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I Like It - Safer Internet Day song Coz I like it Chatting with my friends online When there’s nothing to do or it’s raining outside Coz I like it Expressing myself but I never let a bully get into my head Coz I like it Chatting with my friends online When there’s nothing to do or it’s raining outside Coz I like it Expressing myself but I never let a bully get into my head Everybody here put your thumbs up high if you think these bullies should be taken offline When we’re online or using an app We should never have to deal with thatI wanna snap like my screen in half But really they just want me to react But I won’t give in, I’ll step on it Put the message in the bin and won’t let them win!

6 new ways to play a Quizlet Live game Vocabulary is important for every subject and even more so in the age of high stakes testing. Early on in my teaching career, I moved rather quickly towards using Quizlet to create and manage the vocabulary that my students would need to learn. Quizlet is by no means limited to just vocabulary though; as study questions, diagrams, pronunciation, and pictures make it a powerful tool. Quizlet allows you to turn any picture into a study set, which significantly broadens what you can do with it.

50 Fabulous EdTech Blogs to Follow One of my main sources for new educational technology ideas, tools, and resources is reading blogs. Every day is an adventure to see what new technology integration ideas I can learn, explore, and share with others. Over the years I have collected a large list of EdTech blogs that I read. To make this process manageable, I use Feedly to pull all of the blog posts together so I can visit one single location to see everything that is new. For more details on how to use Feedly, see my earlier post on the topic. In case you are looking for some new EdTech blogs to follow, below is a list of 50 of my favorites. Turning Your Students Into Web Detectives Our students use the web every day—shouldn’t we expect them to do better at interpreting what they read there? Perhaps, but not necessarily. Often, stereotypes about kids and technology can get in the way of what’s at stake in today’s complex media landscape.

Cyberbully 2015: Movie Review Unfortunately, we are all familiar with the typical dynamics of a bully-bullyee relationship. Those of us who don’t have stories to tell of their own can at least recite stories they have witnessed. We’ve all grown up watching it happen at school, in summer camps, in the movies, on a comical show on the small screen in the living room; it’s everywhere. We have normalized it, we have accepted it, and as it moved with us to the digital age, we didn’t attempt to stop it. Cyberbully 2015 is a very interesting TV drama that successfully sheds the light on many topics we’d otherwise rather turn a blind eye to. Here’s how!

Copy Comments to Google Classroom Docs and Slides Several months ago I shared a blog post about "How to Force a Docs Copy WITH Pre-Loaded Comments to Help your Students". The post explained a URL trick you can use to not only make a copy of a document, but to also copy any comments you have made in the Doc. This can also be a creative way to provide additional resources, links, and assistance to your students in their projects. Instead of just getting a copy of a worksheet, HyperDoc, study guide, or other document, students can also have comments pre-loaded into their copy of the document. These comments can provide them with:

For Teachers Do you want to use Gapminder tools in your classroom? Check out all our resources on this page and the downloads page to get started. For more info, contact our educational staff at mikael@gapminder.org and olof.granstrom@gapminder.org . Featured examples of Gapminder in education Teachers TV: Looking at statistics with Year 8 students[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]Thanks to: Bob LangGapminder and Worldmapper Geography for a changing world resources from the Geographical Association, UK.Thanks to: Paula CooperGapminder course at the NYC iSchool An experimental high school course that challenges 10th and 11th grade students to use a quantitive lens to analyze the last 200 years of global history.Thanks to: Jesse Spevack How can you change from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset? Step1. Learn to hear your fixed mindset “voice.” As you approach a challenge, that voice might say to you “Are you sure you can do it? Maybe you don’t have the talent.” “What if you fail—you’ll be a failure” “People will laugh at you for thinking you had talent.”

STOP cyberbullying: Cyberbullying information for tweens what is it? :: how it works :: why cyberbully? :: prevention :: take action :: what's the law? Cyberbullying information for teens Are you a cyberbully? Often, people who are victims are also bullies.