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Edtech GO!

Resources that can help you maximize learning through device mobility:

Kid-safe Search Engines – List from Common Sense Media
NewsELA
Smithsonian Natural History Museum – Bone Hall
– Triggering Images
– Skin and Bone App
QR Stuff
– TED Talk about using QR Codes in Education
– BBC QR Code Resources
– Making QR Codes video
Aurasma
– Teacher’s Guide to Aurasma
– Making Auras in the Classroom video
– Randy Miller’s X-ray Vision Body Parts

Readability
Google Translate

iNaturalist
The Pocket Lab
SciStarter

Community Photojournalists
Homeroom

A few stories that feature students with tech in action:
Cyber Seniors Program
Students visit Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
Science Days at the Museum

Welcome!

Welcome to Engaging Education, a collection of resources and ideas that aim to engage our students and help them reach their full potential... as well as engage us as educators in the principles behind what we do every day. I hope you find them helpful, thought-provoking, and time-saving.
Enjoy!

~Nancye Blair Black

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  • A Coming-of-Digital-Age Story

    A Coming-of-Digital Age Story By Nancye Blair Black Performed by Laney Blair Used to be, learning at school was a bore. Textbooks and textbooks and textbooks. Snore! In class, teachers would talk, students would hear. It was the same old story year after year. Until one day, our principal suddenly appeared With a class set […]

  • Growing School Gardens: An Eco-lutionary Move

    Something “eco-lutionary” is cropping up at schools across the country.  While some students might be experiencing the start of the new academic year from behind a desk, others are embracing an expansive sense of classroom that reaches far beyond the schoolhouse walls and into the green. At our public charter school, Lakeland Montessori Middle School, […]

  • New Article in Creative Educator: Authentic Audiences

    “Beyond waiting “To Grow Up” For too long, our students have worked tirelessly for an audience of one: their teacher. When class assignments assume that work is simply preparation for some future “real world,” this singular audience makes sense. But in the course of a 21st century school year, if a class of students never […]

  • Sept 11 Reflections: Democracy, Citizenship and Education

    What should a good citizen do? The question of “what a good citizen should do” in a democratic society begins with an assumption of a universal ethical imperative within democracy.  Perhaps this follows from the concept of democracy itself.  At the onset of American independence, the writers of the Declaration stated that it was self-evident […]

  • Google's Montessori Tribute

    Happy Birthday, Maria Montessori — from Google and the rest of us!

    August 31, 2012. Today would be 142nd birthday of revolutionary Italian physician and educator, Maria Montessori. To celebrate, Montessori alums at Google displayed a Google doodle of traditional Montessori learning manipulatives on their homepage.  That’s right –  both Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, grew up as Montessori kids.  What’s more, it […]

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