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Resourcefulness: Balefire Labs’ Evaluation Helps Teachers Find Quality Apps
By: Steve Peha. I liken Balefire to a kind of Consumer Reports for education apps. It has an easily browsable table-and-checkbox view of hundreds of apps which allows users to see at a glance which ones match up best with Balefire’s model.
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OpenEd Releases its First OER App
OpenEd uses a machine-learning based recommendation engine to align resources to standards. OpenEd also uses subject matter experts in both knowledge domains and the Common Core to validate those alignments.
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Edmodo App Review: NoRedInk
NoRedInk is a website but is also available as an Edmodo app. I hadn’t used Edmodo apps so I was eager to try it out when my 7th grade English Language Arts teacher asked me about it.
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Great Books Go Digital: In Search of Julius Caesar
At the risk of sound a bit like the parody of our parents who walked ten miles to school barefoot in the snow, I’d say things are a bit different now.
Personalized Learning
There’s a Maker Faire in That iPad! 10 Ways to Create Student Makers With Apps
These days, the word “maker” can be interchanged for “constructivist” and the Maker Movement is really starting to sweep the country.
Personalized Learning
Teaching with Comics
Have you ever used a comic strip in class? Have you ever turned to a comic for your own education? (If you’ve ever read the flight safety pamphlet on a plane, the answer to that question is “yes.”) Despite their historical reputation as “low brow” non-literature (they were even blamed for juvenile delinquency back in the ‘50s) comics have proven useful for everything from motivating kids to read to instructional manuals for the military.
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The One Thing Missing From Your #TCEA14 Schedule
But what will Monday look like? What is your action plan? Have you developed a strategy for implementation and execution?
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Tech Tool Review: VideoNot.es
VideoNot.es is a website and a Chrome app. It links to your Google Drive. When you associate your Google account with VideoNot.es, it creates a new folder in your Drive called VideoNot.es.
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Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World- 2013 Update
The first draft of Getting Smart was written three years ago and a lot has changed since then. Thirty months isn’t a lot of time…except when you’re in the middle of a revolution.
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Have Students Create Apps? Yes, They Can!
I suggest that teachers should all give the app a download and take a look regardless of what grade you teach. It may provide you with some inspiration for your own app, or idea to pursue with YOUR students this year. Brad Wilson and Steve Keinath deserve a lot of credit for what they are doing with students.