Today's Newsletter: Tragedy Illuminates the Power of Virtual Field Trips By Steven M. Baule Even with the flashing lights of the fire apparatus showing in the video, we can visit the remains of the Cathedral of Notre Dame via this Digg video.
Class Tech Tips: See Beyond Behavior Podcast for Educators By Monica Burns I’m always excited to connect with educators who are passionate about topics I’d like to learn more about.
Baseball, Earth Day and STEM Teaching Resources for April By Deborah Marshall and Lisa McKnight Ward Earth Day, Monday, April 22, 2019, is the perfect day for students to discover what their footprint shows.
Space and the 'Breath of Art': How Out-of-This-World STEM Education Is Transforming Schools By Carie Lemack Students can now take what they have learned in the classroom and conduct experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 3: Questions, Process, Metacognition, and 15 Pre-Search Tools By Michael Gorman What are the strategies that are important to research before a student enters that first keyword in the search box?
4 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Limit Tech Use to A Communal Area By Lisa Nielsen Innovative educators should help parents see past simplified safety advice like: only use technology in a communal area.
Building VR Experiences to View in the Oculus Go App @oculus @cospaces_edu By Micah Shippee The challenge for fields focused on learning and training is to leverage these technologies to achieve meaningful objectives.
What's New in Google - March 2019 By Eric Curts Catch up on everything new in G Suite for Education from March 2019, and see great ideas and resources!
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 2: 10 Resources for Student-Owned Questions By Michael Gorman In a world filled with so much instant information, it is important to teach students to ask even more questions as they seek possible answers.
Increase Screen Time to Increase Literacy Proficiency By Lisa Nielsen While click-bate headlines love to scare parents and educators about the risks of screen time, it’s not that simple.
My Education Superpower By Chris Aviles Tangential learning is the process by which people self-educate around a topic if it is exposed to them through something they already enjoy.
Report from ASCD, Part 2: Next Wave of EdTech Resources By Matthew X. Joseph Get to know these education technology tools because they will help your instruction, student learning, and growth.
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom: The Driving Question and PBL, Part 1 By Michael Gorman The Driving Question or Investigative Question in Project Based learning and STEM can be often the hardest concept to get across to teachers.
Technology & Student Health: The Fear, The Reality, The Fix By Kerry Gallagher Each of us focused our talk on one of the five Tenets of the Whole Child from ASCD.
ESSDACK PLC meets Russel Tarr & ClassTools. Everyone Gets Smarter. By Glenn Wiebe The activity led to a great conversation around effective tools and resources that teachers and students can use while accessing and organizing online information.
History is a Bunch of Grass. And We Need to Let Our Kids Play on It. By Glenn Wiebe We tell them about history and have them read about history but we never let them experience history.
Innovative Tips to Share with Parents in a Minute from @WNETeducation By Lisa Nielsen These short videos focus on key topics related to early childhood learning and raising children.
Report from ASCD, Part 1: Sessions Covered, Classroom Coding, Leadership Strategies and More By Matthew X. Joseph
Makerspaces A to Z: Human Algorithm Design By Laura Fleming In Algorithms to Live By, the authors explore an interdisciplinary way of thinking called human algorithm design, which essentially means searching for better solutions to the challenges people encounter every day.
