I moved my classroom at the end of the school year. I moved my posters, my bookshelves, and my computer cart. What I didn’t move, however, were my traditional tables and chairs.I get to design a different kind of space next year, one that encourages different learners to work both independently and collaboratively. I picture students moving about more freely, cozying up with a book in a corner or working on their laptops in the sun. I’m…

Continuar leyendo: Redesigning My Classroom Environment

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The flipped classroom model is a blended learning strategy I use to present my vocabulary, writing, and grammar instruction online. Students watch videos at home where they can control the pace of their learning, then they come to class prepared to apply that information in collaborative student-centered activities.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Flipped Classroom: Engaging Students with EdPuzzle

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Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight:This looks like a really inventive way to use QR type codes with a simple app to get students doing quizzes for assessment. Great classroom tool.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Plickers – Classroom response

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Google Sheets add-ons store has a multitude of excellent educational apps teachers can employ to enhance their productivity and improve their classroom workflow. Today we spent sometime wading through these extensions and curated the list below. This is a collection of some useful add-ons to help you with the assessment and grading of your students work.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight:1- Flubaroo2- Doctopus3- Super Quiz4- Online RubricSee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Google Sheets Tools for Assessment and Grading

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After posting about the voluminous amounts of historical footages uploaded and provided for free on YouTube, we are sharing with you another excellent resource but this time for historical images. Internet Archive Book Images Flickr page provides over 14 millions of historical images extracted from 2 million Internet Archive public domaine ebooks.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Over 14 Million Public Domain Images to Use with Students in Class

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Facebook is one of the most popular social networking platform among teens and students. From socializing to organizing study groups, Facebook has been of tremendous help to many learners out there. However, Facebook is often mediatized as a notorious platform which engenders a sort of ‘moral panic’ among some parents and teachers.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 2 Important Facebook Tips for Teachers

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During the summer, you’ll want to improve your teaching and lessons, but how do you decide where to start? Your students! I use these three ways to get feedback from my students on my lessons, activities, and what I can do to improve next year.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 Ways of Getting Student Feedback to Improve Your Teaching

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Plagiarism has become an increasingly significant issue with the increase of online information and the ease with which it can be copied. It is an issue in the classroom for students and educators, but it’s also an issue for writers, bloggers and journalists.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Detecting plagiarism with Unplag

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Educators have learned much about the benefits of using projects for learning, and collaboration is easily recognized as an important skill for students to build. There are very few arguments against having students work together in class and on assignments.However, the challenge facing many educators is not in wanting their students to work together, but in figuring out how to group students together in the most effective ways. We do not want to create groups that hinder the …

Continuar leyendo: 10 Dos and Don’ts For Group Work & Student Grouping

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As is the case with Book Cover Creator we reviewed in a previous post, Comic Creator is another useful tool from ReadWriteThink that students can use to easily design their own comic strips. The tool provides students with a variety of features to employ in the creation process. They can choose from different backgrounds, add characters and pros, and type in their textual input.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Very Good Tool for Creating Comic Strips with Students

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I was 11 the year my summer camp director transformed the regular schedule, procedures, and lingo that we were used to—into the most memorable, enriching experience I had ever encountered at that point in my life.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 6 Factors Of Gamification That Changes Students

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If you happen to teach in a 1:1 classroom then you will definitely be concerned about the educational apps to use with your students. There are tons out there for sure, but many of them are not worthwhile. To this end we curated this selection of some of the most popular apps and tools among 1:1 classroom teachers. Browse through the suggested titles and see what you want to adapt in your class. EnjoySee it on Scoop.

Continuar leyendo: 10 Useful Educational Apps and Tools for 1:1 Classroom

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By creating a Google Form to record students’ descriptive feedback for each subject, every single comment is in one spreadsheet and I can simply sort the sheet or filter it by name to see only one child’s feedback. This is unbelievably helpful when generating strengths and next steps for report card comments.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Organizing Descriptive Feedback with Google Forms

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The drawing features in Google Draw and Slides allow you to create templates for your students to manipulate. Create math manipulatives, annotate maps, Venn diagrams, model their understanding of concepts, and more. Here are some tips to help you to create the templates.When students are manipulating one template, use Google Drawing. If you want them to model multiple things use Google Slides. Using Google Slides you create the template and the manipulatives once and then duplicate the slide to …

Continuar leyendo: Google Draw and Slides: Tips for Creating Templates

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It’s no surprise that’s no surprise that there are so many tools available for students to publish their ideas to in the year 2015.There was once a time when publishing thoughts to the web required considerable knowledge of HTML and CSS, however with the surge of online blogging and publication systems, the power of expression has never been easier. Students now have a well of opportunity to express their thoughts and ideas with the…

Continuar leyendo: 23 Tools For Students To Publish What They Learn

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Working on a group project? Or organizing your students for group projects? Here are some tools that can manage the collaboration process for everyone.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Good Collaborative Tools to Help Students with Group Projects

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Looking for some good resources for students? Here are some notable picks from teachers. All are safe, student-tested, and easy to use.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Safe Student-tested Tools to Use in Your Class

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Here are some good web tools teachers can use to create and manage online grade books. These tools provide a plethora of features that enable you to calculate, save, and distribute grades to students. Besides grading, these platforms also allow you to track students performance, record attendance, build students portfolios, document classroom learning and many more.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Some of The Best Gradebook Tools for Teachers

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Last summer the folks at Canva were kind enough to create a great infographic for me based on a set of search tips that I sent to them. The infographic makes a great poster to display in your classroom, but it is a little light on the details of how and why to use some of the search strategies. The PDF embedded below provides more detail on the search strategies that I frequently share with teachers and students…

Continuar leyendo: 10 Important Google Search Strategies for Students – A PDF Handout

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When I ask the students why they are so attached to their devices with the small (some aren’t so small) screens, I invariably get the response, “It’s my life.”See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Manage Cell Phones in the Classroom

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