Blended learning and teacher empowerment
Getting educators to a place of power with a powerful method When I think about educational technology, it has never
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Student motivation in claims, evidence and audience
What makes an argument worth making? Recently, I was working with a colleague about getting students more jazzed to dive deep
Read moreDigital Display: add Credly badges to Google Sites
100 years of Girl Scouts can’t be wrong Digital badges have potential to serve as both markers of achievement and
Read moreStoring digital badges for portfolios
What are some mechanisms for keeping track of digital credentials? As we work with schools who are piloting digital badge
Read moreEncouraging Conversations with EdPuzzle
Make active video viewing a social activity Edpuzzle opens up the possibility for both students and teachers to encourage a
Read moreActive video viewing
Encourage critical thinking & discussion with note-taking I have been excited lately with the potential of using VideoNot.es in blended classrooms
Read moreReflecting in the math classroom
Keeping your resolution to reflect My colleague, Meredith Swallow, recently shared a post about the importance of reflection in her
Read moreMultiple learning pathways with MOOCs
What does change really look like? I’ve been on the search for examples of teachers creating multiple learning pathways in
Read moreCommon sense advice for tween social media use
Apparently, asking friends to follow HennesseyGirlsMom on Instagram would be social suicide. My 12-year-old twins are counting the days
Read moreiBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School
Be your own Hero Using the free iOS Shadow Puppet app, I created this brief look at an amazing unit
Read moreToo much good stuff: a wealth of reading and curation resources for the classroom
The technology cannot thwart us, it can only make us stronger As many of you are aware, I was out
Read moreHow to add footnotes to Google Docs on your iPad
Cite your sources as you write I was working with a teacher the other day who expressed some frustration around
Read moreDifferentiated social reading with Subtext
Make the most of Subtext’s capacity for differentiated reading A-reading we will go, A-reading we will go, hey ho the dairy-o, a
Read moreHow to use EdPuzzle for differentiation
New cool tool for flipped classrooms and personalized learning Check out this great resource for differentiation and the flipped classroom:
Read moreInteract with reading on the Chromebook
Chrome extensions for immersive online reading
Read moreCreate community in your classroom with ShadowPuppet
Free app for students to make quick and easy back-to-school slideshows
Read moreTesting unbound
Turn formative testing into a learning opportunity Wonder what words, when using free association, are conjured from folks when they
Read moreSimplifying the search for information
A teacher with whom I work asked his 7th grade students recently for feedback: “We did this in order to
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