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December 18, 2014
Can Ipads, Nooks and Kindles Motivate Students to Read More?
Dr. Craig Union talks with Vicki about using Nooks with primary students to engage students in reading. His research found that students can be motivated by using technology to read and raise reading scores.
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Dr. Craig Union – Show #80 – Can Ipads, Nooks and Kindles Motivate Students to Read More?
Dr. Craig Union researched how e-readers can be used with primary students to raise their reading sc...
December 17, 2014
How to Make a Table of Contents in Evernote [Video]
Take several notes and make a table of contents note that links to them all. This is a fast way to organize notebooks, projects, and topics.
For example, when you scan your student rubrics or work samples into Evernote, it is bestsavethem as individual notes. This way you can share the note with an individual student or parent if they have questions. I’ve found that you can access it faster as well. But what if you want a quick index of all of the rubrics from one assignment?
In today’s 2...
December 16, 2014
YouScience: The Science of Talent, Interests, and Career [Video]
YouScience is an online research-based program to help an individual understand their personal aptitudes and where they overlap with interests. The College Success Profile generated by the YouScience program works to tackle these common problems:
Why should students go to college knowing so little about their talents?Why do we spend so much money to go into one major without doing any real research on a student’s likes, dislikes, and talents first?
Why do we wait until we’re older to findo...
December 15, 2014
Book Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years [Book]
Book Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller (Thomas Nelson, 2009)
So, what if you could edit your life — what role would you give yourself? In this book review of aA Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better StoryI share why this book is epic and unsettling. It is also one of my best reads of 2014.
When Michael Hyatt said A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Storywas one of his favorite books of all time, it sound...
December 14, 2014
200+ Free Educational Resources for Kids: Video Lessons, Apps, Books Websites & More [Link]
200+ Free Educational Resources for Kids: Video Lessons, Apps, Books Websites & More
Open Culture
2014
If you haven’t added Open Culture to your RSS reader, you should. This list of 200+ Free educational resources is just one reason why. They catalog so many of the open educational resources including:
Free Language Lessons
Free Textbooks
Free eBooks
Free Audiobooks
Free Courses (over 1000)
Free MOOCs
Free Movies (including silent film, animation, Hitchcock, John Wayne and more)
And so much more....
December 13, 2014
Abraham Lincoln – Homes [Quote]
The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.
Abraham Lincoln
Springs in the Valley (Harper Collins Publishing, 2010), Such truth. We need to reinforce and help our homes be strong. We must partner with parents to raise up a generation of well educated, well rounded, hard working people. Priorities matter. It isn’t always about having everything but instead, helping students learn to overcome anything. Times are not easy and homes are more important than ever. I’m a fan of pare...
December 12, 2014
The Unexpected Math of Turbulence via Van Gogh [Video]
This Ted-ED video uses Van Gogh’s painting “Starry Night” to explain turbulence. Remember that there are lesson plans around these and you can customize lessons for your students if you are using the flipped classroom or in-flipped methods of teaching.
Level up a little bit every day. I challenge you to head over to Ted-Ed and find at least one video you can use with your students. You might be surprised! There are some new anatomy lessons on the liver and lungs and so many other concepts...
December 11, 2014
Coding for Kids: Robot Turtles Boardgame
Want to help your youngest kids (4 and up) learn the basics of coding? There’s a screen-free way to learn and play called Robot Turtles Game. I know some of you like to find things for the young children that are not in front of the screen. This would be something that you might want to consider. From the company:
Robot Turtles was a Kickstarter sensation, graced the front page of the New York Times and has garnered awards since its national introduction last summer, including Teachers’ Pick b...
Good to Great – The Right People [Quote]
People are not your most important asset. The right people are. (loc 238)
If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we’ll figure out how to take it someplace great. (loc 712)
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake (loc 972)
Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people. (loc 980)
Yes, leadership is about vision. But leadership is equally about creating...
December 10, 2014
Distractions Help You Learn? [Quote]
In the end it didn’t seem to matter what the distraction was during recall as long as subjects had had a distraction during learning. Everybody who had been distracted in both learning and recall performed better than those who were distracted while learning but undistracted during recall.
An important finding was that the effect Song measured did not depend on keeping the external context –for instance the ambient surroundings –consistent. There just had to be the same degree of distraction...
