Actively Learn Upgrades All Teachers To “Prime” Through June 30thActively Learn is an excellent tool used by many teachers, and offers a free plan that many of us use. Its Prime plan, though, is much, much better, but a bit pricey. And pretty much the only way you can access it is if you can convince your school or district to ante up for it. Today, though, Actively Learn announced that all free accounts will be upgraded to Prime from March 15th to June 30th.
Learn About Electronic Music & Create Some Yourself With New Google ToolGoogle has just announced a new exhibition at Google Arts and Culture called Music, Makers & Machines: A Brief History of Electronic Music. A particularly neat part of it is a tool that lets you create your own electronic music and share it with others. I’m adding this info to The Best Online Sites For Creating Music .
“‘There Is No Playbook’ for How to Do Hybrid Teaching”‘There Is No Playbook’ for How to Do Hybrid Teaching is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Four educators “wrap up” a nine-part series offering advice on hybrid/concurrent teaching. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES TO SUPPORT CONCURRENT/HYBRID TEACHING .
Wednesday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopeningsgeralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Misplaced anger at teachers in reopening debate is from CAL Matters. When it comes to reopening schools, it’s time for leaders to listen to Black families is from The Hechinger Report. D.C. will randomly test 10 percent of students for coronavirus each week is from The Washington Post. S
“The News Evaluator” Is A New Interactive Designed To Help Teach Information LiteracyNews Evaluator website is a new interactive designed to help students develop information literacy skills. Here’s an excerpt from New tool makes students better at detecting fake imagery and videos : Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a digital self-test that trains users to assess news items, images and videos presented on social media. The self-test has also been evaluated in a sc
Pins Of The WeekI’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 22,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). You might also be interested in MY MOST POPULAR PINS OF 2020 Here
“We ‘Can Lower Expectations & Still Have High Standards’ in Hybrid Teaching”We ‘Can Lower Expectations & Still Have High Standards’ in Hybrid Teaching is the headline of my latest Education Week column. Four educators make recommendations for effective hybrid teaching, including how to use “stations.” Here are some excerpts:
This Is One Of The Best Pieces I’ve Read On School Reopening, Especially If You Have Gotten As Irritated As I Have By Op-Eds Written By Many Doctors On The TopicInside a Long, Messy Year of Reopening Schools by Rachel M. Cohen is clearly one of the best pieces I’ve seen written about school reopening. She really engages with the research – lots of it – and, most importantly, brings a dose of reality to the discussion. You have to really wonder how many schools these doctors who write op-eds calling for their opening have really visited – especially ones
Research Studies Of The WeekI often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature . By the way, you mig
March 25th Is “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” – Here Are Teaching Resourcescaption id=”attachment_96317″ align=”aligncenter” width=”1280″] Engin_Akyurt / Pixabay[/caption] The United Nations has declared March 25th to be the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. You might be interested in USEFUL RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRINGING ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO AMERICA .
Tuesday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopeningsgeralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : ‘An essential service’: Inside Biden’s struggle to meet his school reopening promises is from The
