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Twitter Chat: Infusing Global Learning Experiences - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Learn new ways to infuse global learning experiences. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for sites and information for their classroom. Explore the various tools that are shared.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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10 AI Terms Everyone Should Know - Susanna Ray
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use this article to develop your understanding of AI and related terms. Share the information with your peers as part of your professional development activities as you learn about AI tools, discuss guidelines for the use of AI by you and your students, and support your discussions of AI use with parents. Consider sharing this article on your class website to help parents learn about AI. As a school, dig deeper into developing an understanding of AI by choosing to explore one term in-depth each month. For example, begin with term number one, artificial intelligence, and start a conversation with what you, your peers, parents, or students know about AI. Use a word cloud creation tool like Answer Garden, reviewed here as an easy way to collect responses anonymously while still viewing responses in this visual format. Use the embed code to include your Answer Garden poll on your class website if desired. Use that information to guide your activities toward the discussion focus for the following month.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Distance Learning Toolkit - National Center for Learning Disabilities
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Save this toolkit to use as an excellent resource for both distant learning and in-person teaching situations. Share with your peers to include with staff meetings and professional development sessions. Consider separating each key teacher mindset and the key teaching practices into individual professional development discussions. Create a collaborative Google Jamboard, reviewed here, for all participants to add ideas, questions, and experiences throughout your learning sessions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Zapier - Wade Foster
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use Zapier to manage everyday online work. Have Zapier send you an email each time student blogs are updated, add documents automatically to your Google Drive as they arrive in your email, or get email reminders before upcoming calendar events. The variety of actions makes this a convenient tool for automating any number of activities to save you time and maintain the organization of your information.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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40 Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes in the Classroom - Tom Barrett
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Choose one of the ideas suggested in the slideshow as a starting point for using QR codes. Try additional ideas one at a time. Share the slideshow with other teachers and split up the ideas for each to become an "expert" in one of the strategies. Share your experiences as you learn together. Challenge your students to dream up other uses for the codes. As a service project, students could create a QR code school "tour" or add QR codes for students to use while waiting in the cafeteria line to access nutrition information about today's menu.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Just Beam It - Akshay Kannan, Hristo Oskov, and Pranava Adduri
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Have trouble sharing files with students because they do not have email? Do they need to share files with each other for collaborative projects ? Try using Just Beam It! No email or flash drive needed. File transfer is quick. Drag, drop and share! So easy, a savvy fourth grader could do it.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Personalized Learning: What's all the Buzz? - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
View this chat yourself or with your colleagues to learn more about personalized learning. Learn about resources and discuss the benefits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Common Core State Standards - Mathematics - Sue Gendron
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Share this website with your district and fellow teachers as a resource for information on Common Core Standards. Bookmark the site to use for viewing and understanding Common Core components as needed.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kentucky Text Sets - Daviess County Public Schools
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
This site is worthy of inclusion in virtually all teachers' toolboxes. Use the text sets to support literature instruction using the resources provided. Find materials to differentiate learning for all students by browsing through the different grade-level offerings to find materials that meet the needs of students who need additional support and resources that challenge gifted learners. Learn more about multimedia text sets by watching the archive of OK2Ask: Using Multimedia Text Sets for Student Knowledge Construction,reviewed here. As you and your peers build text sets, share your materials on a website using Google Sites, reviewed here using Kentucky Text Sites as a model of what to include.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Digital Librarian's Survival Toolkit - Librians for Librarians
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this ebook to use for inspiration in a variety of teaching situations. Use the ideas found in the book to incorporate technology into any subject or grade level. This ebook is perfect to use as part of your professional development activities or to use as a source for a professional book club discussion. Choose ideas from the book's authors to discuss and include in your teaching activities monthly as part of a peer discussion group with other teachers at your grade level or content area. Consider using BookCreator, reviewed here, to curate your own book that specifically addresses technology resources and how to incorporate them into your classrooms.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Scoop.it! - Scoop.it Inc
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
Create Scoops for projects so that students have a one stop shop to research. Create a Scoop with information and sites for students to use as a study guide. This also gives you some control over the information to which your students are exposed. Have students sign up for their own free account. Students could use this as a working bibliography of the resources they use for research, posters, and presentations for all classes. Assign students to create a collection of online literature about a specific topic as an assignment. Have students use the "add your insight" text box to provide a mini review of the articles.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AI for Education Resource Hub - Ai for Education
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a professional development resource for learning about and using AI tools and resources. Share the included AI policy considerations with administrators to use as a guide when developing district policies regarding the use of AI. Consider using Wakelet, reviewed here or another curation tool to organize and share information about AI with peers. Along with professional development information, include ideas for curriculum integration, effective prompts, resources that offer AI, and suggestions for use. Share information from this site with parents and guardians to help them understand AI and how it might be used in the classroom to support learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ClipChoose - ClipChoose.com
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Challenge students to create their own polls then search for YouTube videos to support or explain each response. Create a ClipChoose poll as a teacher or whole class. Have students respond then write a response using quotes from videos to back up their choice. Administer a poll, then use the data for graphing practice. Display sample polls (made by you or the class) and data for practice with interpreting graphs. Collect parent or student opinions about any topic. Take a poll at back to school night to find out what parents' greatest concerns or misconceptions are. Obtain quick feedback from students about which curriculum topics are confusing them. Allow students to create polls as part of critical thinking exercises such as how poll wording may bias the results. Encourage students to include polls in oral presentations to increase audience engagement. Teach students about types of propaganda using up to 8 example videos in ClipChoose. Ask students to select the one that demonstrates the use of a particular propaganda technique.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning - U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Include this document as part of your research and understanding of how to address the use of AI in education. Consider including the document as part of your professional development activities within your school or district. For example, use Fiskkit, reviewed here to begin discussions virtually. Begin by adding the link to Fiskkit to create a shareable document that allows you to add highlights to important text, rate or tag information, and discuss the contents virtually. Create a professional library of information related to AI using Padlet, reviewed here. Include professional articles, classroom use suggestions, and online AI tools in your Padlet.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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AI: More Than Human - Google Arts and Culture
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Use the information on this site to develop your understanding of AI, along with increasing your awareness of the benefits and negative aspects of AI. Take advantage of the activities shared on More Than Human for students to explore music and art activities. For example, select Create Your Own Artwork to create a Poem Portrait by adding one word to generate an addition to a collective poem or provide students with time to explore 12 Songs Created by Artificial Intelligence. Share articles and experiments with students by creating a Wakelet, reviewed here collection that includes links to materials found on this site and others of your choosing. After exploring the many applications of AI, ask students to debate the pros and cons of using Artificial Intelligence. Visit ProCon,reviewed here and search for artificial intelligence to find a discussion on the pros and cons of AI, along with discussion questions and an extensive resource list to use for research. Ask students to create videos, infographics, or multimedia presentations using Canva Edu, reviewed here to share their knowledge of AI.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The AI Education Project (aiEDU) - Alex Kotran
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Take advantage of the many offerings of aiEDU to develop a foundational knowledge of AI literacy and teach students how to interact productively and safely with AI tools. Many lessons and activities are available with options for teacher-led or independent student activities. Share these lessons with students to complete as independent learning projects or flipped lessons based on student interests. For example, share "Picturing the Future of Medicine" with students interested in medical careers and have students interested in government complete "The 29 AIs of Washington" lesson. Each self-guided study is approximately 3-5 hours long. Include the short AI Snapshots activities into classroom lessons on ethics and morals and teach how to debate complex topics respectfully.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Spigot - spigot.org
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Use these articles to discuss the future of education and the use of technology both in high school and higher education. As students are the most important stakeholders in education, many of these articles are relevant to them and their future. Students will especially be interested in the Practice and Alt. Culture sections of this site. Discuss current events in your classroom and ask students to investigate an angle on technology and/or education for a persuasive writing piece or debate. Students have incredible insight into their own learning and technology use. Keep this link bookmarked on your classroom computer or linked to your blog, wiki, or class page. Use examples from this site to look for bias or editorial slant as part of an information literacy unit. Select articles for experience with informational texts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Using Social Media to Increase Student Engagement - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Share this chat with your colleagues looking for tech tools to generate ideas in the classroom. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: 12 Gifts of Google Extensions - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
If you are new to Google apps and extensions or a veteran, find new ideas in this archived chat. Share this tool with your colleagues who are interested in learning more about Google Apps and Extensions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Becoming a Connected Educator - TeachersFirst
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K to 12In the Classroom
Learn more about being a connected educator by viewing this archive. Share this chat with your fellow colleagues looking to becoming more connected and broaden their PLN.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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