iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2014

What it is: Prodigy is a fantastic way to differentiate math in your classroom. Prodigy is a game-like fantasy world where students engage in math along their adventures. Prodigy is a virtual world where students can play together with classmates. Because Prodigy is aligned to the Common Core, it is easy to navigate.

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With four different worlds and 23 game characters, Monster Math offers an engaging way for kids to learn over 67 math skills. The arcade-style math app for kids is designed for Grade K-5 with ordinary skill presets aligned with Common Core State Standards. Best Math Apps For Kids in Elementary School and Middle School.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Books, videos, math games aim to boost student engagement. Studios launched an expansion of its StoryBots franchise with StoryBots Classroom, a free resource for educators that includes hundreds of videos, books and activities for use on interactive white boards, tablets and laptops in the classroom. JibJab Bros.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

showed her students the 2016 documentary Before the Flood , featuring Leonardo diCaprio journeying to five continents and the Arctic to see the effects of climate change. “It is our intention to make our students engaged citizens,” Fisher says. They also have a “scientist in the classroom” program.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff listened intently as a group of veteran teachers listed what they think rookie teachers need before entering the classroom: more time student teaching and more training in how to communicate with colleagues, parents and students themselves. Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Even the best prepared, most promising first-year teachers face a harsh transition from completing credential programs to becoming solely responsible for an entire class of students for the first time. Classroom Management: This is one of the biggest struggles for incoming teachers.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Help Students Show What They Know With Media by Wesley Fryer View different examples of student multimedia projects created by students, including narrated art/photo projects, narrated slideshow/screencasts, Quick-edit videos, visual notes, and GeoMap projects. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)?

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

This is a follow up to a previous post about our school’s collective efforts to increase student engagement in reading, especially in their dispositions around talking about and sharing their reading lives. For the past five years, our K-5 elementary school has focused on the relationship between reading and writing.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The majority of the tools mentioned in this post and the four earlier posts in our series, transform the student experience from passive consumers of information to active creators of content, employing multiple English Language Arts standards and skills along the way. We firmly believe this ought to be the new norm in the modern classroom.

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MindShift

MARCH 10, 2016

One of the standards for mathematical practice in the Common Core is to “ construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. That’s a tall order for students used to sitting quietly in a math classroom passively receiving instruction.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Math centers or workstations where kids are all involved in different activities are a fundamental part of many elementary classrooms. Are the activities on an appropriate level for each student? Are the activities on an appropriate level for each student? How do these game work in real classrooms? – Tracy N.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

Read more about technology in the classroom. It was a warm day in late April, and his chatty sixth-grade class had been corralled from a narrow hallway into a classroom at the end of a short hall. But this type of classroom, while unusual, makes perfect sense to Etai and his classmates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. McIntosh asked, prompting students to draw lessons from the comic books in front of them. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding.

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 8, 2013

Bob Pearlman, "Designing New Learning Environments to Support 21st Century Skills" In response to the Common Core State Standards many school districts and schools are discussing moving toward 21st century models of instruction like Project-Based Learning and other forms inquiry-based teaching and learning.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Lori Trent, STEM Coordinator - Innovator of Inspiration and Magic RADIO SOLIDARIA AMIGA, ONLINE, UNA HERRAMIENTA INNOVADORA - Mª Magdalena Galiana Lloret.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Mancenido (Undergraduate, Bachelor of Elementary Education - Special Education) 2:00am Connecting Education to the Cloud for Digital Citizenship - Chryssanthe Sotiriou, High School EFL Coordinator 3:00am Democratization: Stuctural Change of Regimen and of the Living Experience at Schools - Olek Netzer, Ph.D. Pedro Néstor Ibáñez Lic.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Their stances on education policy differ, but they all have at least one thing in common: classroom experience, which Biden has promised would be a prerequisite. This project was one of the biggest investments in remote learning per student in the country this year and closed the digital divide in Connecticut.”

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