A Principal's Reflections
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
It breaks my heart to see what is happening in a state that I hold dear to my heart. I might now live in TX, but I was born and raised in NJ. Both of my parents were public educators; my father an elementary principal in Hackettstown and my mother an elementary teacher in Flemington. They both touched lives and impacted kids like countless other NJ educators.
Teacher Reboot Camp
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” – Elon Musk. This year I am teaching college English language learners reading and writing. My students submit their work on Canvas. My students are language learners and pointing out their grammar errors for them to improve upon is important, especially if they continue studying in an American college.
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EdTech4Beginners
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
My class are studying coasts this term and I asked them to make a newspaper report about a hotel that fell in to the sea due to erosion. We were going to write a newspaper report in the children’s exercise books, but I thought it would be interesting to find an online newspaper generator. There are lots! Here are my favourites: Fodey.com. Newspaper.jaguarpaw.co.uk.
User Generated Education
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
This past summer I facilitated maker education classes for 5 to 10 year old kids. This school year I am a gifted teacher meeting with 2nd through 6 grades one day per week per group. I like mixed age groups and have no problem designing learning activities for them. I realized that the reason for this is that these activities are open ended permitting each student to naturally and instinctively to work at or slightly above his or her ability level.
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MiddleWeb
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
After years of using the same "icebreaker" activities to get tweens and teens talking to each other and the teacher, ESL educator Walton Burns had an epiphany – icebreakers needed to give way to community building events, tailored specifically for adolescents.
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MiddleWeb
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
From failing to bring the required supplies to not being on time, Amber Chandler was quick to give negative grades to students who "lacked responsibility." Until she encountered Nick. Today she's more sensitive to the socio-economic challenges many students face.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Similar to Mac Apps for Teachers, Educational Windows Apps is a resource section we created last year to help teachers using Windows in their instruction find and access educational.read more.
Teacher Tech
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Google Hangouts on Air is being moved to YouTube Live YouTube live allows you to live broadcast to YouTube and have the recording automatically save to YouTube. I really like the features of YouTube live. There is an integrated chat for those watching the video stream that is really nice. It also seems I am […]. The post YouTube Live: Bookmark It appeared first on Teacher Tech.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
A few days ago, we shared with you a comprehensive chart featuring over 70 educational iPad apps neatly arranged into different categories. Today, we are sharing with you another chart for.read more.
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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.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Early morning light hits the smoke and wreckage of the World Trade Center September 13, 2001 in New York City, two days after the twin towers were destroyed when hit by two hijacked passenger jets. Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. NORTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — On the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school.
The Innovative Educator
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
If you work in an inner city public school, and even some who don’t, know that one teacher per 30 or more students is difficult at best. Fortunately, innovative educators have figured out that while they may be experts in pedagogy, they have a whole class full of experts in technology. We all enjoy being recognized for our talents. Figuring out who your classroom geniuses are during the first 30 days of school is an inspiring activity for all grade levels.
esri
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
(Note: This was written for and posted on Sept 11 of 2011, the tenth anniversary. The memories, and need for learning, remain as strong as ever. Never give up. -Charlie). On that dreadful day in 2001, under the “severe clear” September sky, in those thunderbolts of inhumanity that cost so dearly, we lost two friends from National Geographic who, with students and teachers in tow, had embarked on a mission full of hope.
EmergingEdTech
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … sign up to participate in one of. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
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Adam Welcome
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
A quick note about this blog. I've been blogging since I was about twenty-four years old, it all started when I sold my car and was attempting to live without one for a year. That blog was called cyclingteacherguy and I didn't make it the full year without a car. When this post goes live it will be number 473 on this blog which all started on July 17, 2011.
The Principal of Change
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
I was inspired by this post from Brady Venables , and especially this paragraph: My biggest pet peeve is when I hear people speak of wanting to provide students the same education they received. This is a crime. Insisting that we change our education to fit today’s kids and world doesn’t mean that the educations we received were bad, it just means it was different.
techlearning
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Fun elementary coding through hands-on puzzle tiles.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
This is an edited excerpt from “ How to Teach Computational Thinking ,” first published by Stephen Wolfram on Sept. 7, 2016. Pick any field “X,” from archaeology to zoology. There either is now a “computational X”, or there soon will be. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever—the future of all these professions will be full of computational thinking.
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The Cornerstone for Teachers
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Every now and then I get a comment on one of my books , printables on TeachersPayTeachers , or the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club that says “It’s a shame that teachers charge money for everything now. I remember the days when teachers would give everything away for free.” Sometimes they even add insult to injury by saying, “If you really wanted to help teachers, if you really cared about kids, you wouldn’t charge for this,” as if anyone who wants to make a difference is supposed to d
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