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10 Ways to Get Student Centered Learning Right
By Leah Levy on November 3, 2014
Photo credit: Francisco Osorio If there’s been a single educational buzzword with traction over the past few years, “student-centered learning” certainly tops the charts. From...
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Brain-Based Learning Techniques for Class
By Edudemic Staff on October 30, 2014
Brain-based learning isn’t a new concept, but it’s enjoying renewed attention thanks to the teacher accountability movement begun by President George W. Bush and continued...
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Too Noisy: The Best App to Quiet Your Classroom
By Edudemic Staff on October 29, 2014
Educators typically aren’t strangers to sonic chaos. Spend 30 seconds in my classroom of 27 ten-year-olds on a Friday before the bell rings, and you’ll...
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Could Chicago Teen’s App End to Cyberbullying?
By Edudemic Staff on October 28, 2014
Thirteen-year-old Trisha Prabhu of Naperville, Illinois recently made waves with her Rethink cyberbullying prevention app at the 2014 Google Science Fair. Her app recognizes hurtful...
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Doodling: A Teacher’s Secret Weapon for Unlocking Learning
By Leah Levy on October 27, 2014
For educators, there are few things more frustrating than looking out into a classroom during the middle of a lecture and seeing nothing but bent...
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Use Pomodoro Method to Engage Your Students
By Dustin Le on October 23, 2014
Consider the many ways in which people, especially students, acquire and retain information. We have written in the past about the seven styles of learning....
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Ultimate Guide to the Paperless Classroom
By Edudemic Staff on October 21, 2014
Many top educators and administrators view the idea of a paperless classroom as an inevitability in education. In today’s digital age, these educators believe that...
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The 21 Best Resources for 2014 to Prevent Cyberbullying
By Edudemic Staff on October 17, 2014
According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, more than half of teens and adolescents have reported that they’ve been bullied online, and between 10 and 20...
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5 Important Things from 2014 Educational Summits
By Leah Levy on October 16, 2014
Blended learning. Digital literacy. Mobile learning. Game-based learning. When these top educational trends came onto the scene, they sparked a learning revolution. That revolution continued...
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How Stress Affects the Brain During Learning
By Leah Levy on October 13, 2014
A fight or flight reaction may be useful in some situations, but it is highly detrimental in the classroom. Whether anxiety stems from test taking...
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5 Ways to Use Integrated Google Drive Apps for Group Projects
By Leah Levy on October 9, 2014
Google Drive empowers teachers as they use Google Docs to provide real time feedback. It also helps students engage in discourse via Google Moderator, and...
10 Resources to Better Understand Dyslexia
By Edudemic Staff on October 2, 2014
Imagine trying to read a sentence when every other word looks like made-up gibberish. It’s exhausting to read the sentence over and over again, trying...
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EDpuzzle Review: Easy-to-Use Tool Lets Teachers Quickly Turn Online Video into Lessons
By Edudemic Staff on September 30, 2014
There is a staggering amount of free video available online that makes great fodder for teaching students, particularly in flipped classroom settings. Instead of giving...
3 App Smash Video Projects to Challenge Your Students
By Greg Kulowiec on September 8, 2014
When app-smashing on iPad, students and teachers use multiple apps to create individual pieces of content that are then merged or smashed together into one...
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3 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom
By Nikolaos Chatzopoulos on August 24, 2014
Google’s advance in the education field has brought to schools around the globe affordable devices and effortless access to educational content. Google’s latest solution for...
4 Ways to Enhance Your Class with Google Hangouts
By Jennifer Carey on August 22, 2014
If you are familiar with Google Tools, then you have probably heard of Google Hangouts or even used them yourself. Hangouts is Google’s video conferencing...
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How To Integrate iPads With Google Classroom
By Greg Kulowiec on August 11, 2014
With the recent announcement that Google Classroom will be available to all Google Apps for Education schools by the week of August 11th, schools that...
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5 Time-Saving Ways Teachers Use Google Forms
By Jennifer Carey on July 30, 2014
One of my favorite features of Google Drive is Google Forms. If you’re unfamiliar with this, think of it as a way to create quick...
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How Teens Are Really Using Social Media
By Katie Lepi on July 28, 2014
A lot of kids are using social media these days, and even if that isn’t surprising to you, it may be surprising to you just...
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4 Technology Trends Changing Higher Education
By lesliebass on July 25, 2014
Technology has had a huge impact on the education system worldwide, transforming how students learn, share and gather information. The adoption of technologies like mobile...
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Introduction to Google Classroom
By Greg Kulowiec on July 23, 2014
With the recent announcement of Google Classroom, school districts and educators across the country that are currently integrating Google Apps for Education into their classrooms...
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10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Google Docs
By Jennifer Carey on July 18, 2014
Google Docs is a powerful word processing tool that many schools have adopted. As it’s similar to Microsoft Word and other word processing tools, most...
5 Ways Google Tools Can Empower Teachers
By Katie Lepi on July 7, 2014
There are about a million different ways to use all the great Google tools available for free in your classroom. Whether you’re bringing your classroom...
10 Word Cloud Generators You Have Probably Never Tried
By Katie Lepi on June 26, 2014
A few days back, we looked at five great ways to incorporate word cloud generators into your classroom. There are obviously many more uses out...
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10 Powerful iPad Apps For English And History
By Diana Neebe on June 15, 2014
When I first started teaching English with 1:1 iPads, I was really jealous of the science and fine arts teachers. They had all of the...