24 Entertaining Short Stories For Middle School
Middle school students are an interesting bunch of emerging identities, and a varied assortment of readiness, knowledge, and maturity.
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20 Smart Educators With 1000 Followers Or Less
Who To Follow On Twitter: 20 Smart Educators With 1000 Followers Or Less Normally “who to follow on twitter” posts are full of obvious, preaching to the choir, rich-get-richer accounts–a who’s who of edu-twitter users you probably already follow anyway. In response, we decided to create a different kind of list–people worth following with fewer…
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Blended Leaning Conference In Rhode Island Continues To Grow
This Blended Leaning Conference In Rhode Island Continues To Grow by Dawn Casey-Rowe The Highlander Institute is rapidly changing the conversation around technology and education in Rhode Island schools. What was once a small local non-profit is growing, and is on track to affect how schools integrate technology into the classrooms not only in Rhode…
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8 Course Evaluation Templates To Get Feedback From Students
Getting feedback from your students can be an eye-opening experience. Course evaluation templates through Google Forms make it easy to get.
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The Significant Benefits Of Social Learning
Thanks to gamification on networks like Khan Academy, students can enjoy solving problems as they gain ranks and compete with one another.
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27 Ways To Assess Background Knowledge
The purpose of assessing background knowledge is not to get everyone on the “same page,” but to make what a student knows visible.
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6 Checks To Thoughtfully Connect Students & Standards
Curriculum Development: 6 Checks To Thoughtfully Connect Students & Standards by Tony Frontier A year from now, students around the country will be sitting at lunch tables talking about the new standardized tests they’ve taken. Removed from the politics and processes of these new tests, students will not talk about the development processes used by the PARCC or Smarter Balanced consortia. They will not talk about the merits…
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Literacy, Creativity, & Play: 12 Apps That Should Be On Every Elementary School iPad
Literacy, Creativity, & Play: 12 Apps That Should Be On Elementary School iPad So this collection wasn’t as easy to curate as it’d seem. It wasn’t a matter of simply choosing the best apps across content areas–math, science, social studies, etc. The title says “every iPad,” which seems to imply universal needs. Every. iPad. Same…
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A Twitter Abbreviation Guide
A Twitter Abbreviation Guide To Make Sense Of All That Crazy Talk Twitter is a wonderful platform to engage, lurk, socialize, read, distribute, share, or otherwise “do something” with ideas and content. Part of what makes it so useful is its 140 character limit. This requires users to be succinct in each tweet, which in…
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5 Bad Technology Habits Teachers Can Fall Into
5 Bad Technology Habits Teachers Can Fall Into by Aimee Hosler Computer-based testing. Flipped classrooms. eLearning and online courses. Mobile learning. Personalized learning algorithms. Technology has revolutionized learning — and teaching. It doesn’t always work as planned, but when it does, technology can promote student engagement, boost efficiency and help tomorrow’s workers develop the tech skills employers so desperately…
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5 Apps To Help Students Organize What They Learn
5 Apps To Help Students Organize What They Learn contributed by Justin Boyle Most students need all the help they can get when it comes to planning big projects. Here’s a list of apps that can help them stay organized when they’re working on group presentations, research papers or other big tasks that might take…
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50 Inspiring TED Talks For Teachers
These are the best TED Talks for teachers because they make us laugh, warm our hearts, break down barriers, and inspire us to dig deeper.
