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Jim Lerman
from Cultivating Creativity
January 25, 2018 8:59 AM
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Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about WordWhile: Casual Literary Fun. Download WordWhile: Casual Literary Fun and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
January 24, 2018 4:43 PM
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People of all ages want to write stories. Heads bubble over with words that need to get out and be shared. As a teenager, these can provide a great way of letting off creative energy, but how do you go about actually writing and, hopefully, publishing these words into a book?
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Jim Lerman
from Cultivating Creativity
January 17, 2018 11:02 PM
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"The fourth year of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation Teacher Innovator Awards has launched! The Henry Ford and Litton Entertainment are looking for teachers who demonstrate the habits of an innovator. Teachers who inspire their students to challenge the rules and take risks, who demonstrate how to be collaborative and empathetic, and teach the value of staying curious and learning from failure. Nominations are due February 28."
Via MIND Research Institute, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
January 17, 2018 10:43 PM
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Old-timey pirates are typically portrayed as stupid, unrefined thugs whose only interests involved plundering captured ships and forcing enemies to walk the plank. The recent discovery of legible text on paper pulled from the cannon of Blackbeard’s flagship paints a strikingly different picture of these misunderstood sailors.
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Jim Lerman
January 17, 2018 10:42 PM
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A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time by Terry Heick Writing is difficult to teach, if for no other reason than it is also difficult to do. Put simply, writing is the documentation of thinking. Because it’s been done in so many different format for so many different reasons for so many years, […]
The post A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time appeared first on TeachThought.
Scholastic's Character Scrapbook is an online activity that could help your students analyze the characters in the books that the
Via O'Connor Barb
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Jim Lerman
January 12, 2018 4:46 PM
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Via The Scout Report "For teachers of adult English Language Learners (ELLs), the J. Paul Getty Museum offers this collection of lesson plans designed to teach English vocabulary and language skills through art. These lesson plans were originally part of a workshop series at the Getty. Instructors can browse these lesson plans by level: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Each lesson centers on an item (or a number of items) on display at the Getty. For example, the beginning lesson, "Work", allows students to examine Lewis Hine's photograph Empire State Building and Louis-Leopold Boilly's Three Young Artists in a Studio and write sentences based on these works. In the series of advanced lessons, students look at a variety of portraits and write an imagined interview with the subject of one of these portraits. Each lesson is accompanied by student handouts and digital images of featured artwork. While these are designed specifically for adult English Language Learners, many of these lessons could also be used in K-12 art or language arts classrooms."
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Jim Lerman
January 12, 2018 12:13 PM
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via the Scout Report "The Smithsonian Science Education Center offers this collection of nine interactive online games for elementary and middle school students. These games are designed to engage young learners with a range of topics relating to life, earth, space, and physical science. For example, in the Weather Lab, students are prompted to make weather forecasts based on information about ocean currents and air masses. When students make accurate predictions, they will view an animation of the predicted weather event. In Aquation: the Freshwater Access Game, students must figure out how to provide freshwater access to communities around the world. Some of these games require certain plugins, which are noted in each game description. All games are also available as a download in the App Store or Google Play. Each game is accompanied by a short description and labeled by subject and grade level."
Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
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Jim Lerman
January 12, 2018 8:55 AM
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6+1 Trait Writing Lesson Plans on Organization. How many times have you reviewed beginning of the year essays and felt frustration and rising panic as you see page after page of scribbled words with no paragraphs, no titles, and only the most rudimentary sense of sentence structure? Where do you begin? Unschooled student writing can be overwhelming and daunting to the most experienced teacher. However, if you understand the 6+1 Traits TM system, you will know what to do and how to go about it.
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Jim Lerman
from Cultivating Creativity
January 12, 2018 8:36 AM
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Fake Text Message is a tool to create a Fake Text Conversation and a Fake iMessage.
Via Nik Peachey, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
from Cultivating Creativity
January 8, 2018 9:56 AM
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The mere act of daily writing is a keystone habit that can improve every other area of your life, because it increases your self awareness. Journaling helps you record all the minutiae that, gathered together, reveal the meaning in your life and help you take the next best step.
The trouble is, keeping a journal isn't easy. It takes dedication to this new habit and a willingness to open up when writing on a blank page. What have you done today? Who are you really? Journaling apps can help you figure this out and help you establish a daily writing routine.
After testing nearly two dozen journaling apps for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and the web, these are the top journaling apps we'd recommend to record your memories this year and in years to come. Most of the recommended apps operate on a freemium basis: basic service is free, but additional convenience features require payment. -JL
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Jim Lerman
January 3, 2018 8:13 PM
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Today there are all kinds of technical, software and app options to help you plan, research and write your manuscript. But don’t forget about Microsoft Word just because it’s been around so long. It’s far from an obsolete tool for writers. It can be downright miraculous when you master these five simple Microsoft Word skills for the indie author.
Managing a 250-page manuscript is very different from managing a two-page essay. Knowing a few basic things about organizing large documents means learning a little more about word processing software. Even a few new Microsoft Word skills will make your work soooooo much easier.
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 25, 2018 8:56 AM
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 18, 2018 9:25 AM
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“If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post. If you particularly want it to be white, you must always be painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution….An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.” –G.K. Chesterton, 1908
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Jim Lerman
January 17, 2018 10:45 PM
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This blog post is part of the CM Rubin World Global Search for Education which poses a question each month to leading educators for reflection and sharing. This month’s question is “Top Global Teacher Blogger’s guide to what’s hot in tech. What edtech tools have dramatically supported/improved learning in your classroom environment in the past…
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Jim Lerman
January 17, 2018 10:42 PM
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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education
Students need practice in digital consumption and digital production the same way they need practice in reading and writing. As the web becomes increasingly visual, one of the best ways to practice…
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 17, 2018 8:18 AM
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It can be so inspiring to take a look at other class blogs. We have put together a showcase of ten great blogs powered by Edublogs, CampusPress, or WordPress. Do you have any to add?
Via Marta Torán, Jim Lerman
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 12, 2018 4:39 PM
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Via the Scout Report "Launched in 2005 by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, Smarthistory provides a wealth of resources for teaching and learning art history. One such resource is ARCHES, or the At Risk Cultural Heritage Education Series. This series offers a multimedia online textbook about issues surrounding the preservation of cultural heritage objects. In particular, this collection of short essays, images, and videos explains how important cultural artifacts, including monuments and artwork, are threatened by looting and trafficking. This series also grapples with the colonial legacy of major museums and issues of repatriation. Visitors may want to start by reading the beginner's guide, which provides a definition of cultural heritage and a history of laws and social norms regarding rights to cultural heritage objects. Visitors can also explore the series by endangered heritage subject (Americas, Europe and West Asia, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, Africa). This series may especially appeal to art history and anthropology instructors."
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 12, 2018 9:04 AM
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inkle is looking to bring interactive stories to the classroom, and give teachers free and simple get-stuck-right-in software to use with their students.
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Jim Lerman
January 12, 2018 8:56 AM
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Anchor charts are a great way to make thinking visible as you record strategies, processes, cues, guidelines and other content during the learning process. Here are 25 of our favorite anchor charts for teaching writing.
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Jim Lerman
January 12, 2018 8:54 AM
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This conversation with George Ella Lyon and Julie Landsman, hosts of the I Am From Project, is about countering divisions of race, culture, and background through poetry, artwork, videos, music, and dance.
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Jim Lerman
January 10, 2018 8:31 AM
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"...we are thrilled to announce the new Educating for Democracy Deep Dive developed by the Teaching Channel and the Civic Engagement Research Group at the University of California, Riverside. The Deep Dive is a curated collection of videos accompanied by educational resources, blogs, and articles related to preparing youth for civic and political life in the digital age. It provides educators with the opportunity to see key aspects of civic learning and digital media learning in action. It also provides avenues for educators and their students to explore the ways in which our civic, political, and digital lives are inextricably linked in the 21st century.
"For example, there are videos and resources that highlight various ways educators can integrate civic learning in line with the following essential questions:
-INVESTIGATION & RESEARCH: How do I help students research issues that matter to them?
-CIVIC KNOWLEDGE: How do I help further students’ civic knowledge and understanding?
-DISCUSSION: How do I help students have productive discussions about current and controversial issues?
-VOICE: How can students voice their perspective on issues that matter to them?
-ACTION: What are effective ways to take action in the digital age?
-LEARN MORE: Where can I learn more and find resources?"
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Jim Lerman
from Into the Driver's Seat
January 5, 2018 9:35 AM
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Every year we introduce a new feature or two in response to feedback from our audience, and for the 2016-17 school year we’re happy to bring you what we’re calling Picture Prompts.
As you can see if you scroll through what we have so far, they are short, accessible, image-driven prompts that include both photographs and illustrations, and invite a variety of kinds of writing and discussion.
We developed them because there are more and more stunning images across sections of The New York Times that we want to make sure you don’t miss.
But we also developed them because we have a growing audience of learners from around the globe for whom our article-based daily Student Opinion prompts may be daunting.
Although each of our Picture Prompts will be connected to a related Times article, all that students will need to start writing is the image itself and and the fairly short, simple language we use to introduce it.
Here are just a few ways to use them, but, because this is a new feature, we hope you’ll post comments and share your ideas and suggestions as well. Jim Lerman's insight: I stand by picture prompts as one of the best way to inspire writing by students. This series by the NY Times is a great source of images and thoughtful strategies.
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