The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 3, 2020

Painful Pauses Can Change Your Life From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Jeff Goins tells a story about Walt Disney in his book The Art of Work that I don’t recall hearing before. It reminds me of some painful pauses many creatives have had throughout history. The story goes something like this. Walt Disney’s Nail Walt Disney grew up in a home that struggled to pay the bills.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 3, 2020

ClipSafari is a free online resource for clip art. It has thousands of images, free to use at any time. Most people don't realize that you can't just use any image you find on the internet without crediting it or paying for it. This site makes it easy to find free images. ClipSafari continues the mission of the Open Clipart Project. Open Clipart was an incredible resource for the community until it went offline.

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Teacher Tech

JANUARY 3, 2020

Hide Sections in Table of Contents One of the features you can insert onto a page in your Google Site is a table of contents. This automatically creates a list of the sections on the page. However, not all your sections are relevant to the page navigation. Google Sites Google Sites is a website building […]. The post Google Sites: Hide Section Navigation appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2020

In this week's Books for Teachers series, we are sharing with you this collection of some of the most popular books for librarians. These works cover some state of the art topics in library.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2020

Demographics. Springdale School District serves more than 23,000 students across 31 schools. Southwest Junior High School serves 640 students in both 8th and 9th grades. Biggest Challenge. We are a high poverty school (over 70 percent), and many of our students have been exposed to significant trauma. Because we didn’t have tools to navigate the behaviors and emotions that can result from trauma, such as aggression and defiance, students and teachers alike were left feeling overwhelmed.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2020

Upon the requests of some of our readers here in EdTech and mLearning, we went ahead and curated for you the collection below. This is a list comprising some of the best social studies apps to.

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techlearning

JANUARY 3, 2020

Algo Bot is a game where players solve basic puzzles through arranging sequences of commands.

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ExcelinEd

JANUARY 3, 2020

Changing policy, changes lives. This is why Excel in Ed advances a broad range of student-centered policy solutions that are increasing student learning, advancing equity and readying graduates for college and career. Visit ExcelinEd.org to learn how we can support leaders in your state to transform education for all children in 2020. What Others Are Saying.

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techlearning

JANUARY 3, 2020

Before students embark on any digital project, you need to find the right tools.

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Prodigy

JANUARY 3, 2020

Prodigy works as a powerful platform for teachers to manage their math classes efficiently and effectively. If you haven’t been introduced to Prodigy before, check out – [link] With hundreds of students and multiple grades to manage, it becomes challenging for teachers to carry out everyday tasks like assigning homework, evaluation and corrections, class tests, […].

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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techlearning

JANUARY 3, 2020

Jeremiah Okal-Frink and Adam Garry speak out on classroom technology

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2020

A few years ago, students in Alameda Unified School District in California still mostly used desktop computers. Wires ran all over classrooms, connecting desktops and projectors that sat in the center of instructional spaces, and wireless connections were spotty at best. . It wasn’t that Alameda officials didn’t understand the importance of modern IT for student learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2020

I’m going to confess, I did not bring podcasts into my English classroom with any intention of improving my students’ literacy skills. The idea came from a more selfish place: My wife and I were enthralled by the first few episodes of Serial , and I wanted to share our excitement for the amazing story with my students. Like almost everybody, they were hooked by the pilot episode and begged me for more.

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