12 Sources Of Open-Source Textbooks
Here are places to find open-source textbooks, whether you’re enrolled in college or an educator looking for books to use in your class.
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5 iPad Apps For Social And Emotional Learning
Here are the top social & emotional learning apps to teach children resilience, managing emotions, mindfulness, empathy, gratitude, and more.
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What You Need To Know About The Next Generation Science Standards
While the Common Core standards have been released and are making their way into classrooms across the United States, they do not contain Science content, but rather simply suggest a literacy component across all content areas (including science). The Next Generation Science Standards (which are still in draft form until January 29th, 2013 and can be…
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Notetaking In The Digital Classroom: A Blended Learning Approach
Notetaking In The Digital Classroom: A Blended Learning Approach Note-taking is part-and-parcel to the academic learning experience. Often during lecture, but also experiments, interviews, and field research, understanding what’s important and recording it for future reference is central to the learning process–curation before we called it that. (You can see Darmouth’s resources for notetaking here.)…
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The Teacher’s Guide To Writing In The Cloud
Preface In part 1 of this post we took a look at the writing process itself–the relative awkwardness of the process for many developing writers, and how live modeling can help support writer growth. In this part, we are focusing on using cloud-based word processing and general productivity suites like Adobe Buzzword and Google Docs….
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The Elements Of A Literacy-Rich Classroom Environment
Literacy-rich environments have a significant impact on what goes on in the classroom and set the stage for interactions with genres.
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Infographic: 20 Ridiculous U.S. College Cost Statistics
There are dozens of benefits that justify earning a higher education, including–but by no means limited to–better employment prospects, access to jobs with higher pay and the broadening of a college student’s social and mental horizons. Even so, approximately one in two high school graduates choose to forgo these potential benefits because they cannot reconcile…
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The Premise Of A Modern Education
Perhaps the biggest misconception that one can have about 21st century learning is to think of it as a single reform program.
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Social Media Cheat Sheet For Teachers (And Other Bipeds)
Keeping up with social media is an entire industry in and of itself (see Mashable). The following social media cheat sheet created by Flowtown and Column Five media for social media sites was created for small businesses, but can be useful for teachers just discovering the joys–and pains– of twitter, facebook, YouTube, Google+, tumblr, and digg,…
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Using The Habits Of Mind To Promote Teacher Happiness
contributed by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, Institute for Habits of Mind A Whole Child Deserves A Whole Teacher: Using The Habits Of Mind To Promote Teacher Happiness A lot is said and written about the whole child. We often forget, however, that we should be considering the whole adult as well. A teacher’s performance in…
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Ready To Grow? 20 Ways To Improve Your Professional Learning Network
Professional learning networks can improve teaching. They can also act as communal intelligence that changes societal perceptions.
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41 Resources, Tools, And Apps To Improve Writing Skills
The shift to digital instruction, preparations for state online assessment, and a new crop of writing apps is adding energy to ELA.
