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Best apps for teaching and learning

Great article about giving and receiving feedback.

"caffolding Culture How are you building a culture of collaboration in your classroom? Teachers should not forget the importance of scaffolding the skills needed for students to work in groups. Paired with a good collaboration rubric, where students know what is expected of them in terms of behavior, teachers need to scaffold skills such consensus building, effective communication, and the ability to critique. Educators need to explicitly teach and assess collaboration, a critical 21st century skill, if they want their group work to be productive."

Project based learning wiki resources.

Some thoughts about potential topics for middle school project based learning teams.

Rutland Central project based learning site for grade 4-5

This came up in #satchat today.  Nice overview of what we'll work toward this year at Mt. Abe

This is a series of slides from a great speaker, this time focusing on Social Studies.  He's the guy who invented that video we've all seen called Shift Happens.  Highly recommend this one.