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Rick's Picks
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Rethinking Education in 2023
New World Order: 2022
The Changing Face of Learning: Every Year is Different
The Year of Living Online: Full time distance learning
The Quarantine Zone: Caught in the Middle
Distance Learning in the 21st Century
STEM Education
Social emotional learning for the whole child.
Learning to read. What we know about reading.
Weave Critical Thinking into your Arguments
Critical Thinking Using Figurative Language
Empathy. It is the foundation of understanding.
Learn to code: Coding is the new communication skill
Teaching writing varies by grade level and interest
Gallup Survey on Student Engagement and Hope
Social Skills in School: Never Too Young to Learn
Learning by Doing: Total Physical Response in ESL/ELD
Making the Connection: Students, Computers and Learning
Safe Harbors: How to help students navigate through Apps and the Web
Creative tech: How RSA animation inspired a teacher to raise the bar on student inquiry
Body of words: How do you make vocabulary come alive?
Search and Research: How do you evaluate resources?
Google 20% Time: How do you build a genius?
Feedback and communicating about learning
Blended learning
Math you can count on
Remember to read, read, read
Can you tell a story?
Do you need class rules?
Twitter for teachers
Inquiry: 5 powerful questions teachers can ask students
What makes us human: What machines can't do
Getting students ready for the world of work
STEM: How to use CK-12 to apply learning
How does Tech redefine us? An in-depth eight-part series
Higher order thinking skills and the Common Core
The Hour of Code
Thinking about engagement
The creative drive: Where does it go?
Overwhelmed? How to survive in a world of so many apps
Remake your class
Sugata Mitra: Build a school in the cloud
Ken Robinson speaks on changing education paradigms
Teaching Channel presents Sarah's picks
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