloggers to Follow · 20 Best Blogs in Instructional Technology · 2…

• Pear Deck How-to-Handbook — Pear Deck

  Just as students have diverse learning styles, we understand that teachers do too. Earlier this year Pear Deck released a gallery of new help videos that provide getting-started tips in (approximately) three-minute bites.

• Change your background in Google Meet – iPhone & iPad – Google Meet Help

  To help limit distractions or make video calls more fun, you can now blur your background or replace your background with an image. Important: Sensitive information might be visible when you change your background.

• How to Do School When Motivation Has Gone Missing – The New York Times

  Here’s what teenagers can do to equip themselves to move forward during this difficult and frustrating time. The school year is still young, yet parents and students alike may have noticed that academic motivation is already low. No surprise there.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create QR Codes to Share Google Forms

  Back in September I wrote about and made a video about how I’m using Google Forms as a sign-in/sign-out sheet for my classroom. Some of my colleagues are doing the same thing.

• Teachers, We Hear You – Alliance for Climate Education

  2020 has been a year. No one knows that more than teachers. We are asking the impossible of teachers: teach virtually with minimal new resources or support. Or teach both virtual students and in-person students at once. Or teach them in the classroo…

• 5 Awesome Games For Awesome Learning Opportunities — Mike Washburn

  Let’s face it, video games are not going anywhere. Instead of turning away from them, many educators have come to embrace games as another tool they can deploy to engage students and create learning opportunities.

• NHD and SBG Grading – Classroom Powerups

  For the last 6 years I have been volunteering as the Coastal Regional Coordinator for the South Carolina National History Day Competition. I have been competing in the NHD Competition for a decade.

• WriteReader – A Powerful Book Creator for Students – Pernille Ripp

  My own kids have been busy writing.

• Synchronous Online Discussions: Preparation, Facilitation & Wrap Up

  Discussion is a cornerstone of any learning community. Students construct and confirm meaning, in part, through dialogue with their peers.

• minecraft-mock-poll-aims-to-educate-kids-about-voting

  At the top of a hill sits a large white building with columns and draped with American flags. It resembles the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., except for a key difference. It’s built out of Minecraft blocks.

• Writing Workshop Ideas for the Middle Grades

  By Lynne R. Dorfman Writing workshop can be an exciting part of the day for middle school students. The goal is to make sure that students are always writing.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Five Screencasting Tools Compared and Ranked – Fall 2020

  The launch of Vimeo Record earlier this week made me think that perhaps it was time to write a comparison of popular screencasting / screen recording tools.

• What are the top 10 job skills for the future? | World Economic Forum

  Half of us will need to reskill in the next five years, as the “double-disruption” of the economic impacts of the pandemic and increasing automation transforming jobs takes hold.

• They dreamed of esports fame. Then their bodies broke down | WIRED UK

  Her wrists were in agony. Julia Bright had only been playing Overwatch online for two hours, a fraction of her usual daily investment in the game, but she could take no more. Desperate to soothe her hands and forearms, she plunged them deep into a b…

• How I learned the difference between virtual engagement and virtual learning – Chalkbeat

  First Person is where Chalkbeat features personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others thinking and writing about public education. As a middle school social studies teacher, I took a lot of pride in coming up with ways to keep my stud…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ideas for Stop Motion Video Projects to Make With Cloud Stop Motion

  Last month I published a video about how to use Cloud Stop Motion to make a stop motion video. Stop motion provides a good way to make simple animations and time lapse videos. Here are three ideas, including one from a current student of mine, for s…

• Engagement vs. motivation with Harvard’s Chris Dede – Classcraft Blog

  Engagement and motivation are two common themes at The Great Exchange virtual summit. While the terms are used interchangeably, they’re not quite the same.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Time to Fall Back – Short Lessons About Daylight Saving Time and Timezones

  This weekend we have Halloween and the end of Daylight Saving Time (in most of the U.S. and Canada). Hopefully, my kids will take advantage of the “extra” hour of time for sleeping.

• It’s Time to Clean Up Your App Life

  Unused apps on your phone can do more harm than simply taking up space. We’re using our personal devices like our phones and our tablets more than ever during distance learning. But did you know that unused apps are not only slowing you down but may…

• Equity and education: what’s the link? – Classcraft Blog

  Equity. We can tend to think about equity as making education fairer, but fairness can be a little hard to wrap your head around. And trying to teach it to students who are learning remotely or in some sort of hybrid/blended model can be even harder

• [Template] Pumpkin Carving – Google Slides

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• Pear Deck Slides for Halloween Fun — Pear Deck

  These quick Slides were designed to drop into your other lessons. You can use them as a bell-ringer, to check attendance, as a brain break, or as part of your class Halloween festivities!

• Why games engage students with special needs – Classcraft Blog

  The pandemic created challenges for all educators this school year, but special education teachers had to adapt unique plans for every student.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Five Last Minute Resources for Teaching About the Electoral College

  We’re one week away from the U.S. Presidential election. While citizens cast their votes next week, the final selection happens in the Electoral College in December. That’s a concept that can be tricky for some students to understand.

• Hāpara: The Essential Tool for Every Google Classroom School

  I’ve seen one tool improve student engagement in Google Classroom significantly — Hāpara. While Google Classroom is can be taught, there are some problems with Google Classroom regarding engagement and simplicity. Google Classroom isn’t always simpl…

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Edit the Captions in Your YouTube Videos – Fall 2020 Update

  Last spring I published a video about how to adjust the captions that are automatically generated for the videos that you upload to your YouTube account. Recently, YouTube made some changes to the way that the caption editing process works.

• Flipping Pandemic: 5 Principles and 2 Videos about QWIQ Recorded Lectures – Classroom Powerups

  The QWIQ Flip technique seems to be working fairly well for students during the Pandemic ‘Hybrid’ model of instruction.

• Saving the climate from the ground up

  Experts are indeed confident today that this strategy could significantly slow down climate change. “0.4 percent additional carbon input is somewhat too optimistic,” explains Prof. Wulf Amelung, who heads the Division of Soil Science at the Universi…

• Are millions of students really missing school?

  As many as 3 million of the country’s most marginalized students may not have returned to school—online or in-person—since the COVID closures in March, a new analysis suggests.

• Build a video game like a Lego set with this new Unity tool – The Verge

  Lego has paired with game engine maker Unity for a Lego Microgame, where you can snap together virtual bricks to build the environment of your own custom game world. The Microgame is free and requires no prior knowledge of video game programming.

• 3 tips to make Zoom feel like the classroom – The Daily Universe

  BYU AD Lab students use Zoom to stay connected. (Photo from BYU AD Lab Instagram)Students have been learning how to create an online classroom environment since BYU started using Zoom to remotely teach classroom material.

• 5 Minute Connectors – Google Slides

• When Students Design Their Own Games They Learn Way More Than Coding — Mike Washburn

  Last year, my eighth-grade student Nathan made a game that was banned from Scratch. If I stopped there that would sound bad of course, but hear me out. It wasn’t bad; in fact it was amazing. He wanted to make a jump scare game—and boy did he succeed.

• 11 Structural Shifts for PBL to Thrive | Mike Kaechele

  As horrible as Covid-19 has been, one result is that society has been forced to re-think just about everything. Education was hit hard with schools shut down around the world.

• Create Activities and Assignments for Students – Class Tech Tips

  This post is in partnership with Bloomz. All opinions are my own. Do you use a family engagement and parent communication app? Most of these platforms incorporate messaging and scheduling, but Bloomz is taking it to the next level.

• 5 Things You Don’t Have to Do When Teaching Writing – Not So Wimpy Teacher

  Teachers are almost used to being told that they need to do more – especially in 2020. Learn new technology. Become an effective online teacher. Teach in-person and virtually at the same time. Research new curriculum. The list goes on and on. I want…

• 3 FREE Halloween Digital Escape Rooms – daveburgess.com

  Want to have some Halloween problem-solving fun? Halloween is coming. Need something to engage your students, whether you’re face-to-face or remote?

• Using Feedback to Build a Sense of Connection, Purpose, and Ownership – KATIE MARTIN

  As a beginning teacher, I remember grading my student essays and marking up the margins with comments, asking questions, probing for more, and then assigning the grade. I spent an inordinate amount of time as an English teacher grading essays like t…

• Combatting the Challenges of the Concurrent Classroom with the Station Rotation Model |

  I’ve been a fan of the station rotation model for years. As I support teachers struggling to navigate the demands of the concurrent classroom, I find myself continually returning to the station rotation model as a strategy to design and facilitate l…

• Helping Students Navigate the COVID Reading Slump – Pernille Ripp

  One of the most common conversations I have had with students over the last 7 weeks has been a description of what COVID has done to their reading lives.

• CoolCJNJ’s Flipgrid Response

• A Principal’s Reflections: Give and Take Ideas to Support Teachers

  The pandemic has really put a strain on educators, yet they continue to rise to the occasion on behalf of kids. This has come at a cost both mentally, socially, and physically. Something has to give.

• 14 activities for Halloween – Yummy Math

  How well can you predict your candy haul? – Students consider how to determine their best predictions of their candy haul.  The math ideas of measurement error and percent error are introduced.

• What’s Possible with Green Screens in the Classroom | Cult of Pedagogy

  This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Shilpa stands in front of a mountain range, arms extended. A few seconds later, sh…

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Check out these amazing posts from last week:

• 7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

  On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his mo…

• Grace is Greater Than Grades | Shake Up Learning

  In the midst of the coronavirus chaos, the anxiety, the fears, and the extra time at home, I would like to come back to an idea that Jennifer Pearson shared on a special BONUS episode of the Shake Up Learning Show–grace.

• 4 Must-Have Google Classroom Skills for Teachers | Shake Up Learning

  Google Classroom is quite a robust platform for teachers and students to communicate, collaborate, and manage assignments digitally. Google is continually updating and giving us new features that make it an even more powerful tool.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Ideas for Building Virtual Tours With Google’s Tour Creator

  Google’s VR Tour Creator makes it possible for anyone who has a Google account and a computer to create their own virtual reality tours to view and share in Google Expeditions.

• How To Avoid Parent Complaints About Online Learning – Smart Classroom Management

  Online learning increases the possibility of receiving complaints from parents—because they’re now able to see everything their child sees. They can judge and dissect every lesson and assignment as it’s given.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Convert Video into Audio

  Earlier this week I had a colleague ask me how she could extract the audio from a video that she had made. Some video editing tools, including iMovie and WeVideo, have an option to export just the audio from your video projects.

• Control Alt Achieve: You can take it with you! Transfer your Gmail and Drive with Google Takeout for Schools

  Change is a part of life: Maybe you are a high school senior or a college student and you are graduating. Or perhaps you are a student who is moving to a new school. You might be a teacher who is taking a job at a new school district.

• Climate Science Assessment Tasks | Science for All

  The Phenomenal Assessment site features three assessment tasks created for the Climate Science Proviso which has provided climate science education funding in Washington state. You will find an elementary task, a middle school task and a high school…

• Young artists show creativity in a plea to reduce harmful trash in the ocean | Puget Sound Institute

  Student artists from across the country are calling attention to the hazards of human trash that washes into the ocean, killing sea creatures large and small.

• Control Alt Achieve: Remote Learning & Pear Deck Webinar

  For those not familiar, Pear Deck is an awesome add-on for Google Slides that allows you to add interactive elements to your slideshows.When you run the slideshow through the Pear Deck add-on the students can join the presentation with a code and fo…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Use Whiteboards in Google Meet Without Screensharing

  On Monday I published a blog post about a new online whiteboard tool called Whiteboard Fi.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Blur Faces and Objects in Your Videos

  One of the topics that I frequently receive questions about is privacy when posting videos online. One option is to post your videos as unlisted or private videos on YouTube or Vimeo. Another option is to blur faces and objects in your videos.

• How to Teach Social-Emotional Learning When Students Aren’t in School – Education Week

  Tens of millions of students are dealing with massive upheaval to their educations and daily lives with their schools shuttered indefinitely to thwart the spread of the coronavirus.

• 7 Important Questions Before Implementing Digital Portfolios – George Couros

  Digital portfolios have been something that I have been work on for over ten years, and I am very passionate about not only the product it can create but, more importantly, the process. Having a space to share my learning and reflections has been po…

• 4 Ways to Craft Choice Menus in Distance Learning Classes – John Spencer

  I have three kids ranging from older elementary to high school. Each one of them is handling distance learning differently. My daughter, who is also the youngest, initially felt overwhelmed at the list of assignments that popped up each Monday and t…

• Learning math through story: Examples from one teacher’s classroom – Ditch That Textbook

  ​This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.

• Storytelling: Bringing the power of stories to your teaching – Ditch That Textbook

  Great stories have a natural structure and flow. There are several great frameworks we can use when we teach — and when students create with their learning. The three-act structure is a common story arc used in books, theater, TV and even jokes.

• Climate Clock | Human Impact Lab

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Map and Connect Spreadsheet Data

  Earlier today a reader emailed me with a great question about Google Maps. She wanted to map a set of addresses and then quickly determine the shortest route between all of those places.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Complete Sentence Requirements in Google Forms

  This afternoon I held an informal webinar for a small group of people who were interested in learning some G Suite tips and tricks. Response validation in Google Forms was one of the things that I showed toward the end of that webinar.

• Climate Clock | Science for All

  I’m assuming you are coming to grips with a global pandemic and the introduction of murder hornets. So there is no better time to add on by sharing the Climate Clock. This site features a real-time clock that displays the total global warming to dat…

• Online PD: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning | Science for All

  The STEM Teaching Tools team/site recently hosted a Zoom professional development session titled- ClimeTime Professional Learning Session: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning During School Closures…it’s a catchy title to be sure.

• It’s Time For Mastery Learning • Teched Up Teacher

  Once upon a time, I was terrified that I wouldn’t pass my drivers test. I wasn’t good at parallel parking to begin with, but as I waited for my instructor to pick me up I realized that I had been practicing on the wrong side of the road.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Loom – Create Screencasts on Your iPad

  Loom is a good screencasting that I’ve written about a handful of times over the last couple of years. Amongst it’s many features, Loom offers a Chrome extension that makes it easy to respond to an email with a video.

• Control Alt Achieve: Adding Audio to Pear Deck Google Slides Activities

  Also, if you would like to learn more, I am excited to be offering a free 1-hour webinar on “Remote Learning and Pear Deck” where I will go over the fundamentals of Pear Deck for asynchronous learning, share best practices, highlight favorite featur…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: DOGOnews

  DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Ev…

• 7 Strategies Designed to Increase Student Engagement in Synchronous Online Discussions Using Video Conferencing |

  One of the primary roles that a teacher plays in an online class is the facilitation of learning. Facilitation is the teacher’s ability to clearly communicate learning objectives and support learners as they make progress toward those objectives.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Free Webinar – A Framework for Using Educational Technology

  Whenever I’m a guest on a podcast I always asked some variation on the question, “how do you decide what to write about?” The answer is simple, I try to look at new technology through the framework of discovery, discussion, and demonstration.

• seven-distance-learning-priorities-to-consider-before-reopening-schools

  When U.S. schools initially closed in March, distance learning emerged as a way to keep kids learning. Classroom teachers scrambled to learn how to put lessons online and tens of thousands of Chromebooks and other devices were distributed in a matte…

• Free Wordle (Word Cloud) Generators – Featuring A New Tool

• Students as Content Creators in Minecraft | AltspaceVR

  PRESENTATION: Minecraft has become an amazing tool for use in education. It allows us to leverage student expertise while meeting our learning outcomes.

• The Power of Class Rituals | Mike Kaechele

  The Covid 19 pandemic has turned the world upside down, changing life as we know in ways never dreamed possible. The only comparison that I have is dystopian or disaster movies. In all of the craziness that is now life, we need to find patterns to s…

• A Principal’s Reflections: Protecting Kids During and After Remote Learning

  With more and more schools either extending school closures or completely shutting down for the remainder of the academic year, a focus on remote learning will continue into the foreseeable future.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Reasonable strategies for the future of schooling in unreasonable times

  The Center for Disease Control (CDC) put out hard to swallow guidance about the reopening of schools. Unless there are some big changes in our educational system, we will not be able to incorporate this guidance into our schools.

• Traits of a Successful Online Teacher |

  Last week, I had the good fortune of stumbling onto John Savery’s article titled “BE VOCAL: Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors” in which he talks about the unique challenges facing teachers who are working with students in the online e…

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