Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 1, 2017

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” – Rita Dove. April is National Poetry month. Poetry is a great way to inspire your learners to be creative and imaginative with a topic. Writing poetry can be difficult for students, but the engaging apps below will help your students create and learn with poems. For more ideas and activities, see the slide presentation, Learning with Poetry , and the bookmarks below for more ideas and resources.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 1, 2017

Edcamps are organic, participant-driven professional learning experiences for educators across the country and worldwide! I recently attended one in Bangkok. It was an excellent experience and I gained a lot of knowledge, ideas and resources from fellow educators. I would say the key difference between an Edcamp and a typical educational conference is that they are unstructured and the sessions are based on sharing expertise.

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My Paperless Classroom

APRIL 1, 2017

Have you ever thought about bringing the Scratch programming language into your classroom? In this episode, we show you how easy it can be to introduce STEM education into your curriculum. The post A Teachers Crash Course in Coding and Programming using @Scratch by @SamPatue appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network. Have you ever thought about bringing the Scratch programming language into your classroom?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 1, 2017

April 1, 2017 Here are some great resources where you can access and share educational video content. These are websites and YouTube channels that provide mind-illuminating content covering a.read more.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

If you’re reading this, it means you made it through last year’s zombie apocalypse. We salute you on this fine April 1, a day dedicated to celebrating pranks, hijinks and jokes. But we here at EdSurge are keeping things serious, bringing you today’s most pressing edtech news in our fifth annual EdSurde Report. An app that might actually work, a ball-pit classroom, and a wearable “information absorber.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 1, 2017

April 1, 2017 The New and Notable collection in iTunes App Store features a number of interesting educational iPad apps to use in your instruction. We went through the list and curated for you the.read more.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2017

The post ‘With-It’ Teacher Pranks Students With Spelling Quiz appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 1, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss! What’s hot this week? Teen brains - it's not what you think, fake news, and using media to increase family engagement. Making its way to the top for the first time is a post about the teen brain and some myths that should be reconsidered.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2017

Summer vacation means school is out, the sun is shining, and kids have a lot of extra time on their hands! It’s an ideal time for them to get outside and play with friends while getting fresh […].

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

If education researchers hope to see more of their findings influence everyday learning and instruction—and they desperately do—then their best bet may be to encourage education technologists to hone their design research skills. Researchers frequently lament how little of even the most robust and replicable educational research permeates actual teaching and studying.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 1, 2017

April 1, 2017 A few days ago, we shared with you this handy infographic featuring 12 important tips to help you refine your Google searches and get precise search results. Today, we are introducing.read more.

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