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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

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Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. I, like many teachers, liked to promote the excellent work taking place in my classroom so other colleagues could view my students’ work. Classroom Use. How many followers do you have? Keeping Up.

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Implementing Mindfulness Practices in Schools

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Let’s explore why and how mindfulness practices are making their way into classrooms worldwide. Improved Concentration Mindfulness exercises, such as meditation and deep breathing, can enhance students’ ability to focus. In such a high-pressure environment, the need for mindfulness practices becomes apparent.

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Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategies!

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Tip 1: Create Customized Exercise Programs Using ChatGPT’s flexibility, PE teachers may create complex, individualized training regimens that meet each student’s needs. Teachers make customized exercise plans by carefully examining information about students’ fitness levels, interests, and health issues.

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How Classroom Environment Shapes Understanding of Cause and Effect Relationships

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What can you do to make things work better in the classroom with simple fixes? How The Classroom Environment Shapes Understanding of Cause and Effect Relationships Mastering cause-and-effect relationships in research is crucial for a student’s academic future and career. It will be an excellent exercise.

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Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

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Our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has some interesting thoughts on mainstreaming this in your classroom: How to Encourage Creativity in the Classroom: Best Tips to Inspire Your Students. Now, apply this idea to the classroom and ask your students to come up with solutions to a simple problem. Problem-Solving with Multiple Solutions.

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SEL in Your Classroom

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SEL exercises. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. What is SEL. Why teach SEL in schools. SEL resources. Vocabulary. Read on… Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Keyboarding Pedagogy

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In my classroom, it’s the most-asked question from parents, concerns like: When do students start? I teach finger exercises to remind students they have 8 fingers and a thumb. Keyboarding for Youngers A while ago, I participated in an online discussion about keyboarding for kids. Why learn keyboarding? These make keyboarding fun.

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