Category: Common Core

News and Links of the Week

9/16/2014

Thank you, Piedmont staff, because YOU are This to me! Click the image to see why.

Latest Piedmont PD News includes info on National Board Certification, Discovery Place's professional development offerings for teachers, new quick PD's on handy efficient tech tricks to save you time and storage space: like the quickest way to upload to Google Docs, how to convert and embed a powerpoint, How to make a QR CODE ,chromebook and computer troubleshooting info, etc

Other Ed News from Around the Web:

https://www.edsurge.com/guide/how-teachers-are-learning-professional-development-remix

LITERACY and ART_ Why older kids and adults need picture books and graphic novels http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-older-kids-adults-need-picture.html
HOMEWORK-Why Marzano's Homework Research is Flawed: http://linkis.com/buff.ly/3BoHA
GOOGLE CLASSSROOM-Use Google Classroom to Differentiate Assignments http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2014/09/14/using-google-classroom-to-differentiate-assignments/
MAKERSPACES - 30 Second Take: Digital Duel: Makerspaces - Piedmont has makerspace materials for you. Here are two teachers each speaking for 30 secs about how makerspaces are useful to you in class as a teacher and to your students.
Teachers' FAVORITE APPS

Twitter Chat - Storified Twitter Chat (conglomeration of Tweets) where teachers share their favorite apps and how they use them http://sfy.co/qg2W
Article that includes apps remind, class dojo, and others http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/09/16/347377022/a-is-for-apps-teachers-share-top-digital-tools-of-the-trade

Start with Strengths! http://chriswejr.com/2014/09/10/start-with-strengths-change-the-lens-change-the-story/
How The Power Of Interest Drives Learning http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/11/how-the-power-of-interest-drives-learning/ "Research shows, for example, that an inscrutable poem is judged as more interesting when readers are given a hint that allows them to make sense of what it’s about. Abstract art, too, is considered to be more interesting when the paintings are given titles that help viewers understand what the artists may have had in mind as they painted. Viewers become even more interested in such paintings when they are given biographical information about the artist and background about the historical context in which it was created."
Stop Teaching Kids to Play the Game of School
A new Game based site called Kahoot- it says access is free and the folks who use it seem to like it. I can look into it more for you if you let me know you are interested.

Big Philosophical idea of the week: