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Music for Armed Forces Day 2020

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Many Americans celebrate Armed Forces Day annually on the third Saturday of May. It is a day to pay tribute to men and women who serve the United States’ armed forces. Armed Forces Day is also part of Armed Forces Week, which begins on the second Saturday of May.

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Google Docs Templates to Help Students Write Letters, Essays, Book Reports, and Resumes

Educators Technology

After sharing presentation templates, today's post features Google Docs templates that teachers and students can use for a wide variety of purposes. The purpose is to empower you with resources that.read more.

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Virtual Bitmoji Classroom Help

The Innovative Educator

Have you created your Bitmoji classroom yet? If you have not and you want to, then you're in the right place. Here you'll find an article and two videos that outline the process. I'll also share how you can check out Bitmoji classrooms on social media. And, finally, I'll share a slideshow featuring virtual Bitmoji classrooms that you can check out for inspiration, visit directly, and even copy and paste your favorite elements into your own classroom.

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Curiscope

Technology Tidbits

Curiscope is a wonderful company that makes augmented reality posters and tee's for education. These are great learning tools for the classroom that shows student's different aspects of Science through augmented reality. Below is a brief demo of an AR poster. I highly recommend checking out Curiscope by clicking here !!!

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

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Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school. If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. You chatted with colleagues on Twitter and Facebook about learning tools they loved. You collected a long list of highly-recommended resources that you can’t wait to try in your classroom. But that list could take hours to preview.

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Foster Connection and Interaction in Webinars

The Innovative Educator

Some new to conducting online webinars may feel a void in this environment. Unlike teaching face-to-face you can’t read the room the same way. It may be difficult to pick up on non-verbal cues. You can’t walk over to someone and look over their shoulder. Sometimes it just feels like you are talking to an empty room. The ideas below are designed to help fill the void, establish connections, and facilitate interactivity.

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What is Technology?-in recognition of World Telecommunications Day, Vol.6 #16

Bright and Smart

Our Posterity = Our Children. Enhancing our children's S. T. E. A. M education is imperative to their success and will help them become innovators of the future. S.T.E.A.M stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Hands-on activities helps us to cognitively and visually see how things work. By creating things with our hands, we can understand and appreciate the importance of its existence.

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169 Tech Tip #48 Quickly Switch Between Windows

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In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Today’s tip: Quickly Switch Between Windows. Category: Internet.

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We Are United In Accessibility | Celebrating GAAD, May 21, 2020

Magic EdTech

Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) The target audience of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use. While many organizations like us may be interested in the topic of making digital learning accessible and usable by persons with disabilities, the reality is that they often do not know how or where to start.

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Harnessing The Power Of Math Manipulatives

Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.

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Which Video Conferencing Platform is Right for Your School?

The Innovative Educator

Graduations, celebrations, and dances, oh my! When it comes to planning virtual events for your school, you need to select the right video conferencing platform. But how do you know which one is right for your needs? Tech educator Clay Smith and I needed to answer this question for the schools we support so we came up with a handy dandy comparison chart of video conferencing platforms.

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5 STEM Must-Haves for New STEM Teachers: Elementary Edition

STEM Supplies

There are so many places that teachers can gather information. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have made professional learning networks so accessible that teachers can connect in real-time from all over the world. I often see posts in these groups like “I’m a new teacher and don’t know where to start – please help!” or “I have a certain budget to spend on STEM but am not sure what I need”.

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17 Memorial Day Websites for Students

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Memorial Day (May 25, 2020) is the time we remember soldiers who gave their lives in the defense of American freedom. In war and peace, they made the ultimate sacrifice and because of them we are privileged to live the American Dream. Once a year, we honor them, their sacrifice, and those they left behind. Here are some activities to help students understand the import of this day: Difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

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Litehouse

Technology Tidbits

Litehouse is an innovative new site for creating stunningly beautiful digital stories. Litehouse incorporates a easy-to-use story editor that lets users add: text, audio, images, maps, are more to create a dynamic story. Once the story is created it can then she be shared, exported, or downloaded for others to view. I highly recommend checking out Litehouse by clicking here !!!

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Downloadable Design Briefs for an Integrative STEM Curriculum

These easy-to-use design briefs outline student objectives, challenges, and materials needed to complete each 30-minute to 4-hour lesson. ITEEA’s Integrative STEM curriculum, Engineering byDesign, includes many more standards driven hands-on activities just like these!

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An Innovative Vision for the Future of Schools

The Innovative Educator

Students sit behind partition boards to prevent infection. Photograph: David Chang/EPA The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance on reopening of schools will require innovative thinking to re-imagine how schools may open in the upcoming school year and beyond. The key will be agility and flexibility. That's because we've learned that we don't quite know what's ahead of us.

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3 STEM Must-Haves for New STEM Teachers: Secondary Edition

STEM Supplies

There are so many places that teachers can gather information. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have made professional learning networks so accessible that teachers can connect in real-time from all over the world. I often see posts in these groups like “I’m a new teacher and don’t know where to start – please help!” or “I have a certain budget to spend on STEM but am not sure what I need.”.

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13 Teaching Strategies to Shake up Your Remote Teaching

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As we struggle with adapting our classes to remote learning, I know lots of teachers who are realizing that their normal approach isn’t suited for remote teaching. They need to come up with a transformative tool that will reach students more comprehensively, more rigorously, more granularly online. Here are thirteen accepted pedagogical teaching strategies with proven records of success.

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Super Teacher Worksheets & I Know It for Online Learning

Technology Tidbits

Two of my favorite sites for finding educational games, actives, worksheets, and more, has just recently made their sites free for educators/students during school closures. More info from their following press release. I Know It ( iknowit.com ) is a popular math practice site for students in grades K through 5. IKI features over 500 Common Core aligned math lessons.

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Emotional Check-Ins in a Teaching Webinar

User Generated Education

I always start my classes with some form of emotional check-in regardless of age or grade level. I do so in my college classes as well as in my elementary gifted classes. I think this is even more imperative given the stress students are experiencing due to COVID19. The 10 to 15 minutes it takes is so worth the class time. Some of the benefits of emotional check-ins discussed in the Edutopia article, A Simple but Powerful Class Opening Activity , include: Students know that every voice matters:

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Circly

Technology Tidbits

*Circly's collaboration features make it an ideal tool for "remote learning" while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home. Circly is a wonderful new graphic organizers that educators can use to brainstorm, manage tasks, create collaborative group projects, Venn diagrams and more. Circly, is uses a drag-n-drop interface making it easy to use as well as lets the user change colors of circles to maximize data points.