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Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry

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I–like many teachers–do a lot of prep for my teaching, often requiring digital desktop publishing platforms. Then I got an email from the folks at Creative Fabrica. With Creative Fabrica–I was sold faster. How had I never seen this amazing website? You can search by keyword, category, or filter options.

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Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

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“Eighty-seven percent of teachers and 77% of parents agree teaching that inspires creativity has a bigger payoff for students” This according to Gallup research (To read more of the report, click here ). They also need to understand how to be social, how to create connections, and how to develop their creativity.

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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? Assess Creativity Ok, so how do you grade these creative assignments?

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21st Century Lesson Plan Updated

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When I first wrote this article seven years ago, remote teaching was something done on snow days, teaching from home short-changed student learning, and parents were too busy to get involved in their child’s education. Digital and media literacy: Teaching how to evaluate information and navigate the digital landscape responsibly.

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7 President’s Day Activities

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Games and online activities From Primary Games , popular home of a wide variety of edutainment for kids, this link includes a President’s Day Wordsearch, games, coloring pages, worksheets, jokes, stationary, and mobile games. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Using a Student-Centered Approach to Promote Computational Thinking

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One program has set out to teach computational thinking (CT) and coding skills in a problem-centered approach, fostering a student-driven learning design. In the process, students develop persistence and creativity while teachers connect their learning with professional standards aligned with ISTE micro-credentials.

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Education for a sustainable and innovative future through STEM Teaching

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Children like to learn, they like to explore, they are very creative, they even find interesting answers to questions that we adults have not even asked yet. CC-BY provided by the author Twenty creative and enthusiastic teachers from five countries – Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Greece and Spain – participated in the project.