Think Different #100
Resources for the Week of September 22, 2019
iPad iCamp Day with Kevin Honeycutt Jan 17, 2020 at KSU, Registration open Oct. 2
HEADS UP..........IPAD ICAMP DAY this year is Jan 17th, mark your calendars. I am so excited, Kevin Honeycutt has agreed to be our presenter that day. More information coming soon, but mark your calendars and be watching for details coming in September. Registration will opens early October.
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Registration Opens Oct. 2, Space is limited
HeyWalnut shows educational videos that automatically pause to show “quiz” questions.
Find out how it wortks: https://heywalnut.com
10 quick thoughts on mobile phones in schools
- "Most people realize that mobile phones are actually mobile computers. But many schools that claim to be doing everything they can to get technology into the hands of schoolchildren then ban their students from using the computers that they bring in their pockets every day. The issue apparently is not technology, it’s control. We need to call this for what it is."
Read the full story from Dangerously!irrelevant BY SCOTT MCLEOD
Scott makes some though-provoking points, might be worth sharing with Tech department, administration and BOE.
Emojis. Cause they’re good for kids and fun to use. What’s not to like?
"One of my fave conversations form the day centered on the idea of using emojis as a way to help kids make sense of social studies and incorporating them as part of a quality lesson that can help improve student thinking and literacy skills.
And yes, I can hear you. You’re saying that integrating little graphic images used by millions of Instagram tweeners instead of more traditional tools is no way to teach historical thinking and literacy. But I’m convinced that these little graphic images have tremendous potential to help kids makes sense of evidence, increase literacy skills, and demonstrate learning."
Start wrapping your brain around some of the other possibilities, Click Here
Lessons From the Cigarette Wars: Harness Student Voices Against Vaping
Read the full story and access the lesson ideas https://www.edutopia.org/article/lessons-cigarette-wars-harness-student-voices-against-vaping
25 practical ways to use Google Forms in class, school
Everyone wants data. Schools want it to track student performance. Companies want it to learn about their customers.
We track data in our own personal lives (fitness data, banking data, even social media data).
Teachers and students have their own data gathering and tracking tool that’s free and easy to learn — Google Forms.
Google Forms lets you create a survey with lots of different kinds of questions:
- Short answer
- Long answer
- Multiple choice
- Checkboxes
- Drop-down menu
… and more. You can distribute these surveys to anyone — students, parents, even yourself — and track the data in the Google Forms app itself or in a spreadsheet.
Teachers have used Google Forms to do quizzes and assessments for a while. But that’s not the only way it can make our lives easier and better!
Check out Matt Millers 25 ideas CLICK HERE
The New York Times’ 1619 Project : A Critical Resource for Today’s Educators and Schools: FREE
On the 400th anniversary of the arrival in America of the first enslaved people from West Africa, The 1619 Project re-examines the legacy of slavery in our country and how we understand ourselves and our nation.
NEA is partnering with The New York Times to distribute this touchstone resource in our effort to foster real dialogue around issues of racial justice in education, to examine policies and practices in our school system and our communities, and to mobilize and take action for education justice.
The National Education Association is with The Times so that all educators can get a free PDF of the articles.
Just go here to sign-up to get it!
More information:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
Promoting student focus on comprehension.
Helping identify and correct errors in their own writing.
Better understanding of word meanings.
Increased reading stamina.
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