When we allow students to write and share their work with the world, suddenly their work becomes more valuable. Students will always do their worst writing when they know the only person who will ultimately view it is their teacher. How many assignments in classrooms are completed solely for teacher as a requirement of the curriculum?
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Map the Meal Gap | Food Insecurity in your county - 0 views
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Use this interactive site to learn about how residents of your state and county are struggling with hunger. Feeding America provides numerous resources for learning about the causes, realities and solutions for hunger in America.
Katharine Hayhoe - "Our future is still in our hands" | The On Being Project - The On B... - 0 views
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This may be a useful resource to those of you who work in environments where there are still those afraid that admitting to the dire direction climate change is pulling our global community is a partisan rather than a scientific issue. Functioning democracy requires that we accept the reality of facts and the powers of reason to discern our ways forward. I enjoyed the talk anyway. ; )
PBS Teachers | Access, Analyze, Act: From Economic Theory to Financial Reality - 1 views
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PBS economic curriculum!
Arounder - Travel and Lifestyle in 360-degree Quicktime VR - Virtual Reality Full Scree... - 0 views
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Beautiful views on the word.
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For those of us that didn't get to "get away" over Spring Break a visual vacation...
Three Reasons Students Should Own Your Classroom's Twitter and Instagram Accounts | EdS... - 0 views
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Within the past few years, this idea of branding our schools/classrooms has become extremely valuable, as it promotes transparency by painting an accurate, live picture of what is taking place. Yet, in reality, the majority of the time the educators are the ones telling these stories. While this certainly has its place, ultimately what matters most is how students feel about their experiences. Social media has allowed my students to share our classroom happenings through their eyes. It has allowed my students the opportunity to both establish and share the culture of our classroom and our school, and ultimately create our “brand”.
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Social media is happening—with or without you. The lessons my students learn by taking ownership of social media ends up enhancing all of their work, both in and out of school. And let’s be honest… wouldn’t you prefer to have your students write the story of your classroom, rather than someone else?
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"To take this a step further, I also had parents come in one night to complete the boot camp, as well. That's right-a parent social media bootcamp, where my students were the teachers, helped their parents get set up with accounts, and taught them about everything from retweets to our district hashtags."
No Child Is Just Born Gifted: Creating and Developing Unlimited Potential | National As... - 0 views
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High intelligence, whether expressed in cognitive abilities such as the capacity to generalize, conceptualize, or reason abstractly, or in specific abilities such as creative behavior, results from the interaction between inherited and acquired characteristics. This interaction encompasses all of the physical, mental, and emotional characteristics of the person and all of the people, events, and objects entering the person’s awareness. Our reality is unique to each of us.
Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder t... - 0 views
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