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Print Books vs eBooks Results

One of my 6th grade students created a survey back in January to find out the reading preferences of people after a Data Science Math activity we did in class. He put together the following slideshow (click here to open it in a new tab): If you want to leave a comment on the last …

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Student Reading Preference Survey

Digital or Physical Form Screenshot

In Math class we were looking at some 2019 data about reading preference of adults with regards to print book, ebooks, and audio books. One of my 6th graders is curious if that has changed and wants to collect some of his own data.  Can you please take a few seconds to answer his nine-question …

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Minecraft Education Edition’s Building Competitions

Minecraft House Build

At the end of August, after attending an amazing Minecraft Education Edition Esports Camp, I shared their new esports worlds and how to access them. Yesterday I finally got the chance to try one of the Make and Model worlds to have my students practice building together in their teams! It was so much fun! …

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Sustainability Development in Minecraft

Pirate Ship with Yellow and Green Score image.

The Challenge! That is this year’s Minecraft Education Edition’s Global Challenge: Peace with Nature, a challenge partnering MinecraftEdu with UNESCO! Intro Deck In addition to the video, to get students excited and curious about this year’s challenge, here is a slide deck that comes with the challenge for teachers to introduce it to students: Perfect …

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Looking for the Silver Bullet? Keep Looking!

They tell us there is no one silver bullet that will make our job as teachers easier. No one thing that will engage all our students so much that classroom management will no longer be necessary and every kid in our classroom will either pass all their tests or make one to two years of …

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Google For Edu Ramps up Age Restrictions

I am responsible for bringing Google Apps, now Google Edu, to my district by in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. I have my Google Educator Levels 1 and 2 badges because I have seen first hand the power of Google’s suite of excellent tools for educating our young people. My district is also a …

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Pivot #4

My Classroom with about two kids per table.

Pivot #1 – We started this 2020-2021 school year with a hybrid schedule seeing a different small cohort of kids one full day per week. That schedule allowed for some decent outdoor education experiences. Pivot #2 – By December we switched to having all our kids learning remotely. Pivot #3 – By the end of …

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Back to Hybrid

We started the school year with two-thirds of our 6th graders coming to school on a hybrid schedule with the other third fully remote. Our hybrid kids were placed into two cohorts, A and B, and each cohort was halved to make them small enough to keep kids six feet apart (Cohorts A1, A2, B1, …

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One Way to Run A Remote Esports Program

This was the favorite logo 6th graders drew and submitted last year for our 6th grade esports club. I think it’s a great looking drawing and wish I knew how to turn it into a logo! I just a photo of the drawing complete with the crease in the middle! LOL But that’s a problem …

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Blended Learning EdWeek Post

I had the pleasure of being one of three contributors to part 1 of a Larry Ferlazzo two part series on Blended Learning titled Blended Learning in the Age of COVID-19. Click on the image below to read the entire post:

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