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Strategies for Embracing Anti-Racist Work in Our Classrooms is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In the face of the shootings of George Floyd, Jacob Blake, and others, four educators share their plans for confronting racism, including encouraging a culture of questioning in the classroom and engaging with Black community members. Here are some excerpts:
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Here’s What America’s Covid-Era Classrooms Look Like is from The NY Times. Schools Find Health Risks in Water After Covid-19 Lockdowns is from The NY Times. At least 463 million students around the world have no access to digital or broadcast lessons– UNICEF is from The Washington Post.
I’m a big fan on Quizizz – I love how easy it is to create learning games, it’s simple to add audio, a piece of cake to integrate with Google Classroom and, unlike Kahoot, it shows the question and answers in the same screen so students don’t have split them (Kahoot is fine, too – to each their own). Quizizz just added a new Lessons feature – the ability to create a slideshow that you can present
geralt / Pixabay Here are several new videos that teachers could find useful: I’m adding this first one to The Best Resources For Learning About Women’s Suffrage : This next one is going to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures : This last one is going to The Best Sites For Learning About Cesar Chavez & The United Farm Workers Union :
Nine years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2020 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w
Wickedgood / Pixabay The Weather Channel has done a series of what they call “immersive mixed reality videos” about weather events. Here’s their latest one. Good thoughts from the California wildfire country to the hurricane inundated area…
