Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Watching videos and interacting with visual media are engaging ways to help students learn. What are the best video streaming services for schools? How can I find movies and videos that are appropriate for school? And of course, how can I help my students learn as much as possible from movies and videos?

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MAY 23, 2022

Kiddom is an all-in-one education platform for remote or in-person learning or a hybrid of the two that provides a high-quality digital curriculum capable of integrating curriculum management, instruction, assessment, and communication tools into one location. Check out this three-minute video. Want a little more?

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Assess learning –today’s favorite is gameshow webtools such as Kahoot and Quizizz. You can also try critical thinking games like a Digital Breakout Room that require a deeper understanding of the fullness of what was learned. Class exit ticket –complete a five minute summative digital activity.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

In this post I would like to explore resources that are available for facilitating proper digital citizenship in the classroom. 10 Digital Citizenship Resources: The Web in the Classroom…Part 3 ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). It is important that educators teach and model proper digital citizenship.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Let’s start with seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: Include digital ebooks in your class library. Include online libraries with student resources. Expect digital class presentations to include video, audio, music, or a mixture of digital tools. Sub-category: Teaching, Writing.

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JULY 13, 2023

They use interactive videos, quizzes, and peer discussions to make learning engaging and effective. For instance, if you need to work in a library but the noise from the door opening, or people shuffling in their seats will be distracting, put on some noise canceling headphones. Find out what works best for you and stick to it.

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APRIL 5, 2019

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates. They invest virtual cash, research their strategy with over a hundred videos and tutorials, and compete against classmates and the world to see how successful they would be if they were using their money. Tools for financial literacy .

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In an age where many parents are not available to drive their children to a friend’s house or the library to work collaboratively on schoolwork, these virtual meeting options are quickly being accepted as part of the learning culture. Ease of Differentiation. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

The courses are the latest addition to Vector’s award-winning library of Student Safety & Wellness Courses. The short online video lessons help schools teach and promote discussions about important safety, wellness, and social and emotional learning topics that have a big impact on individual students and the school community. “Our

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JULY 27, 2018

Collect and assess data easily and quickly. For more on how Kiddom makes teaching easier, watch this video : More on Kiddom. Kiddom’s Content Library Makes Differentiation Faster Than Ever. Provide change in pedagogic frameworks. Increase accessibility. Provide more time to plan lessons. Build student-centered classrooms.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

A podcast is a topic-specific digital stream of audio files (in some cases, video or PDF also) that can be downloaded to a computer or a wide variety of media devices. This can be stored in the Podcast Library (mentioned below). Show students how to use them and then offer them often as an alternative when assessing knowledge.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Click here for more detail and a how-to video. Click here for more detail and a how-to video. Users create a recipe by choosing a trigger channel from IFTTT’s library, then a trigger, and finally an action channel. Though the video shows how to make the dough, you don’t have to do that. Grade level: 5-12.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Also included are direct access to elected and appointed individuals, audience call-ins to officials, audience-created videos, lesson plans for educators, and more. This Commoncraft YouTube video is a short guide to understanding the U.S. video with music and humor. As with all videos from Schoolhouse Rock (you and over 4.5

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. Review the teacher resources on the educator dashboard. Begin the first quest.

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MAY 30, 2017

Teachers can add quizzes that assess student math knowledge by selecting the grade, the topic, one of the suggested Zap Zap Math games, and the duration. Use this is a tool to assess overall math health and provide a deep dive into areas where students need help. Use the download version of Zap Zap Math when the Internet/WiFi is down.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Sunday, June 8th at 4pm Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship - Seeing the Big Picture , with Dr. Jason Ohler.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Also included are direct access to elected and appointed individuals, audience call-ins to officials, audience-created videos, lesson plans for educators, and more. This Commoncraft YouTube video is a short guide to understanding the U.S. video with music and humor. As with all videos from Schoolhouse Rock (you and over 4.5

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JULY 27, 2015

When the standard reading materials or watching a video didn’t work, we used other options to explain a prickly topic (like Twitter–that was an experience!). Teachers eagerly looked for tech options to traditional ‘fill out this sheet of paper’ approaches to ending class and/or assessing learning.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. have online libraries included with student resources. Use a digital timer for quizzes or other events.

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MAY 23, 2017

Your school will pay for it of you promise to teach colleagues–or show the videos. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Digital portfolios—via wikis. And Google Hangouts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In one year, I shifted from being an educator who didn’t value an expanded role of video games in schools to a teacher developing an elementary esports curriculum, running multiple esports summer camps, and developing an elementary esports after school club. We followed a very basic principle: video games are for everyone.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Next, students learn about heroes and their attributes using their text and the library. Students learn about heroes and their attributes using their text and the library. – The library is a great place to start and it may even be available at your school in a virtual sense along with the expertise of the teacher librarian.

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JULY 14, 2017

International Children’s Digital Library. The ICDL offers over 4,600 digital children’s books in over 59 languages that exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In fact, with Kiddom, you get everything you love about Google Classroom as well as the features only Kiddom brings to learning such as: the ability to plan, assess, and analyze via a free library of standards-aligned resources. blog –post text, images, and videos of class events, discussion questions, or how-tos.

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MAY 26, 2017

When the Internet arrived, I — as did my colleagues — adopted it mostly for two reasons: 1) research — in place of the library, and 2) rote drills, such as supporting math practice. videos, links, and audio) are available online, students can access them according to their schedules and location. But that has changed.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. tools to assess schoolwide progress and results. student and teacher blog platforms. ability to post grades.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The app gives subscribers unlimited access to SmartMusic’s extensive library of over 50 method books, nearly 50,000 skill building exercises, and 22,000+ solo and ensemble titles by major publishers. SmartMusic provides an immediate assessment. It is available on PCs and Macs as well as iPads.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

You might have noticed the new look and feel for our Digital Citizenship curriculum interactive Scope & Sequence. We simply refreshed the look to better show how all our offerings work together to support you in incorporating digital citizenship into your teaching. Many also incorporate videos!

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techlearning

AUGUST 29, 2018

30, 2018 by visiting [link] The School Online Safety Grant is designed to help schools and districts meet the new recommendations on assessing threat and defining behaviors as outlined in the Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model and K-12 School Security safety guide from the Department of Homeland Security.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Crop, customize, and remix online video content with interactive tool. Free, expansive digital library unlocks treasure trove of books. Bottom line: This large collection of books and videos on a wide variety of topics is an easy -- and free -- enhancement to any classroom library. Unlimited Books for Kids.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates. Part of this is a large library of online interactive tools including videos and game-like activities. At the completion, students model the discussed activity. Instructions are both written and audio, making them accessible to lots of learners.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Cult of Pedagogy : Through her series of cleverly illustrated videos, podcasts, explanations of educational jargon, lists of helpful resources, rants and pep talks, advice on classroom management and syllabus writing, Jennifer Gonzalez gathers together a seriously useful toolkit for every educator–from newbie to veteran.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

Students finish the program with an assessment of knowledge and certificates. Part of this is a large library of online interactive tools including videos and game-like activities. At the completion, students model the discussed activity. Instructions are both written and audio, making them accessible to lots of learners.

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techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

Walters previously served as chair of GL Education, the leading provider of educational tests and assessments to UK schools; Rising Stars UK, the second largest primary school publisher in the UK; and Book Source, a UK-based book distributor.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Educators could add digital resources and assessment pieces, and learners could submit assignments. View the Workspace Some of the content they added to a Workspace included links to Scratch and Tinker, individualized lessons, Seesaw reflections, steps for an entire project or supplemental videos.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 20, 2017

Teachers can start from scratch or build from anything in the FlexBooks library. You will note that many activities let the teacher see assessment results after student completion of an activity. This allows for outstanding formative learning and assessment which makes alignment with lessons quick, easy, and rewarding!

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