Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 6, 2019

If your goal for a lesson, unit, or other instructional activity is to have students drive more of their own learning, consider these 9 questions from Section C of the 4 Shifts Protocol. If you like your answers, awesome! Keep doing that! If you’re not where you want to be yet, pick a couple of questions and select your desired answers instead (e.g., Students instead of Teachers or Both ).

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2019

When I started out as a high school teacher in the early 2000s, I was using a lot of technology designed for connection. It was the advent of SmartBoards and podcasts, voicethreads and vlogging. Yet even in the midst of all the excitement, I didn’t feel completely connected with my students. It was only when I coupled tech with meaning—with my own pedagogical practices of mindfulness, attention and presence—that the social-emotional skills and the academic learning began to take off.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 6, 2019

One would think that education and SMS messaging have no business with each other. In fact, many educational institutes outright ban cellphone use during class. Board members well as professors.read more.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 6, 2019

Dinosaurs may be extinct, but children’s fascination and obsession with dinosaurs are still going strong. Most parents may fondly remember their own crazy obsession with dinosaurs. Dinosaur toys have been around for many generations of young imaginations and […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 6, 2019

Here is an updated list of our popular list of creativity apps. These are useful iPad apps students can use to unleash their creative thinking and engage in hand-son learning activities.

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Reading By Example

JULY 6, 2019

In Chapter 5, “Practicing Deep Listening” Shane starts off sharing a very vulnerable story with us by recounting an occurrence where she “failed” to listen. This relatable account helps us understand that while our intentions may be pure, we can learn to be better listeners through intentional thoughts and practices. Building relational capital, or the practice of listening and conveying authentic care and curiosity towards others, should be a goal for all educators, regardless of your current

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Science teacher Melissa Lau guided her sixth graders at Piedmont Intermediate School through a lesson on the relationship between carbon emissions and extreme weather. Photo: Nick Oxford for The Hechinger Report. PIEDMONT, Okla. — “Weather is chaotic,” said Melissa Lau, a sixth grade teacher in this bedroom community outside of Oklahoma City. “What does that mean to you?”.

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Tech Helpful

JULY 6, 2019

Global Collaborator: Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally. (ISTE Student Standard #7) This standard is my hill to die on. If a student graduates from our school and doesn't know how to collaborate well with the world, then we have failed to equip that student for their future.

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