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ISTE’s 5 Tech Trends to Watch This School YearISTE CEO Richard Culatta says we

Kids Discover Online Offers Great Concept Maps Kids Discover Online offers excellent reference articles for elementary school and middle school students. All of the articles are offere...

5 Classroom Tools to Measure Student Learning | EdutopiaFormative assessment is a snap with games and other tools that let you see how students answer questions and review material.

NearpodNo headsets needed! Nearpod VR works on any device and best of all it’s available for free for your classroom. Create a free Nearpod account and show your students the world!

5 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018 Earlier today I went on live on my YouTube channel to share five ed tech tools that I recommend trying in 2018 if you didn't try them in ...

Winter Magnetic Poetry with Google Slides - FREE TemplateCelebrate winter and get creative with winter magnetic poetry using Google Slides! Get your FREE Copy of the Winter Magnetic Poetry template to use with your students!

35 Keyboard Combinations For Windows And Mac That Will Change How You Use Your ComputerThese combinations will help you utilize your computers to the fullest.

Launching a Makerspace: Lessons Learned From a Transformed School LibraryEducators share stories of year one with a school makerspace, emphasizing that the spaces thrive when they are flexible enough to meet the needs of students and teachers.

The Ultimate EdTech Chart for Teachers and Educators Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

Back to School: What's in your Tech Toolbox? As educators, our minds are always turned on. We are always learning, and we are constantly thinking of new ways to help our students...

Book Creator - the simple way to create beautiful ebooks - Book Creator appBook Creator is a simple EdTech tool to create ebooks on iPad, Android and Windows tablets. Create a book and publish it to Apple's iBooks Store.

4 Reasons to Use Kids Discover Online for Inquiry-Based LearningNonfiction text is important for student reading. However, it can take so much time for teachers to find appropriate articles, reading levels, and content related to what is happening in the classroom. Using online materials can add another level of problems. Your text can be ad-free one day and full of advertising the next day. […]

Three Awesome Educational Games Hiding in Plain SightNever Alone, Elegy for a Dead World and Valiant Hearts are powerfully educational because they're so enjoyable to play.

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018One of them is super trendy. One takes you into the past. Three can be used in a dozen different ways. And one you're going to want to try right away. Come see.

12 Most Influential Books for High School StudentsWe asked WeAreTeachers readers to share the most influential books they read in high school, and here's what they had to say.

Use coding to engage students in reading, writing lessonsIt’s easy to think of coding as a skill that is taught to older students as part of the math or computer science curricula, but coding can be applied to reading and writing, even in kindergarten classrooms.

Copy of Digital Learning Day 2018

Session: Tech Tools for Engagement

Find ideas for learning with technology in our back-to-school guide!Why not try one new thing this year to get students learning with technology. Check out this back-to-school guide for ideas, tips and resources on personalized learning, digital citizenship and gamification.

Interactive Notebooks: No Special Hardware Required | EdutopiaHere's an old-school interactive tool: a spiral-bound notebook set up as a simple, functional system for students to create, write, and explore ideas all in the same place.

25 resources for bringing AR and VR to the classroomThe benefits of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) include increased engagement and shared experience among students.

X-Ray Goggles Help Students See How Webpages Are MadeMozilla's X-ray Goggles is a neat tool that helps students learn the code that powers much of what they see on the Web. X-ray Goggles is a...

10 MORE digital bell-ringer activities to kickstart class (Part 2)We have a golden window of time at the beginning of any class. For these first five or ten minutes of class (OK, probably more the five than the ten), we have our students’ most attention. It’s the…

How to Create & Send Screencasts from Your Inbox On Thursday morning I featured Loom 2.0 which offers a convenient way to create screencasts on a Chromebook, Mac, or Windows computer. On...

Try Microsoft’s Free Learning ToolsI’m guilty of having a bias in favor of all things G Suite for Education that sometimes leads me to ignore some of the excellent products that Microsoft has been developing. I’m aware o…

22 Powerful Closure Activities | EdutopiaToo many university supervisors and administrators criticize the absence of lesson closure, the activity that ends a lesson and creates a lasting impression. Like contracting your bicep at the top of a dumbbell curl, closure squeezes an extra oomph into a lesson. Find 22 closure strategies in this article by Todd Finley.

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