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Professional Learning for Busy Educators
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It's indisputable that great teachers lead to successful students, as the presidential candidates have touted, but what about students' connection to their school principals?
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"Game-based learning is all the rage in classrooms these days. With the amount of time students spend outside of school crouched in front of their Xboxes or mesmerized by glowing handheld displays, it is only natural that educators would look to captivate students with similar games in school."
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"Building vocabulary with a smartphone game? Frog dissection in science class without the mess? These are just a few ways mobile devices are changing how students grasp subjects.
With that in mind, here are six apps for middle school students from Edutopia's latest guide, Mobile Devices for Learning: What You Need to Know http://www.edutopia.org/mobile-devices-learning-resource-guide "
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"iPad is making huge inroads into education and it is believed to have revolutionized the whole concept of mobile learning. More and more schools are, if not already adopting 1:1 environments or BYOD projects , then they are at least debating a future inclusion of this mobile device in the classroom. But as a teacher and practitioner who is going to be using iPad with his/her students, you need to think about the instructional use of this tool. There are several questions you need to foment in your mind and hopefully find answers to before using iPad in your teaching. You basically need to ask yourself the following questions :"
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Canadian teacher Dale Hubert created Flat Stanley, the boy made of paper, to engage his most reluctant writers and in the process created a worldwide phenomenon.
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"For those of us who have a bunch of apps contained within iOS folders, it’s fairly easy to misplace apps that aren’t used often. To quickly find out what folder contains an app, just swipe to the right of the iOS home screen to bring up Spotlight search, then type the name of the app into Spotlight. Alongside the app name you will conveniently find the name of the folder which holds the app."
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"Halloween is a great time to get kids and teens to learn hands-on, participate in global collaboration projects, learn about other cultures and be creative. Students love the spooky stories, monsters, sounds, music, dances, treats, traditions, haunted houses, and costumes that surround Halloween. Below are tons of resources, lesson ideas, apps, games, recipes and resources for any teacher to celebrate in full force."
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"We’re not going to make anything happen unless we all agree. We need to understand what school has been and where it’s going to answer the big question of what school is for."
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"A few weeks ago I published a post titled Doing What It Takes To Support Student Learning (Part 1). In a continuation of that piece I am posting a second student reflection on a summer learning experience that our school supported for one of our students."
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A group of heads who 'met' on Twitter have formed a pressure group to get their grassroots ideas heard by policymakers...
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New research has found that homework is of little value to primary school children, and students are regularly given too much.
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Fifteen-year-old Adora Svitak knows students nowadays “live, work and play” social media.
“We’re used to the characteristics of social media: participation, connection, instant gratification,” she tells Mashable, “and when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.”
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"Looking to find a new, simple, and free way to gamify your classroom? There a new web tool out that you should probably know about. It’s called ClassBadges and it’s a free online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Teachers can set up an account and award the badges whenever they wish. Pretty straightforward."
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"Every single day we all get the opportunity to lead and push ourselves closer to the "tipping point." We lead with our colleagues right alongside our students, and we approach each day and each opportunity with a sense of opportunity and possibility..."
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The rise of technology used in classrooms has made learning much more interactive. The emergence of iPads to browser-based tools in project-based learning, take teaching to a new level in the 21st century. Even the current trends in education include the use of new technology, from collaborative projects to blending traditional textbook teaching with innovative tools."
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I happened to be doing a workshop at a local elementary school recently when I had an epiphany.
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"Do you know the web program “Secret Lives of Scientists”? If you’re someone who likes science, and especially if you’re someone who thinks you don’t like science, you should check it out. It aims to bring viewers “the human side of science” through a series of intimate, engaging, and funny videos about scientists and engineers, each of whom has a “secret”—an unexpected interest or habit or background."
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Teachers all over the world are flipping their classrooms. Instead of doing homework and projects at home, students watch lectures and videos.
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Parenting expert Annie Fox offers tips for families on how to avoid stress and arguments caused by daily homework.
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What if five years from now, we've moved (or are quickly moving) to a structure of schools that basically offloads almost all rote learning to personalized technology solutions aimed at creating enough mastery in kids to pass some type of...
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When I started playing blues songs for my first grade students, I never imagined I was introducing a fantastic launching point for thematic, standards-based teaching.
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"In last month's post, I mentioned that there are two skills that separate great teachers from good ones. I explained that the first skill is the ability to reframe student behavior, to see it in new ways. Today I want to discuss the second skill: knowing how to treat students fairly by not treating them the same. Allen Mendler and I introduced the idea that fair isn't equal to the education community in 1988 in the first edition of Discipline With Dignity (an updated, more comprehensive explanation with examples is provided in the current edition). Since then, nearly all of the educators who have used our model have seen remarkable results when resolving a wide range of behavior issues. In short, treating students in a fair -- but not equal -- way works."
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Study finds texting amongst teens and pre-teens in the UK has almost doubled since 2011. Twelve to fifteen year old girls tweet more than any other age group.
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