The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2015

Sponsored by Staples Now is the time. I start back to school. So does my son. Lots of you will soon too. How do we get totally ready? Start by making a list. But sometimes I don’t know everything that is out there. So, I headed down to my local Staples store in Albany, and my son and I did some shopping. Help Your Child Get Ready. For quite some time, I’ve had my son look at his list and shop for what he needs. I do this for several reasons: I want him to know how much things cost and.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 16, 2015

There is often a great deal of emphasis on establishing a vision when beginning the change process and rightfully so. Great leaders understand the importance of a shared vision and the need to articulate lofty goals and resulting outcomes. They are forward thinking, which turns out to be a highly admirable trait right up there with honesty as described by James M. Kouzes and Barry Posner. The authors explain that in order to effectively lead change, a shared vision has to be created. "

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Brilliant or Insane

AUGUST 16, 2015

Brilliant or Insane. Collect a Different Kind of Student Data: an excerpt from Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School In the spring of 2015, Denver elementary teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to complete this sentence in writing: “I wish my teacher knew…” The student responses were so unexpected, so moving, Schwartz shared some of them online, […]. The post How One Simple Tool Makes Teachers Crave More Student Data appeared first on Brilliant or Insane.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2015

A conversation with Avra, Beth, and Brenda Socrative ( [link] ) is a FREE student response system that can be used on any device. During this Hangout on Air, Beth Holland , Avra Robinson , and Brenda Doucette will walk through the features of Socrative 3.0 and provide some tips and tricks for using Socrative during those first few weeks of school. Blog Posts about Socrative Beyond Assessment: 3 Other Uses for Socrative – From Beth Holland.

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 16, 2015

August 13, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 7. Let's start with an assessment. A simple agree or disagree. Circle A (agree) or D (disagree). A D It is important that teachers formatively assess students in the middle of lessons 2. A D Test Prep is a valuable teaching tool. A D Feedback to students is the most important part of the assessment process. A D Assessment is an important instructional tool. A D Accountability is the most important reason for assessing student work.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

Games are challenging but they’re also fun. That’s a formula worth emulating. Ninety seven percent of kids spend an average of ten hours a week playing video games. It’s hard work, but they keep coming back. They often fail at whatever they are trying to do, but they persist until they learn the strategies, concepts, and skills to achieve their goals. Then they set new ones and come back for more. Games lend themselves easily to collaboration, and kids often compete with each other.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 16, 2015

Tweet In response to a tweet asking how to print a folder of student work in Google Drive I wrote a script that will list all the files in a folder in your Google Drive and create a PDF. The advantage to this is you can download all of the PDF’s at once to your […]. Classroom Drive Google classroom drive google

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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners

AUGUST 16, 2015

In the final week of the ThingLink Teacher Challenge we asked participants to create a lesson to Engage Students with ThingLink for Video. Participants learned to Embed a Google Form in a ThingLink Video to minimize distractions and provide students with direct access to an interactive form without leaving the video. The ability to embed interactive content right inside of a video is very powerful. Let's take a closer look at 5 interactive tools to embed in ThingLink Video.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

Rules for responsible smartphone use can vary by age and student. For many tweens heading into middle school, the transition from elementary school won’t be marked only by new teachers, class schedules and locker assignments but also by a gleaming new phone. Deciding whether a middle schooler is ready to take on mobile phone responsibility is a personal decision for each family.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 16, 2015

August and September are very expensive months for educators as we try to navigate all the back-to-school advertisements. Often we need to buy basic supplies like pencils and paper for our students. We see adorable decorations on Pinterest that we need to buy craft supplies for. We see awesome books we need to purchase, both for our classroom libraries and for our own reference.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

HMH, WGBH partner to create TV, cross-platform learning series. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and national public media producer WGBH today announced a co-production agreement for the creation of a television and cross-platform series based on the Gossie & Friends book series, published by HMH and written and illustrated by Olivier Dunrea. HMH and WGBH will partner to pursue a domestic broadcasting arrangement for the series, as well as international co-production financing.

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EmergingEdTech

AUGUST 16, 2015

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 … two pieces that discuss learning by doing, [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]. Education Technology Twitter Post Weekly Summaries

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from Graphite by Common Sense Media. Click here to read the full app review. Inventioneers. What’s It Like? Kids can either create their own inventions or build inventions to accomplish a given task. In Create mode, kids can add a user name, create their own inventions, and share them with friends.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 16, 2015

Traditionally as students come back to school, it is important to establish a positive classroom culture. Today, more and more districts are following the lead of places like New York City where schools are empowered to support students in the responsible use of cell phones and social media. That means that not only must we support the establishment of a positive classroom and school culture, but we must also ensure our students are engaging positively and responsibly as digital citizens.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

New PD program’s strengths-based culture aims to improve teacher engagement, student success. Hobsons and Gallup have announced plans to launch on-site and online professional development courses to help teachers identify their strengths and apply them in their teaching. The program will also help teachers to show students how to pinpoint and build upon their own unique talents to succeed in school.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 16, 2015

If you could design your ideal social studies curriculum for middle school, what would it look like? After surveying area high schools, Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters decide to focus on skills development. Here's their draft scope & sequence for grades 6-8. Future of History Lesson Planning Common Core grade 7 grade 8 grades 6 history curriculum history scope and sequence Jody Passanisi sequence Shara Peters skills teaching history skills using technology in history class

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 16, 2015

I just read a great post by Alice Keeler , titled “ In the Real World “, where she discusses the irony of the idea that schools need to prepare students for the “real world”, yet many of the things that happen in our schools do not necessarily mirror the current realities of the world we live in at the moment. Here is a sample of some of what she listed as the world’s current realities: In the real world, we look things up on Google.

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If your school’s SIS has limited functions, only works on campus or breaks down more than you would like, it might time to invest in a new one.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 16, 2015

Middle school science teacher and Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow Joshua Sneideman and energy education specialist Erin Twamley share seven ways that teachers and schools can involve students in climate change studies. Included: Project ideas. Articles Science studies climate change Earth Day environmental education Erin Twamley global climate change Joshua Sneideman science spaceship earth

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 16, 2015

August 16, 2015 Educational Web Tools is a section we created in this blog a year ago where we periodically feature new releases in the world of educational technology. The purpose is to keep.read more. educational web tools

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Adam Welcome

AUGUST 16, 2015

Lately I've been thinking about my daily rituals as a Principal. I typically arrive at school around 630am each morning and after dropping my briefcase, my rituals begin. First off I always find our head custodian and check-in, that morning communication is so important and they appreciate touching base! A quick walk around campus is vital. No matter what type of neighborhood your school is in, there is always a chance for some paraphernalia from the night before.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 16, 2015

August 16, 2015 Junaio is a great Augmented Reality app to add to the list of the best AR apps for teachers. Junaio enables you to easily access augmented content on images and objects and.read more. iPad augmented reality apps

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What if teachers didn’t have to lug tons of paperwork with them to and from work? Having lesson plans available anywhere is just one of the advantages.

Knowledge Avatars

AUGUST 16, 2015

Since the early days of computers, many of us dreamed of how computers were going to revolutionize education. We didn’t know exactly how it was going to work, but we knew that the “personal” computer made it possible to individualize education. In learning, one size does not fit all, so individualized education is the “holy grail” of education!

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