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Nothing Says Over 40 Like Two Spaces after a Period!

…post, written two months later…The Price of Snark: What I Learned About Teaching from a Viral Post.] By the way? This isn’t what I usually write about. For the most part, this site is about teaching. So if you happened upon this article AND you have an interest in education, you need to stick around, baby. Join my mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration — in quick, bite-sized packages — all geared toward making your teaching more effective and joyful. To thank you, I’ll send you a free copy of my new e-booklet, 20 Ways to…

Everything You Need to Know About Building a Great Screencast Video

…are willing to put in the hard work to ensure that their authentic teaching styles remain intact. This should not be a surprise to anyone who understands the art of teaching; technology simply cannot replace teachers. One of the most effective ways to move instruction online is to build screencast videos. Screencast videos are unique because they are actual recordings of your computer screen or tablet as opposed to a video of an in-person lecture. They are a powerful way to deliver instruction, but they do require a fair amount of time and planning, which I have learned through a…

13 Stunning Places to Publish Student Art and Writing

…know in the comments. Enjoy! Illustration by Chungha Lim, Grade 12 The Blue Pencil editor-selected Age Range: 12-18 Accepts: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays 2017 Update: The Blue Pencil is no longer available. As I read the Spring 2014 issue of The Blue Pencil Online, one thought occurred to me over and over: Man, this stuff is good. And dark. Edited and produced by the students at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, the online magazine is published about once a year. In addition, all submissions from students in grades 8-11 are considered for two full scholarships to…

Episode 17: Passion Tools

…to become more and more in demand as the students we get right now get older, because so much of what happens in the world happens online. Everything that happens online needs images to go with it. It needs graphic design to go with it. So even a student who’s not necessarily good at drawing can use Canva to really create some interesting visual art that could be used for other things, that could be used as a book cover for the book publishing thing that they’re doing, if that’s something they want to be doing. It can be used…

Episode 176 Transcript

…of courage and not weakness. So making yourself an example when you seek outside help or outside counsel and students kind of seeing that. And we have a lot of case studies in the book with teachers who’ve been through a student suicide and how they’ve adapted their teaching curriculum and pedagogy to embed some of those strategies into their teaching because, you know, I’ve got to teach the subject anyway. Might as well make it worthwhile and teach kind of multiple modalities. GONZALEZ: Okay. ROGERS: And probably one of the most simple things that I encourage people to do…

The Apollo School: What 21st Century Learning Looks Like

…their own education. Those can be completely organic in that sense, and really rewarding.” Students use online software to plan out how they will use the four hours, in 30-minute blocks of time. This time might include independent research, creative work, group work, or one-on-one conferences students schedule with the teachers as needed. Students meet with social studies teacher Greg Wimmer. Using an online form, students schedule one-on-one conferences with teachers as needed. They are free to travel between the art room, which functions as a kind of makerspace, Wimmer’s classroom, which students typically use for small group meetings, and…

Episode 61: Seven Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Learners

…they learn to get it in the right folder. GONZALEZ: Right. Because they can always find it if it’s in there, they can eventually get to it. PERLER: For these kids, yes. GONZALEZ: Yes. PERLER: And I would not recommend that for more linear kids, but for these kids, yes. GONZALEZ: OK. PERLER: So then the other key to this whole thing, well two other keys. One is to do the overhauls. Every week or two weeks, overhaul the folders, meaning because even though you’re teaching, just like we said before, even though the parents are teaching their child, “Hey,…

Episode 201 Transcript

…learners, not adversarial ones. No other product in the edtech space has a feature that enables educators to give reasons for closing tabs. They simply close browser tabs for students and, in turn, close off the possibility for them to learn how to exercise their executive functioning skills and make good decisions online. Hapara helps educators build relationships with students while giving them autonomy over their education. Visit hapara.com/cultofpedagogy to learn more about supporting digital citizenship skill building for students through ethical monitoring. Support also comes from JumpStart, which is my very own self-paced online course designed to help teachers…

Are You Making the Most of Your Interactive Whiteboard?

…you have to say. Add your own experiences in the comments section below. YOUR ON-DEMAND GUIDE TO ED TECH The Teacher’s Guide to Tech is an online encyclopedia of technology, constantly updated and hand-curated for teachers by teachers. If you’re ready to cut through the noise and get back to teaching, it’s exactly what you need. LEARN MORE Learn something new every week. Join my mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration—in quick, bite-sized packages—all geared toward making your teaching more effective and fun. You’ll also get access to my members-only library of free downloadable resources, including my e-booklet, 20 Ways…