With Valentine's Day coming up, this is a great time to highlight some activities I really love! In this case I am talking about technology activities for students that tie into the holiday theme while also promoting creativity and writing. I this…
Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent
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Tony Vincent
– May 15, 2018
If you're a teacher, there's a good chance that you use YouTube. Whether you send students to your own videos or someone else's, I think you'll find many of the pointers on this page particularly handy. Click a thumbnail to see a larger version, or…
I recently had the opportunity to work with an incredible group of elementary educators from Nauset Schools on Cape Cod. We capped off our PBL workshop by designing project sketches that the teachers would implement later this school year. They…
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Catlin Tucker
– Oct 16, 2019, 2:36 AM
In my blog post titled “ 3 Ways to Build Student Agency into Your Lessons,” I encouraged teachers to design lessons that allow students to make key decisions about their learning. Student agency is one of the easiest ways that…
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Catlin Tucker
– Feb 14, 2019, 4:28 AM
“If I don't grade it, students won't do it.” This reasoning leaves teachers with piles of work to grade, but I wonder how much of that time spent assigning points to student work results in improved student performance. I fell into…
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Catlin Tucker
– Mar 26, 2018, 3:58 AM
The Station Rotation Model is a blended learning model where students rotate through a series of online and offline stations. This model is an easier shift for elementary teachers who are already use learning stations with students. Unfortunately…