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Boost Your Learning Capacity: 32 Amazing Tips

With 32 different ways of fast learning to choose from, at least some of them will surely be perfectly fitting for you.

100 digital tools for students

via http://www.teachthought.com/technology/100-free-online-resources-for-students/

Apps for Teachers

http://aprillesher.com/17-apps-for-teachers-in-2017/

How-To: Growth Mindset in the Classroom

In her celebrated book ‘Mindset: The New Psychology of Success’, Stanford university psychologist Carol S. Dweck makes a strong case backed up with  scientific evidence for the power of mindset in shaping one’s success or failure in almost every facet of our life.

retrieved here: 

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/08/foster-growth-mindset-in-your-class.html

THE EDTECH LIST

Deciding what to put in your makerspace or the right edtech to integrate into your classroom to transform learning can be overwhelming. Let me do the heavy lifting for you!

EDTECH LIST

  Chris Aviles @TechedUpTeacher 

Maker Educator Meetup @ISTE2017

Jie Qi (Dandelion Painting) - Paper Circuits

Underneath the piece

http://technolojie.com/circuit-sticker-sketchbook/

Chibitronic Website

Tips on Makerspaces

https://educationcloset.com/2016/12/15/114-tips-create-steam-makerspace/

Math Quote

“No matter how engaging the lecturer may be, sitting still, listening to someone talk, and attempting to transcribe what they have said into a notebook is a very poor substitute for actively engaging with the material at hand, for doing mathematics.” David Bressoud

http://launchings.blogspot.ca/2011/07/the-worst-way-to-teach.html

The Shift from Engaging Students to Empowering Learners

http://www.spencerauthor.com/empowerment-shifts/

Here's a video that highlights this shift from student engagement to student empowerment. If you connect at all with this video, please like it, comment on it, and share it out. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel as well.

STEMfinity shop

Cool site to help along your STEAM journey with all the "stuff"

https://www.stemfinity.com

Left and Right Brain

https://custom-writing.org/blog/left-vs-right-brain

shared by Jack Milgram 

Writer & Blogger 

Grade 1 STEAM fun

Some great ideas for integrating STEAM into grade 1

http://thestemlaboratory.com/first-grade-stem-activities/

Building Games

Building Games On-Line

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-fun-online-city-building-games-run-browser/

Planning Flow Chart

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Looking for background Music?

https://medium.com/the-mission/10-awesome-places-to-find-background-music-for-video-14dd93d0d2f3

MapleSyrupEDU #makerspaces

Teacher's Guide to Computational Thinking

Computational thinking is a cognitive or thought process involving logical reasoning by which problems are solved and by which artifacts, procedures and systems are better understood. It embraces:

The ability to think algorithmically

The ability to think in terms of decomposition

The ability to think in generalizations, identifying and making use of patterns

The ability to think in abstractions, choosing good representations, and

The ability to think in terms of evaluation.

Computational thinking can be applied to a wide range of entities including:  human created objects, systems, processes, objects, algorithms, problems, solutions, abstractions, and collections of data or information.

http://codebc.ca/course/computational-thinking/

Gamification: Octalysis Framework

8 Core Drives representing each side

http://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/octalysis-complete-gamification-framework/