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In today's post, I'm going to share with you some simple DIY for your chemistry unit. This is something my teaching buddy and I created this previous school year for our STAAR Review Camp, but I think it's definitely something we will be using during our chemistry unit for years to come. It's an Atom Building Model that's magnetic. And the best part is, most of the materials we used were things we already had around the classroom.
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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
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'In 2014 The Innovative Educator blog shared 166 posts with its readers. It is quite a rewarding feeling to be able to share and learn with others. I t hank those who stopped by to learn with me. A special thanks to those who took the time to comment and help me and others deepen my thinking on important topics. Below are the posts that were viewed or commented on the most.
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'BoomWriter is one of my favorite sites that I''ve posted about many times before for integrating technology into a classroom. This innovative site is ideal for grades 3rd-8th for Reading & Writing. BoomWriter allows students through a collaborative process create a digital book/story chapter by chapter. The way this works is a teacher creates a class/students (no student email is required) and then assigns them a story starter (or creates their own).
'" Otus is an easy-to-use, yet powerful classroom tool that brings the best iPad and Chromebook education features together into one secure environment, and uses a single Google login." I must say after reading this tag line I was quite intrigued to give Otus a look and it IS a complete mobile learning environment for schools. Otus comes in two free iPad apps one for the teacher and one for the student.
'Booktrack Classroom is a new site/app that is great for the Reading or Writing Classroom. This is an interesting tool that allows students or teachers to add a soundtrack to their writing. Here''s a list of ways Booktrack Classroom is being used in education. Narrative Writing – Students add music and audio to their original stories. Informative and Explanatory Writing – Students compose essays and articles selecting suitable audio to accompany their text.
'PDF to PowerPoint is the free classroom productivity iOS app from Cometdocs. This is a nice simple app to use to upload a PDF and turn it into a Powerpoint. This is very handy for mobile learning and those teachers and students needing to convert their PDF''s into presentations. Here are some more features from their promotional email. The app can be used completely free.
'Khan Academy the popular site for learning anything through educational videos, has just released a big update to their free iOS app. Version 2.0, now includes over 150,000 Math exercises that are aligned to Common Core Standards. Also, there is a sketch pad that allows users to work out their problems and take notes. Best of all, a the app syncs w/ the web version so a person can continue where they left off from any device.
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