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Newsela - Robust Education Technology for Reading Comprehension Skills Development

December 15, 2015

Adaptive Platform Delivers Reading Materials at 5 Different Reading Levels, With Built in Assessments How would you like to be able to give students reading assignments focused on current events that are geared to their reading level? Could you use sets of articles focused on topics in the sciences, social studies, law, health, arts, and […]

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Learning and Technology Tweet Wrap for Week Ending 12-12-15

December 13, 2015

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the Wrap … the DoE’s new National Ed Tech Plan, creating interactive videos with Wideo, a call for Higher Ed tech innovation award nominations, understanding what Project Based […]

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Schools Embrace Gesture Based Learning with Interactive Play Platform from MotionMagix™

December 10, 2015

Talk About “Active Learning”! When Will Interactive Wall & Floor Systems Become More Common in our Schools? Ed Note: I welcomed this post from Anup Tapadia … I think these types of interactive systems have so much potential in education, but I see very little about these in the education or technology press and social […]

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8 Great Educational Song Videos, from my Favorite 7th Grader!

December 9, 2015

Sharing Some Excellent Examples of one of the Most Fun Learning Constructs Ever Conceived Most of us have heard “teaching tunes” like the Periodic Table song featured above. What a great technique to help students learn about a subject that might otherwise be learned through rote memorization! Don’t you just love this idea? My daughter […]

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Angela Maiers’ Fresh Look at 21st Century Learning: Classroom Habitudes

December 8, 2015

21st Century Skills Must Include the Right Habits and Attitudes We’ve all been hearing about the importance of 21st century skills for well over a decade now. But many of us struggle to understand what these really mean and how to integrate them into our lessons and classrooms. Common definitions include reference to skills like […]

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Teaching and Technology Tweet Wrap for the Week Ending 12-05-15

December 6, 2015

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. Well, here we are … December. A month of holidays and good cheer, and hopefully some rest for many of us. Of course, we start with a couple tough weeks to […]

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Demonstrating the Flexible Functionality and Collaborative Potential of the Mondopad

December 3, 2015

There is a lot of Wow Factor in this Powerful Presentation and Collaboration Platform Last week I wrote a post providing an overview of the Mondopad’s functionality. This week I offer a video demonstration of the powerful system. Some of the key functions of this large screen touch-responsive all in one system include: Presenting - […]

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App Ed Review Roundup – Apps for Research

December 2, 2015

Rubric-Assessed Article Library Apps for Research Projects At App Ed Review, we’ve been thinking about research and the ways apps can be used to support students conducting research. We see research projects as being a great way for students to flex their intellectual muscle, synthesize data, explain real-world information, and demonstrate learning. They are popular […]

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The Tech-Savvy Administrator: Communicate Better, Get Organized, Promote Your School’s Brand

December 1, 2015

Provide Technology Leadership by Example Without Spending a lot of Money It was a pleasure to meet Steven W. Anderson, known to many through his ‘Web 2.0 Classroom‘ moniker, at the TLIPAD 2015 conference in November. He is a fun speaker and everyone seemed to really enjoy and appreciate his inspirational and informative Keynote address. […]

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Digital Learning Tweet Wrap for the Week Ending 11-28-15

November 29, 2015

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. Zoom! There goes November and the end of a quarter for most in K-12! And here comes December, and with it Christmas (and Christmas break!), winter in the northern hemisphere (brrr!), […]

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