Printable dice with text and images | free online dice maker, dice generator, worksheets and dice to print from Tools for Educators: Create your own custom dice with pictures, text or both images and text. You can make dice with just your text or choose an image category below to make dice with those images. (See below for some ideas on how to use the dice.) Make dice with text only make one die per page make two dice per page Make dice with images: The basic idea for using these dice in communication classes is that students roll the dice and use the vocabulary that comes up. A few general ideas on how to use these dice to get you started: - You can mix a text die with punctuation like '.' '?' - Make text dice with phonics digraphs, reading rules, and combinations. - Make dice with numbers and different operators ( + , - , x ) or just use regular dice plus the operator dice for simple math practice. - Make text dice with set questions or better yet, just the beginning, 'Have you ever ...?' - Combine the text dice with the printable board games in examples like those above.
Today is the first day of #PictureBookMonth! Find more information here @PictureBkMonth https:/… Magic Card Maker | MTG Cardsmith Sign In / Register Step 1: Upload artwork over 650px wide.Art must be less than 1MB in size. Step 2: Crop your photo using the display provided. Step 3: Enter your card details.Preview and edit until the card looks perfect! Javascript must be enabled! Upload Artwork Recent Card Commentary Read Latest Member Contests News About Us In the Real World…. I am going to be honest; I get a little annoyed at this idea that we have to be harsh with students in order to prepare them for the “real world.” First, we teach kids. We don’t need to bring down the harshness of the world upon them. Plenty of time for them to learn that. School does not mimic the real world. I’ve recently been going back and forth with some people on Twitter about students having a pencil. If we want to stand on the idea that “in the real world…. ” and use that as an excuse to break down relationships with students rather than build kids up, here are some real world truths. In the real world, we look things up on Google. In the real world, YouTube is one of the most popular tools for learning. In the real world, collaborating is not cheating. In the real world, finding information on the internet is a resource. In the real world, my job does not ask me things I can Google. In the real world, a lot of people show me a lot of mercy. In the real world, I have choices.
The Gamified Classroom Part I: The Unique Obstacles Teachers Face Today’s 21st century students are not like their parents’ generation. Never before have we, as a civilization, experienced such a large generation gap — and the reason behind it is video games. Within the span of only one generation the world’s dominant form of entertainment has shifted from passive (TV, Novels, Comic Books, Theater, etc) to interactive. Today, students are expected to pay attention and learn in an environment that is completely foreign to them. In the upcoming months we’ll be looking at how gamification can be used effectively in schools to help students feel engaged by their lessons. The fact remains that engaged students are better students. Secondly, before worrying about student engagement in a gamified classroom a teacher must also convince the school’s administration and the student’s parents that a gamified classroom is beneficial to learning. Andrew R. The Gamified Classroom by Andrew R.
10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes Sometimes, a linear document just won’t do. Students need room to move things around and get messy. Here are 10 Google Drawings activities to do that. (Sketch by Matt Miller) Using a document in Google Apps or Microsoft Word is perfect for many activities, but sometimes they can be so limiting. They’re restricting. Sometimes, you want your work to be all over the place. When that’s what you need, your Google Apps tool of choice might be Google Drawings. In fact, here’s how simple it is. Google Drawings is like a digital poster board. Sadly, many educators don’t know about it or know what it does. As versatile and powerful as it is, there are bound to be lots of uses for it. 1. How to do it: Create a graphic organizer (think KWL, fishbone, Venn diagram … or make up your own!) Need some help getting started? 2. How to do it: Students create a Google Drawing. Want some more guidance? 3. I found this idea from Mike Petty, a Google for Education Certified Trainer in Michigan. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
The City Library | Events Challenge your mind and mettle in this tournament, where you’ll compete against other teens using science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Kids and teens ages 8–18 can take part in weekly workshops where they’ll be able to work through a programming curriculum with the help of Library staff. Explore Minecraft your peers while improving your creative, collaborative, and problem-solving skills. Celebrate the patron saint of Ireland by taking part in St. Patrick's Day-themed crafts. Join other members of your community to discuss your thoughts about the novel A Man Called Ove. Flex your creativity and learn a variety of new crafts. Every Thursday, teens can take part in a new craft with supplies provided by the Library. The Teen Zone is a space made just for ages 12–18 that is open every Thursday and Friday. Learn how to raise responsible children and enjoy parenting in this free four-part course offered by Utah State University Extension. Fun Stuff for Kids Every Week!
50 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In “The Great Gatsby” the 1920s prose is like the coldest bubblie… What Message Are We Really Sending About Learning and Technology? After many technology driven initiatives and false hopes of technology as a silver bullet, there is a new mantra in education today: “It’s not about technology, it’s about the learning”. This is the message that has begun to sink in as people recognize that technology alone will not change learning for the majority of students. For me, this message is still missing the point. If you think about it, it’s about both the technology AND the learning and how together we can provide new and better experiences for students. We can’t do this, however, if we continue to focus on technology and learning separately. This means that educational technology directors and curriculum and instruction directors (or whatever the respective titles are in your organization) must work very closely to align their work and make sure it remains aligned all the way to the classroom. Like this: Like Loading... Related A Systematic Approach to Personalized Professional Learning In "Visionary Leadership"
The IRL Fetish The deep infiltration of digital information into our lives has created a fervor around the supposed corresponding loss of logged-off real life. Each moment is oversaturated with digital potential: Texts, status updates, photos, check-ins, tweets, and emails are just a few taps away or pushed directly to your buzzing and chirping pocket computer — anachronistically still called a “phone.” Count the folks using their devices on the train or bus or walking down the sidewalk or, worse, crossing the street oblivious to drivers who themselves are bouncing back and forth between the road and their digital distractor. Hanging out with friends and family increasingly means also hanging out with their technology. While eating, defecating, or resting in our beds, we are rubbing on our glowing rectangles, seemingly lost within the infostream. Predictably, this intrusion has created a backlash. This refrain is repeated just about any time someone is forced to detether from a digital appendage.
How Corporations Profit From Black Teens' Viral Content (via @thefader) In mid-September, YouTube shut down Meechie’s channel, which had accrued hundreds of thousands of subscribers. “I had too many copyright strikes,” he said, referring to his use of songs without explicit legal permission from labels. According to Meechie, labels contact YouTube and demand his videos be taken down, often without the knowledge of their own artists, some of whom pay him directly to help boost their buzz. “And it’s crazy, you know, because the artists ask me to put the videos up.” As prolific and internet-known as Meechie and his crew are, they are multiple steps removed from owning, in a tangible sense, their art, leaving them vulnerable to both YouTube’s whims and to having their creativity lifted by outsiders. Atlanta, where Meechie is from, is legendary as a place where teens generate culture, and then go uncompensated as their style and tastes are usurped by a corporate machine hungry for Black Cool. K.J.
“The Web We Need to Give Students” by @audreywatters #KCedu #MOedchat #KSedchat Since UMW launched Domain of One’s Own in 2013, other schools have picked up on the program’s relevance in today’s world — including Emory University, the University of Oklahoma, and Davidson College, as well as at several high schools. Domain of One’s Own has also spun out a startup of sorts, Reclaim Hosting, that provides low-cost Web hosting and helps educators offer their students their own domains. Clarence Fisher introduced Domains last year to his high school students at the Joseph H. Kerr School in Snow Lake, Manitoba. This observation was echoed by Bryan Jackson, who has implemented Domains at Gleneagle Secondary School in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Often when schools talk to students about their presence on the Web, they do so in terms of digital citizenship: what students need to know in order to use technology “appropriately.” It’s one of the flaws too with how privacy conversations about education technology are usually framed. Illustrations by Lisk Feng