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Katie Upah

Twitter in the English Classroom - 0 views

  • high school students use Twitter to respond, in character, to issues and events in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. Students tweeted in real-time while reading the play as a class. They needed to consider tone, language and personality of their assigned character in order to respond appropriately.
  • Their results demonstrated that students had significant motivation to participate creatively in communicating their learning processes.
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    This article discusses a research study performed on high school students in which they utilized Twitter to respond to characters, issues, and events while reading a play as a class.
Katie Upah

Nine Strategies for Reaching All Learners in English - 0 views

  • Readers and Writers Workshop is an instructional model that focuses on students as learners, as well as readers and writers in practice. As readers and writers, students are mentored, working in a supportive and collaborative environment with their mentor on touchstone texts.
  • As a middle school ELA teacher, I continue to collaborate with my peers in the building and across the school district. I participate in planning and designing instruction, inquiry-based studies, and collaborative coaching and learning. These activities have provided me with a repertoire of research-based best practices to engage the readers and writers in my ELA classroom.
  • Provide instruction in basic reading strategies using reciprocal teaching practice that includes predicting, visualizing, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.
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  • From the first day of school, we encourage students to choose the books they read. We model how to choose and review a book for reading. We also encourage students to choose books at their independent reading level rather than at their frustration or difficult level. Students read for 30 minutes daily and complete an entry on the reading.
  • Teach students to mark or highlight text for main ideas and also for answers to specific questions. Text annotation is an excellent method to make meaning and provide evidence to support answers.
  • Use t-chart graphic organizers to have them identify specific lines from a text and explain their thoughts about the lines.
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    This article lists 9 general strategies to appeal to all students in the English classroom, both in the middle school and the high school.
Laura H.

AP Human Geography - National Geographic Education - 0 views

  • Resources include instructional content for teachers; career profiles, news articles, and encyclopedic entries for student reading, as well as teacher background reading; and multimedia, which includes maps, photos, and videos contextualized with rich information for use in the course.
  • learn how to use and interpret maps and to understand the role of mental mapping.
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    National Geographic's page for AP Human Geography. Includes resources divided out by unit topic. This will provide great, online resources for students to delve deeper into subject material through extension activities.
Laura H.

Students Who Make Apps @coolcatteacher - 0 views

  • Students can program apps. They can pitch their ideas. They can handle defending their dreams. Students can code. Students can create. Those who think students can’t do these things either haven’t tried or have a limited view of themselves as educators.
  • App programming with Crescerance has been awesome since I first learned about it from fifth grader Kennedy and from Susan Bearden at ISTE 2014.
  • Want to know more about our Shark Tank event this past spring? Here’s our wiki page on the event. 
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    Evidence of students programming their own apps. While I can't teach them how, I can encourage them. Hoping to use this in AP to develop a program for building a city.
Anne Pudenz

Best Education Blogs to Watch in 2015 | ExamTime - 3 views

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    Provides a list of the 14 best educational blogs to watch in 2015. The blogs range from technology, 21st century skills, eLearning, instructional practices, Web 2.0 tools, and general resources.
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    Thank you for this source. People are always asking who should I follow. This list is a great place to start. Teachers will enjoy looking at these and expanding their PLNs.
Ping Gao

How to write a literature review - 5 views

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    A good website for conducting a literature review
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    Ping, I think this will come in very hand in the near future. I only recall doing one literature review in my academic career and it's a faded memory. This appears to be a concise base of instructions on how, why and what a literature review is. I have a database of all the work I performed in my previous grad program and surprisingly there is not one source on this topic, other than the review I did for a section of a capstone proposal.
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    A very helpful resource that I have saved for future reference.
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    I think this is a great resource for both the teacher and the student. Literature reviews are a great way for students to show their understanding of a reading. I have heard of similar tasks for literature reviews, but this is a great for students to share.
Nicole Heinrichs

A Teacher's Treasure - 2 views

  • differentiation & alternative assessment
  • otebooking
  • 100 templates for you to choose from and mix & match
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    This blog is a good read. It offers resources to use in your classroom and helpful tips.
Kim Carlson

Beyond the Maker Movement: How the ChangeMakers Are the Future of Education - Forbes - 0 views

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    This article discusses markerspaces in schools and libraries. This is a possible topic of mine and I'm interested in putting makerspaces in my libraries.
Kim Carlson

15+ Ways of Teaching Every Student to Code (Even Without a Computer) | Edutopia - 0 views

  • According to Code.org, 90 percent of U.S. schools are not teaching any computer science
  • Apps and Tools to Teach Coding All Year Round
  • Code.org Resources
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  • Teaching Coding to the Youngest Students
  • Teaching Coding to Age 8 and Up
  • Flip Your Classroom or Use an Existing Curriculum
  • Use Hardware and Make Something Cool
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    I love the idea of our students learning how to code. It's been my passion for several years.
Lisa Bindert

https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7081.pdf - 0 views

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    7 things to consider regarding the flipped classroom, including an example, pros and cons.
Lisa Bindert

http://flippedlearning.org/cms/lib07/va01923112/centricity/domain/46/flip_handout_fnl_w... - 1 views

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    The four pillars of flipped learning.
Anne Pudenz

Top 10 Education Tech Blogs | Brainscape Blog - 1 views

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    10 Education Tech Blogs - ideas and resources for integrating technology, Web 2.0 tools, and iPad apps into the classroom
Anne Pudenz

Learning, or Not Learning, in School - 0 views

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    Gradual Release of Responsibility - Quick summary of the model and describes the 4 stages.
Anne Pudenz

13 Keys to Successful Blended Learning -- THE Journal - 1 views

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    13 Keys to Successful Blended Learning. Utilizing technology to create an effective blended learning environment for students.
Ping Gao

MOOC List | A complete list of Massive Open Online Courses (free online courses) offere... - 1 views

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    I believe this is a great resource because it assist in giving students and instructors high quality, low cost alternative solutions to increase their knowledge on a particular subject. This is a factor of self-leadership where the individual makes choices that can increase their ability to engage on topics in the classroom. This is of course only one choice in the plethora of available online learning resources. One alternative is the ROCC or Regional Online Collaborative Courses.
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