Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 2, 2017

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.” – Helen Keller. Tis the season to be jolly! Inspire students to write, doodle, sketchnote, and exchange ideas with the holiday and winter themed prompts below. Find resources for visual, video, and augmented reality writing prompts.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

One of the legacies I want to leave with my students (of all ages) is a desire to engage in global stewardship. For more about this see my post, Empathy and Global Stewardship: The Other 21st Century Skills. As part of my gifted education classes, I am asking my 5th and 6th graders to choose, explore, research, and report via their own Google Sites on one or two of the 17 Global Goals found at The World’s Largest Lesson.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 2, 2017

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we discuss Augmented Reality with Metaverse CEO, Dmitry Shapiro. Together, we explore how Augmented Reality is being used in and out of the classrooms and learn where this amazing technology will be taking us as we head into the future. Follow our Podcast The TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network […].

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TeachThought - Learn better.

DECEMBER 2, 2017

8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions by Terry Heick Questions can be extraordinary learning tools. A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers. In education, we tend to value a student’s ability to answer our questions. But what might be […].

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2017

December 2, 2017 Google's lists of the best and most popular Android apps of the year are live now. These apps are organized into the following categories: best apps, best games, best.read more.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Students can post photos, audio, video, links, text, and and upload files to Seesaw. Interesting use of Seesaw by teacher who is facilitating: Student filled out a behavior worksheet when she was off task. Then posted a pic of it to Seesaw and did an audio reflection on it. Parents can then see what happened and discuss at home later. (Personal thought: Would this make Seesaw less appealing to the students?

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Learning With Lucie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

A recent post by Bill Ferriter resonated with me and is so worth reading, especially by those of us who work in education but are no longer in charge of our own classrooms. I started to write a comment, but then it sort of turned into enough for a blog post. so here's my thoughts on his much needed reminder from Bill that there really ARE three things that I wish every person working beyond the classroom would know (remember?

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The following post is what I wrote for my weekly newsletter/blog for our school. I thought it might work here as well. -Matt. If you are in the market for a good movie you might have never seen, check out The Straight Story. I recently rewatched this favorite film of mine. The main character is a senior citizen (Alvin Straight) who decides to travel from Iowa to Wisconsin to visit his estrang ed brother.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator? Don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for. What’s hot? Infographics! The top two posts of the week feature infographics designed by innovative educator and graphic designer Eileen Lennon. She provides a visually pleasing way to think about management in the modern classroom as well as ideas to consider when we move from banning and blocking to embracing sites that were once blocked behind the filter bubble.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. It was a nod, in part, to Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking , a book that I’ve found useful in understanding how grief clouds our thinking, how grief makes use want to believe the unbelievable, how it “ruptures the rational,” as I wrote

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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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