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AASL Best Digital Tools 2021: Wakelet

AASL released its list of Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning 2021! This year’s list took into special consideration how well these tools work for remote/distance students. The resources enhance learning and encourage the following qualities:

  • Innovation/Creativity
  • Active Participation
  • Collaboration
  • User-Friendly
  • Encourages Exploration
  • Information/Reference

We share these resources every year and you can explore our archive of past recommendations here.

We’re looking at the resource Wakelet this week! It is a FREE tool that this article from Infused Classroom describes as “a more powerful version of Pinterest.” Some ideas for using Wakelet are as a classroom newsletter, making how-to tech videos, or showcasing student portfolios. You can check out this Wakelet all about using Wakelet in the classroom! Common Sense Education has this review of the resource and Free Tech for Teachers has these ideas for classroom activities using Wakelet.

Educators can use Wakelet to “create visual, engaging learning environments for learners. With Wakelet, educators can quickly display any kind of content found on the web, through beautiful looking collections that can be presented and shared with whoever you like. School Librarians can use Wakelet to increase engagement with their students through book reviews, assignments, digital storytelling, reading lists and much more.”

Grades: K-12

Here’s a four minute video that’s a teacher’s guide to using Wakelet:

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AASL Best Digital Apps 2021: Britannica LaunchPacks: Science!

AASL released its list of Best Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning 2021! This year’s list took into special consideration how well these tools work for remote/distance students. The resources enhance learning and encourage the following qualities:

  • Innovation/Creativity
  • Active Participation
  • Collaboration
  • User-Friendly
  • Encourages Exploration
  • Information/Reference

We share these resources every year and you can explore our archive of past recommendations here.

This week we’re exploring one of the Britannica LaunchPacks: Science! This resource covers a variety of scientific topics and includes assignments, annotation tools, videos, articles, and links all divided by grade level from K-12.

“Britannica LaunchPacks: Science leverages high-quality, diverse digital content sets to build science knowledge and understanding, enabling educators to make strong cross-curricular connections to help students engage in meaningful learning. It allows educators to build content sets (Packs) that cover each of the disciplinary core ideas outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards and provide a seamless experience for students to think critically.”

Educator John Dabell offers his review of the resource here.

Watch this three-minute video to get an idea about all the possibilities this resource has to offer:

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Let’s try Minecraft!

Minecraft cube Why Minecraft

“I believe in student-centered learning. Part of student-centered learning is giving students voice and choice in the classroom. A few years ago, back when I was a high school English teacher, students were assigned a culminating project on Romeo and Juliet. Students had to show what they learned during the unit in a medium of their choosing. A student approached me and asked if he could show what he learned using Minecraft. I had no idea what Minecraft was, so after having him explain the game and how he planned to use it, I approved the project. A week later he brought in a video of Minecraft characters acting out his favorite scene from Romeo and Juliet in a gorgeous, block-based Globe theater. This is how I met Minecraft.

Continue reading Let’s try Minecraft! →

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TIES Digital Learning Day coming soon!

TIES will be having a one day professional development event on Saturday, April 22, 2017 – the 2017 TIES Digital Learning Day.

We are looking for presenters, and of course, attendees! Are you or someone you know interested in presenting at the 2017 TIES Digital Learning Day? If you would like to present and share a project or practice using technology that impacts student learning, we are looking for you!

We will offer a range of hands-on workshops and Student Keynote Speakers. The day will be filled with game-based learning, app-smashing, makerspaces, and chances to see what digital educators are doing to improve the learning experience for their students.

Proposal form here, feel free to share: https://goo.gl/forms/SqEaDZODdn1CG7K52

Event information here: http://events.ties.k12.mn.us/digital-learning-day/

Book your calendars for April 22!

Look for more information on registration is coming soon! Sincerely, Mary — Mary Mehsikomer, CETL Technology Integration Development & Outreach Facilitator TIES 651-999-6510 Mary.mehsikomer@ties.k12.mn.us @MaryTMM

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Call for webinar proposals: Digital Pedagogy in the classroom

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Think Digital!

CMLE Members – we continue to pass on assorted calls for your participation in the profession. You have a valuable voice and perspective to share – yours! We want to help you share your voice and your experience with others. Many of you are doing work that will fit right into this webinar series, and it would be great to share that! Of course perfection is not required here, just a willingness to help other library people. (And don’t forget: this kind of thing looks great on your annual review!)

As always, CMLE is here to help you with your application, to look it over before you submit it, or even just to give encouragement as you do this!

The LIRT Teaching Learning, and Technology Committee is soliciting proposals for our 2017 webinar series entitled
“Digital Pedagogy: How we use technology in the classroom”

Join the LIRT TLTC for an exciting three-part webinar series to be held on February 17, 24, and March 3 from 11am-12:30pm CDT. The series is designed to encourage an interactive and multi-faceted view of digital pedagogy and inspire engaging conversations surrounding the ways in which we integrate technology into our instructional activities from three broad perspectives:

Part 1: Introduction and examples

Part 2: Best practices in instructional design

Part 3: Best practices in assessment

Proposal Deadline: Friday, December 9, 2016
Applicants will be notified by Friday, January 13, 2017
Please fill out this form to submit a proposal: http://bit.ly/2fvamar
If you have questions, please contact Cinthya Ippoliti at cinthya.ippoliti@okstate.edu

Thank you! Submitted on behalf of the committee:

Alyssa Archer, Amy Chen, Joe Eshelman, Mandi Goodsett, and Kenneth Orenic