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Educational technology
- Free Technology for Teachers: TinyTap Introduces Challenge Mode for Building Games on iPads and Android Tablets
TinyTap is a free iPad app and Android app for building fun and interactive review games. With the app you can create games based on pictures, diagrams, videos, and icons.
- Pear Deck
With Pear Deck every learner can grapple with the question on his or her own screen. This means everyone is considering your question, not only those who raise their hands. When learners directly process the information and then create an answer, they will retain the information better than if they just passively listen.
Instructional strategies
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Bloom’s taxonomy with verbs
Books and reading
- Global Literacy Project
Book donation organization
Research techniques & resources
- Questioning Toolkit
Questioning Toolkit contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools
Libraries and advocacy
- Trends | Transforming Libraries
Library design ideas
- Unequal shelves in D.C. school libraries benefit wealthier students – The Washington Post
“More than 90 percent of traditional public schools in the United States reported having a library in the 2011-2012 school year, and two-thirds of the schools had full-time library media specialists, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.”