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Some Good iPad Apps for Creating Flashcards

Educators Technology

Here is a collection of some of our favourite apps for creating flashcards on iPad or iPhone. Students can use them to help with memorizing vocabulary, preparing for a test, learning a new.read more.

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21 Websites and Apps for Earth Day

Ask a Tech Teacher

April 22, 2018 is Earth Day. Celebrate it with your students by letting them visit these websites: Breathing earth– the environment. Breathing Earth YouTube Video –of CO2 use, population changes, and more. Conservation Game. Earth Day—NASA Ocean Currents. Eco-friendly house. Ecotourism Simulation–for grades 4 and above. Electrocity. Footprint calculator.

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Educators as Active Listeners

User Generated Education

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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6 Steps to Get Going with Infographics from @Eileen_Lennon

The Innovative Educator

Listen to this episode of the 10 Minute Teacher. We're more likely to read things that are visually appealing, so if you want to get your message out there, consider making an infographic. Want to know how? Check out this episode of the 10 Minute Teacher podcast where #NYCSchoolsTech educator, Eileen Lennon shares ideas with Coolcat Teacher Vicki Davis about her tips, tricks, and techniques to using infographics to communicate and share ideas.

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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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Owl Eyes

Technology Tidbits

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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How a Senior Writing Project Helped Make Coeur d’Alene a District of Choice

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In 2015, Idaho adopted an open-enrollment policy allowing families to send students to their school of choice. Despite being a Title I District, Coeur d’Alene established itself as one of the most outstanding districts in the state. School leaders credit a multi-faceted senior writing project, new curricula, and instructional technology for bringing new students to their doors.

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Group Insights Help Admins Build Community & Bring The World Closer Together

The Innovative Educator

For the past ten years I've moderated online communities in numerous platforms including Facebook, Ning, Yammer, O365 Groups and Teams, Edmodo and Google Groups. Facebook is the platform that has had the most success in retaining engaged members. If you are an innovative educator who values building community and meaningful connections among peers, it is likely you have had experience moderating groups.

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Typing Agent

Technology Tidbits

Typing Agent is an excellent web based Typing/Keyboarding for students grades K-12. Also, Typing Agent has lots of innovative features such as: multi-player games (i.e. K2 Mountain), aligned to Common Core Standards, certificates, type to code, and much more. Best of all, is the educational portal that allows parents and teachers to track/monitor student progress and generate detailed reports.

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Super Teacher Worksheets for Earth Day

Technology Tidbits

*Be Sure to check out the educational activities on Earth Day. Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator.

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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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Pixorize

Technology Tidbits

Pixorize is a nice site for US History students that I just learned about from Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog. Pixorize is an innovative that uses pictures to remember facts (i.e. similar to ThingLink). This is done by linking images together w/ facts in a comprehensive visual flow. Below is a brief demo video. I highly recommend checking out Pixorize by clicking here !!!

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Night Zookeeper Star Writing Challenge 2

Technology Tidbits

Night Zoopkeeper is an excellent new site for students to help them w/ their Writing skills through fun interactive lessons/competition. Also, it has an educational portal that allows educators to: assign lessons, track student progress, and assess their work in real-time. This makes it easy for teachers to differentiate instruction and implement project based learning in their classroom.

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Answerables

Technology Tidbits

Answerables the innovative educational tool that combines the best features of game based learning w/ a learning management system has just released their free iPad app. Answerables is being used by educators in a variety of ways from collaborating w/ other classes, to browsing the web, all in a secure 3D virtual environment. Answerables is used as a: • Virtual classroom • Lesson planner • Learning manager • Quest creator • Resource manager • Web browser (managed) • Social Network • Student port

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Studium

Technology Tidbits

Studium is a excellent iOS app for making flashcards. Studium is a great learning tool to create engaging flashcards that helps a student study by including: images, audio, drawing, and more. Best of all are the numbers of ways a user can use Studium to create quizzes to study their topic, such as: multiple choice, fill in the blank, T/F, and much much more.

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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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Math Rescue

Technology Tidbits

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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