Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”. – Marc Riboud. Learners of all ages love taking pictures, especially with their phones. Learners can use these photos in projects, digital stories, or other learning projects to provide an authentic voice and to show the learning that is taking place all around them. You can also have learners go on photo challenges and missions instead of assigning typical homework.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

When I reflect back on what we were able to accomplish at New Milford High School, I am overtaken by a great sense of pride. We were able to transform the learning culture of a traditional school and in the process got results while becoming an example that others emulated. This was achieved during a time of tumultuous change as the education reform movement was just gaining steam.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

MSQRD is a brilliant app. Download it onto your device, turn the front-facing camera on and choose a live filter. The app places different (often quite funny) features on your face! You can take a photo or even record a video. How does it work? Watch my video tutorial on how to use the app: How can I use it in the classroom? In a recent drama lesson, which was about character development, for the warm-up activity, I asked my students to download MSQRD and choose a live filter.

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The Jose Vilson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Yesterday, I had the chance to go to EdCampBrooklyn , the first EdCamp in the borough of Robinson, Wallace, and Carter (among others). When the founder, Juli-Anne Benjamin, asked me to come through, I only asked when, not if. The trek from Harlem to Brooklyn was two trains, about an hour and a half on a Saturday morning. But the conversations and the energy were more than worth it.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

There’s at least one in every classroom–yep, I’m talking about the kid who just sits there, and doesn’t work. The one who needs constant cajoling to put pencil to paper and get started. In some cases, there’s an attitude problem and the student is disengaged from school in general, and in other cases, the student just lacks focus or self-discipline.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Here is a great educational tool we came across today as we were working on the list of social studies websites for elementary students. Reading a Map is an interactive web tool provided by.read more.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Augmented reality is making some huge inroads in the field of education. More and more teachers are incorporating this relatively new technology in their classrooms. Augmented reality is also.read more.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Learn how to add essential accessibility features to your screencasts such as Close Captioning using Techsmith Camtasia. The post Top 3 Reasons to Open Caption your School Videos by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

The post 12 Of The Best Vocabulary Apps For Middle & High School Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Are you looking to speed up your workflow? Check out this new video tutorial series featuring Gmail to provide you the best way to manage your messy inbox. The post The Ultimate Introduction to Gmail: 15 Videos that will Speed Up Your School District appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network.

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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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Teacher Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Did you know… you can drag a Bitmoji (Chrome extension) into a student Google Doc to give feedback

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Mindful living leads to effective teaching and even artistry. After a career in education, Linda Mancia has realized that obstacles can be overcome with the simple faith in what we can learn – from our students, from each other, and especially from ourselves.

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EmergingEdTech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … micro-credentials are one of several. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Ed Tech Now

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Part one of a ten-part investigation into the purpose of education, following the inquiry of the House of Commons Select Committee Continue reading →

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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MiddleWeb

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

This fall Sarah Cooper is taking her usual current events unit in a fresh direction using a favorite strategy: layering news from today and yesterday. To demonstrate, Cooper draws on everything from suffragette "campaign" quotes to a John Oliver clickbait tirade.

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Ed Tech Now

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Part one of a ten-part investigation into the purpose of education, following the inquiry of the House of Commons Select Committee Continue reading →

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

This is a great interactive game that allows players to guide three different threatened shark species to food and away from danger.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Over the past few years, I have been really focusing on the notion of “innovation in education” and what it actually means? Sometimes though, I feel that there is a lot of repetition in what I am saying, and although a different audience may not have been exposed to my thoughts, I am on a continual basis. It is easy to feel “stuck” That being said, for anyone to really understand something, we must realize that true depth of knowledge takes time.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

I still remember standing at the chalkboard in Mrs. Kopald's fourth grade class diagramming a sentence. I had no idea what I was writing or why. I drew a straight line and all these branches and just wrote stuff on them. I didn't know what I was really doing and still don't know a past participle from a gerund or direct object. I felt similarly about iambic pentameter in high school which looked like this: × / × / × / / × × / (×) To be or not to be, | that is the question These wer

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Fun, interactive way to explore math concepts confined to e-book format.

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