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The Best and Worst Fonts to Use on Your Résumé - Bloomberg Business
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Why Coding Is Your Child’s Key to Unlocking the Future - WSJ
- “What’s fascinating about computer science is that it requires analytical skills, problem solving and creativity, while also being both foundational and vocational,” says Hadi Partovi, co-founder of Code.org
- Not every child who learns to write will become a novelist, nor everyone who learns algebra a mathematician, yet we treat both as foundational skills that all children should learn. Coding is the same
- Understanding that in the future no profession is untouched by machines means admitting that coding is part of the liberal arts, and therefore a core skill every child must possess.
- Everyone I interviewed observed that the best way to reach young children was to get them to create games, or to treat learning exercises as a form of play.
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10 Topics for School Blog Posts
Suggestions for themes you can use to maintain a school blog.
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A School Designed To Let Kids Be Kids
This is a TED Talk about an innovative Kindergarten in Japan.
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Gamification: Engaging Students With Narrative | Edutopia
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This idea of applying gaming mechanics to non-game situations is known as gamification.
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- What we learn from games is that adding narrative, storyline, a theme, or fun graphics to our lessons and activities can help students be more engaged.
- When I used the game Angry Birds to teach my students about x intercepts in math, not one student asked me, "Why do we need to learn this?"
- This model of creating playsheets out of worksheets can be applied digitally or non-digitally. While students are working on math problems, play video game-style music in the background.
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DIY Professional Development: Resource Roundup | Edutopia
Lots of articles in here on how to engage in PD when you don't have time for a conference.
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8 Podcasts for Learning | Edutopia
Podcasts that will grip you and your students.
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This article gives a good description of the tool Project Writer. Teachers can assign collaborative projects and also provide required vocab that must be included in the project.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/01/2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/29/2015
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CCPensieve - CAFE Conferring Pensieve
This allows you to track student progress and share the information with others.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Friday, April 24, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/25/2015
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Fun, Free Video Editing and Remixing with Popcorn Maker - #AppyHour - YouTube
@JillBergeron2 @auggie21 Here's the #appyhour video on @mozilla Popcorn Maker that I loved: https://t.co/rsXqiDVNAi #edtech
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EdTechnocation: 4 GINORMOUS Google Classroom Updates! (April 21, 2015)
Now you can add a co-teacher, work ahead and save assignments as drafts, assign grades without returning the assignment and have private comments emailed directly to students!
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16 Websites and Apps for Making Videos and Animation | graphite Blog
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/22/2015
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Supporting the Teacher Maker Movement | Edutopia
How to support teachers as makers, specifically where to begin.