Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2022

Within the past few years, thanks to COVID-19 and distance learning, the amount of technology in schools across the country has increased a hundredfold. To the relief of the world, education has mostly returned to the classroom after the pandemic mandated distance and hybrid learning. Department of Education, 2016).

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. Now, all of them are (or would be) in their fifth year in the classroom — a year by which about 44 percent of educators have left the profession. I have been in the same school (and same classroom!)

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The post Holiday Reading: 6 Books That Will Transform Your Classroom – SULS042 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. A great book will focus on pedagogy first and provide you with actionable tips and valuable resources that guide you in making real changes in your classroom and curriculum. It’s about the LEARNING!

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The post How to Infuse Google Classroom with the Power of YouTube appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Maximize Google Classroom with YouTube! Did you know that YouTube works seamlessly with Google Classroom? Let’s dig into some strategies that will help you make the most of Google Classroom and YouTube.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 17, 2017

Dan has long been a devotee of the design thinking approach to learning and Amy’s focus at the time was remix, multimedia storytelling, and connected learning. It’s about students making connections and remixing (which Amy believes is the crux of learning) - transforming knowledge to show they grasp the subtleties.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

This philosophy challenges the old classroom dynamic where teachers were holders of information and students would wait for permission to learn. Many of the strategies I now use with my tech leaders are adaptations from my own experiences in the classroom. Spoke with our PEIMS director on how to code students for the class.

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 11, 2016

Our latest ebook, “The K-12 Website Success Handbook,” is a must-read for anyone responsible for procuring a website vendor or managing the day-to-day responsibilities of a school or district website. Ask yourself how easy it is for parents to do the same on your website.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 2, 2015

If you read this blog at all, you know I am a fan of Katherine Schulten’s posts for the New York Times Learning Network. You might also be interested in my post Sandy and media literacy , as well as. Newseum Digital Classroom. This essential toolkit will update and enhance your explorations of credibility and reliability!

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 27, 2014

Blog also sets admins up in order to be able to do flipped learning with their staff. link] - Melinda Miller, Principal in Missouri who uses flipped learning with her staff. She talks about mistakes she''s made and what she''s learned from them! Professional Growth Don uses Twitter for a professional learning network.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2019

Since 2013, Jennifer Gonzales has been regularly blowing my mind with her thoughtful blend of effective classroom strategies and what’s new on the horizon that you can use in your classroom or library tomorrow. So explore the site, sign up for my weekly tips, or follow along on social media. by Jennifer Gonzales.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 9, 2016

History in Motion : Founder Paul Cashman describes his goals as: to improve the teaching, learning, and experiencing of history for everyone from grade-school students to lifelong learners. Teachers create their own online classrooms in which they can view all their students’ timelines. Classroom Rules & Procedures.

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The 21st Century Principal

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In addition, I use it for quick notes during a classroom visit, or meeting notes. link] Edmodo : Edmodo is obviously an excellent tool for the classroom. It''s social media-like environment enables interaction and facilitates class activities. Add an iPad app and an Android app, and I can use this one anywhere.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 17, 2015

Our 3rd-5th graders all have their own personal learning device assigned to them at the beginning of the year. It allows them to collaborate with students and classrooms around the world. Should I go over the list of rules from the student handbook? Students also take this device home. From the foreword: “Don’t wait.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

Not only are you trying to find resources to aid your teaching, but you're also on the lookout for resources that your students can use -- legally, technically, and socially. Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age. How do you attribute creators of CC-licensed content?

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2016

Not only are you trying to find resources to aid your teaching, but you're also on the lookout for resources that your students can use -- legally, technically, and socially. Students learn to cite sources as part of educational and academic norms from a young age. How do you attribute creators of CC-licensed content?

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we dive deep into the transformative world of project-based learning! Learn from her techniques in her language arts classroom to see how you can engage your students, encourage critical thinking, and make learning an adventure!

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

Learning Culture. Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson. Remember the days of longing for the hands on the classroom clock to move faster? Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Number one is just as great a resource as number fifty. Inspiration. Leadership. Inspiration.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Teaching and learning happen within cultural, political, and social circumstances. Each of us -- teachers and students alike -- enter classrooms from different perspectives and points of view. Louis): This article features best practices for prepping classrooms to have tough conversations about cultural and political issues.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2021

In this post, we are going to take a look back at the history of TeacherCast and learn why I not only decided to create my own blog and podcast series but how it has helped me and my family through both the highs and lows of the last 10 years. It is serving as a handbook for whatever projects I happen to be working on during any given time.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2021

In this post, we are going to take a look back at the history of TeacherCast and learn why I not only decided to create my own blog and podcast series but how it has helped me and my family through both the highs and lows of the last 10 years. To Build a Professional Learning Network. To Help Other People.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 22, 2012

It has been a part of the bedrock of teacher education courses for over half a century, and is a model just about every learning professional is aware of, and has used at some point in their teaching career. Veronica Alexander talks about how the taxonomy has been successfully used as a template for learning programmes.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Your classroom libraries, core texts, optional reading, and on-the-fly suggestions have great power in developing your students’ love of reading, leading them to new understanding, and nurturing their empathy. For your classroom libraries and your optional reading list, there should be more flexibility for challenging or more mature books.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

We used social media to send out the word. The educators who had connected through social media now had a chance to meet face-to-face and enhance the relationships that they had already started. Edcamp educators just care about the kids who show up in their classrooms every day. Image credit: Rob Rowe.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

Play is how kids learn. It’s their social time, emotional time, physical activity time, time to connect with other children, their time to be imaginative,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of the book “ Rethinking Recess.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2022

One (or more) caring adult who seeks to empower youth to learn the skills and wisdom needed to lead a productive life in the community. The pandemic has shown a spotlight on the serious limitations of systemic education, and has caused many to take the learning of their children into their own hands.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 5, 2022

One (or more) caring adult who seeks to empower youth to learn the skills and wisdom needed to lead a productive life in the community. The pandemic has shown a spotlight on the serious limitations of systemic education, and has caused many to take the learning of their children into their own hands.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

One (or more) caring adult who seeks to empower youth to learn the skills and wisdom needed to lead a productive life in the community. The pandemic has shown a spotlight on the serious limitations of systemic education, and has caused many to take the learning of their children into their own hands.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like?

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

News and politics have been reshaped by social media and 24-hours news entertainment. As a result, there's a lot of crossover between what we think of as news literacy, media literacy, and digital citizenship. Digital Citizenship Curriculum (by Common Sense Education): Free K-12 lessons on news and media literacy.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Professional journalists themselves face new practical and ethical challenges relating to anonymity, privacy and safety, as well as reliability in their attempts to verify sources of breaking news from social media and user generated content in all media formats. (The On news literacy. Not as a lesson of good vs. bad.

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User Generated Education

JULY 11, 2015

The power of the use of vision for learning is emphasized by developmental molecular biologist, John Medina, where in his publication, Brain Rules , he states: Vision Trumps All Other Senses. A well-designed visual image can yield a much more powerful and memorable learning experience than a mere verbal or textual description ( [link] ).

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