5 Big Ideas To Turn Standards Into Curriculum
Ideally, a curriculum works with selected academic standards to frame optimal learning experiences that result in student growth.
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How To Screencast Like The Khan Academy
Here’s a look at how Salman Khan screencasts, plus tools you can use to create your own educational videos to benefit you and your students.
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Badgestack Is An Open-Source Tool For Gamifying Learning
What Is Badgestack? Whether you call them microcredentials, trophies, or badges, the idea of documenting progress and making trends visible is becoming increasingly popular across increasingly diverse digital platforms. While this approach fits naturally into literal games, “gamifying” a system that isn’t first a game is a new approach that dovetails nicely into elements of…
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8 Examples Of Augmented Reality In Education
Augmented reality is a medium through which the known world fuses with current tech to create a uniquely blended interactive experience.
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50 iPad Apps For Struggling Readers & Writers
Here, are a few amazing iPad apps for struggling readers and writers to help them see school as fun and engaging, not a struggle.
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18 Snapshots Of iPad Integration In Education
These recent studies show whether the iPad movement is the wave of the future of education, or a waste of valuable resources.
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How To Be A Mediocre Teacher
Want to be a mediocre teacher? Don’t listen to students, keep learning in the classroom, and focus on preparing students for the future.
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The Typical Facebook Fight Humorously Deconstructed
Facebook is–based on number of users–the most popular social network on the planet. But it’s not for everyone. Its central functions are short updates, pictures and “likes” that, while similar twitter, somehow combine to form a formidable passive-aggressive mix that can often play out humorously, as the image below from college humor demonstrates. Image attribution…
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The Past, Present, And Future Of The iPad In Learning
Here is a historical perspective of the iPad’s first 20 months in schools, broken down into 3 distinct epochs, each marked by a ‘big idea.’
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9 Secrets To Surviving As A Teacher
Bend don’t break, know who to go to for work, and never stop loving your content are just a few secrets to surviving as a teacher.
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A Brief History Of Video Games In Education
While there has been a surge in the acceptance and prevalence of game-based learning in schools over the past decade, especially in light of the success of programs like Khan Academy, playing games in the classroom is nothing new. Educational games have been a commonplace part of the K-12 experience since the beginning of the…
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What Is Google Course Builder?
What is Google Course Builder? Google Course Builder is a now mostly-unsupported platform developed by Google using the Python coding language back in 2012.
