TIE Online Class: Web Lit for Educators

Skip Discover Education Main Navigation Skip Discover Education Main Navigation Students will understand the following: 1. Technology is defined as "any invention, including tools, machines, materials, techniques, and sources of power, that makes people's work easier." 2. The history of technology really begins in prehistoric times.

Students will Learn why numbers are an important part of everyday life. Provide examples of daily uses of numbers. Problem-Solving: Math, Episode 1 video Writing paper Pencils and erasers Computer with Internet access (optional) Talk about the different ways we use numbers in our everyday lives. What are some uses of numbers?

Design and description of plinkoball. a math/basketball game

Plinkoball Helps Students Exercise Math Skills In search of a way to liven up the playground, elementary principal Sam Slarskey came up with Plinkoball, a game in which kids launch balls at funnels and calculate their scores based on where they were standing and the balls path to the ground.

In search of a way to liven up the playground, elementary principal Sam Slarskey came up with Plinkoball, a game in which kids launch balls at funnels and calculate their scores based on where they were standing and the ball's path to the ground.

These have activities for all kinds of lessons I might do with my Kindergarteners. It looks like a fantastic site. Stacy Smith

Sue LaBella, Education World's early childhood editor, has created hundreds of activities for use across the year and the curriculum. Click any month on the list below to scan her list of activities for that month. Sue leads off this archive with her long list of "Anytime Activities."

I often find myself in conversations with teachers and students about Internet search strategies. Often times the conversation reminds me that what's obvious to me is amazing to someone else. Last week I had that very experience as I taught a couple of teachers some search techniques that they are going to pass along to their students.

Charity Glanz

Waterbury, Connecticut, middle-schoolers cant wait for PE so they can run through the world's cities, race mountain bikes, and ride skateboards and snowboards. The district's new virtual exercise equipment is getting gamers off the couch and into the fitness room. Included: Descriptions of new fitness technology.

Two veteran educators from Fairfax County, V.A. are in the process of writing a book using anecdotal data from their experiences on how they believe the introduction of smart phones has severely decreased critical thinking and engaged learning in their respective classrooms. Joe Clement and Matt Miles "say the free periods that are part of their school schedule have deteriorated from lively talk among students and teachers to silent screen reading, each student in a little world," according to The Washington Post.

There are methods and models for implementing blended learning -- from the flipped classroom, to the flex model. All of them are on the continuum of just how much time is spent online and in the online classroom.

Alternative Teaching Strategy Center is a non-profit agency that provides Visual Communication Anlysis services for children with autism. We also provide support for parents of children with autism.

Great Tech ideas - rss feed

Great Tech ideas - rss feed

Looks like a good variety of info! I added it to my Feedly! Thanks Rick!

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Great blog for teachers... Wonderful insights and ideas!!!

Looking for ways to keep kids engaged in math, science and reading? Our Learning Machine archives provide links to fun online games that help you teach and reinforce important academic skills. Search the lists below for games you might use with your whole class. The activities are great for "reward time," too!

Tech in the Classroom is a recurring feature that examines widely available technology, software and gadgets and how they might be used in a school setting. What favorite gadget or tool are you using in the classroom? As this new content area grows, let us know what products you'd like to read about.

Be sure to see additional articles from the Responsive Classroom in our archive of columns written by Ruth Sidney Charney, co-founder of the Northeast Foundation for Children, which is home base for the Responsive Classroom appraoch. Click here to view that article archive.

Making Collaboration Work in Your Building Many studies tout the benefits bestowed upon schools that encourage and facilitate teacher collaboration. However, it's not always the easiest practice to put into place. It can require both time and energy that many educators feel they just don't have to spare.

Ever since its opening in 2013, San Francisco-based AltSchool has caught the attention of many in its unique approach to teaching pre-K through grade 8 students. In the short time since its first building opened, it has been able to increase enrollment and open new schools thanks to being thought of as the 21st century answer to education by many Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

House Republicans have just passed a bill through the House Ways and Means committee that, should it be approved by the full House, will make the nation's teachers eligible for a tax credit of up to $250 for purchasing their own supplies.

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