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Check out these great posts from this past week:

• The Compassion Project – Elementary Empathy Curriculum

  One of EVERFI’s Social Emotional Learning training courses, The Compassion Project, has been helping educators teach elementary school students the complex but critical skill of compassion since 2018.

• Like it or not, ChatGPT is our new learning partner

  You may have heard of ChatGPT. According to Google, about 350,000 articles have been written on the subject, and a significant percentage are related to education. With so much publicity, it is reasonable to assume that all students from middle scho…

• 10 Spooktacular Halloween Party Games – Educators Technology

  Halloween party games are the topic of our blog post today!

• Jamboard Transition Resources for Teachers – EdTechTeacher

  Google recently announced that Jamboard is winding down in 2024 (Details here) and educators across the world are now in search of viable alternatives.

• AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices | EdSurge News

  How is AI currently utilized in higher education? As of fall 2023, we are still in the early stages of figuring out what AI integration means for higher ed. In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do.

• Case Study – The Complicated Genetics of Human Eye Color

  This mini case study explores eye color in humans. The genetics of eye color is complicated! It is not simply a case of brown being dominant to blue. There are interacting genes that influence the color: specifically, OCA2, and HERC2. This case stud…

• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A Dramatic Annular Eclipse over the Northwest

  The annual eclipse this morning was quite a treat…even here in Seattle where only 80% of the sun’s disk was covered by the moon. Viewa…

• Millennials Spend More Time Playing Video Games Than Gen Z and Teens

  Millennials are the largest untapped market that video game companies should be focusing on, per a new study from Fandom, which finds that the generation spends more time gaming than both Gen Z and teens. Compiled based on proprietary user data from…

• Best Drones for Schools | Tech & Learning

  The best drones for schools offer a way to elevate your teaching and student engagement all in one fell swoop. This can mean teaching coding and construction in one potential trip to the skies for your students. Drones are more affordable and simple…

• AI in Education: Humans in the Loop

  The age of artificial intelligence has dawned, and it’s a lot to take in. In eSpark’s “AI in Education” series, we’ll help get you up to speed, one issue at a time.

• Teaching AI: What K-12 Educators Need to Know — MindSpark

  Only a few years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) may have seemed closer to science fiction than reality, but in today’s world, this technology has become an inescapable part of our daily lives.

• Supporting the youngest witnesses of this humanitarian crisis – NetFamilyNews.org

  Sometimes we parents feel so helpless when our children come to us hurting as much as us when they see something awful happening in the world.

• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Super Bird Migration on Thursday Morning

  Yesterday, a pro-Hamas rally took place on Red Square at the University of Washington, with the sounds spreading across a large area of the …

• How Gamifying Instruction Improved Student Test Scores in This Teacher’s Classroom

  Gerilyn Williams, a middle school math teacher in New Jersey, was looking for ways to make math more fun and engaging for her students. She learned about gamification and tried it out in her classroom in 2017.

• ChatGPT in Schools: Friend or Foe?  – Educators Technology

  It’s easy to grow jaded about the news that technological innovations are going to wipe out entire industries. Any time a new innovative technology appears, people seem dead set on making predictions regarding the ways in which it is going to comple…

• How Schools Currently Integrate Generative AI in the Classroom | Lightspeed Systems

  Over the past year, no topic has been more discussed among K-12 educators than artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, generative AI. in the classroom.

• 15 Spooktacular Halloween Games for Kids – Educators Technology

  Halloween games for kids are the topic of our blog post today!

• The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education | EdSurge News

  Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year.

• How Micro-credentials are Meeting the Needs of the Workforce – Digital Promise

  With all the technological advances in the past few decades, industries are constantly evolving to meet the needs of society, which generates new job opportunities to address those needs; however, it also brings about job displacement for individual…

• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Will You Be Able to See the Annular Solar Eclipse?

  On Saturday morning, an annular eclipse will be occurring over the western U.S., with the greatest sun loss passing across southern Oregon. But will clouds get in the way? That is the topic of this blog.

• Sketch to website with ChatGPT – Leon Furze

  As soon as GPT-4’s “vision” or image recognition features were teased in the research paper, videos of a sketch of a website to a fully functioning site went viral.

• Adobe created a symbol to encourage tagging AI-generated content – The Verge

  Adobe and other companies have established a symbol that can be attached to content alongside metadata, establishing its provenance, including whether it was made with AI tools.

• Minecraft vs Roblox: Which is Best for Teaching? | Tech & Learning

  It’s a modern battle of Minecraft vs Roblox, but which game comes out on top when it comes to teaching? This guide aims to lay out all you need to know about each of the block-based gaming worlds in which building and creativity are a given.

• Science of Reading, Meet the Science of Learning

  Building Your BrandEducation NewsFeaturedHigher EducationScienceTechnology 7 Top Science Tips from Kate the Chemist (Video Included) Do Something Awesome; Share With A Friend Who May BenefitShare on LinkedInShare on FacebookShare on X (Twitter)Share…

• How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots | EdSurge News

  Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Wa…

• The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100 Million

  Last week, Matt Barnum reported in Chalkbeat that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is laying off dozens of staff members and pivoting away from the personalized learning platform they have funded since 2015 with somewhere near $100M.

• Dollars and sense: Can financial literacy help students learn math? 

  WASHINGTON – Inside a high school classroom, Bryan Martinez jots down several purchases that would require a short-term savings plan: shoes, phone, headphones, clothes, and food.

• Spooktacular Halloween Activities Students Will Love

  At MIND, we love to go all out on Halloween. Every year, many of us look forward to dressing up on All Hallows’ Eve, and the costumes never disappoint—some are spooky, some funny, and some are just outright adorable.

• His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward. | EdSurge News

  Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Not Caleb Brown. Where some students might see a sequence of dates to memorize, he sees turning points that helped define the world we live in today.

• 15 Fall Art Projects and Activities for Kids – Educators Technology

  Fall art projects and activities for kids are the topic of our blog post todat! If you’re anything like me, you get a kick out of seeing your kids or students express themselves creatively.

• Case Study Resources for Modern Teachers

  In education, case studies are widely used as a pedagogical tool to encourage critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the application of theoretical knowledge.

• New ways Google is helping reduce transportation and energy emissions

  Read this post in Spanish // Blog en español aquí. Responding to climate change calls for systemic, global action to transition to a sustainable future for everyone. But tackling a problem at the scale of climate change can seem intimidating.

• Review – Diana and the Hero’s Journey – The First Adventure – GeekDad

  Ray: Much like Superman, Wonder Woman’s youth has been covered extensively in the YA and young readers line in recent years.

• Open Middle Exercises – GeoGebra

  Ditch those worksheets! This book serves as a collection of digitally interactive [b][color=#1551b5]Open Middle exercises[/color][/b]. Be sure to ch…

• Template Library – YouTube

  Teachers use Diffit to instantly get leveled resources for any lesson, saving tons of time and helping all students access grade level content. Head to Diffit.Me to try it yourself!

  In this video, we share our new Google Slides template and the new…

• How AI could save–or sink–creative writing in schools

  This story originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. eSchool News is Free for qualified educators. Sign up or login to access all our K-12 news and resources.

• Should our kids learn how to use generative AI? Well… – NetFamilyNews.org

  A teacher in an international school in Panama asks her students to critique essays “written” by ChatGPT, while others have their students fact-check AI material, according to Time.

• 18 Hands-on Fall Crafts for Kids – Educators Technology

  Fall crafts for kids are the topic of our blog post today! Fall is here, and it’s the perfect time to get crafty with the kiddos. If you’re in the market for some innovative Fall crafts for kids, you’ve come to the right place.

• How to Personalize a Desmos Lesson – Teacher Tech

  Desmos is more than a calculator. It has a lesson facilitation tool that honestly can be used by any subject teacher, not just math teachers. teacher.desmos.com allows you to create custom activities from scratch. You can also take a pre-made lesson…

• The Nerdy Teacher: 5 Key Ways to Support Neurodivergent Students That Benefit Everyone. #EdChat #Neurodiversity

  In the quest to provide inclusive and comprehensive education, there’s a saying that captures the essence perfectly: “When we design for disability, we all benefit.

• A Simple Way To Attain Daily Improvement Smart Classroom Management

  “A Simple Way To Attain Daily Improvement”

• Critical Thinking: What is DOK 2? – Teacher Tech

  As educators, we strive to instill critical thinking skills in our students. These skills are crucial for problem-solving, making informed decisions, and navigating our increasingly complex world. In an age of Generative AI (ChatGPT, Bard, etc…) ana…

• Spooky Science – Data Analysis on Fear and Disgust

  Disgust and fear are two emotions associated with phobias. In one study, subjects rated 25 images of animals and rated them based on how scary or disgusting the animals were. Participants answered questions about their discomfort or anxiety for a se…

• Spin a Spooky Story – Shapegrams

  Give the spinners a try at this link (click the Spin All button). What’s scarier than drawing your own illustrations? Asking an artificial intelligence to generate them for you! Craiyon and DALL•E 2 are A.I. systems that create art from the text you…

• Minecraft Education introduces students to traditional ecological knowledge and practices of coastal First Nations – Microsoft News Center Canada

  Microsoft Canada is excited to launch a new world in Minecraft Education, in partnership with the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nation and the School District 43 (Coquitlam) Education team.

• 10 Great Math Posters for Classroom – Educators Technology

  f you’re like me, you know how game-changing a well-placed poster can be for engaging students and reinforcing key concepts.

• How Extra Time on Math Tests Impacts Students with Learning Disabilities – Digital Promise

  Imagine you’re a student sitting for a math test. The clock is ticking, and you feel like you’re racing against time.

• A Principal’s Reflections: Inclusion and Co-Teaching in the Personalized Classroom

  Inclusion is essential for special education (SPED) because it promotes the social and academic development of students with disabilities, fosters a sense of belonging, and prepares them for life outside of school.

• Digital Tools for Environmental Education in Elementary School | Edutopia

  Students can use technology to conduct research into weather, ecosystems, and more, and to showcase their learning. When our graduating fifth graders are asked, “What was your favorite subject in school?” many of them say “Recess.

• Setting Ground Rules Around Original Writing and ChatGPT  | Edutopia

  Generative AI tools like ChatGPT have the power to revolutionize education, but educators must first wrestle with weighty ethical and practical concerns. Michelle Zimmerman can’t predict the future.

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Great posts from last week:

• Troll Factory

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• Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: Northwest Contrails and Global Warming

  The new GOES-17 weather satellite, with its higher resolution imagery, does an excellent job in showing the contrails that often form over our skies. Why did I say, net warming effect? Because contrails both warm and cool, with the warming dominatin…

• Week 2: Connect Through Commenting – Student Blogging Challenge

  Great work on your first week of the challenge! We now have 1480+ students and 136 classes taking part in the challenge. Know anyone who wants to register? We’ll close the registration forms next Sunday 20th October.

• Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Rebuild The World With @Lego_Education

  I recently returned from a trip to Billund, Denmark. To many, a trip to Denmark is one of a lifetime. For me it was especially so as Billund is the home of LEGO. From the time I was a kid I have been surrounded by legos.

• Eliud Kipchoge Shatters Two-Hour Barrier With 1:59:40 Marathon

  He did it. Eliud Kipchoge’s quest to become the first sub-two hour marathoner— through whatever means necessary— is complete: the 34-year-old Kenyan ran 1:59:40 on Saturday in Vienna, Austria, at the INEOS 1:59 Challenge. That equates to 4:33 per mi…

• Boring stories, missing voices, and 7 tools for Indigenous Peoples’ Day | History Tech

  Several days ago, a group of us got together to do some Inquiry Design Model creation. And one of our conversations focused on the interactions between indigenous people and European colonists during the early years of the United States. That led to…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Educandy – Quickly Create Educational Games from Word Lists

  Educandy is a near service that I recently learned about from Eric Curts. As I mentioned in this week’s episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast, Educandy strikes me as a slightly more polished version of Flippity.

• Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: Triumph in Northern California

  This was a historic day. Today there was a major Diablo wind event to California, with winds gusting to 70-80 mph from the northeast in favored locations.

• GTP Designer Talk 4 – Richard Bodley Scott | Gaming the Past

  In this episode I talk with designer Richard Bodley Scott about his ancient battle game, Field of Glory 2.

• Voice guidance in Maps, built for people with impaired vision

  Building a more helpful Google Maps for everyone I hope this new technology will give more people added confidence when navigating unfamiliar routes–after all, building for everyone is core to our work at Google.

• Using Games to Help Reluctant Readers and Writers (and More) @coolcatteacher

  Dr. Lee Graham is working with teachers to teach them principles of game-based learning to teach writing. Her anecdotes of classroom behavior-changing results are – pardon the pun – game-changing. Learn more.

• Encourage Play, Don’t Force Fun – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert

  I’ve said it here many times, you can’t force people to have fun. Putting a pool table in the coffee room, forcing everyone to play an online game and join a leaderboard, team building games during inductions etc. All generally seek to force you to …

• 12 Signs You’re Afraid of Your WIP

  Writers are regularly intimidated by what might seem the oddest thing: the work that springs from their own minds. If you have days when you seek a reason to do anything but write, you may be one of them.

• Harry Potter Is Always in Season: 3 New Books From the Wizarding World – GeekDad

  In our nerdy home, it wouldn’t be the Christmas season (November 1-December 31, as far as I’m concerned) without a bit of Harry Potter.

• Free Teacher Lesson Plans for Red Ribbon Week – Class Tech Tips

  This post is sponsored by Responsibility.org’s Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don’t Mix program. All opinions are my own. Have you used online resources to help students understand the dangers of underage drinking? Red Ribbon Week takes place …

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• Free Technology for Teachers: Find Halloween ELA Articles on ReadWorks

  Last week I shared a Halloween-themed physical education lesson and instructions on how to find and modify Kahoot games about Halloween. Those of you who are looking for Halloween-themed stories to use in ELA lessons could do well to turn to this co…

• The Nerdy Teacher: No Grades and The World Did Not End #MakerEd

  I started a new class this year in the middle school. It is a design and innovation class that is supposed to help students explore problem solving and critical thinking skills. One of the things that I wanted to really explore was a class free of g…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Learn Javascript Fundamentals and More With Google’s Grasshopper

  About eighteen months ago Google published a mobile app called Grasshopper. Grasshopper was created as an app for students to use to learn to code on their Android phones or iPhones. Today, Google announced that you can now use Grasshopper in the we…

• Free Technology for Teachers: VidReader – Create Searchable Transcripts of YouTube Videos

  A couple of weeks ago I published a blog post and a video about a neat service called SnackVids. SnackVids has since been rebranded as VidReader. With its new name VidReader does the same thing that SnackVids did.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Fixing One of the Biggest Accessibility Issues: Color Contrast

  Part of making content accessible includes ensuring that the contrast ratio is set to be fully accessible to anyone. Inaccessible color contrast is the top issue for digital content, but fixing it, or having it right from the start, is easy.

• Classroom Libraries and Student Involvement – Reading By Example

  The following is a comment I left on a post by Donalyn Miller for Nerdy Book Club. I will share more of my thinking later this week on the topic at readbyexample.substack.com. Thank you for sharing your reading life and how you came to this point as…

• Writing is a Labyrinth of Choices

  Your phone rings. You check the screen. You don’t recognize the number. Do you answer it? The cars in front of you on the highway slow down, their brake lights glowing. The traffic is gridlocked up ahead, but there’s an exit just before. Do you take…

• Roleplay Safe Words: The Blurry Line in Classroom Simulations – Classroom Powerups

  Sorry for the cheeky clickbait headline but (1) I think this a pretty important topic and (2) I hope readers will help me bring this blurry line into some focus. As a middle aged straight cisgender white male I know I am bound to have some blinders …

• Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Handy Google Slides Features You Might Be Overlooking

  Like any good presentation tool Google Slides has lots of little features that often go overlooked even by students who have used it for a long time.

• My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On Best Tips For Grading | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  How to Better Align Grading With the Way Students Really Learn is the title of my latest ten-minute BAM radio show. Alfonzo Gonzalez joins me in the discussion, and he has also contributed a written commentary to my Ed Week Teacher column.

• how-to-talk-to-teens-about-vaping

  Vape pens are easy to conceal, they’re easy to confuse with other electronic gadgets like USB flash drives, and they generally don’t leave lingering smells on clothes. All these things make them appealing to underage users, and confounding to parent…

• Halloween Books for Kids & Spooky Teacher Gifts – Class Tech Tips

  In today’s blog post, I’m kicking off October with plenty of favorites for you! This collection includes favorite Halloween books for kids you can grab in digital and print format. You will also find a few spooky teacher gifts.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Lesson Plan Submit – A Handy Tool for Reviewing Lesson Plans

  Lesson Plan Submit is a Google Docs add-on that is designed to make it easy for student-teachers or teachers to submit lesson plans for someone else to review. That other person could be another teacher or a supervisor. Lesson Plan Submit is easy to…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Online Safety Tip Sheets, Posters, and More

  October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Stop.Think.Connect. has a large collection of posters, tip sheets, and videos that you can use to promote good online safety practices in your school or office.

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Another batch of great posts from this past week:

• Free Technology for Teachers: 4 Ways to Play Seterra’s Online Geography Games

  Geography Awareness Week is a coming up later this month. If you find yourself looking for some geography games for your students to play, take a look at what Seterra has to offer. Seterra offers hundreds of geography games in 34 languages.

• Grateful to Hit the Reset Button – Classroom Powerups

  In the B.C. years of my marriage (that is Before Children) my wife and I rocked Guitar Hero. Neither of us play guitar but ability to pretend to be rockers, enjoy the music, and just be goofy with each other got us through some tough times. We were …

• Let’s Talk About Reading Logs Again – Pernille Ripp

  Let’s talk about reading logs for a moment.  Yes, I know I have gone down this path before, but it bears repeating because not a week goes by without someone asking about them.  Asking how they can speak to their child’s teacher about the reading lo…

• Maker Marvelous: Book Page Pumpkins

  Book Page Pumpkins At the beginning of the school year I started my 9th year as a high school media specialist (14th year as a media specialist overall).

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use QR Codes to Share Animated Videos

  Earlier this week I answered an email from a reader who had heard someone talk about using QR codes so that people could watch animations made by students.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Two Online Primary Source Document Activities for High School Students

  Earlier this week the Library of Congress launched a new crowdsourcing project called Crowd. The project seeks volunteers to transcribe primary source documents that are available online through the Library of Congress. Crowd is similar to the Smith…

• New Downloadable Version of the Gamification Inspiration Cards On Sale – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert

  Hey there you lovely people. I’ve decided to release a downloadable version of my Gamification Inspiration Cards as I know that the printed ones can get expensive and take ages.

• So where are we with ‘digital citizenship’ now? – NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org

  This week I had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion in Delhi at Facebook’s South Asia Safety Summit with YLAC India (Young Leaders for Active Citizenship).

• Arizona: Parents Use Voucher Money for Personal Purchases, Not Education | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Arizona’s State Auditor identified more than $700,000 in voucher money that was mis-spent for cosmetics, music, movies, clothing, sports apparel, and other personal items. Some even tried to withdraw cash with their state-issued debit cards. The sta…

• 18 ways to go gradeless

• All the World’s a Classroom: Adventures of a Crazy English Teacher: A Lesson From the Leaves

  I was driving one day and noticed something that I had never noticed before. There was a row of green trees with one tree that had already turned for the fall and was bright red. These trees were obviously on different time tables.

• Classroom Games and Tech: Team Building Video Challenge for High School

  Here’s a team building exercise I created for our high school video announcements team when we started the new semester. I loosely based it on a very fun, creative game we used to play, back before everyone carried around video cameras (and high pow…

• Level Up Your Talent With Gamification In Talent Management

  Remember when we played Scrabble, competing to put the best words forward? The competitive streak to excel and prove your vocabulary sought to improve the proper use of words during conversations and eventually taught us to be better in communicatio…

• Two Riddles for Problem Solving

  Riddles are a great way to get kids thinking logically, testing predictions, using math and even collaborating. They’re fun and often quite challenging.

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 15 Sites for Differentiated Instruction

  “Differentiated instruction and assessment (also known as differentiated learning or, in education, simply, differentiation) is a framework or philosophy for effective teaching that involves providing students with different avenues to acquiring con…

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Math Run: Panda Chase

  Math Run: Panda Chase is a super fun iOS app for grades K-5th learning basic Math skills (i.e. addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.) This game follows the familiar “running” game-style and has students avoiding obstacles while solving Math pr…

• Modeling Collaboration | Mike Kaechele

  This is the sixth and final post in a series where I flesh out why the ideal traits of a PBL teacher are important. Check out the links to the rest of the series below the post. Traditionally teaching has been an isolated occupation.

• www.meridianstories.com

  Welcome to Meridian Stories, a national non-profit that offers schools curriculum-based ‘Challenges’ in Language Arts, History, Math and Science. Students work in teams to produce creative digital stories in response to the Challenges, and compete w…

• The Nerdy Teacher: Don’t Forget the A when talking STEM #MakerEd

  One of the things that has bothered me over the years has been the dismissal of the Arts as part of an important, well-rounded education. I don’t want to think that it has been intentional, but I do know that many schools around the country will cut…

• Free Technology for Teachers: It’s Time to Change the Clocks

  I’m one of those rare people who actually likes turning the clocks back in the fall. Sure, it means that it gets dark earlier, but I’m an early riser and like seeing the sun in the morning.

• Google Keep: Toggle List View – Teacher Tech

  Google Keep (keep.google.com) is a note app, like Post-it ®️ notes. Make sure you have the Google Keep app on your phone. Handy when you want to make a bulleted list, to do list, or take a picture of where you parked.

• Learning From Games: Onboarding and Mario – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert

  I’ve probably mentioned this in the past, but Super Mario (for me) has one of the best on-boarding experiences of any game I’ve ever played. But let’s start at the beginning.

• “‘Add More Positives’ When Your Classroom Goes South” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  A three-part series on classroom management is wrapped up by Julia Thompson, Rebecca Alber, Madeline Whitaker Good, Stuart Ablon, Alisha Pollastri, Allen Mendler, and Kelly Wickham Hurst. I’ve also included many responses from readers. I’m adding it…

• Here Are Answers To The Question Many Teachers Will Be Asked: “Am I Still Going To Be A Citizen?” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  As if our students and their families don’t have enough to worry about, President Trump today added to their list of concerns when he said he would end birthright citizenship by Executive Order. The Citizenship Clause Means What It Says is from The …

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: The 5 Ways Tech is Shaping Humans in the Digital Age

  In a presentation titled Constantly Connected – The Role of Humans in the Digital Revolution, Digital Anthropologist Rahaf Harfoush shared with attendees at the 2018 #GovTechLive Forum five ways technology is shaping humans in the digital age.

• Failing and Reflecting: 10-30-18 CPU Vlog – Classroom Powerups

  Mr. Powley is a 14 year teaching veteran and is currently the dual enrollment American History teacher at the #1 ranked high school in South Carolina. For the last several years he has transformed his classroom based on the principles of game inspir…

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Insert Equations and Special Characters Into Google Documents

  Here’s a question that I get a lot when I conduct on-site G Suite for Education training, “is there an easy way to add math symbols to documents?” In fact, there is an easy way to add mathematics symbols, equations, and other special characters to G…

• Google Classroom Comment Bank vs. Setting Your Preferences in Google Docs |

  I was excited in August when Google Classroom got an upgrade. The feature I was most excited about was the Google Classroom comment bank.

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: 3 Programs & 3 Strategies to Retain Millennials

  Millennial expert Gabrielle Bosché spoke to attendees at the 2018 #GovTechLive forum to share advice for those wanting to retain millennial staff. If you’re an innovative educator you care about this because these are your colleagues (or yourself) a…

• Parent Communication Isn’t What It Once Was. | My Island View

  In a recent #Edchat discussion we discussed whether or not schools should encourage teachers to use technology to reach out in communication with parents.

• Shapes 3D Augmented Reality Geometry Drawing App – Class Tech Tips

  I’m always excited to meet folks who are passionate about educational technology. At ISTE this past June, I met Milena Piasecka a Product Manager for the company Shapes at the end of one of my sessions.

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• Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Halloween Lesson Resources

  Halloween is just two days away. If you’re looking for some Halloween-themed lessons, take a look at the following resources that I featured earlier this month.

• Guest Blogger: Mary Gross – Tension and Fear | CUNY Games Network

  This week, we feature the first entry in a four-part series by guest blogger Mary Gross, Associate Professor of History at Marian University of Wisconsin, who has been designing games for history, political science, sociology, and first year studies…

• Schools Matter: The case against intensive phonics

  Submitted to the New York Times, Oct. 26, 2018 In “Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?” (Oct 26) Emily Hanford says the research supports systematic intensive phonics, a method that teaches all the rules of phonics in a strict order to …

• Podcasting in the Classroom? Here’s a Byte-Sized Option – Class Tech Tips

  I’m not exactly sure how it started, but once I got hooked, there was no turning back. Podcasting is a powerful medium and a way to consume a wide range of content.

• What Does Improvement Science Look Like in Classrooms?

  Teachers in the BMTN choose to focus on deepening their students’ abilities in one of three areas: connect, justify and solve. They are grouped with other algebra teachers at schools across New England working on the same skill.

• Learning with ‘e’s: Head, hand and heart

• Embed A Google Photos Album Into A Website – The Edublogger

  Google Photos is my favorite photo and video sharing and storage service. My phone is set to automatically upload photos to Google Photos in high resolution when I’m connected to WiFi.

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Here is another week’s bounty of great blog posts!

• The Best Sites For Learning About Daylight Saving Time | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  Check out my New York Times Learning Network interactive for English Language Learners on Daylight Savings Time. Students identify word meanings, explain the context clues they used to determine them, and then respond to an informational writing pro…

• 21 Things You Should Do To Students – Smart Classroom Management

  1. Create a classroom they look forward to. 3. Be consistently kind to them.

• Free Technology for Teachers: An Easy Way to Create Your Own Captioned Flipped Video Lessons

  Two weeks ago I published a video about how to use the automatic captioning feature in Google Slides. A lot of people have asked if there is a way to download the captions that are automatically generated when you speak while presenting your slides.

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• Top 6 Reasons Why Students Prefer Digital Content – e-Learning Infographics

  The latest study released by McGraw – Hill Education in partnership with Hanover Research has 3000 students voice their digital preferences in college education. The infographic shows research on why students prefer digital reading over print.

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Format Tables in Google Docs

  Last week Google added new ruler and margin tools to Google Docs. The new ruler that appears on the left edge of your screen can be used to format the vertical spacing of tables that you insert into Google Documents.

• the secret menu for google slides doc drawings and more

• Free Technology for Teachers: Your Life in Comics – 100 Writing Prompts from Make Beliefs Comix

  Make Beliefs Comix is a nice service on which students can create their own comics. But there is more to Make Beliefs Comix than just comic creation tools. Make Beliefs Comix offers free ebooks containing many writing prompts for students.

• Meet Synch – A Classroom Audio Tool

• Free Technology for Teachers: GeoGreeting – Send Messages Using Google Earth Imagery

  Years ago I wrote about a service called GeoGreeting. This morning I got an email that reminded me of the service so I decided to see if it still works. Sure enough GeoGreeting still works as well as ever.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Scrible Helps Students Organize and Use Research

  Scrible is a service that helps students organize their online and offline research findings. That is done through the Scrible’s website and Chrome extension. Scrible’s Google Docs add-on helps students use their research in their papers.

• New Study Shows That Researchers Don’t Always Think Through How Their Studies Can Be Misused | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  The study itself is behind a paywall (there are other ways to access it), and you can read a summary here under the title Why relationships – not money – are the key to improving schools.

• Somethign went wrong…

  Having the “same” text written for different levels of English comprehension can be a life-saver for a multi-level class of English Language Learners or for a teacher with a mainstream class that includes some students that are facing other challeng…

• Text Quest: The Scarlet Letter – Google Slides

• Home

  As part of a school trip to Romania, you and your class decide to create your own side trip: Visit the Castle Poenari, where Vlad the Impaler lived–the same man who inspired Bram Stoker to write the novel Dracula.

• classtechtips.com

  How do your students keep their work organized? And are you able to give feedback to students in real time? When I first started teaching in the classroom, I remember collecting student’s notebooks at the end of the day and flipping through them to …

• Google Classroom: Step One – Organize Your Topics – Teacher Tech

  The new Google Classroom interface allows you to organize your assignments into topics. However, new topics are added at the bottom. It can be incredibly tedious to move a topic up from the bottom to the top.

• Alice Keeler and @JoBoaler #ISTE17 Talk: Google Apps with youcubed.org Math Activities – Teacher Tech

  My favorite book of all time is Mathematical Mindsets by Jo Boaler. Truly a life changing experience for me to read it. While the title says Math, it is really a book about teaching. Every educator should read it. To say the least, I am a huge fan o…

• Hiding Easter Egg Items: 10-25 Vlog – Classroom Powerups

  Hello! Join me as I hide some of my physical Easter Eggs through my school building. I began this last year and wasn’t planning on continuing this year but several current students had heard about the game and began asking when I would be hiding car…

• Map of Indigenous Canada Accompanies People’s Atlas – The Map Room

  The map accompanying the Indigenous People’s Atlas of Canada is a map of Indigenous Canada: as iPolitics’s Anna Desmarais reports, “Dotting the map are the names of Indigenous languages, including Cree and Dene, and the geographical location where e…

• Free Technology for Teachers: How to Find and Modify Halloween Games in Kahoot

  Halloween is only seven days away. If you’re an elementary school teacher, you might be planning to do some trick o’ treating safety reviews with your students. Playing Kahoot games is a fun way to review almost anything including Halloween safety.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Create Digital Scavenger Hunts With Flippity’s New Google Sheets Template

  Flippity is a site that offers great Google Sheets templates that you can use to make flashcards, timelines, and games. The latest game template added to Flippity is a scavenger hunt template.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Kids Health in the Classroom – Guides & Resources for K-12

  Kids Health in the Classroom is a great place to find lesson plans, videos, and games for teaching personal health topics to students of all ages.

• The neuroscience of play, games, and learning (and why Fortnite might not be so bad) @coolcatteacher

  Dr Dave Neale is a researcher in the psychology of play and learning at the Centre for Play, Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) at The University of Cambridge. Today he talks about the neuroscience of play, games, and learning in the classr…

• Fitoons Healthy Eating and Exercising App for Kids – Class Tech Tips

  My friends at Avokiddo made a big announcement today! They just released Fitoons, a new educational app with the goal of helping kids eat healthy and exercise each day. Fitoons can help students develop healthy eating habits and discover ways to add…

• Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Help Students Address a Garden of Emotions with QR Coded Book Featuring Innovative Wellness Technique

  Before educators can help students get to the learning, we must first ensure we help students feel good about themselves.

• 8 Tips for Carving an Amazing Pumpkin From the “Pumpkin Guru” – GeekDad

  You may remembering seeing Jon Neill on the Food Network’s “Halloween Wars” or sculpting squash in a Snickers ad or carving pumpkins on Nickelodeon or the Hallmark Channel, but you most certainly have seen his work as one of the most recognized pump…

• Free Technology for Teachers: Two New Ways for Kids to Create Stories on WriteReader

  WriteReader is one of my favorite tools for elementary school students to use to create multimedia stories. The outstanding feature of the service is the option for teachers to write corrections directly beneath a students’ original writing in their…

• Guest Blogger: Kathleen Offenholley – Quick Games for Any Subject | CUNY Games Network

  This week’s guest blogger is the CGN Steering Committee’s own Kathleen Offenholley, Associate Professor of Mathematics at BMCC (Borough of Manhattan Community College). Her post offers ideas of quick games for any subject using the elements of rando…

• Media minds need new ways to inform people about climate change | Watching Our Water Ways

  The headline on Margaret Sullivan’s column captures the urgency of the moment: “The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it’s the only story that matters.” Margaret writes about media issues for the Washington Post.

• The Full Measure of a Teacher: Using value-added to assess effects on student behavior – Education Next : Education Next

  When students look back on their most important teachers, the social aspects of their education are often what they recall.

• Gaming The Classroom – The Art And Science Of GBL: Game Based Learning – e-Learning Infographics

  Over 60% of learners say leader boards and competition would motivate them. 80% of learners would be more productive if learning was more game-like. 97% of teachers use digital games created for educational use.

• Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: Taking Off and Landing in Dense Fog: A Miracle of Technolgy

  On Sunday, I flew out of Sea-Tac on a flight that took off around 8 AM. The region was covered in dense fog and the horizontal visibility at Sea-Tac Airport was reported at .12 miles (630 ft) at 1453 UTC (7:53 AM)–see below for hourly reports.

• November 11th Is Veterans Day – Here Are Related Resources | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  November 11th is Veterans Day (recognized as Remembrance Day or Armistice Day in Great Britain and in other countries to specifically remember those who fought in World War I). I’ve just updated The Best Websites To Learn About Veterans Day.

• Free Technology for Teachers: ClassTools SMS Generator – Text Messages Between Historical Figures

  Last week I wrote about three ways that students can create social media profiles for historical and literary characters. Writing that post reminded me of the Classtools Fake SMS Generator.

• Free Technology for Teachers: PicLits – Using Pictures to Inspire Creative Writing

  PicLits is an excellent site for finding creative writing prompts. PicLits aims to provide inspiration for writing short stories. PicLits tries to reach this goal by providing users with images upon which they can build their writing.

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Zap Zap Math

  Zap Zap Math is an excellent new mobile (iOS/Android) app for Math grades K-6th. ZZM focuses on a lot different topics such as: addition/subtraction, multiplication, geometry, and more. All of this is done in a fun game based learning environment.

• Control Alt Achieve: Make Mondrian Art with Google Sheets

  Although you might not recognize the name, you most likely will recognize the look. Mondrian Art is an abstract form of art that uses a creative layout of squares and rectangles, often filled in with primary colors.

• Sacrificing Character Ally Cards: Strategic Classroom Thinking – Classroom Powerups

  As part of my Battle Mechanics: Skirmishes system students can earn “Enthralled Allies”. These are historic character cards and up to this point I had a vague notion that these would have an impact in my class game but wasn’t exactly sure how. I hop…

• The Adventure Blog: Video: Hiking Boots vs. Trail Runners –– Which is Best for You?

  I get asked all the time whether I prefer trail running shoes or hiking boots when heading out for the trail. It turns out, the answer to that question isn’t easy, as it depends on the trail, the length of the trip, the terrain and weather condition…

• The Future Proof Educator

• Making a Plan for Student Engagement with Tech-Friendly Strategies – Class Tech Tips

  What does student engagement truly look like? And are we making it a priority when entering classrooms and leading lessons? As an educator who now spends time in other teachers’ classrooms, I think about this topic often.

• Twitch, Yubo & online safety innovation with an ancient ‘tool’ – NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org

  As geeky as “content moderation” sounds, we’re hearing about it more and more these days – in podcasts, at conferences, in books and in hearings. People all over the U.S.

• The Nerdy Teacher: The Dog Days of Fall for Teachers #EdChat

  The Fall part of the school year can be tough on teachers for many reasons.

• A Lever and a Place to Stand: Escape to Flippity.net

  I’ve written several times about the amazing free tools at Flippity.net. In fact, when I am looking for a way to get people interested in spreadsheets, I almost always use Flippity because once people see the variety of the tools, and how easy it is…

• Video: “The History of Trick or Treating” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from Reading Through History to The Best Websites For Learning About Halloween:

• Environmental volunteers needed in Kitsap County | Watching Our Water Ways

  I thought I would offer a quick note on some volunteer opportunities in Kitsap County, based on an email from WSU Kitsap County Extension.

• A Principal’s Reflections: Meaningful Learning Begins and Ends with the Opportunities We Create

  Learning hasn’t really changed, but the conditions that impact and influence it has.

• What Are the Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts? | 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. A few weeks ago, a teacher named Isabelle O’Kane sent me a direct message on Twitt…

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