Fractus Learning

APRIL 8, 2015

Whether a teacher uses Daily 5 in the classroom or not, word work is an important piece of student daily learning. This article will provide an extensive list of iOS word work apps. Each app is listed by grade level and state, showing how it will best serve your students while they work with words in the classroom.

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Educreations Elementary Classroom iPad 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I read an interesting article in EdSurge last week about how current educational technologies do little to move learners beyond rote recall of knowledge and it caught me off guard. What struck me most was the narrative in the article, which seemingly compared the role of technology to the role of pedagogy.

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Assessment Educreations Digital Divide Tools 138

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2016

Someone in your school, maybe the parent group, will raise the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? To kickstart your paperless digital classroom requires a modicum of preparation. digital portfolios for students–this can be accomplished with whatever LMS you use, Google Apps, Google Classroom, or even Dropbox.

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Chromebook LMS Educreations iPad 150

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

A little group of Hawaii educators held a Hangout on Air about The Flipped Classroom last evening. Anne Torige suggested the flipped classroom, for instance, because she was interested in learning more about it. I had invited Mitch Krulewich, a new teacher at our school, to talk about how he flips his math classroom. It was fun!

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Flipped Classroom Camtasia Classroom Educreations 63

Tech Helpful

JANUARY 19, 2016

There are some ways to integrate technology in your classroom that adds value to your learning environment and pretty much can be a go to no matter what the lesson plan. This article talks about the benefits of mind mapping: [link]. Here are my favorites no matter what grade level you might teach: Research. Mind mapping.

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Khan Academy Educreations LMS Study 69

Reading By Example

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Educreations : Students can draw and narrate on a topic of their choice. Newsela : A database of current news articles written at a range of reading levels. The authors close the article with a few questions to consider: How can I naturalize the use of digital tools? image below). Is this tool necessary and beneficial?

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Tools Educreations iPad Accessibility 28

Graphite Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Each unit typically includes a couple Zaption videos for everyone to view and, for each reading level, three to eight books and two to four articles. In my class some books and articles are read by all students so we can have a common conversation, and others are read by a subset of the class, based on reading level.

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eBook Educreations ePortfolio iPad 40

Graphite Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Each unit typically includes a couple Zaption videos for everyone to view, and for each reading level, three to eight books and two to four articles. In my class some books and articles are read by all students so we can have a common conversation, and others are read by a subset of the class, based on reading level.

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ePortfolio eBook Educreations iPad 40

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2015

Use Educreations to record yourself modeling the process and share it with students and families. Close reading isn’t something that should be exclusively done in a reading classroom; it should be done across the curriculum. Teachers can create their own online classroom and track student progress.

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Strategy Educreations Secondary Google 40

MindShift

MAY 21, 2015

Educators are looking for ways to help students participate in a digital world, but the choices for digital engagement in the classroom can be overwhelming. ” She put together a list of favorite digital tools for the social studies classroom and shared them during an edWeb webinar. TrueFlix is the version for older kids.

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