In this edWebinar, learn how you can use Google and Nearpod’s FREE tools to streamline lesson creation and create more teaching moments.
In this edWebinar, learn how to help restore the broken connection between words and struggling readers through various methods.
In this edWebinar, learn about games and gamification and receive practical examples to try in your own settings or inspire changes to existing lessons.
In this edWebinar, learn how to recognize roadblocks to developing a successful advisory program, identify some common building blocks of advisory programs and explore strategies for building a custom advisory program.
“While we (teachers) are not always comfortable with technology, we need to think about students first and work through our challenges to make things better for them,” said Sharon Plante, Director of Technology for the Southport School, Southport, CT, during a recent edWebinar. She emphasizes that meeting the needs of students with learning disabilities through the use of technology “can make reading instruction a multi-sensory process that is engaging and explicit while maintaining the individualization and diagnostic-prescriptive aspects of the lesson.”
This edWebinar explores how students can find content in historical newspapers related to topics of study and how close reading and other historical analysis approaches can assist students in coming to an understanding of the text’s meaning in the newspaper and of the historical event being written about.
In this edWebinar, Dr. Monte Tatom explains the ways in which participants of online learning can survive in that environment.
In this edWebinar, Dr. Leslie Maniotes discusses literacy skills and show how to unlock the power of curiosity in all learners.
Twenty years ago it was easier to identify fake news. There were the tabloid papers in the grocery store checkout line and the sensationalized “news” programs that promised inside looks at celebrity lives. Now, between the number of online information sites and the proliferation of social media apps, plus near constant mobile phone use, determining a story’s credibility seems to call for advanced detective skills. In her edWebinar “Fight Fake News: Media Literacy for Students,” Tiffany Whitehead, School Librarian for the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, says that’s exactly what we need to teach students. While today’s youth may be aware that not everything on the Internet is true, they don’t have the tools to evaluate accuracy and authenticity.
In this edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School, CT, interviews Jackie Whiting, Library Media Specialist at Wilton High School, CT, to discover how her district approached building a digital citizenship curriculum from the ground up.