TED Ed is one of my favorite video resources for use in middle school classrooms. They have a variety of topics that are well designed and fit any lesson. Best of all, they are free and can be easily embedding into any lesson presentation or used as online content for 1 to 1 classrooms. Check out the "Myth of Oisin" published on January 18th.
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It all started out with Wiki, kids could edit information and "mess up" quality information. To Wiki's credit and user ship, I rarely find bad information in my search for science teacher content. Now making false, misleading and many times funny news account is a common practice. A school custodian once told me that they were going to close route 90 near lake Erie/Buffalo because there was too much snow. It would be closed for two months till spring, I had to be the bearer of bad news and explain that they fell for fake news.
Thankfully this creates teachable moments for us in the classroom. Now we can look for opportunities to teach our students how to be more critical and understand bias in news media. Our guest poster Jeremy from LearningEdTeach recently did a tech tip about "Factitious" an online tool to help us better teach about fake news. Check it out below.  I love to play educational games with my students in class. Kids often forget they are learning something in the middle of these high energy sessions. New online resources make classroom games even easier to create. In this post I would like to introduce Quizizz, and online multiplayer game that allows your students to have fun and learn at the same time. Like other online quiz programs, you can build and design your own quizzes quickly and easily. Pictures are easily integrated into question types and the presentation to the student is very clean. One advantage over platforms is that questions are given at random to all students at the same time. They do not need to see the live game to answer questions. You can also search other public Quizizz creations. Working on Verbs? An ancient culture? You can pick and choose questions from other teachers in one click. This is the easiest I have seen this feature in any online quizzing program. During the game, a leader board is posted for the students. Points are given for correct answers and how fast you answer. Students are constantly jockeying for position as they work through questions. This is all set to an engaging music file. Students who answer correctly are given an encouraging meme while incorrect answers are subjected to an angry cat face (you have options here). As a teacher I enjoy this program. All students stay engaged, not feeling left behind. In addition, you can assign these as homework, which makes for a great test review. My favorite part is that this program is free, so what are you waiting for, try it out!  Looking for some great educational resources? Visit my store to learn more. |
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