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50 Of The Best Resources For iPads In Education. Learning Archives - TeachThought. It’s Not About The Thinking by Terry Heick It’s not the thinking behind an idea that should bother us, but rather the effect of the idea. #edtech. Content-based academic standards. PLCs. Use of data…. Read Post → 4 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy can be a powerful tool to transform teaching and learning.

Read Post → 50 Of The Best Podcasts For High School Students by Dennis Lee, StudyPug.com This post is the first part to a 3-part series entitled “250 things any high school student must learn”. Read Post → Want To See Their Best? Read Post → 7 Skills Students Will Always Need by Jennifer Rita Nichols Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post. Read Post → 15 Common Mistakes Teachers Make Teaching With Technology by Terry Heick The role of technology in learning isn’t entirely clear–or rather, is subjective.

Read Post → Read Post → Read Post → Read Post → Data-Driven Teaching? Read Post → Read Post → Read Post → Read Post → Read Post → Technology Integration Matrix. Technology 4 Teachers. Free Technology for Teachers. I subscribe to roughly 300 blogs (honestly, I stopped keeping track a while ago). Usually, when I say that at conference or workshop the follow-up question I get goes something like this, "can you recommend some good blogs for X? " So this week I'm going to publish a short list each day of the blogs that usually come to mind when someone asks me to make a recommendation for a blog related to teaching a particular subject area. Since the bulk of my teaching experience is in social studies, I'm starting with that.

Here are five feeds that U.S. The US National Archives is an all around good resource for history teachers to have bookmarked. Glenn Wiebe's History Tech blog is one that I've cited in some of my posts in the past. Glenn also developed Social Studies Central which houses a good collection of resources for social studies teachers. I've featured the excellent video productions of Keith Hughes quite a few times in the past. You can't teach U.S. The Future Of Textbooks Is Free … And It’s Now Available. The world of digital textbooks is more than heating up. It’s on fire. Amazon just launched a digital rental option for textbooks . Companies like Chegg are becoming academic hubs that can improve your education experience through more than just textbook rentals.

But all of the options to use digital textbooks have cost money. And teachers as well as students simply don’t have much. Until now. Boundless just launched the public beta version of its brand new site. This is one of the most exciting announcements that came across my inbox over the past few weeks. How It Works Boundless taps into the world of free & open access information and turns it into a beautiful yet functional digital textbook. Section Overview on Boundless How To Try It Out As of the publishing of this post on Edudemic, you can officially sign up for the public beta of Boundless . Image example on Boundless.