Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/12/2014

• Do-It-Yourself Virtual Professional Development: Taking Ownership of Your Learning | Edutopia
  Suggestions for how to create a Personal Learning Network and thereby give yourself a constant stream of PD.
  tags: professional development pd pln edutopia new teacher

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/09/2014

• Flipgrid.
  This tech tool allows teachers to write out questions for students to respond to with videos. This would be a great resource in a foreign language classroom.
  tags: flipgrid web2.0 flip video differentiation

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/08/2014

• The iLab Network | Office of STEM Education Partnerships
  Northwestern will help you complete experiments that you can't do at your own school.
  tags: STEM ilab

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/03/2014

• Teaching Students to Embrace Mistakes | Edutopia
  • Ten thousand is the number of hours it takes to become an expert in almost any field.
  • the most important part of that research is not how much practice someone needs to perform, but what kind of practice
  • This latter category is called deliberate practice and involves isolating what's not working and mastering the difficult area before moving on.  
  • Picture a classical violinist rehearsing. He or she would not play a new piece start-to-finish, fudging through tricky sections and trying to "be done." That musician stops in trouble spots, figures them out, and then plays that measure over and over again, and only moves on when it's perfect.
  • students don't think about their mistakes rationally -- they think about them emotionally.
  • Academic success does not come from how smart or motivated students are. It comes from how they feel about their mistakes. 
  • By the time students walk into your classroom, they've likely already internalized their mistakes as evidence that they're just not smart.
• SmartBlogs
  This site showcases new blogs each month based on their content.
  tags: blog pd

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Digital Citizenship as Understood by Sixth Graders

This year Chandler's middle school launched a digital citizenship class to support our students in their online decisions.  For this class, we tasked sixth grade students with crafting a piece of digital media about a digital citizenship theme to share with their parents.  Below are a few public service announcements made by the students along with a website created by three boys.  Enjoy!

Online Privacy
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Digital Footprint/Tatto





Social Media




Communication



Cyberbullying