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Time-lapse a science experiment for excellent observation opportunities (includes a free, downloadable write-up form).

EdTech4Beginners

Last week I did a science lesson with my students where we looked at how the sweets ‘Skittles’ dissolved in hot and cold water. We time-lapsed the results: This stand worked brilliantly to hold the camera: After I asked my students to complete this online science experiment write-up form on Google Docs. You can download it for free here (it is view only so remember to click ‘download’ or ‘make a copy’ so you can edit it).

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Subscriber Special: September

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. September 1st-30th: K-8 Technology Curriculum Student Workbooks. We’ll credit your K-8 teacher manual purchase against the student workbook price–if it’s the 6th edition. That’s up to 25% off the Room License (1:1 school: Here’s info for the School License ).

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3 Questions Before Supporting Innovation

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

1. Is this best for students and their learning? 2. Is this scalable? 3. Are you willing to share? In a conversation with my good friend, Dave Sands, we were talking about the challenge of investing in systematic change vs supporting the outliers (and the Lone Wolves ). There will always be limited resources to work with, and we can’t do everything we want to do.

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3 Very Good Tools to Annotate Web Content

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Here are some good Chrome extensions to use on your Chromebook to annotate webpages. You can use them to highlight portion of a web text, add your comments and tags, share annotated pages with others.read more.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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CTU And UMUC Collaborate on Adaptive Learning and Everyone Benefits

Edsurge

There is strength in numbers and power in sharing information. Those are the overriding lessons that our higher-ed institutions—early adopters with a passion for improving student outcomes—have drawn from a successful and ongoing experiment in collaboration. Sharing data, best practices, learning maps, and survey results has moved the needle on adaptive learning forward at our schools.

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Two Excellent Sources of Engaging Science Videos to Use in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

iPad can immensely enhance the learning of science through the use of a wide range of educational apps designed specifically for this purpose. Over the past few years, we have reviewed a number of.read more.

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That Was Then, This Is Now

Tech Helpful

For starters I'll just get this out of the way- I'm 47 years old and I graduated from high school in 1987. My youngest is a senior this year and it has caused me to reflect on how much life has changed for students since I was in high school. Technology didn't really exist for educational purposes (although I loved my Atari as a kid). That also means social media didn't exist.along with all the pros and cons that come along with it.or did it?

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3 Obvious Ways Twitter Promotes Literacy

The Principal of Change

It was an interesting day for me. I spoke in the same district that I did my first keynote in by myself, and it was an amazing experience to reconnect and think about my journey over the last few years. The person that asked me to speak over six years ago was still there, and we reminisced about our experiences over this time. One of the conversations was going back to the idea of Twitter and does it actually promote literacy.

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The Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

The Innovative Educator

Moving From Lecture to Learning remains at the top for another week. This post is essential for innovative educators looking forward to #backtoschool strategies that go beyond the lecture. Also at the top is a topic on every teacher’s mind as they prepare for #backtoschool. Classroom set up and design. This post looks at what various classroom designs are inviting students to do.

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GoClass

Technology Tidbits

GoClass is a wonderful site/app for flipping a classroom. This is a fantastic solution for educators to be able to manage their classes/students and create dynamic lessons that can be shared on mobile devices. Students can login to a session on their mobile device and then follow the lesson following the "show-explain-ask" method. Teachers can then get instant real-time feedback on student engagement and learning as well as attendance.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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ClassDojo Student Stories

Technology Tidbits

ClassDojo the widely used (free) tool for behavior management and communication for education has just released Student Stories. Student Stories is a new way for students to create digital portfolios and share them w/ others. More info from their press release. Students take the lead - students can share and celebrate their learning by snapping photos of projects, taking videos of presentations, and writing reflections.

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