Are Learning Apps Helping or Hurting Elementary Education?
Learning apps can be beneficial for education by providing interactive and personalized learning experiences. Learn about the effectiveness of learning apps.
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How Educational Apps Help In Distance Learning
Explore the benefits of using apps for distance learning. Discover how these digital tools can help students stay engaged and motivated.
Engine, Engine, Number 9 – If My Student Goes Off The Track…
“The Choice is Yours” by Black Sheep. I used to love this song, and still do. My favorite part of the song was/is the following: Engine, Engine, Number 9 On the New York transit line If my train goes off the track Pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up! It’s Easter time, a […]
21st Century Literacy Skills – Part 2
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and __________________ (fill in the blank). Mark Surman, executive director of Mozilla, would fill in this blank with the following: Digital Literacy This, he believes, is the 4th “R” of 21st century learning (video here). Last week I began discussing my experience working through a new curricular unit, attempting to bridge traditional literacy […]
Google Maps in the Classroom
The Blue Devils certainly gave Bucky Badger and the rest of Wisconsin a bad case of the basketball blues. Over here in NJ (where there weren’t even any teams in the tournament!), fifth-grade students were busily researching each team, working with collaborative documents, and learning to utilize Google Maps and QR Codes. To begin this process, I […]
Math March Madness
A way to use Google Forms for data analysis (in 5 steps): Currently, in a Connected Mathematics unit called Data About Us, my fifth-grade class is learning about data: collecting data, organizing data, and interpreting data. Striving to provide authentic learning tasks, my goal was to incorporate my students’ enthusiasm for March Madness into this […]
Google Formative Assessments
iPads vs. Chromebooks? I believe each have their own merits in advancing student learning. Our district decided to go full throttle with Google Apps. I’m fortunate enough to have each student equipped with a Chromebook this year. As such, I find myself using Google Forms ALL the time. This has immensely helped in my ongoing assessment of student […]
Conferring Notes and Student Accountability
Why document student conferences? To be honest, sometimes I just don’t feel like doing it. Sometimes I don’t feel like working out either, but I do it because I know it holds value. Value. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. Maybe some teachers just don’t see the value of conferring notes. I think teachers who feel this […]
Conferring + Chronicle = Making Someone’s Day
Bad days. We’ve all had them. It’s during these days that a kind gesture of the smallest kind can encourage us to press on, or perhaps change the entire course of our day. I recently received the following email from a parent in response to a conferring note. Here’s how it happened: Google Apps is […]