Category: Knowledge Constructor
Search Coach in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft recently rolled out a new app in Teams that will help both students and teachers be more effectve and careful in their online queries. When using Search Coach students will get a tip at the top of their results based on the type of query and the information they are seeking. Search Coach also ...
Informational Research: A Curated Approach with Padlet and Book Creator
Are you looking for a simple way to curate research materials for your students and scaffold the process of independent research? Using Padlet to Organize Informational Text Resources Consider using Padlet as a tool to organize resources for your students. By linking to informational databases, videos, articles, and other resources, Padlet offers the right balance ...
Constructing Knowledge: When Seesaw and Databases Come Together for Research
January is Knowledge Constructor month! It is never too late to start encouraging your students to seek and locate information, evaluate the accuracy of sources, use digital resources to curate resources, and to pursue answers to meaningful questions. Knowledge Constructor works across content, and across grade levels – and the skills of Knowledge Constructor are ...
Canvas, Power of Pages
Pages are the ability to share content with your class and we use them as web pages of information, class pages of content, and landing pages before we get to the assignment. But Pages are powerful, they can become places for student collaboration with the toggle of a drop-down menu. As you are becoming more ...
Hack STEM with Digital Reflections
Did you know that next year will be the 20th anniversary of humans living on the International Space Station? Flipgrid, Microsoft Education and NASA's STEM on Station team are teaming up to create awesome content for students as part of their Hacking STEM series (by the way, there are other topics available too)! For secondary ...
Research Using Digital Tools
The Scenario Your students will need to write a research paper or create a research project that reflects their learning and showcases their research skills. The end product will be a product that includes a variety of cited sources, works cited or bibliography, and their own angle on the topic. Students have a variety of ...
Classroom View: November 15
Anisa Zareh's Earth Science students modeling land formation.
Seesaw Gets Drafty
Seesaw seems to always be looking for ways to help students show their learning. They are also really good at listening to feedback from teachers, students, and parents when they have ideas for improving an already awesome tool. One of the most often requested feature over the last few years is Drafts. This featuer would ...
Reflect Quickly With Seesaw’s Chrome Extension
Being able to reflect on their learning in Seesaw can be very powerful. Seesaw has some great creative tools like the drawing and highlighter tools, voice or video to explain something, or importing pictures or other files. There is so much that can be done in Seesaw for students to reflect on their work. If ...
Seesaw: Go Big And Go Multi
Seesaw Has Gone Big! And by big, I mean it has made it's Creative Canvas full screen. With this increase in space, the canvas allows for a ton of layering with the new expressive drawing tools, the photo tool that now allows you to add and move up to 25 photos freely, the label tool ...
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