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What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today’s episode focuses on the realities of hybrid teaching. Tennille Johnston is an award-winning science teacher in Texas who is speaking out about what really happened this school year. She bravely reflects on the real struggles, challenges, and quality of education in the school year 2020-2021.

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Weava- A Powerful Research Tool for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Weava is an excellent tool that allows you to annotate websites and PDFs. Students can easily highlight sections in PDFs and websites and add notes to contextualize and enhance their learning. Using.read more.

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Microsoft: Protect Young Learners with S Mode

Teacher Tech

What is S mode? This post was inspired by a colleague who came to me the other day inquiring about how to disable her son’s computer from S mode. She was vaguely familiar with it, but needed help getting it off of the computer. It brings back many moments when people ask me “hey, what’s… Read More » Microsoft: Protect Young Learners with S Mode.

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Blurry Bitmoji? Upscale It!

Learning in Hand

Bitmoji is a way to make your own personal cartoon avatar. You need to use the Bitmoji app for Android or iOS to assemble your character. Your character can be inserted into a huge library of digital stickers. Using the app or the Chrome extension , you can save these stickers as images, specifically PNG files. Teachers are using these stickers in so many ways!

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Hypothesis - A Social Annotation Tool to Enhance Students Reading Comprehension and to Build Critical Thinking and Community in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Hypothes.is is a great tool for annotating web pages and PDFs. It is premised on the concept of social annotation allowing students to annotate content collaboratively. Collaborative annotation, as.read more.

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25 of MiddleWeb’s Best Resources for New Teachers

MiddleWeb

MiddleWeb is filled to the brim with resources and helpful ideas that new teachers will find valuable. We've selected 25 articles that might be especially useful to newbies before (and after) they greet their students at the classroom door for the first time. The post 25 of MiddleWeb’s Best Resources for New Teachers first appeared on MiddleWeb.