Sustainability Apps
Here are some resources to introduce students to concepts of sustainability in easy, digestible ways, while helping them take action towards a more sustainable future.
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Group Work Communication Apps
These apps and websites can help students maintain productivity while exchanging their work and discussing their projects.
Leveling Up: Motivating Students Through Gamification
Grammatically, it’s an awful-sounding word: gamification, or as a verb, to “gamify” the classroom. Teachers, however, have found a powerful tool here.
The Birds & The Bees: Preventing Local Extinction
Teaching students about birds and bees is crucial to their survival—and this isn’t a topic only for health class.
Making Social Media Work for You
If teachers want to use social media wisely in the classroom—either by teaching about it, or teaching with it—they’ll need to seriously think about why and how they’re doing ...
Coding Apps for Kids
Here are some apps that can get kids excited about coding from a young age.
Eight Tips for the New Techy Teacher
Two years ago, my principal rolled an iPad cart into my classroom. I'd been challenged to design and implement a 1:1 iPad program that would enhance the highly structured ...
Gotta Catch ’Em All — Teaching with Pokémon Go
Anyone who is familiar with teenagers knows that when one volunteers information about their school day to his parents—it’s big. Huge. That’s thanks to the phenomenon of ...
Minecraft in the Classroom
There is a growing community of educators who have adopted Minecraft as a powerful engagement tool in mainstream subjects like math, science, social studies, and even language arts.
Creating a Paperless Classroom
Like many of my students, I too use digital devices in my daily personal life, but the enormous piles of notes and paper combined with the constant fighting with the students ...