Who To Follow On Twitter: 15 #edtech Personalities
If you’re choosy about where and with whom you engage, social media can enrich your teaching experience in ways you may not have imagined.
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The More I Lecture, The Less I Know If They Understand
The clearer I am about what I am saying and why, the more I may be blind to how unclear, confusing, or unhelpful the lecture is to a novice.
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The Trouble With Measuring Understanding
Measuring understanding might be the most complex thing teachers do. Unfortunately, PD gives little attention to making quality assessments.
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Are Midterms Really Necessary In A Climate Of Assessment?
Are Midterms Really Necessary In A Climate Of Assessment? by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher It’s time for midterms. I hate midterms. They take up so much time–several days of review, a week of administering, and then all the correcting. To top it off, they place students in a high-anxiety environment. I feel like I’m…
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How To Make An Educational App: What I Learned
How To Make An Educational App: What I Learned by Shaunie Shammass, speakingpal.com I would like to tell you about our journey of innovation, creativity and implementation in creating a self-help teaching mobile tool for the speaking skill. I would like you to follow our thoughts and decisions as mobile app developers and see what the…
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How To Turn Your iPad Into A Document Camera
How To Turn Your iPad Into A Document Camera Document cameras are incredibly helpful devices in the classroom. While they seem like a comparatively dated technology in the midst of the smart apps and wearable technology we see today, document cameras remain sturdy, reliable, and useful technology pieces to use in a variety of ways….
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How To Start Your Own Blog: A Step-By-Step Guide For Teachers
One of the best education philosophies is collegiality. Without cooperation, teachers can’t remain vibrant members of a class community.
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21 Online Literacy Resources For Teachers And Students
Compared to physical texts, digital resources and online tools provide a broader array of information about words and word meanings.
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50 Of The Smartest Kids In The World: A Small Sample Of Many
At age 10, Gabriel worked on T-cell receptor research and studied synthetic biology for undergraduate college students at MIT.
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11 Storyboarding Apps To Organize & Inspire Young Writers
In addition to creating fiction, storyboarding apps can also be used for sharing assignments, capturing research notes, and documenting PBL.
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How Automated Tutoring Can Support Transition To The Common Core
How Automated Tutoring Can Support Transition To The Common Core by Zacc Dukowitz, Learnbop.com As the majority of states in the U.S. transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), so far, test scores have plummeted. While the reality of exactly why is complicated, automated tutoring programs may be able to help, which is why…
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Study Cube: The Way All The Cool Kids Are Studying
The old way to be cool was to be plugged in and always-on. Digital reputation on point. More followers than people you follow. Respond to messages in seconds. The new cool? Total isolation, solitary confinement style. And it can be yours for just over $2000 US. Distraction-free academic interaction: the students, the text, and nothing…
