Guest Post By: Kate Croston Grammar spelling, and punctuation (more commonly referred to as GSP) are quickly becoming extinct in today’s world of texting, tweeting, and all around internet shorthand that focuses on getting a message across with as few characters as possible. However that doesn’t mean that we need to stop teaching kids about GSP, it just means we need to find new ways to help kids learn these things! The best way to...
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Guest Post By: Catie Keeler The internet makes it simple to find resources that reinforce the math skills your kindergartener is learning in the classroom. Printable worksheets, interactive assessments and games are everywhere. Of course, games are the most fun, so in the spirit of both fun and learning, here are five free online games that can help your child practice counting, addition, subtraction, even basic geometry. Animal Lost and Found – This...
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Guest Post by Kaitlyn Cole Share The recently announced update to Apple's iBooks app has been lauded as an incredible change for education, reinventing the textbook as we know it, and allowing teachers to become content creators like never before. The upgraded app has its fair share of fans, but there are many teachers who just aren’t buying the hype. Common complaints include the cost of investment, closed software, and even the idea that students...
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Guest Post by Jenny Ellis So every class has that one student who tends to think they are on the set of Saturday Night Live and feels the need to practice their stand up during your class. Secretly you are chuckling inside but in all seriousness your class clowns antics are disrupting your class. Most of the time the class clown is the kid that all of your students love the most, so being...
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Guest Post By Aaron Going to college can be an exciting experience, but most college students don't exactly have a lot of cash to spare. By the time you somehow find enough money to pay for tuition, books, lab fees, room and board, and anything else you need for class, there isn't much left over. Luckily, there are a number of companies who market to college students and understand that many of them are financially...
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