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4 Powerful Ways to Implement Class Blogs – From Jennifer Carey

EdTechTeacher

Blogs as ePortfolio. This makes them a great platform for students to build their own ePortfolio. One of my favorite exercises in Social Studies is to post a news article along with some guided questions (the New York Times Learning Network has great tools for this). Blogs for Class Discussion. Blogs for Group Projects and Labs.

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SumBlox: explore number relationships through visual/kinesthetic play

iLearn Technology

The educational set comes with 4 guides that lead you (the teacher) through exercises and lessons to do with your students. Students can also explore the concept of fractions and of the mathematics behind adding fractions with different denominators by stacking and scaling fractions.

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The Myth of the Magical Pill

Dr. Shannon Doak

These methods do, however, support practice through exercises and repetition, memorization of facts and definitions, and good performance on tests. These practices do nothing for giving students a chance to work on a project that has real-world applications or give them a chance to come up with their own ways to solve problems.

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