User Generated Education

APRIL 14, 2018

I have a few sayings I often use in my teacher education courses and PD workshops for teachers related to active listening. They include: If the teacher is doing more talking than the students, then this is a problem. One of the biggest gifts we, as educators, can give to our learners is to be truly present for them; to deeply listen to what they have to say.

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Education Strategy Elementary Course 250

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 14, 2018

If you are like us and love reading online you probably feel, from time to time, frustrated with the amount of distraction that accompany online reading materials (e.g., annoying ads, pop-ups, videos.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2018

Wind is becoming one of the biggest job producers in west Texas, where the oil industry has lagged. Photo: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report. This story is part of Map to the Middle Class, a Hechinger Report series exploring the good middle-class jobs of the future and how schools are preparing young people for them. BRUNI, Texas — The town of Bruni in southwest Texas is just a speck on the map in an area surrounded by miles of mesquite trees, cows and not much else.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 14, 2018

With the proliferation of web technologies and mobile apps, the concept of a paperless digital classroom becomes more relevant than any time before. At the core of this concept is the integration of.read more.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 14, 2018

Owl Eyes is an innovative site that lets teachers create "classrooms" where their students can read and interact w/ texts. Student's are able to select through a wide variety of literature and then annotate the text. This is helpful as they can take notes and pickup right where they left off when reading. Best of all, the teacher tools allows educators to create quizzes to assess how students are doing and they can even track/manage their student accounts.

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Differentiated Instruction Assessment Tools Classroom 29

Technology Tidbits

APRIL 14, 2018

Math Rescue is a fun iOS game for grades 3rd-5th learning the concepts of Rounding/Estimation. This is done by running around a forest and putting out fires to save the trees and bridge while rounding to the nearest number. More info here. Skills covered • Rounding to nearest 10 • Rounding up, rounding down • Rounding 2 digit numbers to nearest 10 • Rounding 3 digit numbers to nearest 10 • Rounding numbers with 5 in the units place • Rounding to nearest 100 • Rounding up, rounding down • Roundin

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Game-Based Learning Learning Education 28