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This online journal publishes science studies from experimental science by conducted high school students. via Best content in Sites_for_education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/sites_for_education

Love this creative idea for creating interactive displays of student work and giving the traditional "oral report" a twist to expand the real audience for student work. via Moving at the Speed of Creativity http://www.speedofcreativity.org

Navigating Text Complexity. The Council of Chief State School Officers provides a wonderful set of resources for understanding how text complexity is defined in the Common Core State Standards and a set of tools for analyzing text and using texts effectively in the classroom. Check it out!

via Edudemic http://edudemic.com

This article is proposing that the students watch video lectures (prepared by the teacher or elsewhere) at home and come to school to work. This would keep students more actively engaged during class. This method would also provide more one-on-one time with the teacher as opposed to using all of the class time listening to the teacher.

This article outlines different ways journaling can be useful in elementary science classes.

Why not use Haiku for students to keep their journals? Discussions or Wikiprojects in Haiku could be used for this. In fact, the Bridge Building teams at Tupelo Middle School are using Wikiprojects to keep their journals, collect their data, and compose their portfolios for competition.

Good point. Wiki/discussion boards are great for students to converse back and forth and work collaboratively in groups, but there are a few advantages to the old fashioned type journal as well. Drawings as well as charts and graphs for science are sometimes more beneficial to student learning and expression when done on paper and pencil. Ultimately, you would want to have both. It is also important to note that with the software we have available on the Macs, you could use the Photo Booth to capture drawings and graph and upload them to Haiku/Wiki or wherever you were sharing/storing them electronically.

Great Ideas for middle school probability math lessons!

Parent involvement is closely related to student successfulness.

A favorite one-stop shop, Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators is a curated list of resources that is consistently updated and includes an index of excellent resources from across the web, links to valuable tools for technology integration and good teaching and learning.  Browse here for great ideas and resources.

This site contains a graph maker, games, worksheets, parent resources, and much much more.

This article provides a good introduction to and explanation of the flipped classroom model; includes links a number of web tools.

In this video from the Teaching Channel, you will see teachers demonstrating the strategies they use to help student engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others'€™ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

via Education Week (@educationweek) September 17, 2013

Awesome article about 1-to-1 and management

Great article with good insight from those in 1:1 schools/districts. There are many approaches I like and agree with here, from setting clear expectations to essentially partnering with tech-savvy students vs. viewing them as adversaries.

Fun math games on various middle school skills.