School Makes Me: A Picture Worth Thinking About
There is no need to take one small artifact and jump to conclusions about how awful everything is, but it’s sad no matter how you look at it.
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21 Creative Digital Essays You Can Use In Your Classroom
With digital essays, learners can express ideas and reinforce details by having control over the “camera” and where the readers eyes go.
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The App (Seemingly) Designed For Sexting: What Teachers Should Know
In part 1 of this series, we took a look at the definition–and scale–of the sexting craze. The takeaways from that post were simple–sexting is an increasingly common trend among teens and adults alike. Now we’re going to take a look at an app designed–or seemingly designed–to be very, very good at sexting. Snapchat. Snapchat was…
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The Definition Of Sexting
Sexting could be defined as the process of sending any communication that relays sexual desire or intent. It’s not limited to nude images.
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20 Tips To Reduce Student Anxiety
Back in October, we published an article about the importance of holistic teaching. When students are stressed, their capacity for learning is drastically reduced. In psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explains in part why anxious and depressed students are much more likely to fail. Even if the situation is not catastrophic, a student’s mind and body…
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4 Tips For Transitioning Your Classroom To Digital Media
4 Tips For Transitioning Your Classroom To Digital Media by Terry Heick For years you’ve taught with physical texts. You may have watched used film, downloaded the occasional computer program, and even brought students up to the smartboard for some dragging and dropping, but for the most part, your classroom has been centered around physical…
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5 Tips For A Smoother BYOD Transition
In making a BYOD transition, consider defining policies, growing client densities, managing devices, and understanding impacts.
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Getting Started With Linkedin Groups For Teachers
One of the ways to network is through LinkedIn Groups, a section that allows you to get to know and develop your reputation through the sit
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5 Apps To Promote Student-Centered Learning
All teachers have access to a toolbelt of gadgets that lower anxiety while elevating students’ voices. I think of them as tech sedatives.
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Generation Gap: 10 Things Children Today Will Never Need To Know
While there’s no denying that progress is a wonderful thing, the rate at which the world is changing is creating an environment in which objects that were commonplace to today’s parents will be virtually unheard of when their babies become adults. These are 10 simple things that Generations X and Y took for granted, but…
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Four Reasons Why Apple Is In Trouble
Why Is Apple In Trouble? While it will be years before the long-term effects to its elegant product and billion-dollar brand are known, it’s clear that with the death of Steve Jobs, Apple lost its muse. In losing its muse, has Apple also lost its way? Jobs died on October 5, 2011, so it’ll be…
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How To Use A Google Nexus 7
While Google entered iPad territory a while ago with their Android tablets, it was their recent Asus-manufactured Nexus 7 that was really a shot across the bow of Apple’s mobile market share. Running the stock, unaltered version of Android, the Nexus 7 isn’t filled with visual clutter or other bloatware that can burden non-Nexus devices….
