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On a recent Saturday at Einstein’s Workshop, a maker space outside Boston, boisterous kids were busy with Legos, mini motors and gears, magnetic tiles, pipe cleaners, posterboard, markers and tape. In a side room, about a dozen elementary and middle school students were learning computer-aided design (CAD) for 3D printers. Their instructors shut the door, …
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Twitter chat moderator is more easily done using this Google Sheets moderator template. The Q1 and hashtags are automatically added to the tweets.
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Modern vlog-style adaptations of classic novels may offer a new way to connect students with literature.
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The Classics Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte. The Onlin...
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After participating in an exciting webinar on Libraries, Technology, and Implementing Common Core provided by AASL, I began to think about how the role of the school-based media specialist is evolvin
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Use ThingLink to instantly add video and text to images. Create unforgettable greetings, interactive travel photos, and capture best moments. Share images to your friends on Twitter or Facebook — and communicate in new ways. Via Nik Peachey
Jennifer Cirino's insight:
Thinglink is a cool tool that lets you embed text, videos, links, etc. into images that are visible when you hover over the digital file. Has some really cool educational integration possibilities (for use by either teachers or students). Exciting to see they've released an iOS app!
Tom Walton's comment,
June 24, 2013 11:20 AM
Like it a lot, but am worried that there's a lack of privacy, if we're talking about young learners.
Dan Ferreira's curator insight,
June 29, 2013 6:56 PM
I think it's great way to teach Ss the general-specific structure in writing, for example. 
John Rudkin's curator insight,
July 11, 2013 4:32 AM
Mighty useful App for all sorts of Educ exploration - and tourism.
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The Rise of EdTech The Next Web Everywhere from Facebook and Twitter to blogs and forums, where hashtags like #edtech and #edchat have a firmly established following, rich communities of educators looking for innovative ways to remain relevant can...
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Michael Yarbrough provides us with some useful tips regarding copyright basics, valuable information for any student or teacher of the modern digital age.
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Tot-oriented robots and resources give coding lessons a friendly face.
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Librarians may be a teacher's best resource when it comes to implementing inquiry-based teaching strategies.
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HOW TO RAISE A BOOKWORM: Make reading fun, and read aloud to your child early and often. The advice may sound obvious, but Scholastic's latest "Kids & Family Reading Report" offers a trove of graphs and data reinforcing the importance of parenting. According to the survey of 2,558 parents and
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Coding is the new literacy. With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn to program their own interactive stories and games.
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Source Image credit: Thinkstock Increasingly, educators are acknowledging and welcoming the relative advantages of social media into the teaching and learning process. From creating school Facebook...
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Author-educators Marc Prensky and Will Richardson opened up this weekend's conference with some big ideas on how technology is changing learning and the many ways schools need to adapt and catch up.
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Highlights from the opening keynote address by Marc Prensky and Will Richardson from the "Engaging 21st Century Minds" conference. Discussing how technology is changing learning and how schools need to adapt.
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One of the greatest conflicts between new and old literacies is many educators’ continuing belief that students’ analytical skills are not properly developed through the use of new media. There is some justification for this: Many student-created new media works are simplistic mishmashes of audio and video clips with no thesis or rationale. New media is used more as a toy than as an educational tool. It is no wonder that many teachers, uncomfortable with new media to begin with, see it as harming student literacy. Via Elizabeth E Charles
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