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3 Quick Ways to Capture Student Learning How do you capture student learning? This question can go in lots of directions. We know that students can snap a picture of their work. And we know that kids can capture their learning by recording their voice or typing a response. To capture student learning, you can give kids a way to create a product that shows what they know. In this blog post, I want to share with you three quick ways to capture student learning using the Adobe Spark tools. Spark for Education If you haven’t heard of Adobe Spark before, it’s an open-ended creation tool kids can access on an iPad, iPhone, Chromebook, or a laptop with a web browser. Let’s dive into these three ways kids can show what they know. Don’t forget to download these FREE planning pages to use with Adobe Spark. Capture Student Learning One quick way to capture student learning is to have kids choose one moment from a lesson to share. You might decide to have students post their graphics in a space like Google Classroom, Padlet, or Seesaw.

Risking Failure – Mighty Little Librarian | Librarian Tiff's Blog The Best Typing and Keyboarding Websites for Classrooms After dozens of hours testing typing programs, we recommend TypingClub and Typing.com for students and teachers. Learning to type with accuracy and speed has clear practical benefits, but there's more to it than that. Typing lessons help students with spelling and word decoding, and can free up cognitive space for students to focus on what they want to say. While keyboarding may not be the most exciting class for students, online programs have evolved over the years, making a skill that can feel rote more entertaining and meaningful. To help you choose the best one for your classroom, we explored in-depth some of the best typing tools on the market and selected the best of the best below. Our selections These are the tools that performed best overall in our tests and that we feel balance everything you'd want in a typing tool. Best overall: TypingClub A fantastic choice to help students master keyboarding skills, this typing program has it all. Go to TypingClub's website. Go to search.

The Book Fairy-Goddess Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator 4 Tips for Spotting a Fake News Story | Harvard Summer School But mixed in with all the fair, factual, and well-researched reporting was something more sinister: Fake news, stories that seemed accurate, but were actually downright false. While fake news has been circulating as long as its legitimate counterpart, it's been getting a lot of play recently, thanks to the way we consume information. According to Pew Research Center, people under age 50 get half of their news online. And for those under 30, online news is twice as popular as TV news. Speaking of the Internet, did you hear the one about Pope Francis endorsing Donald Trump or the Clinton campaign running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza parlor in Washington, DC, (#pizzagate)? Both fakes. Why Fake News Goes Viral Thousands of people circulated these false stories. Another contributing factor, according to Pew Research, is confirmation bias. But the result of all this misinformation isn’t simply ignorance. Let’s get critical: 4 tips for evaluating news

Three Ring Library Free Technology for Teachers Teach Inference - YES you can, the ultimate list of teaching inference ideas! - Classroom Freebies Share on StumbleUpon0 shares on StumbleUpon Ready to teach inference or teach inferring? Let’s go there! This was another one of those scary words initially when as a new teacher I peeked into what my students had to master… Digging deep to uncover it really is just about reasoning and using clues from the text to figure something out….well then…crisis averted. How to Teach Inference Maybe not crisis fully averted…what inference lesson plans would be the best for my students? The answer is YES! Stopping to ask questions during reading – for individual students or as a class is a good strategy! Pictures are another great way to teach inference! What are the best books for teaching inference? Lessons on inferring are rooted in books. The Sweetest Fig – With such a fun plot this book does leave the reader guessing until the end which makes it perfect to use the inference vocabulary and predict using text based information what will happen. Save time and grab your Listening Centers NOW!

Ms. O Reads Books The Digital Citizenship Survival Kit - A Teacher, Coach & Dad It's a simple little prop I use when teaching Digital Citizenship to our K-8 #aurorahuskies students. I love utilizing props to try to get my point across to students. To me, it helps a student retain the lesson better. Let me introduce you to Mr. Badura's "Digital Citizenship Survival Kit." Each of the items has a purpose. Here are the items I have in my "Digital Citizenship Survival Kit" and what each item represents: Padlock The padlock is to remind students to set strong passwords and to set up passcode locks on all of their digital devices. Toothbrush I tell students to think that passwords and toothbrushes are very similar in the fact that you NEVER want to share passwords. Permanent Marker Everything that you put online is permanent....even if you hit the delete button after posting. Toothpaste Imagine the information that you are putting online is like the toothpaste coming out of the tube. The survival kit is very simple.

Watch. Connect. Read. Libraries: trends, news, and ideas As we lay out our rooms and organize our spaces, we can make our learning environments more positive spaces to interact, collaborate and work together. Today Kevin Stoller gives us ideas to make our learning environments more positive places to interact. Sponsor: The U.S. Toyota Dream Car Art Contest invites youth, ages 4-15, to submit their […] Have you ever made the mistake of giving other people the kind of feedback you want to receive – but it just fell flat? Many schools are reimagining the learning spaces that some call libraries or media centers. Colby Sharp author of Game Changer! Charles “Chuck” Poole shares how to build relationships that matter. Many of you this summer are going to be working on your personal brand. Today I want to challenge your thinking about your summer. Tech Coach Penny Rayhill shares ten tips for awesome digital citizenship. While we have to finish well, those of us who are returning to another year as an educator have to look forward to plan.