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Tweet Andrea Hernandez, known as edtechworkshop in the blogger- and Twittersphere has written a thought provoking blogpost about Where’s The Authentic Audience? She takes a closer look at the buzz word circulating among blogging educators and classrooms and asks tough questions. What happens when there is no audience coming to …
Tweet I invite few guest bloggers to share posts on Langwitches. This makes it especially rewarding to be able to present to my readers an incredible young lady. Zoe is growing by leaps and bounds as a blog writer and commenter. She is a fourth grader at the Martin J. …
Tweet The following is a collaborative guest post by Michael Fisher and Jeanne Tribuzzi , of the Curriculum 21 Faculty. The companion LIVEBINDER OF INTERACTIVE TOOLS IS HERE. Expecting students to read deeply and draw meaningful conclusions is at the heart of the Common Core ELA standards. Students are asked …
Professional Development
Tweet Our 4th and 5th grade students(9-10 year olds) have been working with Mike Fisher, co-author of Upgrading your Curriculum and author of children’s poems. The goal of their collaboration is to create an eBook of Mike’s poems with students’ illustrations. Once produced, students will work on marketing, advertising and …
Tweet During last year’s edJEWcon conference (a Teaching & Learning Institute for Jewish Educators, which I help organize with Andrea Hernandez and Jon Mitzmacher), we invited our Middle School students to attend our keynote session with Heidi Hayes Jacobs. We all watched magic happen, when students (without being asked) created …
Tweet You have all been there… Professional Development days at your school… Administration usually choose a topic, design the activities and/or bring in a speaker. Most likely, they will be slides with bullet points…listening…turn to your partners…learning about a new initiative your school will take part in…etc. As more and …
These are fantastic, colorful visual representations of the skills that are ‘covered’ by the umbrella of these tools. Like everywhere, many of my colleagues are still a little tool focused and I have been pushing to take a broader view and look at the underlying skills for the tools we are using. I will share these with my mission team!
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Thank you sooooo much for creating these and making them available.. they are wonderful..
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Thanks so much for creating these. They are so amazing! I’m hoping to use these with teachers as we create projects to keep our focus on the skills and not the tools.
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Awesome resources! Saw one or two a while back as you were creating them (via Twitter). Nice set of 5! I’m sharing them out with my ITS colleagues in our district. After all, we don’t teach the tools, but rather utilize the tools to get to the content learning.
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