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10 Reasons to Try Genius Hour This School Year

The Principal of Change

If you haven’t heard of Genius Hour or 20% time in the classroom , the premise is simple: Give your students 20% of their class time (or an hour each week) to learn what they want. Your class will be covering all types of common core standards. The Genius hour and 20% time projects cover multiple common cores standards.

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Getting Started with Minecraft in the Classroom

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There are already many articles detailing the educational benefits of Minecraft, and though I believe the advantages of using it the classroom far outweigh the disadvantages, the roadblocks can be very real. Issues with styles of facilitation and classroom management, as well as technical problems, can be difficult to figure out.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. SHEG also offers two other fabulous portals filled with resources to help classroom teachers and teacher librarians inquiry and historical analysis. You can now find out. But wait, there’s more! .