Look Closer

ISTE Standard for Educators 2.3.b. Establish a learning culture that promotes curiosity and critical examination of online resources and fosters digital literacy and media fluency. Digital literacy has changed quite a bit since I was in school. I […]

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Designing Authenticity

ISTE Standard for Educators 5b: Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. ISTE Standard for Educators […]

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A.I. in schools

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is certainly causing quite the buzz in educational systems all over the world. It’s hard to go a day without hearing about another teacher using A.I. to […]

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Finding enough space

Spacesedu is a digital portfolio tool. The flexibility to do all of these projects using tools that we already have (google docs or word docs or links to the greater internet) are really wonderful! In all of these spaces the teacher can leave comments to help as well. Finally, the parents can see the work being done by their student if they are invited.

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Fact and Fiction

This project will look at ways to teach research and citation skills to third through fifth grade students by way of teaching their teachers. I will begin this outline by clarifying what specific skills and information I believe my teachers will need in order to be successful at teaching these media literacy skills to their students. I will then outline what ways I will assess the teacher’s understanding. Finally I will outline the specific lesson and tasks that will take place over my 2 hour training.

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Brick by Brick

What if you could visit the international space station with your students to show them what a module looks like, how science is done in space, and have them create […]

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Growth Mindset and Computer Science

 99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs. Take one down, patch it around 117 little bugs in the code.   @sertig What a growth mindset is and isn’t.  […]

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Research Assistant

How is AI changing the speed, efficiency, and skills necessary to conduct research and what does that mean for training our next generation?

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Tap Anywhere to Begin

This screen awaits a classroom full of brand-new Kindergarten students on their first day of school. These 5-year-olds may not yet be able to identify letters or numbers, but their […]

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