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Enriching Rocks with Blendspace, Tinkercad, Research, Thinglink, and Painting

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

Blendspace. Early in the project, students come to the library to learn about a tool called Blendspace. The goal for the students is to use Blendspace throughout the study of rocks to capture their learning and present in a way that might teach someone new what they have learned.

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7 Authentic Assessment Tools

Ask a Tech Teacher

that students think creatively with their new information. They inform teachers how to optimize time by teaching what students need to learn, not wasting time on what students already know. That means you know when to move on to more challenging information. Encourage them to strategize how to work best as a team.

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16 Curation Tools for Teachers and Students

Shake Up Learning

Choosing how to curate and what tools to use can be a very personal decision depending on your own needs and preferences. Curation is absolutely necessary in the information age! TES Teach with Blendspace. That’s what’s so great about the world wide web of tools! There is no shortage of tools. It is not a free tool.

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Technology Integration, 1 to 1, and Student Centered Learning… Ten Free Resources and Tools

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I promise you will find some great information coming your way this school year…So Sign up now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Student Centered : Instructional materials shows student how to make their own trip. Blendspace. Google Lit Trips.

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Common Sense Education Resources from ISTE 2015

Graphite Blog

Available online or as an app, learn how to use this new student-guided interactive with students. Great for informal learning, student-directed, and after-school settings. Learn how to help your students boost their reading skills with resources like Lightsail, ReadWorks, and StudySync. Free Flipped Learning Tools You'll Love.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

And it’s also about instruction and modeling for learners what it looks like to organize content and tools to manage our digital lives as information citizens. Librarians who curate successfully not only build their brands, they contribute to their communities—students, faculty, administrators, and parents—as information professionals.

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2015 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Sign up and information here. Emily Schell - Dave Potter Poverty as a Lens to Global Competence - Cate Biggs, Adjunct Professor 4:00 PM KEYNOTE: Kelly Clark 5:00 PM Global Content, Local Lessons: Discover new strategies for creating interactive blended lessons with content created by teachers around the world through TES and Blendspace.