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The Many Faces of Student Voice

A Principal's Reflections

There are many ways to both engage and empower students that lead to ownership of learning. Creating what I call a “free-range” experience that replicates real-world contexts and develops critical competencies while tapping into passions might be the holy grail, in my humble opinion. While there is a slew of strategies a teacher can use to accomplish this, a focus on high-agency elements is both powerful and realistic.

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5 Steps to Fact Checking – Digital Literacy in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. As we teach students how to discern the truth, Amanda Brace has five steps for fact-checking that she teaches her students. Digital literacy is an essential topic for all of us and this show will help teachers (and parents) understand a simple way to help their students work through topics to get to the truth.

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Try Formative – It’s Free

Teacher Tech

Formative assessment forms what we do next! It is not something we put in the gradebook but rather a use of data to reflect on if our teaching is effective and to make adjustments. I am very passionate about formative assessment. One digital tool that you can use for formative assessment is Formative. Types of… Read More » Try Formative – It’s Free.

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Two Helpful Tools Students Can Use to Draw on Live Web Pages

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In yesterday's post we talked about the educational power of social annotation and explained how it helps students develop critical thinking skills and build community in class. Today's tools are.read more.

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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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Learn How to Outfit Your Classroom with Dynamic Auto-tracking Cameras to Support Students in All Locations

TeacherCast

Let's face it, this past school year was one of many challenges. But out of those challenges comes innovation and each teacher, in their own way, had to be innovative each day to meet the needs of their students both home and away. No matter if you were teaching in a fully virtual or hybrid classroom, one of the things that we all had in common was the need to successfully instruct our students using video equipment.

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Scanner Lens App- Scan, Sign Documents Electronically and Extract Text from PDFs and Images

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Scanner Lens Pro is a good scanning app that is on sale today. It is free and only for a limited period of time. Besides HD quality scan, Scanner Pro offers text-recognition functionilites (i.e.,read more.

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The End of a Long Year – the Promise of Summer

MiddleWeb

With eighth grade graduation over, history teacher Lauren Brown will devote her summer break to real self care, concentrating on rejuvenation and resisting the temptation to glance back at the pandemic year or look ahead to anticipated challenges. Finally, it’s time to relax. The post The End of a Long Year – the Promise of Summer first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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“Boundaries” have become the newest buzzword. Here’s how to actually create them as a teacher.

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Taylor Funk. . Have you found yourself tired lately, teacher? Yes, need-a-nap tired, but also tired in your muscles and your bones and your mind? You’ve been working hard, sure. Long days on your feet, lots of time staring at a screen, but it’s more than that. You’ve been making innumerable decisions every minute of every day, and you’ve been thinking often about your students (maybe a few in particular) and your classroom, and you’ve been wor

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

SEWARD, Alaska — It’s always difficult for Selma Casagranda’s friends to come to her birthday parties. This story also appeared in Peninsula Clarion. The recent Seward High School graduate was born in September, prime flooding season in her hometown of Seward, Alaska, on the Kenai Peninsula, which juts into the Gulf of Alaska south of Anchorage. Home to around 3,000 people, Seward sits between Resurrection Bay and the Kenai Mountains.

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