Here are some great blog posts from last week worth reading:
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It’s getting to be that time of year! Even though it could be far better organized than it is, I did just go through The Best Places To Learn About Christmas, Hanukkah, & Kwanzaa and deleted a lot of dead links in my annual housecleaning.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Online Word Games to Share With Your Students
On Wednesday morning I looked out my window and watched the snow start to cover the rock wall in my backyard. Doing that made me think about my kids making snowmen which in turn reminded me of the snowman word game template offered by Flippity.
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Checkology® from News Literacy Project
The 12 core lessons help educators equip their students with the tools to evaluate and interpret the news and to learn how to decide what news and information to trust, share and act on.
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Join us. Fight for facts. Be news-literate. The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age.
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Form Fights Pt 2: Adding Battle Damage – Classroom Powerups
This post is part of a series investigating Mr. Sederquist’s Form Fight System. This series will also describe some changes I have made to fit the system into my class structure. The Boss Display Sheet on Mr. Sederquist’s Form Fights is a masterpiec…
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Since March of this year, we’ve been hearing from our global community about the shift to remote and hybrid education models at schools around the world. As part of this transition, a few things have been at the top of educators’ minds:
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Create a Google Forms Question Bank – Teacher Tech
A new feature in Google Forms is the ability to import questions from another Form. This feature is well designed and easy to use. Take advantage of this to create a question bank for creating new Forms. Suggestion, create a FOLDER in Google Drive f…
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Password Protect Your Google Forms – Teacher Tech
Google Forms allows you to toggle on and off accepting responses. However, sometimes you do not want to turn off responses but rather restrict who is filling out the Form. Add a short answer question to your Google Form asking for the password. Note…
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How to Set up a Multiplayer Game at Home – MEE
The Minecraft: Education Edition Multiplayer experience was designed and optimized for students to play together in a classroom across the same network. With the current focus on remote learning we understand the importance of making connections acr…
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Why I Object to the Term “Science of Reading” | Diane Ravitch’s blog
As anyone who read my book Left Back (2000) knows, I have long been persuaded of the value of phonetic instruction for early readers.
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Laura Chapman recently wrote about the policy of holding third grade students back if they didn’t pass the third grade reading test. One result of this initiative is to raise fourth-grade reading scores on state tests and NAEP. There is a national r…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Good Game for Learning About Nutrition Around the World
The Smithsonian offers a lot of neat apps and games for elementary school students. One of those games is called Pick Your Plate. It’s available to play in your web browser or as an iPad or Android app.
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Mr. Sederquist’s Form Fights pt 1 – Classroom Powerups
A few weeks ago Mr. Sederquist (@MrSederquist) shared an amazing new innovation on Boss Fights using Google Tech. His system utilizes Google Forms as well as Google Sheets in a really fun and smart new way.
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Free Technology for Teachers: An Easy Way to Make Videos on Windows 10 Computers
Sometimes the simplest solution is the one that gets overlooked the most. That’s often the case when people ask me for a recommendation for making audio slideshow-style videos.
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Managing Distractions with Mario | Tip of the Iceberg
In terms of relevant life skills to foster in all students, managing distractions has to be high on the list. Our aim is to have students who can successfully focus on tasks and manage their time effectively. So how exactly do we go about helping ou…
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Homework Is Bad, Research Confirms
One day in a fourth grade math class, the students complained about the previous night’s homework. The first student came from a high socioeconomic background, while the second came from a low socioeconomic background.
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What Research Shows About Screen Time for Students | Tech & Learning
As we are entering the last phase of this tumultuous year of 2020 there are few topics more pressing in the mind of parents and teachers than screen time.
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Doug Worthen guided his small class of ninth graders at Middlesex School through an exercise designed to focus their attention. On his screen, he saw the students sitting outside or at desks and lounging across their beds as they joined their weekly…
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7 Remote Entry Events | Mike Kaechele
This is the first of a series of posts about what Project Based Learning infused with Social and Emotional Learning looks like when teaching remotely. Is it the ideal situation? Probably not, but it is the reality that many of us are dealing with.
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Connecting Students in a Disconnected World « Cult of Pedagogy
Even before 2020, building relationships between students was an important ingredient in making school great.
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3 free resources for synchronous and asynchronous learning
Hello friends, I am Dr. Sam Fecich and I am so excited to be sharing with you some Fecich Favorite edtech tools when it comes to engaging students in the online learning space.
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Please note: Supermarket Science has been discontinued following the 2009-2010 school year due to upcoming changes in science requirements by the Ohio Department of Education.
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Student-Led Conferences Template – Teacher Tech
A handful of years ago, the first year we truly did Student-Led Conferences, I was sitting at a table with a parent, both of us on the verge of water-works, as his son confidently presented his work, talked about his goals, and how making his family…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Upgrading the Remote Learning and Hybrid Classroom
These unprecedented and uncertain times have spawned a paradigm shift in the way teaching and learning are conducted.