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Whiteboard Apps You’ll Love

Ask a Tech Teacher

Whiteboards have long been a de rigeur staple in classrooms, occupying pride-of-place at the front of the room. Despite the popularity of hi-tech Smartscreens, the simple whiteboard remains the favored method of sharing information during class time. But one change has revolutionized their use: They can now be projected from your iPad. Before introducing three amazing must-have whiteboard apps, let me note that there are dozens of options , all with varied traits and prices.

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Create Video Discussions with Threadit from Google

EdTechTeacher

Class discussions are a powerful way for students to share their understanding and perspective in a live setting. Yet there are challenges associated with class discussions that often result in some students not participating in the process. Whether they feel uncomfortable sharing their perspective face to face, or they simply need more time to process the ideas being shared before formulating a response, educators may need to consider and create opportunities for students to engage with each ot

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Focusing on #SEL and #Mindfulness with @JabuMind By @Rdene915

Teacher Tech

Guest Post by Rachelle Dene Poth With so much happening and extra burdens on our time, it is more important than ever to focus on ways to make time for self-care. Creating a new daily routine or finding an app to help ourselves to take a break, to engage in mindfulness practices, to focus on […]. The post Focusing on #SEL and #Mindfulness with @JabuMind By @Rdene915 appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Create Instructional Videos with a Progress Bar!

EdTechTeacher

Creating high quality instructional video is a skill set that will benefit all educators that are working with students to help them know and understand course content across all grade levels and content areas. There are countless web tools available to create screencasts and videos and I wanted to share one very helpful and free web tool to level up your instructional videos with a progress bar across the bottom.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Enrich Your History and Social Studies Classes with these Resources

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below are three websites we are featuring in our blog for the first time. These are platforms where teachers (and students) can access resources and teaching materials to help them with their history.

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Some universities’ response to budget woes: Making faculty teach more courses

The Hechinger Report

An English professor at Southern Connecticut State University, Cynthia Stretch is used to meeting after hours with her students, many of whom work full time while in college. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. It was at 8 one evening that a woman Stretch advises admitted she was having trouble catching up with three unfinished courses from a previous semester while taking a full load of additional classes and struggling to earn enough to pay tuition.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. Instead, a more innovative and agile approach is needed to help today’s wide range of students recover from the pandemic and achieve more equitable outcomes.

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High schoolers want a permanent virtual learning option

eSchool News

Virtual classes may have posed difficulty for many amid COVID-19, but a recent survey of 16- to 18-year-olds in the U.S. and U.K. shows that one in three students say their ideal post-pandemic learning environment includes some kind of virtual learning component. The survey, conducted by the nonprofit Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in March , gathered responses from 1,060 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. and sixth form students in England and Wales to d

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Elinor Wonders Why (PBS Kids)

SpeechTechie

The PBS Kids activities corresponding with the series Elinor Wonders Why provide a number of language targets and are another example of modern web design (i.e. not flash-based ). I also like activities with outdoor themes that you can couple with small "field trips" of your own if working in-person. These are now added to the PBS Kids task-analysis spreadsheet.

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3 things parents of neurodiverse kids should know

eSchool News

As we wrap up April’s Autism Acceptance Month, it’s been so heartening this year to see businesses and our government show solidarity and launch numerous initiatives that support neurodiverse kids. Movie theaters now have “sensory friendly showings.” The Utah Jazz took efforts to make their arena certified by KultureCity, making the stadium more accommodating for fans with sensory needs.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Do Your Students Need An Interactive Bulletin Board?

Fractus Learning

Every teacher knows how effective a bulletin board is as an educational tool. Interactive bulletin boards are decorative and help students engage in activities, games, and tasks to improve their knowledge and skills. Here is a list of the best bulletin board ideas and classroom door displays for teachers to create unique bulletin boards. Our shortlist has great ideas and variety, including bulletin boards for different grades, topics, and seasons; honestly, it was difficult to choose what to lea

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Why Dropping College Degree Requirements Can Make the Workplace More Equitable

MindShift

On a recent afternoon, Emily Knowles was testing out apps with her software development team, making sure they work properly. “This is something that I never thought would be possible,” she said. That’s in part, because the 23-year-old from Watertown, Mass., has some credits but she doesn’t have a college degree. Knowles, a quality assurance analyst, is bi-racial.

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