Overview Empowering students with “choice” means that students have some say in the who, what, why, when, where, or how of the learning process. When we give students “voice,” we…
Develop Global Collaborators: Connect Your Students to Classrooms Around the World
…social reading community for teachers, students, and parents. Create bookshelves, log reading time, find recommendations, create reviews, suggest books, create challenges, and more. This free site is teacher- and parent-moderated….
Manage Your Teacher Workload in a Remote-Learning World
…planning to common learning goals and standards. Create in a digital space that allows you to easily share materials. Find a common, shared space to store these digital materials and…
Increase Digital Citizenship in Your Classroom
…Online Communities by Kristen Mattson Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World by Devorah Heitner Explore related offerings from Common Sense Education, which include free K–12 digital…
#89 โ Digital Equity, Beyond Device Access
…highlights from our conversation: The Foundation of Digital Equity: Digital equity is more than digital access. It means exploring the kinds of creative learning opportunities that students have once they…
Accelerate Learning Through Differentiation
…However, watering holes are usually less formal than campfires, and the exchange of ideas is more free flowing. It is less about one expert sharing ideas and more about informal…
Ed Tip: Finding Virtual Guest Speakers
…offers free learning programs for students of all ages, every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 1:00 pm ET. These virtual programs are typically 45 to 50 minutes in length and…
Wordwall
…You are allowed to create five free activities without a subscription. With the free version, you can also search the community library and use an unlimited number of activities created…
#141 โ Fun Holiday Brain Breaks
…Education) Breakout Challenges 40+ Free Digital Escape Rooms (Plus a Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Own) (Ditch That Textbook) 4 Free Holiday Digital Escape Rooms (Ditch That Textbook) Free Digital…
#256 โ Supporting a Healthy Digital Lifestyle, with Eisha Buch
…develop healthy digital lifestyles. She unpacks the free lessons and web content—created to be both actionable and accessible—that are available on the Common Sense Education website. Read a transcript of…
Ed Tip: Polling Tools
…embedding with a free account. Google Forms: Create robust surveys with a variety of question types. Review data on preformatted charts as well as an integrated spreadsheet. Microsoft Forms: Integrate…
#309 โ aiEDU
aiEDU In today’s episode, we’ll explore the free student and teacher resources about artificial intelligence available from aiEDU. Read a transcript of this episode. Paul Beckermann PreK–12 Digital Learning Specialist…
Ed Tip: Flippity
Overview Flippity is a free website that offers 28 different learning activity templates. Visitors to the site can preview each activity and access directions for how to make a copy…
#118 โ Broadening Participation in Kโ12 Computing, with Dr. Carol Fletcher
“Computing is really a ladder to economic mobility,” states Dr. Carol Fletcher, Director of Expanding Pathways in Computing (EPIC). Despite this, only about half of all high schools in the…
Preparing Students to Join the AI Workforce
…race to get out in front of the AI revolution, it seems that a new breakthrough or application is announced nearly every day. With this rate of development, the work…