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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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Check out this infographic with 30 sayings from Dr. Seuss. Many of us remember many of his stories from our childhood. The quotes from his work are great for teachers and students. A few are below, and many more within may be found by clicking through!
* Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. * You miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. * Think. You can think any think that you wish. 
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What makes a great teacher, and how do they treat their students in the classroom? This infographic provides a look at this and if you go to the website and scroll down past the infographic you will find many "fast facts about education and teachers in America" as well as information on great teachers, teaching from the perspective of the 2012 National Teacher of the Year and more.
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Earth Day happens this week and here are six sites that Ed Tech Ideas has selected that help to teach environmental awareness to children. Most of these sites are geared to elementary students, and many offer resources for teachers and parents.
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Build Your Curriculum - Create lessons, organize units, add files and materials from around the web, and share your curriculum with teachers down the hall and across the globe.
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Writing lessons and project ideas for your K-8 classroom. This free monthly series of activities, project ideas and student worksheets integrates writing across a variety of subjects from math, science, social studies, art, and more.
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Free math help, tutorials, lessons, online solvers and calculators, metric conversions, solved math problems (step-by-step), integrals table, calculator and more.
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The best math practice program for your class, let your students practice what you cover, and refresh what they need to - using intelligent questions, hints, and video lessons. FREE for Teachers!
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View free study charts for Science, History, English, Psychology and more. Great for lesson plans, study help, or quick reference.
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Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.
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The Media Awareness Network has designed materials to help teach digital literacy skills that include "managing online safety and privacy, understanding intellectual property and copyright, behaving ethically online, researching and authenticating online information, managing online relationships, dealing with cyberbullying, understanding and recognizing online hate, identifying and deconstructing online marketing, and knowing how to harness technology to speak out on issues that you believe in."
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UNESCO has put out a publication, Media and Information Literacy, that “is pioneering for two reasons. First, it is forward looking, drawing on present trends toward the convergence of radio, television, Internet, newspapers, books, digital archives and libraries into one platform – thereby, for the first time, presenting MIL in a holistic manner. Second, it is specifically designed with teachers in mind and for integration into the formal teacher education system, thus launching a catalytic process which should reach and build capacities of millions of young people.”
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Failures may hurt, but they can actually have some positive effects on your life and mind.
Beth Dichter's insight:
How do failures improve us? This post explores 8 ways that failures teach us lessons, including building empathy, humility, flexibility and creativity. Engineers understand that failure is a part of the learning process, yet in school we tend to look at failure as a negative component of learning. Is it possible for us to look at our practice and provide opportunities for our students to learn from their failures?
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Google just keeps adding new tools...or you discover something that you never knew they had...such as a "massive library of free lesson plans." Perhas one of the best things about these plans is you have multiple wasy to sort them. You can sort by Google product, or by subject or by age. The post provides additional details as well as samples of a few lesson plans.
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"In the era of digital everything, it’s often easy to lose some of the tried-and-true methods of learning. If you’re like me, you used flashcards a pantload while studying for quizzes, tests, the SATs, etc. But why? Why did you use flashcards? Because, apparently, they work." Check out this infographic (also available as a PDF for download)!
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Teachers know -- questions play a different role, depending on when they're used. This article presents several questioning strategies that may be used at all stages of lessons: student sort cards, question stem cards, and FY3 are explained in detailed.
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Mathalicious is transforming the way math is taught by providing middle and high school teachers with the most relevant, engaging, and effective math lessons anywhere. We do this by designing lessons around real-world topics that students care about, from sports to technology to health & wellness. This contextual approach helps students make sense of the math, and develop both conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.
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Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
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The Digital Storytelling Resource Kit includes articles, lessons, and samples to help you begin using digital storytelling in the classroom.
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Artsonia is a kids art museum where young artists and students display their art for other kids worldwide to view. This gallery displays schools (K-12) and student art projects in our museum and offer exciting lesson plan art project ideas.
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...provides tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary?
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"Is creativity something you plan or something you embed in your lessons each day? There are small ways that we can encourage creativity and open learning in our classrooms."
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"Pronunciator (http://www.pronunciator.com) is a free and comprehensive self-paced language-learning program offering 3 million self-guided lessons across 60 languages. Each lesson is accompanied by a native speaker, a culture-neutral pictogram, and a translation in your selected language."
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Learn about 11 great resources that look at "a people's history" that come from the Zinn Education Project. These projects are a sampling that help teachers "teach outside the textbook." The goal of the Zinn Education Project is to teach history of the "ordinary people" which is often not in the textbook. This post on GOOD includes a variety of resources, including lessons, books and documentaries. Check out the materials posted in this article, or go directly to the site located at http://zinnedproject.org/.