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Teaching Writing With Hyperdocs

If you’re looking for a new approach to teaching writing, you’ve got to try teaching with hyperdocs. What are hyperdocs? According to their creators, Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton and Sarah Landis, hyperdocs are “a transformative, interactive, personalized engaging too to help facilitate student creativity and collaboration” (The Hyperdoc Handbook). And I can testify that hyperdocs […]

Posted inEducational Apps, Instructional Strategies, Social Studies

Transformative Moments in Student Centered Learning

There is no one I know who wants to be made aware of faults on a daily basis. Intentions to provide students with good guidance often become part of a litany of continuous criticism for students moving through several classes each day. The growing list of changes, edits and scores less than satisfactory seldom diminish and frequently are left untouched. My […]

Posted inCurrent Events in Education, Educational Apps, Professional Development

Teachers Need #Edcamps

Yesterday marks another celebratory moment at our public school. Our administration approved hosting a second annual inservice edcamp organized by our school tech integrationist. He scheduled workshops designed and run by educational expertise right here on our campus and helped host requested workshops for specific professional development. No outsiders involved, no forced learning. Personalized learning (PLP) works from the […]

Posted inEducational Apps, High School, Instructional Strategies, Technology

Outdated Practices With Google Docs

It is a relief to find a few digital tools that continuously serve learners despite the accelerated nature of change in technology. Google Docs allows me to meet the varied needs and writing levels of almost all students.   It gives me wings, allowing me to reach past classroom walls and time constraints, to converse and edit […]

Posted inInstruction & Curriculum, Literacy, Middle School, Technology

Using Technology in the English/Language Arts Classroom for "Sophisticated Responses"

The headline in The New York Times (6/13/2013) was a little misleading: “Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools.”  The topic of gauging the value of technology is particularly significant given the investment by school districts everywhere in laptops, tablets, computer labs, Smartboards, whiteboards and projectors; but the article only referred to the use of technology in math […]