User Generated Education

JULY 12, 2020

I am planning to do anti-racist activities with my elementary students (5th and 6th graders) this coming fall. You’re deliberately teaching them that all the racial groups are equals. I bought a set for my classroom.) These resources can also be found in the bitmoji classroom.). Introduction. I Am Poems.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 22, 2022

I have done a social entrepreneurship unit with three groups of gifted students, grades 3rd through 6th. But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. It was one of my favorite units. Learner choice and voice are valued.

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Waterford

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, it’s worth making time for fun student back-to-school activities in your elementary classroom. As an educator, you can use these 50 first day of school games, activities, and printables for elementary students to help your class get to know each other and find things they have in common. This or That? : with your class.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 18, 2021

Over the course of many years, my work with Wells Elementary School provided a foundation that I pull from to this very day. The key is to find strategic ways to use it as a means to improve learning, something that is emphasized in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In most classrooms today, students are seen working together in small groups, perhaps in learning stations in the classroom, and taking a more active role in learning. After researching student engagement and motivation, mostly because I was having some challenges in my classroom two years ago, I decided to try new ideas.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2023

Outline of: Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better Sponsor: Research Quest Introducing Tom Mullaney What is Figma? Click Here Sponsor Episode 804 - 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better What is Figjam? What is Figjam?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

3 Fun Ways to Use Tech in the Classroom in the Run-Up to Summer Summer is right around the corner and as a teacher, you might be in search of creative ways to leverage technology to ensure your classroom remains an entertaining, engaging and educational space. Fear not, we’ve got you covered! Let’s dive in!

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Waterford

MARCH 16, 2021

Luckily, there are plenty of Internet resources available at your fingertips—with options for both synchronous and asynchronous learning-based classrooms. The first section includes 25 educational tools that can help you plan online activities for your classroom. 25 Online Educational Activities for Classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

Video and Infographic From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers are moving from face to face classrooms to online classrooms quickly. She is also a former teacher and principal, leading one of the first elementary STEM schools in the state of Iowa. She received her M.Ed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sixteen types of games, Google Classroom and LMS compatibility and auto-grading From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This week, I began using Educaplay to make fun classroom learning games for my students. This week, I put my word bank in the description in my Google Classroom assignment.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

4 Ways for K–12 Administrators to Master Google Classroom. Educators face a constant challenge of organizing resources and time , both in the classroom and out. . Here are four ways to put Google Classroom to work for you. And don’t overlook the Topics tool , which lets you label and group posts in Classwork. .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introducing games into the classroom can engage students in ways that conventional methods often fail to do” (Zhang & Crawford, 2023, p. Here are five ways to integrate gamification into your classroom, using tools like Quizizz, Gimkit, Quizlet, and Blooket. While engaging, the free version of Gimkit is quite limited.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

There are many benefits of technology in the classroom, so we’ve picked five of the most significant for this handy list. Read on for the top 5 advantages to technology in the classroom or visit our education solutions page for more insights on EdTech. But for those who embrace it, the advantages are virtually limitless.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom. With K–12 schools leveraging connected technologies to help improve student outcomes and boost classroom collaboration, effective cybersecurity is not optional. The State of STEM Classrooms. eli.zimmerman_9856. Fri, 10/04/2019 - 13:13.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Today Karen Voglesang @NBCTchr teaches children to use thinking routines in her classroom. After participating in Harvard’s Project Zero , she is applying and using the methods in classrooms and with teachers. Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Listen Now.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. I also noticed Katie Murphy, the instructional coach, playing an active role in the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 29, 2020

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education from Morningside College and a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration from the University of South Dakota. She is also a former teacher and principal, leading one of the first elementary STEM schools in the state of Iowa. She received her M.Ed.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 20, 2022

How can teachers develop a practice of creativity and stay inspired in their classrooms? The webinar, hosted by Digital Promise as part of HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom initiative, highlights four strategies for encouraging creativity in students and how they stay creative in their own work: Practice a growth mindset.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Michelle Zimmerman, author of Teaching AI: Exploring New Frontiers for Learning , talks about Artificial Intelligence and what we should be teaching kids in our classrooms today. They have a new classroom management tool called Collections.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

It shows that clearly, EdTech is becoming an integral part of our classroom learning. Read more: How can teachers use VR in the classroom? Technology has the potential to further transform the way we learn, as is apparent by the advancements in robotics and its use in classrooms. Classroom robots of today.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Explore how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. In this article, you’ll learn more about why phonics skills are so important for literacy development, then discover helpful strategies for teaching elementary students—with five free downloadable teacher resources from Waterford.org!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But if classroom management is about the deeply human endeavor of creating a fun and safe community where young people are able to learn and grow together, what role does software have to play in managing the classroom? Help students who are learning a language overcome this and make the perspective shift.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Even Ancient Romans associated the concept of elementary school ( ludus ) with play ( ludere ). Mixing education and entertainment in the classroom. So here are a few ideas on how you can use edtech to bring edutainment into the classroom and create a fun and inspiring learning experience for students: 1. Video classes.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

6] Whether you’re an elementary school teacher or work with older grades, you have the power to make a difference. Read on to discover the barriers that women in STEM face and how you can help counteract them through lessons and classroom strategies. How Teachers Can Support Girls in STEM in the Classroom.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Each week a master math teacher from Math Amigos comes to my GT classroom for an hour to present conceptual math problems. Also, one research study showed that substituting one hour of mathematics lesson a week with a Chess lesson showed an improvement in the mathematics test score of students in the research group.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

Right now, many of us are looking for high-quality, easy-to-use materials that can reach students both at home and in the face-to-face classroom. We talked to educator Alyssa Lyons about how to bring real-world skills to your classroom with some powerful curriculum. We look at that middle school age group. VICKI: 00:02.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It was one of the first models, along with the flipped classroom, that I could employ in my low-tech classroom. While my students engaged in student-centered learning at the online and offline stations, I enjoyed the dedicated time to work with a small group of learners at my teacher-led station. I thought, “What the heck?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By creating more flexible, student-centered classrooms, personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally. We’re not just talking about the [ Pennsylvania System of School Assessments ], but our formative data and what we see in classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

To be honest, these groups are not in my traditional wheelhouse, but I saw it as a learning opportunity to branch out and expand my level of knowledge. Recently the district asked me to be a part of their professional development day, which consisted of seven different learning strands specific to the needs and interests of their teachers.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Elementary teachers may use their board to encourage a deep dive into a holiday, season, or weather pattern. You can create three versions of the same choice board (advanced, regular, scaffolded) to ensure that the level of rigor and academic complexity is appropriate to different groups of learners in your class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2021

Through interesting, relatable scenarios and real-life simulations around topics like financial literacy and social-emotional learning, teachers can easily bring the real world into their classrooms. In this post, I’ll share some ideas that you can bring to your classroom immediately. Grade level: elementary grades.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

The Tweet That Started it I get weary of AI hype auto-generated by *gasp* ChatGPT without any real applicability to the classroom. I'm collecting blogs of teachers who are in the classroom actually use AI and have practical, real examples to share. A group of us took this advice and made it our own. Enough of the junk.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Open Library.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Technology is an ideal vehicle for teachers to better blend classroom instruction with learning opportunities occuring outside of the traditional school day — and outside of the brick-and-mortar school building. . There is no doubt that the marriage of online and physical classroom experiences is a boon for K–12 educators and students.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best part is the conversations that I get to have with learners, especially at the elementary level. Downing Elementary School with principal Marcos Lopez as part of some broader work in Ector County ISD. Each kid was instructed to get up, walk around the room, and find a partner who was not in their pre-assigned seating groups.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Leaders had been broken up into four different cohorts (elementary, middle, high school, and district supervisors). During a previous session, I assigned each leader some meaningful homework, which consisted of bringing an artifact to share with the group that showed growth in the area. The interactive classroom can be accessed HERE.

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