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Language Arts Lesson Using a micro:book

User Generated Education

In Learning in the Making I discuss the importance of and strategies for integrating technology into the curriculum. Maker education needs to be intentional. It follows, then, that if we want to bring maker education into more formal and traditional classrooms—as well as more informal environments such as afterschool and community programs—it needs to be integrated into the curriculum using lesson plans.

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2019 NJEA Convention Wrap Up, Review, and Resources

TeacherCast

This weekend, almost 20,000 New Jersey Educators assembled in Atlantic City for the annual NJEA Convention. For the 7th year in a row, I had the opportunity to be a presenter at the NJEA Convention and share my passions for educational technology to a few hundred teachers who stopped by the TeacherCast booth. Out of all of the conferences and PD sessions that I do each year, the NJEA Convention is my absolute favorite of them all, not just because of the history I have for the NJEA, or the hist

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5 Strategies For Teaching About The Holocaust Through Inquiry

TeachThought - Learn better.

Effective teaching about the Holocaust requires asking students the right questions, and that is the beginning of any inquiry-based lesson. The post 5 Strategies For Teaching About The Holocaust Through Inquiry appeared first on TeachThought.

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2019 NJEA Convention Wrap Up, Review, and Resources

TeacherCast

This weekend, almost 20,000 New Jersey Educators assembled in Atlantic City for the annual NJEA Convention. For the 7th year in a row, I had the opportunity to be a presenter at the NJEA Convention and share my passions for educational technology to a few hundred teachers who stopped by the TeacherCast booth. Out of all of the conferences and PD sessions that I do each year, the NJEA Convention is my absolute favorite of them all, not just because of the history I have for the NJEA, or the hist

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Journaling Apps for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below are some popular journaling apps we curated specifically for teachers. You can use them to record your ideas and thoughts and capture your daily activities as you live them. You can then share.

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2019 NJEA Convention Wrap Up, Review, and Resources

TeacherCast

Welcome to the TeacherCast Educational Network. This year at the NJEA Convention, I had the opportunity to present in front of hundreds of New Jersey Educators. Check out my resources from all of my sessions today! The post 2019 NJEA Convention Wrap Up, Review, and Resources appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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#TwistedTropes 12. Dante's lukewarm inferno

Learning with 'e's

Photo by Maxim Tajer on unsplash The Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri 's 14th-century poem called the Divine Comedy. It tells the story of Dante's imaginary journey through Hell which is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth. It represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.

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‘First-Gen’ Proud: Campuses Are Celebrating An Overlooked Group. But Is That Enough?

MindShift

When Rhonda Gonzales was in college in the early ’90s, the term “first-generation” wasn’t part of her vocabulary. Sure, she was the first in her family to go to college and she did have a sense of discomfort on campus — not quite fitting in. But it wasn’t something she advertised, or even identified with, and no one else on campus seemed to care much, either.

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