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Coding or Critical Thinking?

EdTech4Beginners

As the Hour of Code again approaches, I ponder the efficacy of encouraging all schools to participate under the banner of coding. To be involved in EdTech is to interact with articles , TED Talks , and apps that encourage coding. Still, I am not convinced that all students need to focus on coding per se as much as they will benefit from the skills that are acquired while learning how to code.

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How to Make Augmented Reality a Reality in Your Classroom

Edsurge

Take a look at the 12-year-olds around you, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find one without a device in front of his or her face. Pokémon Go. Zombies Everywhere. Kids love these hit apps because they use augmented reality to add graphics and sounds to their real-life location, creating an immersive—and addictive—experience. Catching a pokémon that appears to be zipping past your bus stop is just more fun than thumbing through traditional trading cards.

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A Wonderful YouTube App to Use with Your Kids

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

March 11, 2017 YouTube Kids is a wonderful Google app designed specifically for younger minds. We have already reviewed it in a previous post in the past and today we are re-featuring it.read more.

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9 Ways To Support A Culture Of Wellness In Your School

TeachThought - Learn better.

The post 9 Ways To Support A Culture Of Wellness In Your School appeared first on TeachThought.

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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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Chrome: Duplicate the Tab

Teacher Tech

One joy of using web-based documents is the ability to have the same document open in multiple places. It is not so uncommon for me to be rocking a Google Doc on my computer browser and also using the app to view the same document. And of course, my collaborators are on their own computer […]. The post Chrome: Duplicate the Tab appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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How do I know what Contemporary tool will become a Classic?

Tech Helpful

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Coca-Cola, Rolls-Royce, Gone With The Wind, The Beatles, MonaLisa, Piaget, Socrates, hamburgers, and phonics- all considered "Classics" by some. Enduring products, ideas, legends even under the scrutiny, dislike, and judgment of others. According to Merriam Webster the definition of classic means "serving as a standard of excellence: of recognized value, traditional, enduring, historically memorable, etc." but what makes a classic?

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3 Hottest Posts Most Popular On The Innovative Educator

The Innovative Educator

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! What’s hot this week? All things South by Southwest Edu. Missed the conference? This wrap up will keep you up-to-date on conference highlights. The undercurrent at this year’s #SXSWEdu was for attendees to consider their privilege.

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Part 4: Get Started w/ Thinglink VR in the Classroom

EdTechnocation.com

In my constant exploration for virtual reality resources and tools , I think I've found the holy grail for VR creation! The Thinglink 360° & VR Tool is one of the easiest and most classroom friendly. I've put together a four part blog series. In part 4 I explain how you can easily get started with Thinglink VR in your classroom. Part 1: Thinglink is Bringing VR to Every Classroom!

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Exploring Classroom Innovations at the AWSA/WASDA Summit for Data-Informed Leadership in Green Bay

Reading By Example

Matt Renwick. Data is a four letter word, literally and sometimes metaphorically in education. Educators need data to drive instruction and making informed decisions about student learning. When students have information about their own learning progress, they know themselves better as learners. Yet when data does not serve an important purpose, it can also monopolize our time that is better spent teaching and learning.

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3 Ways To Combat Recipe Learning

The Web20Classroom

When I was a middle school science teacher I regularly assigned projects. At the time I thought that the projects would be a great way for me to understand what my students understood about particular concepts and topics. I had them make visual representations of atoms of the periodic table, reports outlining the effects of global warming on our community, and several others.

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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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What I Learned from First Graders and Other Ideas

RafranzDavis.com

I am always in awe of how my baby nephew navigates the world through his growing lens of curiosity. He has this fearlessness about him that demands certain freedoms most often held back from toddlers. I can’t think of a single time where we have denied him the right to try something new as our place in Braeden’s world taught us better. Creativity can’t be cultivated in children with so much adult control.

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Cultures Which Support Good Thinking and Outcomes

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

[link] I found this article to contain something profoundly simple--that addiction is a symptom rather than the problem. It reminded me of the school study that showed that the only intervention that worked to reduce teen pregnancies was service learning (my recollection from Tim Wilson's Redirect )--the likely conclusion being that what was really at the heart of the teens' issues was a need for deeper connecting, which when satisfied by providing service, didn't have to lead to riskier activit