…Specialist Podcast Host Socratic Seminar Socratic Seminar is an instructional strategy that promotes questions and conversations about an article or text. It includes three parts: Preparation: reading, marking the text,…
Prepare for the End of the Year: Tips for Closing the Year Feeling Accomplished
…is preparation time. As educators have had to adjust and readjust to changing rules and regulations, daily preparation has changed in size. Many plans and projects have needed to be…
Week 2: 3-5 Day 5 Activity
…you already have a Scratch account. Scratch is a very popular, free online environment for coding. It doesn’t require you to download any software from the Internet. You can learn…
#262 – Digital Learning Day, with Dr. Adam Phyall
…to each other but to connect them to their future opportunities.” Success Criteria: “Technology should not be tied to test scores,” Dr. Phyall asserts. Instead, he believes that we should…
#43 – Leveraging Virtual Field Trips to Engage Students in Authentic Learning
…connect with resources beyond our normal learning spaces, we can bring a new level of magic into the learning experience that can inspire and enrich our students at an even…
Meet Nate – An Inventor!
…Oatmeal container ___________________________________________________ Parmesan cheese shaker_____________________________________________ Download PDF Worksheet Back to Nate’s Story When Nate was an eighth grader, he saw a Tesla coil on the internet shooting lightning and…
Google Drawings
Google Drawings is a free, web-based creation tool that is included in the Google Suite. It features a one-page canvas work area and includes various design tools, such as shapes,…
Changing Lights
…Measuring time Let’s create at least two images that will appear on the display! Students can follow the sample code provided in the student pages and can also plan out…
Turning on the Lights
…our very first image on the Code Cube. Students can follow the sample code provided in the student pages and can also plan out their design using the student worksheet….
Get Started With Blended Learning
…in remote-learning classrooms have taken the key elements of blended learning and applied them to their remote-learning environment. Entire schools have embraced a hybrid system of learning, where some days…
#44 – Insights From a Small, Rural District With Natasha Monsaas-Daly
…discusses the power of hybrid and remote learning and how these options will continue in the future, challenging us to find solutions for making technology a sustainable option in the…
The Server’s Tray
…practice appreciating diversity. Math: Solve problems involving measurement and estimation. Science: Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information. What You’ll Need Hands-on Code Cube Micro USB…
Connect Through Chat
…be done quickly and provide valuable feedback for you as the teacher, especially when you may not be able to easily see facial expressions or looks of confusion. Waterfall Chat:…
#23 – Guide, Inspire, and Empower Students Through Blended Learning
…inspires them to learn. Join our Digital Learning Specialists as they talk about how you might implement station rotation, playlists, and flipped learning to create a student-centered virtual- or hybrid-learning…
#236 – The A.I. Roadmap: Human Learning in the Age of Smart Machines, with John Spencer
…do, we’re all collage artists. We all sample.” Regarding the student role in this equation, he adds: “The role of voice, and tone, and style will be elevated a lot…