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Prodigy: Virtual world of math

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Use Prodigy as a math center and in the course of a week, make sure that all of your students have the opportunity to filter through to practice the skills they have learned that week. If you don’t have the luxury of a 1:1 environment, but you do have classroom computers, your kids can still benefit from Prodigy.

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Apple joining Hour of Code and offering free workshops! #edtech

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They’ve created a collection of helpful apps, books, podcasts, and iTunes U courses that will get your students coding in no time! Apple is also offering free resources for learning to code that you can get started with today. You (the teacher) don’t have to be an expert at coding to introduce your students to it.

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Be Internet Awesome: Tools to teach online safety

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Under the Resource link, you’ll also find a lesson poster, certificates and badges, a Google for Education Teacher Training Course, the ability to share Interland directly to Google Classroom, great resources for parents, and an Internaut Papercraft Activity.

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Mathigon: engage, play, and explore math

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They can begin from several places: exploring the applications of math in every day life, the link between math and origami, Eureka Magazine (published by Cambridge University), through problems and puzzles, through fractal fiction, or through courses for grades 6-college.

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How We Got to Now: a student created mini museum

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All of this was done over the course of a few months as the kids continued on their inquiry journey of How We Express Ourselves, and How the World Works. Some of the kids also created videos that were included on their website. (If If you are interested in seeing these websites, all are linked here.) Then came the full moon.

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StackUp: track self-directed learning online

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Of course, if students are spending 90% of their time on gaming sites that tells a story, too. It was also valuable information to consider for the credit recovery course platform. So often our time spent on devices can appear to be frivolous to those who don’t know what is happening while we are online.

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Swift Playground: Apple’s free app that teaches kids to code!

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If you are new to the concept of code, check out this crash course from Apple. This isn’t a skill that only a few should possess. Even the youngest students can use Swift Playground, I’m talking kindergarten can use this app!

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