Here, we offer just a few tech-focused ways to help students learn grammar,and, most importantly, why good writing is so important to their futures.
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Today’s infographic is actually really interesting, it gives you 10 facts about your most favorite snacks. Who would have known that Pringles aren’t potato chips?! Mind. Blown. 
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This 1982 Atari catalog(ue) comes from the peak of the game system’s fame. But notice the contrast between the lush illustrations and the reality of the primitive on-screen graphics of the time.
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Here are seven good resources that you can use in geography lessons this week or any week.
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Popular slideshow and presentation tool, Prezi, has just taken the wrapper off of a substantial redesign of their website. It makes it easier to understand what Prezi actually does and how it can help teachers out around the world. Long story short, the new site is easier to navigate, easier to understand, and just plain easier.
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Time to discover which nations rank among the most educated in the world. This infogrtaphic from thebestcolleges.org makes it easy to see the order of our globe's educational hierarchy.
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Among the mind mappers community tools like MindMeister, Mindomo, Mind42 or Wisemapping are well known. They allow you to create interactive visual maps that you can publish in a blog or a website. But what about hand drawn visual maps? Thanks to Thinglink, you can upload an image and make it interactive, embedding media from Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitter and more.
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With hurricane Sandy comes the talk about hurricanes and there is no better opportunity to teach your students about hurricanes than now.Kids are hearing alot about hurricanes these days, on TV, on radio and almost everywhere. Now that they are already familiar with the concept , you can just devote an hour or so to this topic and provide them with the links below and they will be able to learn more about the nature of these hurricanes, how they are formed , what damage they cause, names of popular hurricanes , to mention but a few.
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In a traditional classroom, the teacher is the center of attention, the owner of knowledge and information. Teachers often ask questions of their students to gauge comprehension, but it’s a passive model that relies on students to absorb information they need to reproduce on tests. What would happen if the roles were flipped and students asked the questions?
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Project-Based Learning provides guidance in developing critical challenge questions and organizing your project work.
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Oh food trucks, since when did you start popping up on every corner of every town across North America?
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From quill and ink, to slate and chalk, to pencil and paper, to typewriter, to computer, to iPad…. each evolution of technology has allowed students to make their thinking visual, articulate their ideas, demonstrate their understanding of concepts and skills, collaborate with their peers, and communicate in complex and modern ways.
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the sculptural work is comprised of 1,200 something objects, such as incandescent light bulbs, tennis balls and hard hats, which the artist has collected and placed in a taxonomic arrangement invoking the ever-present tension between nature and our...
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To substantiate this omnipresence of Google as a quality service provider in the field of education, we are introducing you to his massive library of lesson plans. Be it you want to plan some high-tech lessons, or you just want to have a look at how other teachers are leveraging technology in their lessons, Google Library for Lesson Plans is definitely a resource you don't want to miss. It includes thousands of lesson plans that are organized into different categories. All these lesson plans are searchable and all are opened in Google docs.
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Did you know there are more than 1.4 billion students on Earth? What about the fact that there are 56 million teachers in pre-k to high school worldwide? That and a few other useful statistics are all part of a new infographic you should check out. It presents a broad look at the current state of students and teachers in classrooms around the world.
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Bringing classical music to students is not always easy. Except when you incorporate the hottest pop artists into it. Then students and kids around the world will be more than happy to listen. At least that’s the idea behind Collective Cadenza (CDZA), a group that invents “musical video experiments” that mashup today’s hits with the classics of, well, classical music. That’s the idea behind most of the videos. Others are just plain fun to listen to and watch.
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Many of us will be moving our clocks back by one hour before we go to bed this evening. We'll get an "extra" hour of sleep because of the change. Unfortunately, sunset will also be coming earlier as a result of the clock change too. Here are three videos that explain why we change our clocks.
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Author Will Richardson suggests three ways to rethink teaching and learning at a time when technology has "upended the basic premise of school."
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If you would like to make your own game for your SMART Board, check out the PBS Kids Lucky Star Game Show template. The template contains 150 questions that can be used to create games. One of the activities that you can develop using the template is a "game show" featuring your students' favorite Cyberchase characters.
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Wow! This year is the 60th Anniversary of the Bar Code
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This collection of links, chosen and maintained by Gutman Library Research Services staff, provides links to freely available sites of interest to educators. Click on a topic to view links to related websites.
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Last week Richard ran two workshops on video creation in the classroom. A part of that workshop was a discussion of Curriculum standards that can be addressed through video creation projects.He has pulled out some of the standards that a video creation project can address. The standards all came from the Language Arts standards.
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A step-by-step instructions on how to portion, defrost, prep, and roast your turkey. The only thing that’s left is carving up the bird...for which, the New York Times offers a great video demonstration: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2007/11/20/dining/1194817096866/the-butcher-carves-a-turkey.html Bon appetit!
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SilkSlides is a web-based platform that offers an alternative to Slideshare by providing an ad-free, clean interface, an easy and straightforward way to upload any PPT or PDF file, and a dedicated URL cum discussion space where your readers or colleagues can contribute and comment your work. Slides can be viewed in full-screen mode and presentations can be downloaded - if allowed - by readers.
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