as a teacher who has spent much of her career in the middle-school trenches, I wonder whether the solution to slow development lies in granting an extra year to a precious few or in redeveloping curricula to focus more on executive-function skills
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Your Kid's Brain Might Benefit From an Extra Year in Middle School - 1 views
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Would love to hear thoughts from teachers and parents who have experience with the advantages and disadvantages of retention in middle school.
Louder Than a Bomb's stream on SoundCloud - Hear the world's sounds - 2 views
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Recordings from the annual youth poetry slam - Louder Than a Bomb - held in Chicago
Gamification Bookmarks - 1 views
Text 2 Mind Map - Simple mind mapping online - 1 views
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Use this for mind mapping or web making or teaching categorization...
Free Technology for Teachers: Five Good Online Tools for Creating Infographics - 2 views
Good Reads - 0 views
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I have just started using this site and find it very useful.
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Resource to find books and share reading experiences with your network
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I love this site! However, some people are kind of crazy when commenting...
Allan Cutler on Pinterest - 1 views
RESOURCES FOR INFOGRAPHICS - Google Docs - 0 views
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A Google Doc for collaborating
Explore Shakespeare on the App Store on iTunes - 1 views
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Great App for teaching Shakespeare. Visual Representations!!
IFTTT bookmarks - 4 views
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IFTTT = If this _______, then that ________. Use to build your own web bot in minutes if not seconds
Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup | Edutopia - 1 views
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If you're needing help wrapping mind around OERs, start here!
12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education - Edudemic - 4 views
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The Android and iOS apps let students (and teachers) do this from virtually anywhere. In fact, you can literally do it anywhere considering there is an ‘offline mode’ for Google Drive so you don’t even need a web connection to keep your online collaboration document or project humming along.
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Many of our students may not have a computer at home, but they do have a smartphone...
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The other big way I’d recommend trying out Google Drive would be for mind maps.
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There are a ton of add-ons for Drive that can create really cool looking mind maps: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/mind%20maps I've used Lucid Chart (http://bit.ly/1oa2drr) and Coggle (http://bit.ly/SvoMYO). Really. Cool. Stuff.
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Noah's "Infographics" bookmarks - 0 views