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June 1, 2014
10 Important Password Tips Everyone Should Know
Your bank data, your accounts, your email, and your life are all wrapped up in your ability to create secure passwords and remember them. And yet most educators (and their students) struggle to remember passwords. With so many passwords stolen, there are things all of us SHOULD know to make our identities and bank accounts safer.
Mark Burnett, author of the most commonly used passwords wordcloud featured on this post, says that the top 10,000 passwords represent 98.8% of all users.(This was sa...
May 30, 2014
Buy the Book Reinventing Writing and Improve Student Writing Now!
Reinventing Writing is here — in ebook format at least. Those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook got the news last Friday that due to a glitch, the book was released early at a big discount. I’m glad for those of you who jumped on it (the price went back up yesterday.) I didn’t blog it here because I wasn’t sure it was going to stay in the store butI’ve heard from my publisher and the ebook version is here to stay!
Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools That Are Changing Writing, Teaching,...
May 29, 2014
The Epic BYOD Toolchest (51 Tools You can Use Now) and BYOD Influencers to Follow
Bring your Own Device (#byod) is a hot topic in education and one that many of us, including me, talk about often. It is challenge to bridge all the devices and teach. But, if you believe the SAMR model, BYODcan redefine your classroom (without killing your budget.)
The Epic BYOD Toolchest on my Edutopia Blog includes 51 of the tools I used this past year in my BYOD classroom.
Since I was just named one of thetop 10 influencers on Twitter inBYODby Onalytica. (#3 after Maribel Lopez@MaribelLopez...
May 27, 2014
Research: INEQUALITY IN TEACHING AND SCHOOLING: SUPPORTING HIGH-QUALITY TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP IN LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS [Link]
Research: INEQUALITY IN TEACHING AND SCHOOLING: SUPPORTING HIGH-QUALITY TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP IN LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS
Excerpted from A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Editor
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by Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura Post
This important excerpt of a larger book hits on the quality of teachers and the success of children in low-income schools. If you want a better school, spend money on staff development and helping your teac...
May 23, 2014
Reinventing Writing: Free Video and Virtual Book Signing
Writing has been reinvented. Nine tools have changed writing, learning and living forever and we need to understand how to use them in our schools.
The keynote video in this blog post was part of the Reinventing the Classroom conference and I share the highlights of what I do with my students to teach these 9 types of tools and build community among your writers. I’ll share tons of best practices and give you a sneak peak of the book.
Reinventing Writing teaches you about the 9 tools that are c...
May 20, 2014
50+ Ways a Tablet Can Make You a More Effective Teacher
Want some practical ways to use tablets in the classroom? I’m a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) school and was asked by Microsoft to share practical ways that any teacher can use tablets. In this presentation you’ll learn:
Morethan fifty (50) ways that you can use a tablet in your classroom (most of these apps are multi platform)
You’ll see a sneak peak of the fabulous new Office Mix tool that will change screencasting forever
You’ll get a preview of some of the information from my upcoming book Re...
Laura Candler: How to Use Multiple Intelligences to Help Students See Their Strengths
With a whopping four hundred fifteen THOUSAND fans on her Facebook teaching resources page, Laura Candler is at the centerof a thriving conversation about teaching on Facebook. Although “retired,” Laurafinds and vets free resources toshare on her website and blog. In this show, Laurashares how she uses a tool she developed based upon Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences to help fifth graders see the strengths in themselves and one another.
May 19, 2014
12 Choices to Step Back from Burnout [Link]
12 Choices to Step Back from Burnout
Edutopia
May 16, 2014
In more than a decade of teaching, I’ve come precariously close to burnout probably close to 20 times. (The last week of schoolis always a given.) Edutopia asked me to write about these for my blog over there.
Ifyou’re going to step back from burnout you have DECISIONS to make. Hope this helps you make them so you can thrive.
The post 12 Choices to Step Back from Burnout [Link] appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog.
Using Videos to Give a Voice to Kids with Autism with Teacher John Lozano
Michael wanted to tell his story but he needed help. So, teacher John Lozano helped Michael find his voice through video. Althoughit took seven months to craft and edit, Michael’s video is releasedfirst on YouTube (then removedfor reasons John shares on the show).After editing, it isrereleased on
May 16, 2014
9 Defining Ways Educators Can Tug Education Back in the Right Direction
As I watched my field day team win one of the longest bouts of tug-of-war I’ve ever seen, I was reminded how forces combine to tug education in the wrong direction. It might be as subtle as a phrase or a bad habit permeating our profession. This morning as I sat down to blog,opinions and rants poured from my heart onto the page about the forces tugging us in the wrong direction. We can pull back – add your voice but even better – add your actions. Education is a noble calling – lets do things...
