Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 05/19/2012

Whole school Assemblies teaching resources – TES A list of assembly ideas indexted by topic and event. As you plan the end of the school, look at some ideas and improve what you’re already doing. …

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Edu app news: apps, ebooks, and sites for your classroom #mlearning 05/19/2012

Free Technology for Teachers: GoClass – Create and Deliver Lessons on iPads Another lesson deployment app for the iPad that you can compare to NearPod. Another one worth testing. tags: …

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 05/19/2012

PBL Program Shows How to Tap Local Expertise | Edutopia Fascinating overview of a PBL school. I would like to point out that now that I have a 20% time project where students spend 20% of their time in my class wo…

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Where’s the heat?

Is that your goal? To find the next hot thing? Do you want to buy it, sell it, use it, eat it? In every industry where there’s fashion (which is every industry), people spend an enormous amount of time looking…

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 05/19/2012

PSHE Global Game – Lego – Resources – TES This game uses legos. Use this presentation and the legos to have a picture of how wealth is distributed around the world. This is a fascinating activity that I think you …

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Elearning and global competency #flatclass #globaled 05/19/2012

PSHE Global Game – Lego – Resources – TES This game uses legos. Use this presentation and the legos to have a picture of how wealth is distributed around the world. This is a fascinating activity that I think you …

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Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock #teaching 05/18/2012

Discussion Toolkit – Resources – TES A toolkit to encourage discussion in the classroom,. Make sure students have things to do in these last days that encourage thinking. Many teachers complain all year that they …

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What Schools Can Learn from Summer Camps

When the pressure is off grades and performance, kids focus on learning for the sake of learning, not to show off what they know, writes Annie Murphy Paul in this interesting post about a study examining the lasting effects of summer camp. Continue rea…

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Not everyone

If you’re marketing a bass guitar or an orchid or an electric SUV, why are you concerned with what everyone thinks about it? It seems to me that you should only care about the opinion of those that are actually…

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Flip This: Bloom’s Taxonomy Should Start with Creating

Chris Davis, Powerful Learning Practice LLC By Shelley Wright I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is s…

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