Today is World Emoji Day and to celebrate I’m sharing 20 emoji activities, my slide presentation, and resources to engage your learners. Emojis are an important part of our students’ digital culture and the way students humanize time spent communicating with others constantly through a machine. Emojis allow students to express themselves, share their personalities, […]
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Mock It Up! 9 Tools for Learners to Design, Blueprint, and Visualize Their Innovations
“Proper perspective brings about clear direction.” – Mike Anthoni, Author of The Blueprint One way to truly inspire innovation is to send students on learning missions or challenges to invent or imagine a new app, vehicle, machine, building, or system that solves a problem. I’ve sent students on missions to imagine a house or vehicle for people […]
STEAM Up Learning Outdoors! 15+ Ideas to Try Now or this Summer!
“[Science] is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world.” – Barack Obama, Former U.S. President Many of the missions in […]
Visualizing Learning with Infographics: 23 Resources
“Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a clear and convincing voice.” – Stephen Few This year get your students to visualize difficult concepts or understand a process by teaching with infographics. Use infographics to introduce a chapter, unit, or lesson. Students can work in small groups to decipher the […]
Science and Poetry Writing Prompts
Veins across the world light from the kite in the storm Earth’s nervous system – Sci-ku by Emma Hartley, aged 17 Everyone should be a budding scientist. Our students should be curious, experiment, explore, and conduct research in their everyday lives. One reason why many students feel science is beyond them or overwhelming is because they don’t make an emotional […]
24 Earth Day Activities, Resources, Web Sites, & Apps
“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”- Lady Bird Johnson Earth Day is April 22nd and serves as an important reminder of how each of us needs to do our part to care for the planet we call home. Teachers […]
STEAM It Up with the 8 C's! 50+ Ideas & Resources
“The reason why young people are getting into things isn’t because they want to make a lot of money, but because they want to solve really big problems.”- Noor Siddiqui, female CEO of Remedy Recently, I was in Indiana presenting about teaching Science Technology Engineering Arts Math (STEAM/STEM) in ways that engage digital learners. General […]
STEAM It Up for Struggling Students! 15+ Resources
Recently added to the Survival Tips for Teachers! “It isn’t that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.” – GK Chesterton Find the slides, tips and resources for my presentation, STEAM It Up for Students! Enjoyed these resources? Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning […]
Creating Digital Books to Help Others: 20+ Apps, Tools & Ideas
Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning, The 30 Goals Challenge, or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com! During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys and Girls Club. I still have my construction paper book with my poor drawings. My artistic abilities didn’t matter […]
Connect the Learning to Their World #30GoalsEdu
Goal 25: Connect the Learning to Their World of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Click the link to find out more about the 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! “When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.” ~ Jean Piaget One of my first teaching internships was at […]