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News and tips on integrating the sucess skills and learning both colleges and companies desire from our students and us.
Skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, effective communication, initiative, adaptability, analyzing info., imagination and empathy/compassion.
Social and Emotional Makerspaces
- Follett offers a Social and Emotional Makerspace Bundle for grades K-3
- Merge Cube has a great free app called Moment AR wherein your students can see each emotion displayed with six live action scenes for each emotion. A great app for prompting inquiry and discussion of the various types of emotions. You can ask your students why each character or characters are acting the way they are. 4-12 grades
The #1 way to get students writing?!
Here are two great tools for creating comics:
1. Pixton - is the easiest and at the same time one of the most versatile comic platforms I have seen. They have a free trial for educators. It appears that students could have a free account always with limited variables. I am inquiring about a district purchase if we can drum up enough interest. With the idea of wanting a district license email me know what you think please.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJHg93alFaA
See Inventions in 3D with narratives!
Smithsonian - https://3d.si.edu/
Students can now create engaging Virtual Reality (VR) tours easily.
Google Earth for iPad
Ask your TSS to upload
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-earth/id293622097Students can have fun learning circuits!
Student Voice & Building Relationships with Young Adults.
Yalsa offers many tools for educators to better teach and reach young adults.
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/professionaltools
Here is just some of what they offer:
Interactions with Teens
- Creative Ways to Seek Youth Input
- Fostering Civil Discourse: A Guide for Classroom Conversations
- How Cross-Cultural Dialog Builds Critical Thinking and Empathy
- The Importance of a Whole Library Approach to Teen Services
- Let's Talk: Discussing Race, Racism and other Difficult Topics with Students (pdf)
- Relationships Matter: Strengthening Vulnerable Youth (.pdf)
- Ten Tips: Building Relationships with Youth
- Working with Vulnerable Youth (.pdf)