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Using Playlists to Differentiate Instruction

…on providing students with answer keys), and Could You Teach Without Grades? I hope these help! Aracely Has anyone used this at a Kagan, standards based school with special education/inclusive classes? Thanks! Cassandra Lytch-Colter Looking for ways to implement in a 3rd grade ELA class. Any ideas or directions. I did make a hyperdoc but I do not feel it is self-paced or differentiated enough. Tracy HI Cassandra, I started out with playlist for a writing workshop because I thought it lended itself the best for individualization and it fit our needs. In fact, I’m getting ready to start an…

Tools to Help Students Follow Their Passions

…tools that help students (or anyone, really) take their personal interests or talents to a whole new level, developing and sharing them in the same way a professional would: book publishing tools, blogging and website-building tools, image-making tools, screencasting and podcasting tools (and I explain what both of these are!), photo editing tools, and tools that help you create and share videos. The game really is so different now, and anyone with the tools can play. Consider this a starter kit. Links to the Passion Tools The Teacher’s Guide to Tech contains full descriptions of each of these tools, along…

Episode 163 Transcript

…you waiting for? Create a free account at kialo-edu.com, and try it out for yourself! I also want to remind you that the brand-new, 2021 edition of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech is now out! This PDF guide was created to help busy teachers make smart decisions about technology—over 450 tools organized into categories, with quick links to videos that show you the tool in use, plus a thick section of tips at the beginning (including a new section on remote and hybrid learning), and a glossary of over 100 tech terms at the end. I make the guide and…

Episode 57: Nine Simple Solutions for Common Teaching Problems

…I would get anything done without it. I have long conversations with people over the course of many days. I squeeze it in while I’m driving and doing household chores. You can have one-on-one conversations or group discussions. Anyway, Mark and I realized that if teachers and administrators started using Voxer, they could almost entirely eliminate the need for face-to-face meetings. The more we talked about it, the more we wanted to let people know about it. We soon realized that we had other ideas too, solutions for other problems in education that were either free or very inexpensive. Hacks,…

Episode 243 Transcript

…of differences. My hope is that today’s conversation takes us one more step closer to that. Before we get started, I’d like to thank our sponsor, Boclips Classroom, a library of over 1.7 million ad-free, curated, curriculum-aligned videos. Access engaging content from over 650 trusted media brands and teacher-loved educational creators, like TED, Amoeba Sisters, Fuseschool, PBS, and Crash Course. Teachers save time with their powerful navigation tools to quickly search and filter by subject, grade, and language proficiency level to find content mapped to key learning objectives from more than 70 common curriculum standards, then share it with students…

JumpStart: A Technology Course for Thoughtful Educators

…tools in an order that helped me make sense of them. As I learned each tool, one at a time, my confidence grew. I want to replicate that experience for you, to draw a path through the forest of tools and help you build that same confidence. To that end, I have created JumpStart, a mini-course designed to be paired with the Teacher’s Guide to Tech. How the Course Works JumpStart is a self-paced, downloadable course made up of 8 modules, each of which takes you through either a reflective written exercise or hands-on practice with the tools themselves. The…

Episode 250 Transcript

…is going to just take the risk? So if everyone’s doing it, then yeah, it’s just less risky. I’m going to interrupt this episode for just a minute to tell you about something I think will be a big help to you as an educator, whether you’re a teacher, a school leader, an instructional coach, or even someone studying to become a teacher. It’s something I’ve been publishing for the last ten years called the Teacher’s Guide to Tech, and it’s basically an encyclopedia of tech tools curated especially for teachers. My team and I keep an eye on all…

To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation

…and judge the order of the final list. Stephanie Lancaster Great ideas as always on this page/podcast! I teach in a Master’s level occupational therapy program and just last week my second-year students completed a curation project. Each student created a Google Doc on a topic they selected centered on things they will need to know when they enter the field as OT practitioners. I used the links they submitted to me to create a hyperlinked table of contents and then shared the finished product with them so they can all access each others’ curations. Here’s the link if you…

What’s so great about Google Drive? And why should my students be using it?

…Everything is very buried. And the Word-Alike word processor is basically WordPad. Still hoping to find a way. Jennifer Gonzalez Hi Dee! I use a program called Camtasia Studio. It’s wonderful! MissBarron I loved the analogy. It’s often how I feel about some of the big name tech apps out there. I’ve been using Google Classroom for over a year now. It is wonderful. My district really wants us to use the LMS they purchased, but for my content area, students, and I, Google Classroom is the way to go. Jennifer Gonzalez Hi Howard, I just opened up WordPad on…