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While teachers and legislatures debate cursive
Could you read this? “Constitution of the United States, page 1” by Constitutional Convention. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Teachers and legislatures debate the need to teach...
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Anyone notice?
The irony of the lone newspaper outside the door when there is so much information power in the devices in the room. Earlier in the year, Gary Turk’s video “Look Up” went viral. In the video, Turk...
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The sport of arithmetic
Last October, I wrote a post “Do we need math” that was inspired by Good’s Future Learning Mini Documentary. Click here to view the embedded video. This past weekend, my son struggled with math....
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Hungry for a Word Salad?
Have you ever tried Word Salad? No, I don’t mean a salad made with words. I mean the iPad app, Word Salad, used for making Word Clouds? Word Clouds are more than just pretty cloudy words on a screen....
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Multimedia Poetry Analysis
Walt Whitman We don’t often think of poetry analysis as being a multimedia endeavor, but Mrs. A’s grade four class has proven us wrong. Using iPads and the app Explain Everything, even young students...
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Reaching beyond myself
Leaders don’t always look different.Image in public domain at www.pixabay.com Participating in COETAIL has been a fantastic way to meet educators around the world who share similar interests and...
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Redefining Reading
Click here to view the embedded video. As I sit down to reflect on COETAIL in general and my final project in particular, I’m having a much easier time thinking about how I tailored the courses and...
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DEAR Reader
Recently I have started to think about reading online. By reading, I don’t mean skimming or scanning. Certainly, when confronted with millions of results on a google search, we have to be able to...
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Rewordify
Do you ever have your students use an electronic resource that has written vocabulary that is a bit too challenging? Rewordify.com is a website that simplifies English so readers can understand more....
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Collaborative Google Doc Notes for this Session Transmedia storytelling for earcos pdf from Robin Montgomery Loading…
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Extending understanding
My image of Saudi Arabia before I moved here in August. Public domain image by Indie available at https://pixabay.com/en/saudi-arabia-desert-camel-95501 This is my new home. Or at least, this is the...
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Against Technology Integration
Image: Creative Commons License by Wally Gobetz on Flickr.com Technology integration is a noble-sounding aim, but it is a concept that does not go far enough. Picture technology integration as a...
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