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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? Where did I turn? Classroom Use.

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What’s a Backchannel and Is it Right For Your Class?

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Health and Wellness Choice Boards for Teachers and Students

Catlin Tucker

On Twitter, Barbara McInnes suggested teachers add a wellness activity to their offline choice boards. One board for teachers, one for secondary students, and another for elementary students and their parents. Well-being Board for Secondary Students. Ultimately, Maria and I created three separate well-being boards.

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Dallas ISD Selects Carnegie Learning Math Curriculum for all Secondary Schools

eSchool News

For me, it was really clear how the curriculum was going to benefit secondary students. For more information, visit carnegielearning.com and follow us on LinkedIn , Twitter , and Instagram. Carnegie is taking the parts and changing the way we put them together and doing it in a way that makes sense for more kids.

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Shorts season: An introduction to the NEW Flipgrid camera

Ditch That Textbook

This post is written by Mike Mohammad, a secondary science teacher in Brookfield, Wisconsin. You can follow him on Twitter @mo_physics and check out his blog mophysicsmoproblems.blogspot.com. The Flipgrid Shorts Camera is packed with possibilities. Check out some of the new features and get started creating!

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Getting the Brain Ready to Learn Math

The CoolCatTeacher

Liesl McConchie talks about how the brain learns math From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. When students come into your math class, are they ready to learn? Is their brain in a ready state? She has been published in ASCD’s Educational Leadership journal.

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Research Based Strategies for Distance Learning with Dr. Matthew Rhoads

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Research-Based Strategies for Distance Learning with Dr. Matthew Rhoads Dr. Matthew Rhoads is teaching at a distance and coaching other teachers to improve their teaching as well. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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