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Photos For Class: Attributed Images Students Can Use

September 03, 2018

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The Infographic Syllabus Template

August 26, 2018

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Curriculum Planner Spreadsheet for Secondary Teachers: You can have a copy

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Teacher Wish List on Amazon: What you need shipped directly to you

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What's my grade? Balancing progress and summative grades in an online world

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Favorite things for my classroom

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NBCT Component 3: Tips for Video with Teenagers

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Supporting Independent Reading in a 9th Grade English Class

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Book Recommendation Slides

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You can't email a folder: Use Google Drive instead

January 11, 2018

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Slip Ups with Google Classroom: The Triple Fail

December 11, 2017

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September 11, QR Code Museum

November 26, 2017

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Self-Evaluation Google Form for Students

September 27, 2017

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Formative is the formative assessment tool you crave

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Jen's Edutopia Articles

🗣️ When Students Use AI in Ways They Shouldn’t
✍️Authentic Writing in the Age of AI
⛔️ Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom
🤖 What ELA Teachers Should Know About AI Detectors
📄 Using AI Tools to Give Feedback on High School Students’ Writing

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NBCT: My Experience with Component 2: YA ELA

Assembling Component 2 Considering National Boards? I recommend the process, but you should know what you are getting into. Start early and get organized. In the spring of 2016 I began pursuing National Board Certification for teaching. I know eventually someone will ask me for my thoughts and advice about that process, so I'll capture them now while the experience is fresh. Because I teach 9th grade, and previously taught middle school for ten years, I decided to do my NBCT in the area of Young Adolescent ELA. (Yes, I also taught 11th grade for six years, but that was a while ago.) Though some do it in one year, I'm taking two years to complete my NBCT. Last summer, at a small local conference, I stumbled into a conversation about National Boards and happened to find out that my County Office of Education sponsored a support program. I was just in time to sign up. Through that program I got early advice and support to help me understand expectations and deadlines. Th...

Preserving Authenticity in Student Writing in the Age of Generative AI

Ideogram: student writing synth wave A huge part of the angst about generative AI centers around the generalized concern that students will use it to cheat. News flash, they will. Student will cheat with AI because there have always been students who cheat, this is just a new way for them to do it. Cheating is not new. But, let's put this problem in perspective. Risk taking is normal teenage behavior. All teens take risks, some drive too fast, some jump off roofs into swimming pools, some drink in excess, some lie to their parents, and some turn in work they did not do. Some teens are more cautious and some are less cautious. Brain science, and yes I have read about this with my students, shows us that teens value rewards higher in many risky situations, therefore making poor decisions seem more attractive. I am not trying to excuse academic cheating. It's just that I stopped viewing it as a moral failing, and I now see it as part of the risk taking, adventureso...

AI Literacy Lesson: What to Do When AI Gets It Wrong

It's well known that AI can hallucinate and sometimes just get things wrong. (Side note, have you met humans?) The question for educators is how do we teach that important AI literacy lesson to students? You can never be sure when an AI will fail in that way, so a predictable lesson that worked once may never work the same way again. It has to fall to the teachable moments. But beyond, "Hey, look, the AI failed us!" what do we offer our students as the next step? What should they do when the AI fails? Here is an example of the teachable moment that happened last week in my classroom. My seniors are reading Into the Wild. We are nearly done with the book, but my colleague just used her own powers of AI creativity to generate a fun activity where students have to decide what they would put in their own backpacks if they were headed into the wilderness. I liked it. My students liked it. It was a great way to connect with the book on a Friday afternoon. (Pack Like Chris Ac...

Group Creator: Group Students Fast, but Not Random

I want to have my students work in groups and with partners as often as possible, but the process of making their groups or choosing their partners took me a long time. I kept looking for a digital solution that would speed up the process for me, but I could never find one with the features I wanted. Then I figured out how to make a group creator that works for me and I'm also sharing it with you. My Group Creator runs in a Google Spreadsheet. (Don't panic, it comes with directions.) After you add your class roster and sort by a score you put in, you can click on the different tabs across the bottom to see the different groups students should be in. The tabs include both homogeneous and heterogeneous groups of six, groups of four, and partners. Directions Page Click this image or any other to see it larger. Roster Page On the roster tab replace the sample names with your own students. Then add a score that you can use to rank your students,...

Turning SAMR into TECH: What models are good for

Image created by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D. http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/ SAMR, developed by Ruben Puentedura, is one model for examining the evolution of tech integration in classrooms. It focuses on the type of work students are doing and how much that work deviates from traditional classroom practices. In a sense, it measures the future against the past. This four minute video is great if you would like to hear him explain it in his own words. I like the SAMR model and I think it does what models are supposed to do, it get us talking and thinking about the work going on in our classrooms. This graphic shows the progression of a teacher's thinking with a bit of humor too. As a model though, I think SAMR has some issues we need to talk and think about more. This is my list of concerns. For further exploration: It privileges the modification and redefinition stages such that good teaching without tech is marginalized. Even after five years of 1:1 I still hav...

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