Educational Resources & Tech Tools 07/12/2016

• Exit Celebrating: 8 Epic Ideas for Ending the School Year | Edutopia

  • 1. Make a Top 10 List

      

    Dave Burgess suggested having kids make their Top 10 list of what they had learned during the school year.

  • 2. Host a "Celebration of Learning" Final Exam

      

    Todd Finley told me about a college professor whose students took their final exam in a room filled with food, decorations, and the promise of a celebration. In classic professorial style, he conducted an experiment. The students in the celebratory class had higher test scores on their final exam.

  • Turn taking everything down into a fun event done as close to the last day as possible. (Think slam-dunk basketball.)

• Executive Functioning Issues in Children | Working Memory Problems

  tags: executivefunctioning executive functioning learning differences

• How to Use the New Version of Padlet

  Richard Byrne offers five ideas on how to use Padlet for sharing student work and ideas.

  tags: padlet blogging student work KWL tech tools bookmarking

  • Padlet as a simple blogging platform:
    
  • Padlet Mini as a bookmarking tool:
    
  • Padlet as a KWL chart:
    
  • Padlet for group research and discussion:
    
  • Padlet as a showcase of your students’ work:
    

• Digital Formative Assessments!

  Tech tools for formative assessments and differentiation.

  tags: formative assessment polls formative_assessment formativeassessment assessment feedback differentiation

• 15 Good Tools for Quickly Gathering Feedback from Students

  tags: feedback formativeassessment assessment formative assessment polls formative_assessment chat differentiation

  • Polls, chat tools, and interactive quizzes provide good ways to hear from all of the students in a classroom. These kind of tools allow shy students to ask questions and share comments. For your more outspoken students who want to comment on everything, a feedback mechanism provides a good outlet for them too. Here's a run-down of some of the best tools for gathering feedback from students in real-time.

• Best of Education Padlets

  Ideas about here, from STEM resources to safe search sites and everything in between.

  tags: teaching resources

• Uses for Seesaw in the 1st Grade Classroom

  tags: seesaw first grade 1st grade

• SMART Exchange - USA - Search lessons by keyword

  SMART technologies lesson and game plans.

  tags: Smartboard lessons

• Recent Books I’ve Read and Recommend – Reading By Example

  Book ideas for admin prof dev.

  tags: pd professional development books

• Beyond Borders - National Geographic Society

  The overall theme of this teacher-tested unit is using maps to understand borders and their impacts in Europe. The materials will help your middle school students to use maps to think about how borders intersect physical and human geographical features, and how those intersections can lead to cooperation and/or conflict.

  tags: geography socialstudies social studies history maps world history

  • The overall theme of this teacher-tested unit is using maps to understand borders and their impacts in Europe. The materials will help your middle school students to use maps to think about how borders intersect physical and human geographical features, and how those intersections can lead to cooperation and/or conflict.

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