Hack the Classroom Online Event
Tune in live to “You Bring the Q’s, We’ll Bring the Hacks,” a free online event sponsored by Microsoft, to see how small changes can have huge student impact. The event will take place on June 27, 2017, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CT).
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June 15, 2017
engagek12.robotlab.com
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Hands-on Learning Using Robots
RobotLAB has launched
Engage! K12, a platform that provides
robot-based lessons for a range of subjects and age levels. Engage! K12’s
interactive and
hands-on learning experiences are organized by high-interest topics, such as soccer-playing robots or autonomous cars.
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Digital Learning • Learning Support
Skills for Teaching the Earth Sciences
The Earth sciences curriculum, offered online through Penn State World Campus, can prepare you to help students in grades 7–12 master the educational objectives related to Earth and space science. You can take a course for professional development in the Earth sciences, learning from faculty who conduct cutting-edge research. Or you can take courses in such disciplines as geosciences, energy and mineral engineering, meteorology, geography, and even astronomy and apply what you learn in the classroom right away. The courses offer flexibility and convenience and are taught by the same distinguished faculty who teach on campus.
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US Fish and Wildlife Service
Funding & Recognition
Grants for Teaching and Learning About the World
The
National Geographic Society (NGS) is offering
education-focused grants to individual educators to support projects that teach students about the world and the way it works, empowering them to make it a better place.
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betterlesson.com
Professional Growth
Personalized Learning from Master Teachers
BetterLesson’s
personalized coaching empowers teachers to take their learning straight to the classroom. A teacher is paired with a personal virtual coach.
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STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Essential Classroom Resources
Through relevant webinars on topics such as “Teaching with Technology,” “Tech As a Learning Tool,” and “Creating Brain-Friendly Classrooms,” Quill reaches out to educators to support their daily needs. Quill.com’s Education Resource Center puts teachers in touch with grants to expand their special programs, awards to recognize their efforts, and sources to enrich STEM programs. Bookmark this growing resource as a daily companion, as well as a source to explore more than 85,000 classroom essentials.
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twitterrific.com
Social Media
Tweets Without Clutter
Twitterrific is an award-winning Twitter client for
iOS that lets users browse Twitter free from the clutter of promoted tweets. Users can use Muffles to hide from their timeline tweets containing words, phrases, people, and hashtags that they don’t want to see.
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beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Program Promoting Astute Digital Citizenship
In celebration of Internet Safety Month, Google has released a classroom curriculum and computer game to teach children in grades 3–5 about online safety and security. The program, called Be Internet Awesome, is part of Google’s effort to instill youth with digital savvy and to encourage them to be good internet citizens.
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invent.sparkfun.com
STEM • STEAM • STREAM
Community for Sharing Science Projects
InventorSpace by SparkFun is a free online community where educators can find, create, and share electronics and computer science-based projects.
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Professional Growth
Blog Encouraging Lifelong Learning
Howard Gardner,
Professor of Cognition and Education in the
Harvard Graduate School of Education, has launched a
blog titled “
Life-Long Learning: A Blog in Education.”
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themorgan.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Oral Readings from Thoreau’s Lifelong Journal
Henry David Thoreau spent two years in a cabin by Walden Pond and a single night in jail, and out of those experiences grew two of America’s most influential works: his book
Walden and the essay known as “Civil Disobedience.”
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childrenandnature.org
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Tools on the Health and Academic Benefits of Nature
The
Children’s Nature Network provides a collection of
free toolkits,
reports, and
infographics on the benefits of nature (wellbeing and academic outcomes), along with
free advocacy tools designed to help schools and other organizations connect children, families, and communities to nature.
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atstakegame.org
Mobile Learning
Game Fostering Creativity and Empathy on Real-World Issues
The
online digital multiplayer game @Stake was created by
Emerson College to foster empathy and creativity between diverse perspectives on real-world issues.
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cignition.com
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Math Game to Avoid the Summer Slide
Cignition aims to break the summer-slide trend through an
online fantasy world called
Fog Stone Isle, which helps students retain the difficult math concepts encountered during the school year through
crafting activities during the summer months.
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jpl.nasa.gov
Mobile Learning
Exploration of the Solar System Through Augmented Reality
NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created
Spacecraft 3D, an
augmented reality (AR) app for
iOS that lets students learn about and interact with a variety of spacecraft used to explore our solar system, study Earth, and observe the universe.
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©opensource.com via Flickr
Digital Learning • Learning Support
Collaborative Platform for Sharing Open Educational Resources
Created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality open educational resources (OER) and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.
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Social Media
Conversations About Bullying and Harassment
The
KnowBullying app for
iOS and
Android is designed to help parents initiate difficult conversations about bullying and harassment with their children.
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Funding & Recognition
Grants for Implementing Next Generation Classroom Assessments
Naiku’s
Teacher Team School Grants combine
professional development and
next-generation classroom assessment software to give K–12 classroom teachers the necessary information and tools required to successfully implement learner-centric assessment methodologies within a team environment.
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