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How to Integrate Entrepreneurship into the Classroom

By Chris Aviles, Teacher, Fair Haven Schools, NJ published

Like Amazon, FH Gizmos is a marketplace.

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Accessibility Tip: Provide Materials Before, Not After

By Lisa Nielsen published

Have you ever been to an event where they tell you that you'll get slides and handouts after the event or in a follow up email?

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Critical Thinking: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education

By Michael Gorman last updated

So many times we hear our students say, “Why am I learning this?”

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3 Things I'm Proud of This Week: Explosive Disposal. A Few Good Men

By Ramsey Musallam published

This week students were challenged to solve this case taken directly from the movie A Few Good Men.

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How to Organize Class Project Groups to Support Our Students’ Future of Work #WanderlustEDU #FOW

By Micah Shippee published

In a gig-based economy our students will find themselves working on asynchronous teams in different geographies, different times, and with different cultures. How then can we prepare them for this workflow?

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TPS Inquiry Kits Just Became My New Fave for Primary Sources

By Glenn Wiebe published

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This is Your Brain on Curiosity (via TEDxUCDavisSalon)

By Ramsey Musallam published

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Wordpress, and Blackboard, and Wix. Oh My! Which School Website Platform Should You Choose?

By Lisa Nielsen published

Are you using a platform that supports digital accessibility?

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Digital Games and STEM Resources for November

By Deborah Marshall and Lisa McKnight Ward published

These digital games and STEM resources are great teaching tools for the month of November.

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Old or New, Maps are Cool

By Glenn Wiebe published

I love the ability of digitized maps to allow access to all sorts of data in all sorts of very visual ways.

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Collaboration: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education

By Michael Gorman published

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Face Off - Microsoft or Adobe for #Accessibility

By Lisa Nielsen published

Creating accessible content is not only important because it is the right thing to do. It is also important because not doing so leaves institutions and businesses at risk for lawsuits and loss of funding.

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What's New in Google - October 2019

By Eric Curts published

What's New in G Suite

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Digital FIRST: Your New Acronym for Accessible Content

By Lisa Nielsen last updated

If you’re thinking paper first, you’re not thinking accessible first.

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Spice Up Your Slides with 600+ Free Design Templates

By Eric Curts last updated

In this blog post we will look at over 600 design theme templates for you and your students to use in your creations.

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Instructional Treats

By Matthew Joseph published

High levels of student engagement are commonly believed to be critical to learning.

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A Tech-Friendly Peer Feedback Strategy

By Monica Burns published

In today’s blog post, I want to share with you a combination of two favorite EdTech tools.

STEAM Up Learning with 50 Fabulous Resources!

By Shelly Terrell last updated

The resources below will help you support your students by walking them through the steps of the Engineering Design Process and also helping them understand the importance of STEM and being a problem solver!

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Seeking Strategic Variety and Organizational Curiosity

By Steven M. Baule published

Strategic variety requires organizational curiosity.

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Become a Technology-Savvy Administrator

By Ursula Martin, Ed.D. published

Just as teachers require professional development (PD) to learn how to integrate technology into the classroom, administrators need professional development as well.

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