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"content": "\u003cp>Michelle Joyce doesn’t shy away from politicized science topics such as climate change. In fact, she works to equip seniors at Palmetto Ridge High School in Naples, Florida with the skills to accurately evaluate those topics on their own. Along with teaching chemistry and physics, she offers a class called “thinking skills” where students solve logic and math puzzles while also enhancing their media literacy. Students go beyond just learning about legitimate sources of information on the internet and delve into just how the information is put together in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But teaching students those critical thinking skills only as they’re about to depart for college can be too little too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard thing to teach within the space of everything else that you need to teach in a classroom,” Joyce said. “It’s crucial that we teach it as early as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet has no shortage of dubious information; and the ability to evaluate health and science claims is a subset of media literacy. With the abundance of health/science content students may only see via social media, kids are ill-equipped to discern hype from real science.\u003ca href=\"https://sheg.stanford.edu/civic-online-reasoning/evaluating-evidence\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment.png 2550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-160x207.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-800x1035.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-768x994.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-1020x1320.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-1180x1527.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-960x1242.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-240x311.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-375x485.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-520x673.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent \u003ca href=\"https://purl.stanford.edu/fv751yt5934\">study\u003c/a> by the Stanford History Education Group, 170 high school students were shown a photo of flowers growing fused together and asked if that provided strong evidence on the conditions outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Students with mastery of media literacy would argue this was not sufficient evidence because there is no information on the source of the photo or where the flowers were photographed. However, less than 20 percent of the students responding made that argument. Nearly 40 percent argued that the picture alone was strong evidence for conditions outside the nuclear plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are swimming in bullsh-t and lots of different claims about what helps or harms us,” said Dr. Andrew Oxman, director of research at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. “Everybody needs to figure out which claims are trustworthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>START EARLY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these critical thinking concepts are not difficult but need to become habits adopted early in life, which is why Oxman first tried them out in his children’s elementary school classrooms. One way to teach how science is made is to let the children experience and figure it out for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oxman gave students a bag of M&Ms and told them that some kids thought the red ones helped them study better but others got stomach aches. He instructed students to evaluate these claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They figured out very quickly, you have to compare like to like,” said Oxman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most revealing aspect of this lesson was how quickly students understood the pitfalls of setting up a randomized study. The teacher mentioned they could set random assignments much like they do in gym class where they set up teams by alternating students in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids started laughing because they understood right away that doesn’t work,” said Oxman. Students learned they can sabotage randomization in picking teams by setting up a line so they are one student away from their friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In research jargon, we referred to that as ‘concealed allocation’ and it’s a concept that takes time to explain to health professionals but the kids understood it right away intuitively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this experiment students quickly figured out they had to measure things exactly same. They discovered the flaws of using small samples and being misled by games of chance, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oxman has since taken this idea of teaching young children concepts of evaluating science to a much larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teaching Health Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and a global team of researchers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/the-ihc-team/\">Informed Health Choices\u003c/a> developed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31226-6/fulltext?elsca1=tlpr\">study\u003c/a> of some 10,000 Ugandan fifth-graders to see if a simple \u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IHC-V3-Childrens-Book-and-Cover-Des2016_lowres.pdf\">comic book \u003c/a>on evaluating health claims could provide students with the skills to make better choices about their health. The comic book begins by describing how one child -- who has burned his finger -- sticks his wound into dung to heal it. The finger gets infected and he visits Professors “Fair” and “Compare” and begins to learn about how to question and evaluate the health advice he receives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 564px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IHC-V3-Childrens-Book-and-Cover-Des2016_lowres.pdf\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-49883 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1.png 564w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-160x235.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-240x353.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-375x552.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-520x765.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The comic above was used as part of a study in Uganda to teach students how to evaluate health and science claims. Courtesy of Informed Health Choices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Informed Health Choices)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The workbook had a convincing effect, Oxman said. The students who received the \u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IHC-V3-Childrens-Book-and-Cover-Des2016_lowres.pdf\">workbook\u003c/a> and those who did not receive it were then tested on how to evaluate health claims. Fifty percent more children in the workbook group had a passing score on that critical thinking test. Twenty percent of the students receiving the workbook even showed mastery of the concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a follow-up to the study, researchers are asking children and adults what they learned and how they’ve used it. Responses so far have been very promising, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One girl talked about going shopping with her mom, who picked up an expensive new brand of toothpaste, but the girl picked up an older brand of toothpaste and found the ingredients were the same. During the pilot studies, Oxman said it was fun to see kids walking out of class talking to each other about claims. Recognizing a claim, and being able to determine if it’s trustworthy is the critical first step to appraising all the claims people hear every day, he said.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EVALUATING CLAIMS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmetto Ridge High School science teacher Michelle Joyce said she uses a process called “claim, evidence and response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First students recognize a claim or a hypothesis. Next, they look at evidence: the original data; who calculated the data; where the study was conducted; if the researcher would be inclined to benefit from a certain result; if researchers did multiple trials or tested on many people and more. Finally, students must come up with a response: a determination of the validity of the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce uses resources from a variety of places including Common Sense Education*, a nonprofit that provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/scope-and-sequence\">free curriculum\u003c/a> in media literacy for grades K-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When teachers tackle the subject of media literacy they may think about social media etiquette or cyberbullying -- that’s a component of media literacy called digital citizenship. But teaching media literacy can also go into specific domains such as health and science. To understand the science news they see online, kids need to understand basic concepts like sample sizes or what “peer review” means, said Jeffrey Knutson of Common Sense Education. Through this curriculum, students learn how information is created and distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them an insider’s view of how information we get is created and how we receive it,” said Knutson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital citizenship and media literacy is often taught as something extra and not necessarily embedded in curriculum, said Knutson. However, health or science claims seen online can be easily incorporated into science or health class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example Knutson provided was a recent \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/well/eat/the-chemicals-in-your-mac-and-cheese.html?mcubz=3\">article\u003c/a> about health hazards of chemicals used in packaging such as boxed macaroni and cheese. 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The\u003cem> Times\u003c/em> reported on this study and other journalists reported on it and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/my-dad-is-now-scared-of-macaroni-and-cheese-should-he-be/534702/\">reports\u003c/a> about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2017/07/don_t_panic_over_the_chemicals_in_your_mac_and_cheese.html\">reporting\u003c/a> came out, noted Knutson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best thing teachers can do is to use these examples in their class with their students,\" according to Knutson. \"It’s important to model how you would go about reading an article like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BREAKING DOWN THE FACTS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school science teacher Michelle Joyce says that if teachers start in elementary school, and build on these concepts in middle and high school, “we have significantly more chance over a period of time to build this common sense, this media literacy,” said Joyce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m only seeing them in 11\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and 12\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> grade, many of their opinions are already formed,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Joyce really breaks a scientific topic into its component parts, she can sometimes convince skeptical students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, students were learning the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, which stems from water temperature and salt-level or salinity increases. They researched where the increased salinity or temperature could be coming from, including climate change and waste dumped near the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student said, “I can’t believe one degree in temperature makes this much a difference for these animals,” recalled Joyce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of rehashing the reef data, Joyce brought the conversation back to a different perspective and explained pH levels in the human body. Even a slight change in pH could shut down a person's bodily functions. Suddenly the minor change to water temperature and salinity, which affects pH, didn’t seem so minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to bring it back to something they can relate to,” said Joyce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce can’t go into such detail with every science lesson but she hopes by equipping students with the skills to question what they read, they’ll be able to pursue these questions on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teaching them those skills on how to think like a scientist and how to analyze information that they’re receiving is just as important as teaching them to use the periodic table, for example.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Additional resources: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common Sense has several strategies to help debunk false claims, such as those listed on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/teaching-strategies/turn-students-into-fact-finding-web-detectives\">Turn Students into F\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/teaching-strategies/turn-students-into-fact-finding-web-detectives\">act-Finding Web Detectives\u003c/a>.” They also offer \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship\">digital citizenship\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/scope-and-sequence\">information literacy\u003c/a> curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthnewsreview.org/\">Health News Review\u003c/a> covers often-hyped health stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://retractionwatch.com/\">Retraction Watch \u003c/a> highlights retractions of studies and other pitfalls of the peer review system, which rarely gets attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Common Sense Education contributes reviews of educational tools and other content to MindShift. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Michelle Joyce doesn’t shy away from politicized science topics such as climate change. In fact, she works to equip seniors at Palmetto Ridge High School in Naples, Florida with the skills to accurately evaluate those topics on their own. Along with teaching chemistry and physics, she offers a class called “thinking skills” where students solve logic and math puzzles while also enhancing their media literacy. Students go beyond just learning about legitimate sources of information on the internet and delve into just how the information is put together in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But teaching students those critical thinking skills only as they’re about to depart for college can be too little too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard thing to teach within the space of everything else that you need to teach in a classroom,” Joyce said. “It’s crucial that we teach it as early as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet has no shortage of dubious information; and the ability to evaluate health and science claims is a subset of media literacy. With the abundance of health/science content students may only see via social media, kids are ill-equipped to discern hype from real science.\u003ca href=\"https://sheg.stanford.edu/civic-online-reasoning/evaluating-evidence\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"3300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment.png 2550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-160x207.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-800x1035.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-768x994.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-1020x1320.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-1180x1527.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-960x1242.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-240x311.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-375x485.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Evaluating-Evidence-Assessment-520x673.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent \u003ca href=\"https://purl.stanford.edu/fv751yt5934\">study\u003c/a> by the Stanford History Education Group, 170 high school students were shown a photo of flowers growing fused together and asked if that provided strong evidence on the conditions outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Students with mastery of media literacy would argue this was not sufficient evidence because there is no information on the source of the photo or where the flowers were photographed. However, less than 20 percent of the students responding made that argument. Nearly 40 percent argued that the picture alone was strong evidence for conditions outside the nuclear plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are swimming in bullsh-t and lots of different claims about what helps or harms us,” said Dr. Andrew Oxman, director of research at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. “Everybody needs to figure out which claims are trustworthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>START EARLY\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these critical thinking concepts are not difficult but need to become habits adopted early in life, which is why Oxman first tried them out in his children’s elementary school classrooms. One way to teach how science is made is to let the children experience and figure it out for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oxman gave students a bag of M&Ms and told them that some kids thought the red ones helped them study better but others got stomach aches. He instructed students to evaluate these claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They figured out very quickly, you have to compare like to like,” said Oxman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most revealing aspect of this lesson was how quickly students understood the pitfalls of setting up a randomized study. The teacher mentioned they could set random assignments much like they do in gym class where they set up teams by alternating students in line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids started laughing because they understood right away that doesn’t work,” said Oxman. Students learned they can sabotage randomization in picking teams by setting up a line so they are one student away from their friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In research jargon, we referred to that as ‘concealed allocation’ and it’s a concept that takes time to explain to health professionals but the kids understood it right away intuitively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through this experiment students quickly figured out they had to measure things exactly same. They discovered the flaws of using small samples and being misled by games of chance, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oxman has since taken this idea of teaching young children concepts of evaluating science to a much larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teaching Health Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and a global team of researchers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/the-ihc-team/\">Informed Health Choices\u003c/a> developed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31226-6/fulltext?elsca1=tlpr\">study\u003c/a> of some 10,000 Ugandan fifth-graders to see if a simple \u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IHC-V3-Childrens-Book-and-Cover-Des2016_lowres.pdf\">comic book \u003c/a>on evaluating health claims could provide students with the skills to make better choices about their health. The comic book begins by describing how one child -- who has burned his finger -- sticks his wound into dung to heal it. The finger gets infected and he visits Professors “Fair” and “Compare” and begins to learn about how to question and evaluate the health advice he receives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 564px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IHC-V3-Childrens-Book-and-Cover-Des2016_lowres.pdf\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-49883 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"830\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1.png 564w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-160x235.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-240x353.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-375x552.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/12/Lesson-1-520x765.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The comic above was used as part of a study in Uganda to teach students how to evaluate health and science claims. Courtesy of Informed Health Choices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Informed Health Choices)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The workbook had a convincing effect, Oxman said. The students who received the \u003ca href=\"http://www.informedhealthchoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IHC-V3-Childrens-Book-and-Cover-Des2016_lowres.pdf\">workbook\u003c/a> and those who did not receive it were then tested on how to evaluate health claims. Fifty percent more children in the workbook group had a passing score on that critical thinking test. Twenty percent of the students receiving the workbook even showed mastery of the concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a follow-up to the study, researchers are asking children and adults what they learned and how they’ve used it. Responses so far have been very promising, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One girl talked about going shopping with her mom, who picked up an expensive new brand of toothpaste, but the girl picked up an older brand of toothpaste and found the ingredients were the same. During the pilot studies, Oxman said it was fun to see kids walking out of class talking to each other about claims. Recognizing a claim, and being able to determine if it’s trustworthy is the critical first step to appraising all the claims people hear every day, he said.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EVALUATING CLAIMS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmetto Ridge High School science teacher Michelle Joyce said she uses a process called “claim, evidence and response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First students recognize a claim or a hypothesis. Next, they look at evidence: the original data; who calculated the data; where the study was conducted; if the researcher would be inclined to benefit from a certain result; if researchers did multiple trials or tested on many people and more. Finally, students must come up with a response: a determination of the validity of the claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce uses resources from a variety of places including Common Sense Education*, a nonprofit that provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/scope-and-sequence\">free curriculum\u003c/a> in media literacy for grades K-12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When teachers tackle the subject of media literacy they may think about social media etiquette or cyberbullying -- that’s a component of media literacy called digital citizenship. But teaching media literacy can also go into specific domains such as health and science. To understand the science news they see online, kids need to understand basic concepts like sample sizes or what “peer review” means, said Jeffrey Knutson of Common Sense Education. Through this curriculum, students learn how information is created and distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives them an insider’s view of how information we get is created and how we receive it,” said Knutson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital citizenship and media literacy is often taught as something extra and not necessarily embedded in curriculum, said Knutson. However, health or science claims seen online can be easily incorporated into science or health class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example Knutson provided was a recent \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/well/eat/the-chemicals-in-your-mac-and-cheese.html?mcubz=3\">article\u003c/a> about health hazards of chemicals used in packaging such as boxed macaroni and cheese. The article stirred up some controversy because it didn’t offer specifics on what dose of these chemicals can do damage. The study was financed by an environmental advocacy group, not an unbiased source. The\u003cem> Times\u003c/em> reported on this study and other journalists reported on it and then \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/my-dad-is-now-scared-of-macaroni-and-cheese-should-he-be/534702/\">reports\u003c/a> about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2017/07/don_t_panic_over_the_chemicals_in_your_mac_and_cheese.html\">reporting\u003c/a> came out, noted Knutson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best thing teachers can do is to use these examples in their class with their students,\" according to Knutson. \"It’s important to model how you would go about reading an article like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BREAKING DOWN THE FACTS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High school science teacher Michelle Joyce says that if teachers start in elementary school, and build on these concepts in middle and high school, “we have significantly more chance over a period of time to build this common sense, this media literacy,” said Joyce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m only seeing them in 11\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> and 12\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> grade, many of their opinions are already formed,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Joyce really breaks a scientific topic into its component parts, she can sometimes convince skeptical students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, students were learning the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, which stems from water temperature and salt-level or salinity increases. They researched where the increased salinity or temperature could be coming from, including climate change and waste dumped near the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student said, “I can’t believe one degree in temperature makes this much a difference for these animals,” recalled Joyce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of rehashing the reef data, Joyce brought the conversation back to a different perspective and explained pH levels in the human body. Even a slight change in pH could shut down a person's bodily functions. Suddenly the minor change to water temperature and salinity, which affects pH, didn’t seem so minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to bring it back to something they can relate to,” said Joyce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce can’t go into such detail with every science lesson but she hopes by equipping students with the skills to question what they read, they’ll be able to pursue these questions on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teaching them those skills on how to think like a scientist and how to analyze information that they’re receiving is just as important as teaching them to use the periodic table, for example.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Additional resources: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common Sense has several strategies to help debunk false claims, such as those listed on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/teaching-strategies/turn-students-into-fact-finding-web-detectives\">Turn Students into F\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/teaching-strategies/turn-students-into-fact-finding-web-detectives\">act-Finding Web Detectives\u003c/a>.” They also offer \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship\">digital citizenship\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/scope-and-sequence\">information literacy\u003c/a> curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthnewsreview.org/\">Health News Review\u003c/a> covers often-hyped health stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://retractionwatch.com/\">Retraction Watch \u003c/a> highlights retractions of studies and other pitfalls of the peer review system, which rarely gets attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He previously led the Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology during the Obama administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But when carriers can choose to prioritize paid content over freely available content, schools really are at risk,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Virginia, fifth-grade teacher Molly Fuller uses the internet with students struggling in math to help reinforce the skills they need online. They can play math-based computer games, or see a digital diagram of a math problem broken down. She also uses computers to teach her students how to find good sources versus bad sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to teach them those real-world skills,\" she says. Repealing the current regulations, she says, \"it's going to really hinder their ability to learn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Ziemke, teaches third-graders in Chicago and says internet access allows her students to collaborate and interact with experts on topics they are passionate about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She belongs to \u003ca href=\"https://community.theeducatorcollaborative.com/position-statement-net-neutrality/\">The Educators Collaborative\u003c/a> — a group of educators that organize online and share innovative lesson plans that incorporate the internet. She helped that organization craft a note for their website in support of net neutrality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that under the current FCC designation, the internet is more free and open,\" the statement said. \"This allows educators, students, and families access to information, apps, websites, and videos they feel will best support learning, creative thinking, and informed citizenship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we look at technology in our lives,\" Ziemke says, \"this is going to cause a huge shift in schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says a byproduct of rolling back the regulations will be a decrease in creativity for all students — and for those in low-income districts — she's worried they'll lack access to information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown discrepancies in access to internet, especially with poor schools and in rural schools that lack high-speed internet. \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/erate.html\">The federal E-Rate program\u003c/a>, which helps eligible schools and libraries have affordable access to phone and internet services, was redesigned and refunded just last year helped try and patch that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2017/12/e-rate_program_6_big_numbers.html\">94 percent of school districts in the U.S.\u003c/a> have access to high-speed internet and more than 118,000 school and libraries use the E-rate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The internet for the first time leveled that playing field because it didn't matter if you were in a wealthy school or an under resourced school,\" says Culatta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still — there are lasting divides — not all students have access to high speed internet. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/22/digital-divide-persists-even-as-lower-income-americans-make-gains-in-tech-adoption/\">A recent Pew Research study\u003c/a> found that 5 million, most low income, school-aged children do not have access to broadband internet connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/121217%20Net%20Neutrality%20Repeal%20Ed%20Impacts.pdf\">Democrats in the Senate are worried that deregulation\u003c/a> of net neutrality will widen inequity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just teachers that are concerned about the FCC's decision. Librarians across the country have also raised concerned over access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We depend increasingly on access to the internet for purpose of research, for purpose of learning.\" says Jim Neal, President of the American Library Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repeal of the regulations will be devastating to low-income communities that rely on public libraries to access information, he says. 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Repealing the current regulations, she says, \"it's going to really hinder their ability to learn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Ziemke, teaches third-graders in Chicago and says internet access allows her students to collaborate and interact with experts on topics they are passionate about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She belongs to \u003ca href=\"https://community.theeducatorcollaborative.com/position-statement-net-neutrality/\">The Educators Collaborative\u003c/a> — a group of educators that organize online and share innovative lesson plans that incorporate the internet. She helped that organization craft a note for their website in support of net neutrality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that under the current FCC designation, the internet is more free and open,\" the statement said. \"This allows educators, students, and families access to information, apps, websites, and videos they feel will best support learning, creative thinking, and informed citizenship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we look at technology in our lives,\" Ziemke says, \"this is going to cause a huge shift in schools.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says a byproduct of rolling back the regulations will be a decrease in creativity for all students — and for those in low-income districts — she's worried they'll lack access to information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown discrepancies in access to internet, especially with poor schools and in rural schools that lack high-speed internet. \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/erate.html\">The federal E-Rate program\u003c/a>, which helps eligible schools and libraries have affordable access to phone and internet services, was redesigned and refunded just last year helped try and patch that gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2017/12/e-rate_program_6_big_numbers.html\">94 percent of school districts in the U.S.\u003c/a> have access to high-speed internet and more than 118,000 school and libraries use the E-rate program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The internet for the first time leveled that playing field because it didn't matter if you were in a wealthy school or an under resourced school,\" says Culatta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still — there are lasting divides — not all students have access to high speed internet. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/22/digital-divide-persists-even-as-lower-income-americans-make-gains-in-tech-adoption/\">A recent Pew Research study\u003c/a> found that 5 million, most low income, school-aged children do not have access to broadband internet connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/121217%20Net%20Neutrality%20Repeal%20Ed%20Impacts.pdf\">Democrats in the Senate are worried that deregulation\u003c/a> of net neutrality will widen inequity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just teachers that are concerned about the FCC's decision. Librarians across the country have also raised concerned over access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We depend increasingly on access to the internet for purpose of research, for purpose of learning.\" says Jim Neal, President of the American Library Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repeal of the regulations will be devastating to low-income communities that rely on public libraries to access information, he says. Libraries offer community members without home internet a place to search for health information, apply for jobs, even pay their bills. they also serve students — who use computers to do research for projects or homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This could undermine the quality of the education that our students are receiving,\" Neal says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Librarians who work on college campuses say net neutrality is vital for students who rely heavily on research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The internet is essential to all our functions,\" says Katherine Ahnberg, an academic librarian at the University of Pennsylvania \"We teach students how to critically analyze information they come across.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FCC is set to vote at 10:30 a.m. EST on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: NPR's legal counsel has filed comments with the FCC on the net neutrality proposal, in opposition to deregulation. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10717112197099/NPR%20Restoring%20Internet%20Freedom%20Comments.Final.pdf\">You can read them here.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>Harvard University is one of the \u003ca href=\"http://college.usatoday.com/2014/10/12/the-20-most-selective-colleges-in-the-u-s-and-why-selectivity-can-be-misleading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most selective schools\u003c/a> in the United States, so it isn’t the first place that comes to mind when discussing how to make computer science appealing and open to a broad range of students. But Professor \u003ca href=\"https://cs.harvard.edu/malan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Malan\u003c/a> has been experimenting with different ways to make his introductory computer science class (CS50) the type of place where students from many different backgrounds can thrive. And he’s spreading what he learns to the broader educator community, hoping what he’s learning from the \u003ca href=\"https://cs50.harvard.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS50\u003c/a> experiment spreads beyond Harvard’s walls to K-12 educators working to fire up kids about computer science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan’s class attracts students who have never taken computer science before, as well as kids who have been coding a long time. His goal with this diverse group of learners is to create a community that’s equal and collaborative. One way he does this is by asking students to self-identify by comfort level. Those groups become different section levels, and they sometimes get different homework, but harder assignments are not worth more credit. Malan said recently that the “less comfortable” group has \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@cs50/cs50s-changing-demographics-d00fb7369d6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dominated his 700-person course\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day all students are treated with the same expectations,” said Malan, speaking at the \u003ca href=\"http://novemberlearning.com/blc-education-conference-2017/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building Learning Communities conference\u003c/a> in Boston. Students are graded based on each individual’s growth; Malan and his team of teaching assistants don’t use absolute measures when assigning grades. Instead, they look at scope, how hard the student tried, correctness, how right the work was, style, how aesthetic the code is, and design, which is the most subjective. When it’s time to assign grades, Malan and his teaching fellows have lots of in-depth conversations about how each student has improved relative to where he or she started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since computer code is particularly easy to steal off the web, Malan has a “regret clause” for his course “to encourage and allow students to come forward if they made a bad decision that historically is very hard to take back. “We encourage them to come forward.” If a student did cheat, but uses the regret clause, he or she can still be penalized, but Malan won’t escalate the incident to the university level. He understands that sometimes stressed-out students, many of whom are perfectionists pushing themselves in a completely new area of study, act on their anxieties against their better judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan also uses many teaching assistants to help him provide personalized attention to students in this large course. He sees them as one of the most important parts of the course’s success and popularity. “One of our greatest assets is the human structure within the course,” Malan said. He also encourages students not to take notes during lecture, instead asking one of the teaching assistants to take notes for everyone so students can focus their attention on the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office hours are another important support structure for this challenging course. During office hours several teaching assistants will be in one place offering one-on-one help. Malan has been pleased at how these meetups have gradually begun happening in social spaces, becoming a connection point between digital and analog support. He attributes some of his success with students new to computer science to the intentionally social aspects of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/59pfsj4nvI8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan’s team also explicitly tries to make computer science fun by planning events that foster a sense of community. They organize an annual puzzle day where students get together on a Saturday, and a hackathon. By merging the social and the academic, Malan is trying to make computer science feel approachable. “A side effect of holding these events is drumming up new interest,” Malan said. His students bring their friends, who might decide to take the course the following year. And the silly community events are shared on social media and the course website to help create the community feeling that keeps kids engaged in the academic work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the semester, all CS50 students present their \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cs50.net/2017/fall/project/project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final projects\u003c/a> to the community at a fair. “For us what’s most striking at this specific event is seeing their final projects and seeing them present something that we did not teach them,” Malan said. Students often take the initiative to go out and learn more on their own, rather than merely applying the homework he has assigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 700 Harvard students who take CS50, Malan has opened the course to 150 Yale students, as well as about 300 Harvard extension students. The course is also available on \u003ca href=\"https://www.edx.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">edX,\u003c/a> and high school students can access a version of it, \u003ca href=\"https://ap.cs50.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS50 AP\u003c/a>, at 150 schools around the country. The course is one of the most popular offerings at Harvard, and students new to computer science keep joining. Malan believes the collaborative nature of the course, along with the intentional community-building that his team does, are a big part of their success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CS50-SPECIFIC TOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many students, Malan’s team has developed some CS50 specific tools to help them manage workflow and support students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CS50 IDE:\u003c/strong> This is basically a computer in the cloud so students can write code and run it on the internet. It allows students to access their code from multiple locations and for groups to work together virtually. The program highlights the code written by different authors in unique colors to help evaluators see who did what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Check50:\u003c/strong> Students and instructors use this program to check for correctness. Is a program giving the expected output? The tool checks student code against a set of tests Malan’s team has written and then generates smiley faces and frowny faces next to the code. This helps students identify trouble spots, but still requires them to problem-solve the fixes. Some of Malan’s teaching assistants are currently rewriting this program to make it open source, so any teacher could input their own checks to use with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CS50 Help:\u003c/strong> This tool rewrites the language of error messages to help students parse what went wrong with their code. It also provides feedback and action items for students to start fixing the error. “It’s just designed to be a resource for students to make that process of understanding error messages easier,” Malan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Droplet:\u003c/strong> This tool provides a bridge between more traditional coding languages and block coding, like what you might see in Scratch or a number of other learn-to-code programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan’s team also uses a lot of other productivity tools that aren’t proprietary and could be useful to other teachers. When discussing these tools with teachers at the BLC conference, it was clear that many K-12 teachers are frustrated by the limits their districts put on the tools they can use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER TOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This open-source code repository is a way for programmers to share code and get feedback. Malan’s students sometimes use it to submit their code instead of doing so through the Learning Management System (LMS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOSS\u003c/a> (Measure Of Software Similarity):\u003c/strong> This tool is freely developed and can help determine academic honesty. The tools allow users to anonymously submit student work and see a comparison to other existing code. It gives the teacher a sense of whether similarly written code really is a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://gradescope.com/get_started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gradescope\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This free tool was designed by UC Berkeley students. It allows teachers to upload student homework or tests and grade them online. The grader can add criteria as he goes and if anything changes, the program will automatically change the scores for that problem on everything that has already been graded. The student gets detailed feedback, all graders are consistent, and the instructor can see how many students made each mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dropbox\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Users get 2G for free and can easily sync and share files. And, if a student doesn’t have a Dropbox account, there’s an anonymous upload feature that creates a unique link so each student’s work goes into a folder with his or her name. It can be an easy way to collect files and work around an LMS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://asana.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asana\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This commercially available task management system helps keep track of who’s doing what and when it’s due. Team members can add themselves to different projects and set deadlines. “We’ve used it for office-style team management, but I’ve used it for classes as well to assign homework,” Malan said. “It gives you eyes into what could be a fairly large data set.” There’s also a mobile app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://slack.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slack\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is a free chat service, but also makes it easy to share media. Malan finds it more group friendly than Google Hangout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003ca href=\"https://1password.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1Password\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lastpass.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LastPass\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> These are password protection services that are not free, but Malan finds important to safeguard student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://doodle.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doodle\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Malan’s team uses Doodle for scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.helpscout.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Help Scout\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool is a bit like help desk software in that you can create tickets for different email items that require a task. It helps a user see what issues are closed and which ones still need attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-49794 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hubspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HubSpot\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is good for managing large courses with lots of contacts. It was designed as a customer relationship management system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bringit.bz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PleaseBringIt\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is an easy way to sign people up for open slots. It also functions a little like a wedding registry for running an event -- different people can agree to bring various items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Connect\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool works well for online classes or office hours. It is not a free service, but Google Hangout would be a free alternative. Zoom is also similar, although more video-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/forms/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Forms\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Malan uses this a lot to collect work from students. It’s easy to integrate with spreadsheets, but limits the types of questions he can ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.surveymonkey.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SurveyMonkey\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This service has more question types and better analytics. It also has some interesting visualization options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sli.do/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slido.com\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is an interactive online question forum. Users can up-vote or down-vote different questions. That’s useful because a presenter can look at the questions while giving a talk and weave answers into the presentation or follow up afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://piazza.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piazza\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is a good discussion platform, a functionality many LMS’s lack. Teachers can create a classroom within Piazza. Students can also ask questions anonymously, making it more appropriate for certain discussions than other platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://quip.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quip\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This software is good for sharing information. The platform makes it easy to organize information and share with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smugmug.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SmugMug\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is a good photo portfolio site. It allows the user to filter, but also provide textual context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://basecamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BaseCamp\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This project management tool has a free tier for teachers. In general, Malan and his team suggest that educators should always ask for a discount from any commercial software provider. Many companies will be happy to accommodate, making paid products more accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>K-12 TEACHERS’ FAVORITE TOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Malan had finished sharing the tools his team finds useful to organize their work, grading and efforts to support students, other educators shared their favorite tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.zipgrade.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZipGrade\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool is basically like a scantron machine on a phone. It’s useful for quickly grading multiple-choice exit tickets or formative assessments and tracking student data on those quizzes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.videonot.es/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VideoNot.es\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This open-source software allows users to take notes next to videos, syncing to time\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>stamps. It’s also possible to create one’s own video note with a question. And the service works with a Google sign-in (one limitation a number of teachers said they were experiencing with their districts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://vizia.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vizia\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool allows teacher to integrate quizzes and questions into a video. The questions pop up as students watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gosoapbox-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gosoapbox-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gosoapbox-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gosoapbox-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gosoapbox-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gosoapbox-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gosoapbox-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gosoapbox.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoSoapbox\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Similar to Poll Everywhere, this tool can be used on a mobile device or computer. It enables teachers to get a sense of how well students understand the content with quick polls. It also has a panic button students can press if they really don’t understand. The instructor’s screen will flash red. It can also be used anonymously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49811\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/driveslides-160x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/driveslides-160x100.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/driveslides-240x150.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/driveslides-375x234.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/driveslides-520x325.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/driveslides.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/driveslides-by-matt-mille/ijnjlojbdhgpamjiflocklhfeciokfdl?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DriveSlides\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This chrome extension built by \u003ca href=\"http://ditchthattextbook.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Miller\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.alicekeeler.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice Keeler\u003c/a> makes it easy to automatically insert images into Google Slide presentations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/wizer-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/wizer-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/wizer-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/wizer-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/wizer-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/wizer-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/wizer-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://app.wizer.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wizer.me\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Teachers can create interactive quizzes in various question formats with this tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/goobric-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/goobric-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/goobric-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/goobric-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/goobric-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/goobric-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/goobric-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goobric-web-app-launcher/cepmakjlanepojocakadfpohnhhalfol?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goobric\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> When used in tandem with the Doctopus extension, this Chrome extension allows teachers to pull all the assignments into one Google Sheet and integrate with a rubric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49810\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doctopus-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doctopus-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doctopus-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doctopus-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doctopus-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doctopus-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doctopus-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/doctopus/ffhegaddkjpkfiemhhnphmnadfbkdhbf?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doctopus\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Another Chrome extension built by a teacher to make classroom workflows easier. Some of its key functions are to create a file structure in Google Docs, allow a teacher to easily “pass out” blank templates and change or revoke different editing rights, and it’s a way to monitor collaboration happening on Docs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What are your favorite collaboration and sharing tools for the classroom?\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Harvard University is one of the \u003ca href=\"http://college.usatoday.com/2014/10/12/the-20-most-selective-colleges-in-the-u-s-and-why-selectivity-can-be-misleading/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most selective schools\u003c/a> in the United States, so it isn’t the first place that comes to mind when discussing how to make computer science appealing and open to a broad range of students. But Professor \u003ca href=\"https://cs.harvard.edu/malan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Malan\u003c/a> has been experimenting with different ways to make his introductory computer science class (CS50) the type of place where students from many different backgrounds can thrive. And he’s spreading what he learns to the broader educator community, hoping what he’s learning from the \u003ca href=\"https://cs50.harvard.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS50\u003c/a> experiment spreads beyond Harvard’s walls to K-12 educators working to fire up kids about computer science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan’s class attracts students who have never taken computer science before, as well as kids who have been coding a long time. His goal with this diverse group of learners is to create a community that’s equal and collaborative. One way he does this is by asking students to self-identify by comfort level. Those groups become different section levels, and they sometimes get different homework, but harder assignments are not worth more credit. Malan said recently that the “less comfortable” group has \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@cs50/cs50s-changing-demographics-d00fb7369d6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dominated his 700-person course\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day all students are treated with the same expectations,” said Malan, speaking at the \u003ca href=\"http://novemberlearning.com/blc-education-conference-2017/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building Learning Communities conference\u003c/a> in Boston. Students are graded based on each individual’s growth; Malan and his team of teaching assistants don’t use absolute measures when assigning grades. Instead, they look at scope, how hard the student tried, correctness, how right the work was, style, how aesthetic the code is, and design, which is the most subjective. When it’s time to assign grades, Malan and his teaching fellows have lots of in-depth conversations about how each student has improved relative to where he or she started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since computer code is particularly easy to steal off the web, Malan has a “regret clause” for his course “to encourage and allow students to come forward if they made a bad decision that historically is very hard to take back. “We encourage them to come forward.” If a student did cheat, but uses the regret clause, he or she can still be penalized, but Malan won’t escalate the incident to the university level. He understands that sometimes stressed-out students, many of whom are perfectionists pushing themselves in a completely new area of study, act on their anxieties against their better judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan also uses many teaching assistants to help him provide personalized attention to students in this large course. He sees them as one of the most important parts of the course’s success and popularity. “One of our greatest assets is the human structure within the course,” Malan said. He also encourages students not to take notes during lecture, instead asking one of the teaching assistants to take notes for everyone so students can focus their attention on the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Office hours are another important support structure for this challenging course. During office hours several teaching assistants will be in one place offering one-on-one help. Malan has been pleased at how these meetups have gradually begun happening in social spaces, becoming a connection point between digital and analog support. He attributes some of his success with students new to computer science to the intentionally social aspects of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/59pfsj4nvI8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan’s team also explicitly tries to make computer science fun by planning events that foster a sense of community. They organize an annual puzzle day where students get together on a Saturday, and a hackathon. By merging the social and the academic, Malan is trying to make computer science feel approachable. “A side effect of holding these events is drumming up new interest,” Malan said. His students bring their friends, who might decide to take the course the following year. And the silly community events are shared on social media and the course website to help create the community feeling that keeps kids engaged in the academic work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the semester, all CS50 students present their \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cs50.net/2017/fall/project/project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final projects\u003c/a> to the community at a fair. “For us what’s most striking at this specific event is seeing their final projects and seeing them present something that we did not teach them,” Malan said. Students often take the initiative to go out and learn more on their own, rather than merely applying the homework he has assigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the 700 Harvard students who take CS50, Malan has opened the course to 150 Yale students, as well as about 300 Harvard extension students. The course is also available on \u003ca href=\"https://www.edx.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">edX,\u003c/a> and high school students can access a version of it, \u003ca href=\"https://ap.cs50.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CS50 AP\u003c/a>, at 150 schools around the country. The course is one of the most popular offerings at Harvard, and students new to computer science keep joining. Malan believes the collaborative nature of the course, along with the intentional community-building that his team does, are a big part of their success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CS50-SPECIFIC TOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many students, Malan’s team has developed some CS50 specific tools to help them manage workflow and support students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CS50 IDE:\u003c/strong> This is basically a computer in the cloud so students can write code and run it on the internet. It allows students to access their code from multiple locations and for groups to work together virtually. The program highlights the code written by different authors in unique colors to help evaluators see who did what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Check50:\u003c/strong> Students and instructors use this program to check for correctness. Is a program giving the expected output? The tool checks student code against a set of tests Malan’s team has written and then generates smiley faces and frowny faces next to the code. This helps students identify trouble spots, but still requires them to problem-solve the fixes. Some of Malan’s teaching assistants are currently rewriting this program to make it open source, so any teacher could input their own checks to use with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CS50 Help:\u003c/strong> This tool rewrites the language of error messages to help students parse what went wrong with their code. It also provides feedback and action items for students to start fixing the error. “It’s just designed to be a resource for students to make that process of understanding error messages easier,” Malan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Droplet:\u003c/strong> This tool provides a bridge between more traditional coding languages and block coding, like what you might see in Scratch or a number of other learn-to-code programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malan’s team also uses a lot of other productivity tools that aren’t proprietary and could be useful to other teachers. When discussing these tools with teachers at the BLC conference, it was clear that many K-12 teachers are frustrated by the limits their districts put on the tools they can use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>OTHER TOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/github-small-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This open-source code repository is a way for programmers to share code and get feedback. Malan’s students sometimes use it to submit their code instead of doing so through the Learning Management System (LMS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MOSS\u003c/a> (Measure Of Software Similarity):\u003c/strong> This tool is freely developed and can help determine academic honesty. The tools allow users to anonymously submit student work and see a comparison to other existing code. It gives the teacher a sense of whether similarly written code really is a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gradescope-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://gradescope.com/get_started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gradescope\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This free tool was designed by UC Berkeley students. It allows teachers to upload student homework or tests and grade them online. The grader can add criteria as he goes and if anything changes, the program will automatically change the scores for that problem on everything that has already been graded. The student gets detailed feedback, all graders are consistent, and the instructor can see how many students made each mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49788\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/dropbox-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.dropbox.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dropbox\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Users get 2G for free and can easily sync and share files. And, if a student doesn’t have a Dropbox account, there’s an anonymous upload feature that creates a unique link so each student’s work goes into a folder with his or her name. It can be an easy way to collect files and work around an LMS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/asana-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://asana.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asana\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This commercially available task management system helps keep track of who’s doing what and when it’s due. Team members can add themselves to different projects and set deadlines. “We’ve used it for office-style team management, but I’ve used it for classes as well to assign homework,” Malan said. “It gives you eyes into what could be a fairly large data set.” There’s also a mobile app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49790\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slack-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://slack.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slack\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is a free chat service, but also makes it easy to share media. Malan finds it more group friendly than Google Hangout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/onepassword-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49814\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/lastpass-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003ca href=\"https://1password.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1Password\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lastpass.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LastPass\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> These are password protection services that are not free, but Malan finds important to safeguard student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/doodle-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://doodle.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doodle\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Malan’s team uses Doodle for scheduling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49793\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Help-Scout-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.helpscout.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Help Scout\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool is a bit like help desk software in that you can create tickets for different email items that require a task. It helps a user see what issues are closed and which ones still need attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-49794 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/hubspot-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hubspot.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HubSpot\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is good for managing large courses with lots of contacts. It was designed as a customer relationship management system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/BringIt-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bringit.bz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PleaseBringIt\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is an easy way to sign people up for open slots. It also functions a little like a wedding registry for running an event -- different people can agree to bring various items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/adobeconnect-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adobe Connect\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool works well for online classes or office hours. It is not a free service, but Google Hangout would be a free alternative. Zoom is also similar, although more video-based.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/Google-forms-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/forms/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Forms\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> Malan uses this a lot to collect work from students. It’s easy to integrate with spreadsheets, but limits the types of questions he can ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/surveymonkey-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.surveymonkey.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SurveyMonkey\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This service has more question types and better analytics. It also has some interesting visualization options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/slido-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sli.do/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slido.com\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is an interactive online question forum. Users can up-vote or down-vote different questions. That’s useful because a presenter can look at the questions while giving a talk and weave answers into the presentation or follow up afterwards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49800\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/piazza-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://piazza.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piazza\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is a good discussion platform, a functionality many LMS’s lack. Teachers can create a classroom within Piazza. Students can also ask questions anonymously, making it more appropriate for certain discussions than other platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/quip-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://quip.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quip\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This software is good for sharing information. The platform makes it easy to organize information and share with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/smugmug-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smugmug.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SmugMug\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This is a good photo portfolio site. It allows the user to filter, but also provide textual context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/basecamp-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://basecamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BaseCamp\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This project management tool has a free tier for teachers. In general, Malan and his team suggest that educators should always ask for a discount from any commercial software provider. Many companies will be happy to accommodate, making paid products more accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>K-12 TEACHERS’ FAVORITE TOOLS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Malan had finished sharing the tools his team finds useful to organize their work, grading and efforts to support students, other educators shared their favorite tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/ZipGrade-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.zipgrade.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZipGrade\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool is basically like a scantron machine on a phone. It’s useful for quickly grading multiple-choice exit tickets or formative assessments and tracking student data on those quizzes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/videonotes-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.videonot.es/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VideoNot.es\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This open-source software allows users to take notes next to videos, syncing to time\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>stamps. It’s also possible to create one’s own video note with a question. And the service works with a Google sign-in (one limitation a number of teachers said they were experiencing with their districts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm.jpg 140w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/vizia-sm-128x128.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://vizia.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vizia\u003c/a>:\u003c/strong> This tool allows teacher to integrate quizzes and questions into a video. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s easy to get caught up in the hype around the latest and greatest classroom tech, from video games to 3-D printers to Raspberry Pi kits to VR to AR and beyond. The reality is that kind of tech -- expensive, bleeding-edge tools -- makes headlines but doesn't make it into many classrooms, especially the most needy ones. What does, however, is video. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we often get distracted by the latest device or platform release, video has quietly been riding the wave of all of these advancements, benefiting from broader access to phones, displays, cameras and, most importantly, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/esh-sots-pdfs/educationsuperhighway_2017_state_of_the_states.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bandwidth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In fact, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">68 percent of teachers are \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/from-print-to-pixel.html\">using video\u003c/a> in their classrooms, and 74 percent of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/from-print-to-pixel.html\">middle schoolers\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are watching videos for learning. From social media streams chock-full of video and GIFs to FaceTime with friends to two-hour Twitch broadcasts, video mediates students’ relationships with each other and the world. Video is a key aspect of our always-online attention economy that’s impacting \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/news/facebook-experiment-boosts-us-voter-turnout-1.11401\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> behavior, and fueling \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hate speech and trolling\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Put simply: Video is a contested civic space. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Safety to Savvy\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This emergence of video as a high-stakes media form requires a rethinking of what we mean by digital citizenship. We need to move from a conflation of digital citizenship with internet safety and protectionism to a view of digital citizenship that’s pro-active and prioritizes \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medialiteracynow.org/linking-media-literacy-and-digital-citizenship-in-the-public-policy-realm/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">media literacy and savvy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A good digital citizen doesn’t just dodge safety and privacy pitfalls, but works to remake the world, aided by digital technology like video, so it’s more thoughtful, inclusive and just. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Below, I offer five key steps and related resources to merging video literacies and digital citizenship, but I fully realize I’m not inventing something new here. There are decades of precedent, and I’d love to hear from you what you’ve done in your classroom or your favorite resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1. Help Students Identify the Intent of What They Watch\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the core principles of media literacy is that all media are trying to accomplish something, even those that seem to be “just entertainment.” Helping students interpret what that something is when they watch a video will help them approach the video more critically. To do this, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">equip students with some\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> essential q\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">uestions\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">they can use to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/5-questions-students-should-ask-about-media\">unpack the intentions\u003c/a> of anything they encounter\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One way to facilitate this thinking is by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHxpb3PFlP4\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">using a tool like EdPuzzle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to edit the videos you want students to watch by inserting these questions at particularly relevant points in the video.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>2. Be Aware That the Web Is a Unique Beast\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compared to traditional media (like broadcast TV or movies), the web is the Wild West. There are massive amounts of content falling along a vast continuum of fact and fiction. This content feeds niche communities and echo chambers, some of which lead to dangerous conspiratorial or bigoted thinking. To analyze all this stuff, we can’t just rely on the tried-and-true techniques of traditional media. We need new ways of thinking that are web-specific. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mike Caulfield’s e-book is a great deep dive\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into this topic, but as an introduction to web literacy you might first dig into the notion of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXnrh1EvtBs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reading “around” as well as “down” media\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> -- that is, encouraging students to not just analyze the specific video or site they’re looking at but related content (e.g., where else an image appears using a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5e9wTdAulA\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reverse Google image search\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5e9wTdAulA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>3. Turn Active Viewing into Reactive Viewing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/from-passive-viewing-to-active-learning-simple-techniques-for-applying-active-learning-strategies-to-online-course-videos/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Active viewing -- \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">engaging more thoughtfully and deeply with what you watch -- is a tried-and-true teaching strategy for making sure you don’t just watch media but retain information. It’s a great technique, but particularly for teacher-vetted materials that students are meant to learn from. But what about video that’s not necessarily explicitly educational, like more commercial, popular or social media? \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSK4noPp1t8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For this content, students shouldn’t just be working toward comprehension but critique\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; they need to not just understand what they watch, but also have something to say about it. One of my favorite techniques for facilitating this more dialogic and critical mode of video viewing is by \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">using a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3_DJ50G_Q\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> classroom backchannel, like TodaysMeet, during video\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> viewings, so teachers and students can actively question and discuss\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>4. Transform Students’ Video Critiques into Creations\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital citizenship should be participatory, meaning students need to be actively contributing to culture. Unfortunately, only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">3 percent of the time tweens and teens spend using social media is focused on creation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It’s important for students to create media, so that they can work through their perspectives and make the world more representative of their views. This is important for students from underrepresented backgrounds who have historically been shut out of or just ignored in dominant media. By encouraging all students to create media, we push toward a more equitable and just world, and by encouraging students to produce critical media -- that is, media that directly engage with other media -- we empower students to remake dominant culture. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/best-interactive-video-apps-and-websites\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a ton of options out there for facilitating video creation and remix\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but two of my favorites are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mbstudios.thelamp.org/auth/login\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MediaBreaker\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vidcode.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vidcode\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson/rework-reuse-remix-6-8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">middle school\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson/rights-remixes-and-respect-9-12\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">high schoo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">l students, remix activities also present a great opportunity to talk about copyright and fair use.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>5. Empower Students to Become Advocates\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citizenship is ultimately about being democratically engaged in a place, and working to make that place better. As the digital extension of one’s citizenship to a place, digital citizenship must include advocacy. There’s no question young people face a challenging and uncertain world, currently run by people \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/11/03/141984787/generation-gap-how-age-shapes-political-outlook\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who often do not share their views\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on key issues and thus do not advocate in their interests. As incubators of participatory civics, classrooms can build students’ confidence and motivation. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/education-and-resources/resources-for-educators-parents-families/lesson-plans\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-Defamation League \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/lessons\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Tolerance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have lesson plans that connect to both past and present struggles, and one can also look to the co-created syllabi that have sprung up around \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sharemylesson.com/CharlottesvilleCurriculum\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charlottesville\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and beyond. Pair these resources with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/websites-and-apps-for-making-videos-and-animation\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">video creation tools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and encourage students to create videos that advocate for causes important to them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"il\">Tanner\u003c/span> Higgin is Director of Education Editorial Strategy at \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Sense\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Education\u003c/a>, which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s easy to get caught up in the hype around the latest and greatest classroom tech, from video games to 3-D printers to Raspberry Pi kits to VR to AR and beyond. The reality is that kind of tech -- expensive, bleeding-edge tools -- makes headlines but doesn't make it into many classrooms, especially the most needy ones. What does, however, is video. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we often get distracted by the latest device or platform release, video has quietly been riding the wave of all of these advancements, benefiting from broader access to phones, displays, cameras and, most importantly, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/esh-sots-pdfs/educationsuperhighway_2017_state_of_the_states.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bandwidth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In fact, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">68 percent of teachers are \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/from-print-to-pixel.html\">using video\u003c/a> in their classrooms, and 74 percent of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/from-print-to-pixel.html\">middle schoolers\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are watching videos for learning. From social media streams chock-full of video and GIFs to FaceTime with friends to two-hour Twitch broadcasts, video mediates students’ relationships with each other and the world. Video is a key aspect of our always-online attention economy that’s impacting \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/news/facebook-experiment-boosts-us-voter-turnout-1.11401\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">voting\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> behavior, and fueling \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">hate speech and trolling\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Put simply: Video is a contested civic space. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Safety to Savvy\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This emergence of video as a high-stakes media form requires a rethinking of what we mean by digital citizenship. We need to move from a conflation of digital citizenship with internet safety and protectionism to a view of digital citizenship that’s pro-active and prioritizes \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medialiteracynow.org/linking-media-literacy-and-digital-citizenship-in-the-public-policy-realm/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">media literacy and savvy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A good digital citizen doesn’t just dodge safety and privacy pitfalls, but works to remake the world, aided by digital technology like video, so it’s more thoughtful, inclusive and just. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Below, I offer five key steps and related resources to merging video literacies and digital citizenship, but I fully realize I’m not inventing something new here. There are decades of precedent, and I’d love to hear from you what you’ve done in your classroom or your favorite resources.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>1. Help Students Identify the Intent of What They Watch\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the core principles of media literacy is that all media are trying to accomplish something, even those that seem to be “just entertainment.” Helping students interpret what that something is when they watch a video will help them approach the video more critically. To do this, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">equip students with some\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> essential q\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">uestions\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">they can use to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/5-questions-students-should-ask-about-media\">unpack the intentions\u003c/a> of anything they encounter\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. One way to facilitate this thinking is by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHxpb3PFlP4\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">using a tool like EdPuzzle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to edit the videos you want students to watch by inserting these questions at particularly relevant points in the video.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>2. Be Aware That the Web Is a Unique Beast\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Compared to traditional media (like broadcast TV or movies), the web is the Wild West. There are massive amounts of content falling along a vast continuum of fact and fiction. This content feeds niche communities and echo chambers, some of which lead to dangerous conspiratorial or bigoted thinking. To analyze all this stuff, we can’t just rely on the tried-and-true techniques of traditional media. We need new ways of thinking that are web-specific. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mike Caulfield’s e-book is a great deep dive\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into this topic, but as an introduction to web literacy you might first dig into the notion of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXnrh1EvtBs\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reading “around” as well as “down” media\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> -- that is, encouraging students to not just analyze the specific video or site they’re looking at but related content (e.g., where else an image appears using a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5e9wTdAulA\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reverse Google image search\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/p5e9wTdAulA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/p5e9wTdAulA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>3. Turn Active Viewing into Reactive Viewing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/from-passive-viewing-to-active-learning-simple-techniques-for-applying-active-learning-strategies-to-online-course-videos/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Active viewing -- \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">engaging more thoughtfully and deeply with what you watch -- is a tried-and-true teaching strategy for making sure you don’t just watch media but retain information. It’s a great technique, but particularly for teacher-vetted materials that students are meant to learn from. But what about video that’s not necessarily explicitly educational, like more commercial, popular or social media? \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSK4noPp1t8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For this content, students shouldn’t just be working toward comprehension but critique\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">; they need to not just understand what they watch, but also have something to say about it. One of my favorite techniques for facilitating this more dialogic and critical mode of video viewing is by \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">using a\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3_DJ50G_Q\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> classroom backchannel, like TodaysMeet, during video\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> viewings, so teachers and students can actively question and discuss\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>4. Transform Students’ Video Critiques into Creations\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital citizenship should be participatory, meaning students need to be actively contributing to culture. Unfortunately, only \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">3 percent of the time tweens and teens spend using social media is focused on creation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It’s important for students to create media, so that they can work through their perspectives and make the world more representative of their views. This is important for students from underrepresented backgrounds who have historically been shut out of or just ignored in dominant media. By encouraging all students to create media, we push toward a more equitable and just world, and by encouraging students to produce critical media -- that is, media that directly engage with other media -- we empower students to remake dominant culture. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/best-interactive-video-apps-and-websites\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are a ton of options out there for facilitating video creation and remix\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but two of my favorites are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://mbstudios.thelamp.org/auth/login\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">MediaBreaker\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vidcode.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vidcode\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson/rework-reuse-remix-6-8\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">middle school\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/lesson/rights-remixes-and-respect-9-12\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">high schoo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">l students, remix activities also present a great opportunity to talk about copyright and fair use.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>5. Empower Students to Become Advocates\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citizenship is ultimately about being democratically engaged in a place, and working to make that place better. As the digital extension of one’s citizenship to a place, digital citizenship must include advocacy. There’s no question young people face a challenging and uncertain world, currently run by people \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/11/03/141984787/generation-gap-how-age-shapes-political-outlook\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who often do not share their views\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on key issues and thus do not advocate in their interests. As incubators of participatory civics, classrooms can build students’ confidence and motivation. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/education-and-resources/resources-for-educators-parents-families/lesson-plans\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-Defamation League \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/lessons\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Tolerance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have lesson plans that connect to both past and present struggles, and one can also look to the co-created syllabi that have sprung up around \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.blacklivesmattersyllabus.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sharemylesson.com/CharlottesvilleCurriculum\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Charlottesville\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and beyond. Pair these resources with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/websites-and-apps-for-making-videos-and-animation\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">video creation tools\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and encourage students to create videos that advocate for causes important to them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humility is not necessarily about modesty or pretending to be less than you are. In fact, people who are humble often have a high sense of self-worth; it's just that they can recognize their own strengths and limitations. Research about humility also suggests a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439760.2012.671348\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">strong connection between being humble and being generous\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For kids growing up in a media-driven world that often rewards narcissism, humility has become a way to stand up and stand out, like this valedictorian student who used a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/valedictorian-anonymous-instagram_n_7571462.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">secret Instagram profile\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to sing the praises of his peers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But there’s a specific aspect of humility that’s especially relevant today: cultural humility. This is when we recognize that we have biases and limitations to our knowledge regarding another’s culture. Whether they are seeking to relate to someone of a different race, age, or gender, kids who can better keep themselves in perspective and practice cultural humility are more likely to value the contributions of others to their lives -- a necessity when fostering truly collaborative, forward-thinking societies. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out these picks to help kids reflect on their own views and work toward the welfare of others. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/global-oneness-project\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49611\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-160x160.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-375x375.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-32x32.jpeg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-64x64.jpeg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-96x96.jpeg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-128x128.jpeg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/globaloneness.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/global-oneness-project\">Global Oneness Project\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This site showcases multicultural life stories through short videos and photo essays. Kids can view a film about the effects of climate change on a local community or explore an article uncovering a culture on the edge of extinction. Once kids have had a chance to observe experiences outside their everyday reality, challenge them to go out into their own neighborhood, find an unexpected or inspiring story, and create a video that captures their own community in a new light.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/gapminder\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-49610\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/11/gapminder.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/gapminder\">Gapminder\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With Gapminder, kids can analyze data from interactive, animated charts to compare regions of our planet based on topics like health, fertility, literacy, debt, and more. Have kids try out Dollar Street, a feature that contains photos and information for 264 families across 50 countries -- all sorted by income. Kids can compare their own families to ones across the world who live at the same income level. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's not your imagination: Tiny tots are spending dramatically more time with tiny screens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/user/register?destination=homepage&gclid=CjwKCAjwyIHPBRAIEiwAHPS-GPjmpnrnD3a1M7wCAgEqRCPIZji7gS3ifNdHZ4UxiG1gJifFSWz0txoC_zsQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just released new numbers\u003c/a> on media use by children 8 and under. The nationally representative parent survey found that 98 percent of homes with children now have a mobile device — such as a tablet or smartphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a huge leap from 52 percent just six years ago. Mobile devices are now just as common as televisions in family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, the average amount of time our smallest children spend with those handheld devices each day is skyrocketing too: from 5 minutes a day in 2011, to 15 minutes a day in 2013, to 48 minutes a day in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Steyer, CEO and founder of Common Sense Media, calls this \"a seismic shift\" that is \"fundamentally redefining childhood experiences\" with \"enormous implications we have just begun to understand.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other eye-grabbing highlights from the survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>42 percent of young children now have their very own tablet device — up from 7 percent four years ago and less than 1 percent in 2011.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Screen media use among infants under 2 appears to be trending downward, from 58 minutes a day in 2013 to 42 minutes in 2017. This decline correlates with a drop in sales of DVDs, and particularly those marketed at babies, such as Baby Einstein. Updated pediatricians' \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/21/498550475/american-academy-of-pediatrics-lifts-no-screens-under-2-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendations released last year\u003c/a> call for limited, but not banned, screen use among the youngest set.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nearly half, 49 percent, of children 8 or under \"often or sometimes\" use screens in the hour before bedtime, which experts say is bad for sleep habits.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>42 percent of parents say the TV is on \"always\" or \"most of the time\" in their home, whether anyone is watching or not. Research has shown this so-called \"background TV\" reduces parent-child interaction, which in turn can hurt language development.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The growth of mobile is a dramatic change. But other aspects of kids' media use have been more stable over time, this periodic census reveals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you take every source of screen media together, children 8 and under spend an average of about two-and-a-quarter hours (2:19) a day, a figure that's flat from 2011 (2:16). That implies mobile is apparently cannibalizing, not adding on to, the boob tube and other types of media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, whether young kids are looking at small screens or big ones, most often they are passively watching videos, not using interactive apps. Video watching has dominated children's media use for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, young children are still being read to by their parents about 30 minutes a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More questions than answers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does all this mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers don't really know, and that concerns observers like Pamela Hurst-Della Pietra, the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenandscreens.com/institute/\">Children and Screens: The Institute of Digital Media and Child Development.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How different is the brain of a child who's never known anything but sustained digital media exposure to the brain of her parents, or even older siblings? she asks. \"And what are the implications for parents, educators or policymakers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurst-Della Pietra says these are questions \"we're only beginning to ask, let alone answer.\" Children and Screens is getting ready to release its own series of reports that sets an agenda for future research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyer, of Common Sense Media, agrees. \"I would argue there are big implications for brain and social-emotional development, many of which we don't know the answer to,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public conversation about kids and screens is somewhat schizophrenic. American schools, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/18/441122285/learning-to-code-in-preschool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even preschools,\u003c/a> are buying millions of electronic devices, and there are tens of thousands of apps meant to enhance learning for even the smallest babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, doctors warn, and parents worry, about negative effects from too much screen time, ranging from obesity to anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the Common Sense report that really plays up this contradiction is the section on the so-called digital divide. The phrase reflects the idea that learning how to use computers and the Internet at home helps kids get ahead in school and in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in previous years, this census shows both rich and poor families now appear to have nearly equal access to smartphones. At the same time, kids from lower-income families are spending twice as much time with screens daily as those from the most advantaged families. Is this a boon or a danger?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn Schofield Clark at the University of Denver studies media use with a focus on disadvantaged youth and youth of color. She says the missing ingredient in understanding the real impact of the digital divide is time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, parenting time: showing a kid how to use a laptop, how to do Internet research, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/06/26/533788062/how-to-pick-kids-apps-for-the-backseat-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picking out highly rated educational apps\u003c/a> or steering a child toward programs with positive messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who have more advantages have more time and education to help their kids use the technology,\" she explains. \"We have set up a society where it's structurally very difficult for families to spend time together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other eye-grabbing highlights from the survey:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>42 percent of young children now have their very own tablet device — up from 7 percent four years ago and less than 1 percent in 2011.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Screen media use among infants under 2 appears to be trending downward, from 58 minutes a day in 2013 to 42 minutes in 2017. This decline correlates with a drop in sales of DVDs, and particularly those marketed at babies, such as Baby Einstein. Updated pediatricians' \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/21/498550475/american-academy-of-pediatrics-lifts-no-screens-under-2-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recommendations released last year\u003c/a> call for limited, but not banned, screen use among the youngest set.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nearly half, 49 percent, of children 8 or under \"often or sometimes\" use screens in the hour before bedtime, which experts say is bad for sleep habits.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>42 percent of parents say the TV is on \"always\" or \"most of the time\" in their home, whether anyone is watching or not. Research has shown this so-called \"background TV\" reduces parent-child interaction, which in turn can hurt language development.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The growth of mobile is a dramatic change. But other aspects of kids' media use have been more stable over time, this periodic census reveals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you take every source of screen media together, children 8 and under spend an average of about two-and-a-quarter hours (2:19) a day, a figure that's flat from 2011 (2:16). That implies mobile is apparently cannibalizing, not adding on to, the boob tube and other types of media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, whether young kids are looking at small screens or big ones, most often they are passively watching videos, not using interactive apps. Video watching has dominated children's media use for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, young children are still being read to by their parents about 30 minutes a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More questions than answers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does all this mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers don't really know, and that concerns observers like Pamela Hurst-Della Pietra, the founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenandscreens.com/institute/\">Children and Screens: The Institute of Digital Media and Child Development.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How different is the brain of a child who's never known anything but sustained digital media exposure to the brain of her parents, or even older siblings? she asks. \"And what are the implications for parents, educators or policymakers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurst-Della Pietra says these are questions \"we're only beginning to ask, let alone answer.\" Children and Screens is getting ready to release its own series of reports that sets an agenda for future research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steyer, of Common Sense Media, agrees. \"I would argue there are big implications for brain and social-emotional development, many of which we don't know the answer to,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public conversation about kids and screens is somewhat schizophrenic. American schools, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/09/18/441122285/learning-to-code-in-preschool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even preschools,\u003c/a> are buying millions of electronic devices, and there are tens of thousands of apps meant to enhance learning for even the smallest babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, doctors warn, and parents worry, about negative effects from too much screen time, ranging from obesity to anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One part of the Common Sense report that really plays up this contradiction is the section on the so-called digital divide. The phrase reflects the idea that learning how to use computers and the Internet at home helps kids get ahead in school and in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike in previous years, this census shows both rich and poor families now appear to have nearly equal access to smartphones. At the same time, kids from lower-income families are spending twice as much time with screens daily as those from the most advantaged families. Is this a boon or a danger?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynn Schofield Clark at the University of Denver studies media use with a focus on disadvantaged youth and youth of color. She says the missing ingredient in understanding the real impact of the digital divide is time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, parenting time: showing a kid how to use a laptop, how to do Internet research, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/06/26/533788062/how-to-pick-kids-apps-for-the-backseat-this-summer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picking out highly rated educational apps\u003c/a> or steering a child toward programs with positive messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who have more advantages have more time and education to help their kids use the technology,\" she explains. \"We have set up a society where it's structurally very difficult for families to spend time together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>The why and how of teaching perseverance in classrooms is an ongoing debate. Some have usefully argued that focusing on building an individual’s “grit” (a combination of perseverance and passion) is a distraction from\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/grit-under-attack-in-education-circles\"> more significant systemic issues such as poverty\u003c/a> and ignores how many kids — especially those living in poverty — must develop persistence simply as a means of survival. Others bristle at the idea altogether, claiming grit is unteachable or suggesting \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009265661530012X\">too much perseverance \u003c/a>can come at a cost. Proponents of grit, like Angela Duckworth, \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/dont-believe-the-hype-about-grit-pleads-the-scientist-behind-the-concept.html\">have acknowledged these criticisms\u003c/a> while also arguing that sustained effort and interest are established and essential skills for learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this important debate should continue, there’s one thing that’s hard to argue: Seeing a complex task — like writing — through to completion is a tough challenge for many youngsters. As educators, we can provide opportunities for our budding authors to pursue their passions, see persistence pay off, and be mindful about their goals and limits, leading to extraordinary, memorable learning — like for the sixth-graders who \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20130414/ansonia-elementary-students-learn-persistence-through-plays\">wrote and produced a play based on the books of Roald Dahl\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out these picks to help inspire perseverance in developing and experienced writers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/nanowrimo-young-writers-program\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-49287 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp.jpg 428w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/nanowrimo-young-writers-program\">NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will learn writing techniques and also get a true taste of the writing life as they work toward meeting their goal: a completed novel. NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is structured like a contest, but everyone who finishes wins. With a 30-day time limit, students will have to do some time management, but the site uses tools like a \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/pages/word-count-goal-how-to\">word count\u003c/a> to break the process into manageable steps, and students can use the forum to ask questions when they get stuck. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The why and how of teaching perseverance in classrooms is an ongoing debate. Some have usefully argued that focusing on building an individual’s “grit” (a combination of perseverance and passion) is a distraction from\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/grit-under-attack-in-education-circles\"> more significant systemic issues such as poverty\u003c/a> and ignores how many kids — especially those living in poverty — must develop persistence simply as a means of survival. Others bristle at the idea altogether, claiming grit is unteachable or suggesting \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009265661530012X\">too much perseverance \u003c/a>can come at a cost. Proponents of grit, like Angela Duckworth, \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/05/dont-believe-the-hype-about-grit-pleads-the-scientist-behind-the-concept.html\">have acknowledged these criticisms\u003c/a> while also arguing that sustained effort and interest are established and essential skills for learners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this important debate should continue, there’s one thing that’s hard to argue: Seeing a complex task — like writing — through to completion is a tough challenge for many youngsters. As educators, we can provide opportunities for our budding authors to pursue their passions, see persistence pay off, and be mindful about their goals and limits, leading to extraordinary, memorable learning — like for the sixth-graders who \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20130414/ansonia-elementary-students-learn-persistence-through-plays\">wrote and produced a play based on the books of Roald Dahl\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out these picks to help inspire perseverance in developing and experienced writers alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/nanowrimo-young-writers-program\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-49287 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp.jpg 428w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/nanowrimo-ywp-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/nanowrimo-young-writers-program\">NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students will learn writing techniques and also get a true taste of the writing life as they work toward meeting their goal: a completed novel. NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is structured like a contest, but everyone who finishes wins. With a 30-day time limit, students will have to do some time management, but the site uses tools like a \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/pages/word-count-goal-how-to\">word count\u003c/a> to break the process into manageable steps, and students can use the forum to ask questions when they get stuck. NaNoWriMo takes the intimidating task of writing a novel and makes it achievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Features like a vocabulary enhancement tool, grammar score, word count, and hints on style get students reflecting about their writing. The feedback provided builds confidence in students as they go through the editing and revision process, and the weekly writing performance report will keep them going. While a computer cannot account for every single person’s style, Grammarly can still be a useful tool to help students assess and improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/classcraft\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49284\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft.png 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/classcraft-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/classcraft\">Classcraft\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not specifically developed for writing, Classcraft is a platform where teachers can gamify classes and students can gain experience points by completing quests. Help students push through tough writing projects by giving them a choice of assignments and awarding them badges for jobs well done; those who are working toward goals will find the constant feedback helpful. Since students work together within the game’s premise, issues feel like challenges or obstacles to be tackled together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/roadtrip-nation\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/roadtrip-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/roadtrip-nation\">Roadtrip Nation\u003c/a>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lessons and short videos on Roadtrip Nation encourage students to speak with people they look up to, discovering the steps they took to get where they are today. As students explore opportunities for their future, they will develop online research skills and practice blogging about their experience. Discovering adults who share their same passions will also help motivate students to share their stories with others. Explore the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/http://roadtripnation.com/explore/themes/perseverance\">Perseverance\u003c/a> section for inspiring videos and have students use them to set reasonable goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article’s content is an extension of the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20170921110622/https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/we-all-teach-sel-inspiring-activities-for-every-classroom\">We All Teach SEL\u003c/a> blog series from Common Sense Education. Check it out for a complete look at social and emotional learning in the classroom.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stanford education professor Jo Boaler’s message about teaching math in visual ways that don’t emphasize one right procedure has become a rallying cry for many math educators ready for a seismic shift in how American schools teach mathematics. But \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/30/not-a-math-person-how-to-remove-obstacles-to-learning-math/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her ideas\u003c/a> also challenge much of what has been done in classrooms for decades, including the ways that current teachers and parents learned themselves. \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alice Keeler\u003c/a> is one of the converted, despite the fact she taught math traditionally for many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a math teacher, and I’ll be honest,\" Keeler said, \"I didn’t teach it to be creative.\" She always felt pressure to move more quickly through the curriculum. Every day brought a new topic, whether or not students had deeply understood what came before. When Keeler read Boaler’s book, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26067736-mathematical-mindsets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathematical Mindsets\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, she saw herself as a young student in much of what Boaler described. With tears in her eyes, she told a group of educators at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iste.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)\u003c/a> that since fourth grade she secretly thought she was dumb because she couldn’t pass timed math tests. Boaler’s message that fast is not the same thing as smart was liberating to her as a person and as a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we work on a math problem, any type of problem, there are five different pathways in the brain that light up and are working,” Boaler said by video call at the same presentation. “Two of them are visual.” She argues that much of traditional math teaching focuses on numerical representations, teachers demonstrating procedures, and memorization, when it would be more effective to try to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/11/21/what-neuroscience-can-tell-us-about-making-fractions-stick/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strengthen connections between the various parts of the brain\u003c/a> needed when working on math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That comes about by showing information in different ways,” Boaler said. Representations of math problems using words, images and numbers each use different parts of the brain, so the concept gets hardwired in a neural network drawing on multiple brain faculties instead of one numerical pathway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The least likely way of helping kids have those brain connections is having kids sit and listen to lectures,” Boaler said. That doesn’t mean all math classes need to be project-based or that direct instruction is always bad, but when lecture is the default classroom mode, it doesn’t require students to use their brains to make sense of the new ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boaler’s website \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouCubed\u003c/a> has many \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">activities\u003c/a> to help teachers learn to open up the exploration of math from one of closed questions with a right and wrong answer, to one where \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/04/05/five-ways-to-shift-teaching-practice-so-students-feel-less-math-anxious/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">different ways of seeing and articulating math \u003c/a>are valued. When teachers ask students to explain why their thinking makes sense, students are forced to articulate their thought process, how it compares and contrasts to ideas peers have shared, and in doing so may help the teacher identify any \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/04/18/getting-inside-students-minds-why-misconceptions-are-so-powerful/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misconceptions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/129139086?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A simple example of opening up math in this way starts with a closed question: Divide one by two-thirds. But rather than asking students to apply a rule, ask students to come up with a visual proof. “What happens is the kids have these amazing discussions with different visual proofs, and it’s such a great way of taking a very closed question and opening it up,” Boaler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a math teacher Alice Keeler loves the ideas on YouCubed and readily admits most of them can be done without technology. However, Keeler sees many ways that technology could enhance the visual and collaboration elements of the work, so she has adapted several YouCubed activities for the Google Suite. While Keeler spent 14 years in the classroom, she now has her own consulting business and teaches at California State University Fresno. She also co-wrote \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/google-classroom/\">two books on using Google Classroom\u003c/a> with Libbi Miller: \u003cem>50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom\u003c/em> and \u003cem>50 Things To Go Further With Google Classroom.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not about being digital and it’s not about being paperless,” Keeler said. “That doesn’t make learning better. But collaboration does.” She likes doing open-ended math activities in Google Slides because each student can play with visual representations, give feedback to peers, and receive ongoing feedback from the teacher. She usually makes blank slides and gives editing power to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask each student to add their own slides explaining how they did it, how they visualized it, and we’re all doing it together in the Google Slides,” Keeler said. She’s found that when students can see how a peer visualized the problem, they then reflect on different approaches. She also values her ability to comment in real time with students because it becomes a conversation, not a static comment on returned work that the student may or may not look at again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can have conversations with them around the ideas and help them to develop their thinking rather than just marking things right and wrong,” Keeler said. A math teacher who isn’t using G-Suite in class could also have these kinds of formative conversations by circling the room and talking with students working in groups, but Keeler likes using the technology because she can easily see how each individual is thinking about the problem. And students can interact with one another’s ideas, even when they aren’t physically in her class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 754px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-49164 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100.jpg\" alt='An adaptation of the <a href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/how-close-to-100/\">\"How Close to 100\"</a> YouCubed activity that can be done in Google Sheets. (<a href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/\">Alice Keeler</a>' width=\"754\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100.jpg 754w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An adaptation of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/how-close-to-100/\">\"How Close to 100\"\u003c/a> YouCubed activity that can be done in Google Sheets. (\u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/\">Alice Keeler)\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keeler often tells students not to delete mistakes from the slides, instead telling them to duplicate the slide and keep working. That way she can see the progression of their thinking. This also helps students to see how far they’ve come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/the-four-4s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular YouCubed problem \u003c/a>asks students to take exactly four 4s and use any combination of operations to come up with the numbers 1-20. Keeler often \u003ca href=\"http://www.alicekeeler.com/four4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does this in Google Slides\u003c/a>, where each slide is a place for students to show how they combined four 4s to get “1” and then on the next slide the work for “2,” etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She likes working in Google Slides because students can add media or even do work on paper and upload an image. This gives different types of learners options. Students with disabilities or who benefit from speech-to-text help can also participate using \u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/equatio-math-made-digital/hjngolefdpdnooamgdldlkjgmdcmcjnc?hl=en-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EquatIO\u003c/a>, a Chrome add-on that has voice typing capabilities, as well as handwriting recognition. EquatIO used to be g(Math), and now also makes it possible to use math symbols in slides and other Google apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 753px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-49170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1.jpg 753w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-240x134.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-375x210.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-520x291.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Keeler adapted a YouCubed activity, asking students to visualize the math using pixel art. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/2016/07/17/modeling-division-brownies-joboaler/\">Alice Keeler\u003c/a> )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another popular YouCubed activity asks students to visualize division by divvying up a pan of brownies equally among friends. Keeler does this activity in \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/2016/07/17/modeling-division-brownies-joboaler/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a spreadsheet\u003c/a>, and often asks students to create their own brownie pans -- their own problems -- in the next tab. “It allows them to experiment and play,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeler has become something of an \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/2016/02/10/teaching-math-with-google-googlemath/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evangelist for technology in math classrooms\u003c/a>, learning how to set up conditional statements and even simple code in Google Sheets to aid her purposes (she also shares these ideas regularly on \u003ca href=\"http://@alicekeeler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>, including activity templates). Over time her teaching evolved and by the time she left the K-12 classroom she had upended some of the practices she once considered fundamental, like assigning \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/16/parents-wonder-why-so-much-homework/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homework\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most controversial ideas in math education revolves around \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/02/22/can-repetitive-exercises-actually-feed-the-creative-process/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how, when and how much students should practice\u003c/a>. Many teachers believe it is important for students to do homework so they can practice new concepts learned in class. Boaler agrees that practice is important, but doesn’t think that requires doing the same type of rote problem over and over. Boaler explained this to her daughter’s teacher and was pleasantly surprised at how she used the feedback. After their discussion, the teacher started giving students four problems to practice the calculations and then asked them to represent the concept some other way. They could write a story, make a drawing or come up with something else. The key was showing their knowledge in different ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many elementary school educators are willing to consider that homework is not necessary for the young learners they teach, but far fewer high school teachers agree. Keeler taught Algebra and AP Statistics when she was in the classroom. She found that “the only kids who did the homework were the ones who didn’t need to,” so she stopped assigning homework. “It didn’t make a lick of difference” in terms of achievement, she said, but kids started enjoying class more. When she eliminated homework, Keeler found she had much more positive relationships with students and parents, a benefit that far outweighed what she called the “marginal gains of more rote practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately both Keeler and Boaler hope that by making math a subject that’s about \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/12/18/what-can-we-learn-from-countries-that-effectively-teach-math/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ideas, discussion, differing viewpoints \u003c/a>and visual representations, students will learn they can not only do math, but excel at it. Too many students don’t feel that way now, which is why teachers are beginning to see the need for a new approach.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stanford education professor Jo Boaler’s message about teaching math in visual ways that don’t emphasize one right procedure has become a rallying cry for many math educators ready for a seismic shift in how American schools teach mathematics. But \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/11/30/not-a-math-person-how-to-remove-obstacles-to-learning-math/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her ideas\u003c/a> also challenge much of what has been done in classrooms for decades, including the ways that current teachers and parents learned themselves. \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alice Keeler\u003c/a> is one of the converted, despite the fact she taught math traditionally for many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a math teacher, and I’ll be honest,\" Keeler said, \"I didn’t teach it to be creative.\" She always felt pressure to move more quickly through the curriculum. Every day brought a new topic, whether or not students had deeply understood what came before. When Keeler read Boaler’s book, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26067736-mathematical-mindsets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathematical Mindsets\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, she saw herself as a young student in much of what Boaler described. With tears in her eyes, she told a group of educators at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iste.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)\u003c/a> that since fourth grade she secretly thought she was dumb because she couldn’t pass timed math tests. Boaler’s message that fast is not the same thing as smart was liberating to her as a person and as a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we work on a math problem, any type of problem, there are five different pathways in the brain that light up and are working,” Boaler said by video call at the same presentation. “Two of them are visual.” She argues that much of traditional math teaching focuses on numerical representations, teachers demonstrating procedures, and memorization, when it would be more effective to try to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/11/21/what-neuroscience-can-tell-us-about-making-fractions-stick/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strengthen connections between the various parts of the brain\u003c/a> needed when working on math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That comes about by showing information in different ways,” Boaler said. Representations of math problems using words, images and numbers each use different parts of the brain, so the concept gets hardwired in a neural network drawing on multiple brain faculties instead of one numerical pathway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The least likely way of helping kids have those brain connections is having kids sit and listen to lectures,” Boaler said. That doesn’t mean all math classes need to be project-based or that direct instruction is always bad, but when lecture is the default classroom mode, it doesn’t require students to use their brains to make sense of the new ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boaler’s website \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouCubed\u003c/a> has many \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">activities\u003c/a> to help teachers learn to open up the exploration of math from one of closed questions with a right and wrong answer, to one where \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/04/05/five-ways-to-shift-teaching-practice-so-students-feel-less-math-anxious/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">different ways of seeing and articulating math \u003c/a>are valued. When teachers ask students to explain why their thinking makes sense, students are forced to articulate their thought process, how it compares and contrasts to ideas peers have shared, and in doing so may help the teacher identify any \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/04/18/getting-inside-students-minds-why-misconceptions-are-so-powerful/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">misconceptions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/129139086?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A simple example of opening up math in this way starts with a closed question: Divide one by two-thirds. But rather than asking students to apply a rule, ask students to come up with a visual proof. “What happens is the kids have these amazing discussions with different visual proofs, and it’s such a great way of taking a very closed question and opening it up,” Boaler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a math teacher Alice Keeler loves the ideas on YouCubed and readily admits most of them can be done without technology. However, Keeler sees many ways that technology could enhance the visual and collaboration elements of the work, so she has adapted several YouCubed activities for the Google Suite. While Keeler spent 14 years in the classroom, she now has her own consulting business and teaches at California State University Fresno. She also co-wrote \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/google-classroom/\">two books on using Google Classroom\u003c/a> with Libbi Miller: \u003cem>50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom\u003c/em> and \u003cem>50 Things To Go Further With Google Classroom.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not about being digital and it’s not about being paperless,” Keeler said. “That doesn’t make learning better. But collaboration does.” She likes doing open-ended math activities in Google Slides because each student can play with visual representations, give feedback to peers, and receive ongoing feedback from the teacher. She usually makes blank slides and gives editing power to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ask each student to add their own slides explaining how they did it, how they visualized it, and we’re all doing it together in the Google Slides,” Keeler said. She’s found that when students can see how a peer visualized the problem, they then reflect on different approaches. She also values her ability to comment in real time with students because it becomes a conversation, not a static comment on returned work that the student may or may not look at again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can have conversations with them around the ideas and help them to develop their thinking rather than just marking things right and wrong,” Keeler said. A math teacher who isn’t using G-Suite in class could also have these kinds of formative conversations by circling the room and talking with students working in groups, but Keeler likes using the technology because she can easily see how each individual is thinking about the problem. And students can interact with one another’s ideas, even when they aren’t physically in her class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49164\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 754px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-49164 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100.jpg\" alt='An adaptation of the <a href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/how-close-to-100/\">\"How Close to 100\"</a> YouCubed activity that can be done in Google Sheets. (<a href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/\">Alice Keeler</a>' width=\"754\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100.jpg 754w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/how-close-to-100-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An adaptation of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/how-close-to-100/\">\"How Close to 100\"\u003c/a> YouCubed activity that can be done in Google Sheets. (\u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/\">Alice Keeler)\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keeler often tells students not to delete mistakes from the slides, instead telling them to duplicate the slide and keep working. That way she can see the progression of their thinking. This also helps students to see how far they’ve come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/the-four-4s/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular YouCubed problem \u003c/a>asks students to take exactly four 4s and use any combination of operations to come up with the numbers 1-20. Keeler often \u003ca href=\"http://www.alicekeeler.com/four4s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does this in Google Slides\u003c/a>, where each slide is a place for students to show how they combined four 4s to get “1” and then on the next slide the work for “2,” etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She likes working in Google Slides because students can add media or even do work on paper and upload an image. This gives different types of learners options. Students with disabilities or who benefit from speech-to-text help can also participate using \u003ca href=\"https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/equatio-math-made-digital/hjngolefdpdnooamgdldlkjgmdcmcjnc?hl=en-US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EquatIO\u003c/a>, a Chrome add-on that has voice typing capabilities, as well as handwriting recognition. EquatIO used to be g(Math), and now also makes it possible to use math symbols in slides and other Google apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_49170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 753px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-49170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1.jpg 753w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-240x134.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-375x210.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/09/pixelart-math-1-520x291.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Keeler adapted a YouCubed activity, asking students to visualize the math using pixel art. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/2016/07/17/modeling-division-brownies-joboaler/\">Alice Keeler\u003c/a> )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another popular YouCubed activity asks students to visualize division by divvying up a pan of brownies equally among friends. Keeler does this activity in \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/2016/07/17/modeling-division-brownies-joboaler/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a spreadsheet\u003c/a>, and often asks students to create their own brownie pans -- their own problems -- in the next tab. “It allows them to experiment and play,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeler has become something of an \u003ca href=\"http://alicekeeler.com/2016/02/10/teaching-math-with-google-googlemath/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">evangelist for technology in math classrooms\u003c/a>, learning how to set up conditional statements and even simple code in Google Sheets to aid her purposes (she also shares these ideas regularly on \u003ca href=\"http://@alicekeeler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter\u003c/a>, including activity templates). Over time her teaching evolved and by the time she left the K-12 classroom she had upended some of the practices she once considered fundamental, like assigning \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/16/parents-wonder-why-so-much-homework/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homework\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most controversial ideas in math education revolves around \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/02/22/can-repetitive-exercises-actually-feed-the-creative-process/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how, when and how much students should practice\u003c/a>. Many teachers believe it is important for students to do homework so they can practice new concepts learned in class. Boaler agrees that practice is important, but doesn’t think that requires doing the same type of rote problem over and over. Boaler explained this to her daughter’s teacher and was pleasantly surprised at how she used the feedback. After their discussion, the teacher started giving students four problems to practice the calculations and then asked them to represent the concept some other way. They could write a story, make a drawing or come up with something else. The key was showing their knowledge in different ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many elementary school educators are willing to consider that homework is not necessary for the young learners they teach, but far fewer high school teachers agree. Keeler taught Algebra and AP Statistics when she was in the classroom. She found that “the only kids who did the homework were the ones who didn’t need to,” so she stopped assigning homework. “It didn’t make a lick of difference” in terms of achievement, she said, but kids started enjoying class more. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As teachers, we sometimes forget that little, everyday actions in the classroom have a huge impact on our students' lives. Just a small offering of appreciation can transform relationships and boost student self-worth. Simple tokens of gratitude, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.clickorlando.com/education/students-protest-osceola-county-teachers-firing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students voicing their appreciation for a fired teacher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, can shift the climate of entire schools and strengthen the bonds among teachers, kids, and the community. But it’s not just about recognition -- it's also about supporting and inspiring others. Studies have shown that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.umkc.edu/facultyombuds/documents/grant_gino_jpsp_2010.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when someone gets appreciated, they feel more socially valued, and this can lead to prosocial behavior\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In other words, when someone receives thanks, they are more likely to pay it forward. The more teachers express and practice gratitude, the more inclined students will be to do the same, leading to a more supportive and equitable world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out these picks to help students develop a greater sense of self-worth and inspire a positive classroom culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cb>This I Believe\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This inspirational site focuses on the writing, sharing, and discussing of people's core beliefs through short essays. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As teachers, we sometimes forget that little, everyday actions in the classroom have a huge impact on our students' lives. Just a small offering of appreciation can transform relationships and boost student self-worth. Simple tokens of gratitude, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.clickorlando.com/education/students-protest-osceola-county-teachers-firing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">students voicing their appreciation for a fired teacher\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, can shift the climate of entire schools and strengthen the bonds among teachers, kids, and the community. But it’s not just about recognition -- it's also about supporting and inspiring others. Studies have shown that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.umkc.edu/facultyombuds/documents/grant_gino_jpsp_2010.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">when someone gets appreciated, they feel more socially valued, and this can lead to prosocial behavior\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In other words, when someone receives thanks, they are more likely to pay it forward. The more teachers express and practice gratitude, the more inclined students will be to do the same, leading to a more supportive and equitable world.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check out these picks to help students develop a greater sense of self-worth and inspire a positive classroom culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-49065\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/ThisIBelieve-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/this-i-believe\">\u003cb>This I Believe\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This inspirational site focuses on the writing, sharing, and discussing of people's core beliefs through short essays. Students can practice listening to or reading essays about what others have to say. After spending some time in the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://thisibelieve.org/theme/gratitude/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gratitude\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> section, students can then compose and publish their own self-reflective essay on the site. Guide students towards understanding that success often depends on not letting others force you to break your own core beliefs and values.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Given the high cost of hard-backed textbooks, is it wiser to save the money and the back strain by going digital?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might think that, decades into the digital revolution, we would have a clear answer to this question. Wrong. Earlier this year educational psychologist Patricia Alexander, a literacy scholar at the University of Maryland, published a \u003ca href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0034654317722961\">thorough review\u003c/a> of recent research on the topic. She was “shocked,” she says, to find that out of 878 potentially relevant studies published between 1992 and 2017, only 36 directly compared reading in digital and in print and measured learning in a reliable way. (Many of the other studies zoomed in on aspects of e-reading, such as eye movements or the merits of different kinds of screens.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from pointing up a blatant need for more research, Alexander’s review, co-authored with doctoral student Lauren Singer and appearing in \u003cem>Review of Educational Research\u003c/em>, affirmed at least one practical finding: if you are reading something lengthy – more than 500 words or more than a page of the book or screen – your comprehension will likely take a hit if you’re using a digital device. The finding was supported by numerous studies and held true for students in college, high school and grade school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research suggests that the explanation is at least partly the greater physical and mental demands of reading on a screen: the nuisance of scrolling, and the tiresome glare and flicker of some devices. There may be differences in the concentration we bring to a digital environment, too, where we are accustomed to browsing and multitasking. And some researchers have observed that working your way through a print volume leaves spatial impressions that stick in your mind (for instance, the lingering memory of where a certain passage or diagram appeared in a book).\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They assume that because they were going faster [reading digitally], they understood it better. It’s an illusion.’\u003ccite>Patricia Alexander, University of Maryland literacy scholar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alexander and Singer have done their own studies of the digital versus print question. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220973.2016.1143794\">2016 experiment\u003c/a> they asked 90 undergraduates to read short informational texts (about 450 words) on a computer and in print. Due to the length, no scrolling was required, but there still was a difference in how much they absorbed. The students performed equally well in describing the main idea of the passages no matter the medium, but when asked to list additional key points and recall further details, the print readers had the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiously, the students themselves were unaware of this advantage. In fact, after answering comprehension questions, 69% said they believed they had performed better after reading on a computer. Researchers call this failure of insight poor “calibration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point of such research, as Alexander herself notes, is not to anoint a winner in a contest between digital and print. We all swim in a sea of electronic information and there’s no turning back the tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The core question,” Alexander said in an interview, is “when is a reader best served by a particular medium. And what kind of readers? What age? What kind of text are we talking about? All of those elements matter a great deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, we all could do with a lot more self-awareness about how we learn from reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a big reason that students in the study thought they learned better from digital text is that they moved more quickly in that medium. Research by Alexander and others has confirmed this faster pace. “They assume that because they were going faster, they understood it better,” Alexander observes. “It’s an illusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If students become aware of this illusion, they can make better choices. Just as they might decide to turn off social media alerts while studying an online textbook, they might want to consciously slow themselves down when reading for deep meaning. On the other hand, when reading for pleasure or surface information, they can let ’er rip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital text makes it easy for students to copy and paste key passages into a document for further study, but there is little research on how this compares with taking notes by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We study things like highlighting and underlining,” Alexander says, “but those kind of motor responses have never been of highest value in terms of text-processing strategies” – whether done with a cursor or a marker. The studying strategy with “the greatest power,” she adds, involves deeply questioning the text — asking yourself if you agree with the author, and why or why not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutch scholar Joost Kircz points out that these are still early days for digital reading, and new and better formats will continue to emerge. In his view, the linear format of a traditional book is well suited for narratives but not necessarily ideal for academic texts or scientific papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In narrative prose fiction, the author strictly determines the reading path,” he and co-author August Hans Den Boef write in \u003ca href=\"http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089646002-the-unbound-book.html\">\u003cem>The Unbound Book\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> a collection of essays about the future of reading. “But in a digital environment we can easily enable a plurality of reading paths in educational and scholarly texts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the hyperlinks, video and audio that currently enhance many digital texts, Kircz would like to see innovations such as multiple types of hyperlinks, perhaps in a rainbow of colors that denote specific purposes (annotation, elaboration, contrary views, media, etc.). He also imagines digital books that could enable a variety of paths through a body of work. Not all information is linear or even layered, he told me: “There’s a lot of information that’s spherical. You cannot stack it up. The question is to what extent can we mimic human understanding?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we await those future digital products, students deciding what school books to buy this fall would do well to ask themselves just what they hope to get from the text. As Alexander notes, “If I’m only trying to learn something that’s going to be covered on a test and the test is shallow in nature, then [digital] is just fine.” If, on the other hand, you hope to dive in deeply and gather imperishable pearls, spring for the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://hechingerreport.org/\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/a>\u003cem>, the nonprofit, independent news website focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/6PKcL\">newsletter\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curiously, the students themselves were unaware of this advantage. In fact, after answering comprehension questions, 69% said they believed they had performed better after reading on a computer. Researchers call this failure of insight poor “calibration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The point of such research, as Alexander herself notes, is not to anoint a winner in a contest between digital and print. We all swim in a sea of electronic information and there’s no turning back the tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The core question,” Alexander said in an interview, is “when is a reader best served by a particular medium. And what kind of readers? What age? What kind of text are we talking about? All of those elements matter a great deal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, we all could do with a lot more self-awareness about how we learn from reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a big reason that students in the study thought they learned better from digital text is that they moved more quickly in that medium. Research by Alexander and others has confirmed this faster pace. “They assume that because they were going faster, they understood it better,” Alexander observes. “It’s an illusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If students become aware of this illusion, they can make better choices. Just as they might decide to turn off social media alerts while studying an online textbook, they might want to consciously slow themselves down when reading for deep meaning. On the other hand, when reading for pleasure or surface information, they can let ’er rip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital text makes it easy for students to copy and paste key passages into a document for further study, but there is little research on how this compares with taking notes by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We study things like highlighting and underlining,” Alexander says, “but those kind of motor responses have never been of highest value in terms of text-processing strategies” – whether done with a cursor or a marker. The studying strategy with “the greatest power,” she adds, involves deeply questioning the text — asking yourself if you agree with the author, and why or why not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dutch scholar Joost Kircz points out that these are still early days for digital reading, and new and better formats will continue to emerge. In his view, the linear format of a traditional book is well suited for narratives but not necessarily ideal for academic texts or scientific papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In narrative prose fiction, the author strictly determines the reading path,” he and co-author August Hans Den Boef write in \u003ca href=\"http://en.aup.nl/books/9789089646002-the-unbound-book.html\">\u003cem>The Unbound Book\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> a collection of essays about the future of reading. “But in a digital environment we can easily enable a plurality of reading paths in educational and scholarly texts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the hyperlinks, video and audio that currently enhance many digital texts, Kircz would like to see innovations such as multiple types of hyperlinks, perhaps in a rainbow of colors that denote specific purposes (annotation, elaboration, contrary views, media, etc.). He also imagines digital books that could enable a variety of paths through a body of work. Not all information is linear or even layered, he told me: “There’s a lot of information that’s spherical. You cannot stack it up. The question is to what extent can we mimic human understanding?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we await those future digital products, students deciding what school books to buy this fall would do well to ask themselves just what they hope to get from the text. As Alexander notes, “If I’m only trying to learn something that’s going to be covered on a test and the test is shallow in nature, then [digital] is just fine.” If, on the other hand, you hope to dive in deeply and gather imperishable pearls, spring for the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Beth Holland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As digital devices become more common in classrooms, teachers and students are discovering that what worked in the analog world may not be as effective in the digital one. Nowhere is this more clear than with note taking, a long-standing and important practice in most classrooms. For this reason, few empirical studies may be more detrimental to encouraging the use of technology in education than Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) \u003ca href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581?journalCode=pssa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard\"\u003c/a> as well as Carter, Greenberg and Walker’s (2016) \u003ca href=\"https://aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/41/CarterGreenbergWalker_AEFP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Effect of Computer Usage on Academic Performance.\" \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both studies claim that students in lecture-style courses perform worse on assessments \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/18/taking-notes-is-the-pen-still-mightier-than-the-keyboard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when allowed to use devices for note taking\u003c/a>. When note taking serves as the primary use of technology in the classroom, these studies become a harbinger for technology opposition. University professors have used these data as a rallying cry to ban laptops in their classes, and K-12 teachers have cited these studies in arguments against 1:1 programs in schools. However, none of these studies question the teaching methods used in the classes themselves or whether teachers are recognizing the power of digital devices for students to create, share, connect and discover information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers behind these studies acknowledge that the act of note taking can be beneficial to student learning when used to summarize, synthesize, or draw conclusions; they also argue that it is not helpful when used to capture content verbatim -- a practice that often happens when typing on a laptop. While both of these studies make wide generalizations about the detrimental impact of technology on education, neither offers any recommendations, such as those presented below, to help students take advantage of all the ways their devices could actually improve their ability to organize, make connections and synthesize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digital Organization and Content Curation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organization is a critical academic skill and one that many students struggle with in both the physical and digital worlds. Parents and teachers already help students get organized and now need to extend that to the digital world. Given the influx of technology in their academic lives, students need to develop an effective organizational system for their digital notes, projects and thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much like students understand the concept of binders, notebooks and notes in the physical world, they need a similar system in the digital one. Whether working with dividers and subjects in a tool like \u003ca href=\"http://gingerlabs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notability\u003c/a> or sections and pages in \u003ca href=\"https://www.onenote.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote\u003c/a>, students need to build vocabulary to support how they house their learning. All note taking tools search typed content, and many also search handwriting, so students can not only find information quickly, but they can also focus on making connections to previous ideas instead of wondering where they put their notes. These familiar paradigms allow students to digitize existing organizational processes, but then add powerful capabilities such as searching and tagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through thoughtful tagging, students can easily search across their notes, regardless of where they might be digitally organized. Traditionally, students and teachers may think of tags like keywords. Students in a history course might tag content by event (e.g. Civil War or Treaty of Versailles). And yet, content could also be tagged with study strategies, overarching themes or essential questions debated in class. When teachers build this type of critical thinking into note taking instruction, they can help students to engage more deeply with their notes. Tagging this way not only helps students stay organized, but it could also help them to examine trends across courses or even semesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a doctoral student, I use OneNote. First, I create a new digital notebook each year. Inside that, I add sections for each term as well as my different courses. Finally, my notes get organized into individual pages within the sections. When I can recall the precise location where I put a particular set of notes, I navigate directly to that page. However, on the numerous occasions when an author, vocabulary term or concept seems familiar but I cannot recall the precise moment when I took notes, then the search function becomes critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I can search across sections and notebooks to quickly access content, I have more time and mental capacity to connect seemingly disparate pieces of content and engage in a deeper synthesis of ideas. This is exactly the type of thinking that Mueller and Oppenheimer advocated for in their paper, \"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard.\" However, they argued that this was the main benefit of taking notes by hand instead of recognizing it as a strategy regardless of device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nMultimodal Notes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways digital notes differ dramatically from paper notes lies in the ability to capture information in multiple forms. With most tools (Notability, OneNote, Evernote, etc.), students can not only capture typed and handwritten notes but also incorporate photos, audio and even video. These versatile capabilities allow students to customize their note taking process to meet their learning needs. Consider these possibilities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Students may take notes on paper, add photos of those papers into a digital notebook, synthesize their thinking with audio or written notes, and then tag their digital notes for later retrieval.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Students might use audio syncing -- a feature that records audio and then digitally syncs it with whatever the student writes or types -- to capture the context of the class discussion or lecture. When reviewing their notes, students could click or tap on their notes and then jump directly to that point in the audio recording.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers might provide students with their presentation slides or other note taking guides as PDF files. Now, students can focus on taking notes — using any modality — for synthesis, elaboration, reflection or analysis rather than in an attempt to capture content verbatim.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In 1949, neuropsychologist \u003ca href=\"http://can-acn.org/donald-olding-hebb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Hebb\u003c/a> famously wrote, “Neurons that fire together wire together.” When scaffolded for students, digital note taking has the power to transcend the traditional definition of what has been typically considered “notes.” By encouraging students to focus their note taking on building deeper connections instead of just capturing content verbatim, then they create a more integrated neural network around the ideas. With the right support from teachers, digital note taking can be so much more than just capturing a lesson. It can encourage students to actively engage in the note taking process and also reflect on their own development as learners. They might even tag their notes as such!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concept Mapping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johns Hopkins professor \u003ca href=\"http://scienceoflearning.jhu.edu/about-us/our-experts/dr-mariale-hardiman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mariale Hardiman\u003c/a>, concept mapping helps students to build deeper connections, more easily recognize links between content elements, and increase their conceptual understanding of the topic. She compares providing a concept map to students with using the picture on the box of a jigsaw puzzle -- it’s the “big picture” for how seemingly disconnected pieces of information fit together. Teachers can offer concept maps at the beginning of a unit as a way to frame the learning, but students can also make their own concept maps to visualize connections across content areas through \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/15/making-learning-visible-doodling-helps-memories-stick/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diagrams or sketch notes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the powerful components of digital note taking is that the pages never end, and a full page isn’t an artificial barrier to limit thinking. Students can work on an infinitely expanding canvas to include as much information as they need. For example, concept mapping tools such as \u003ca href=\"https://coggle.it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coggle\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://padlet.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Padlet\u003c/a> allow students to create networks of ideas using text, links, images and even video without ever running out of room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ever-expanding canvas removes all physical constraints on students’ thinking and connecting ideas. To illustrate this concept, \u003ca href=\"http://www.askmsq.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sabba Quidwai\u003c/a>, former director of innovative learning for the physician assistant program at USC's medical school and now K-12 development executive at Apple, shared the image below from an anatomy student. The student constructed a concept map in Notability using sketches, screen shots and handwriting to illustrate key points about the circulatory system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_48903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-48903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A medical student's digital concept map for anatomy class. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sabba Quidwai )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visible Thinking Routines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, students of all ages struggle to make connections to the content as they read and write, regardless of the note taking medium. Whether asking an elementary school student to pick out the main idea in a passage or a high school student to synthesize across multiple sources, all students need scaffolding for their thinking and reflection. \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visible Thinking routines\u003c/a>, sets of questions designed by researchers at Harvard’s Project Zero, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/31/when-kids-have-structure-for-thinking-better-learning-emerges/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encourage thinking\u003c/a> and support student inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the potential of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/SeeThinkWonder/SeeThinkWonder_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See-Think-Wonder\u003c/a>, one of those routines, to focus notes about a reading or a presentation. Instead of directing students to “take notes,” teachers could suggest that they create three columns on a page, or nodes on a concept map, and then take note of what they see, what they think, and what they wonder. Not only does this guide their note taking but it also encourages them to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/08/how-dissecting-a-pencil-can-ignite-curiosity-and-wonderment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ask questions about the content\u003c/a> as they record it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, students might use another routine, \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03d_UnderstandingRoutines/ConnectExtendChallenge/ConnectExtend_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connect-Extend-Challenge\u003c/a>, to summarize notes at the end of the day and reflect on their learning. This thinking routine asks students to connect new content to prior knowledge, acknowledge what has extended or pushed their thinking in a new direction, and then address what they still find challenging or confusing. Whether completed on paper and then added to a digital notebook as a photo, or constructed completely digitally, visible thinking routines provide concrete strategies to help students engage with the information they are capturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often, educators project their own note taking habits onto their students, applying paper-based strategies to digital tools. With that mindset, it becomes far too easy for short-sighted studies to confirm previously held biases against technology. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Beth Holland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As digital devices become more common in classrooms, teachers and students are discovering that what worked in the analog world may not be as effective in the digital one. Nowhere is this more clear than with note taking, a long-standing and important practice in most classrooms. For this reason, few empirical studies may be more detrimental to encouraging the use of technology in education than Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) \u003ca href=\"http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581?journalCode=pssa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard\"\u003c/a> as well as Carter, Greenberg and Walker’s (2016) \u003ca href=\"https://aefpweb.org/sites/default/files/webform/41/CarterGreenbergWalker_AEFP.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Effect of Computer Usage on Academic Performance.\" \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both studies claim that students in lecture-style courses perform worse on assessments \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/08/18/taking-notes-is-the-pen-still-mightier-than-the-keyboard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">when allowed to use devices for note taking\u003c/a>. When note taking serves as the primary use of technology in the classroom, these studies become a harbinger for technology opposition. University professors have used these data as a rallying cry to ban laptops in their classes, and K-12 teachers have cited these studies in arguments against 1:1 programs in schools. However, none of these studies question the teaching methods used in the classes themselves or whether teachers are recognizing the power of digital devices for students to create, share, connect and discover information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers behind these studies acknowledge that the act of note taking can be beneficial to student learning when used to summarize, synthesize, or draw conclusions; they also argue that it is not helpful when used to capture content verbatim -- a practice that often happens when typing on a laptop. While both of these studies make wide generalizations about the detrimental impact of technology on education, neither offers any recommendations, such as those presented below, to help students take advantage of all the ways their devices could actually improve their ability to organize, make connections and synthesize information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Digital Organization and Content Curation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organization is a critical academic skill and one that many students struggle with in both the physical and digital worlds. Parents and teachers already help students get organized and now need to extend that to the digital world. Given the influx of technology in their academic lives, students need to develop an effective organizational system for their digital notes, projects and thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much like students understand the concept of binders, notebooks and notes in the physical world, they need a similar system in the digital one. Whether working with dividers and subjects in a tool like \u003ca href=\"http://gingerlabs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notability\u003c/a> or sections and pages in \u003ca href=\"https://www.onenote.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OneNote\u003c/a>, students need to build vocabulary to support how they house their learning. All note taking tools search typed content, and many also search handwriting, so students can not only find information quickly, but they can also focus on making connections to previous ideas instead of wondering where they put their notes. These familiar paradigms allow students to digitize existing organizational processes, but then add powerful capabilities such as searching and tagging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through thoughtful tagging, students can easily search across their notes, regardless of where they might be digitally organized. Traditionally, students and teachers may think of tags like keywords. Students in a history course might tag content by event (e.g. Civil War or Treaty of Versailles). And yet, content could also be tagged with study strategies, overarching themes or essential questions debated in class. When teachers build this type of critical thinking into note taking instruction, they can help students to engage more deeply with their notes. Tagging this way not only helps students stay organized, but it could also help them to examine trends across courses or even semesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a doctoral student, I use OneNote. First, I create a new digital notebook each year. Inside that, I add sections for each term as well as my different courses. Finally, my notes get organized into individual pages within the sections. When I can recall the precise location where I put a particular set of notes, I navigate directly to that page. However, on the numerous occasions when an author, vocabulary term or concept seems familiar but I cannot recall the precise moment when I took notes, then the search function becomes critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since I can search across sections and notebooks to quickly access content, I have more time and mental capacity to connect seemingly disparate pieces of content and engage in a deeper synthesis of ideas. This is exactly the type of thinking that Mueller and Oppenheimer advocated for in their paper, \"The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard.\" However, they argued that this was the main benefit of taking notes by hand instead of recognizing it as a strategy regardless of device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nMultimodal Notes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the ways digital notes differ dramatically from paper notes lies in the ability to capture information in multiple forms. With most tools (Notability, OneNote, Evernote, etc.), students can not only capture typed and handwritten notes but also incorporate photos, audio and even video. These versatile capabilities allow students to customize their note taking process to meet their learning needs. Consider these possibilities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Students may take notes on paper, add photos of those papers into a digital notebook, synthesize their thinking with audio or written notes, and then tag their digital notes for later retrieval.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Students might use audio syncing -- a feature that records audio and then digitally syncs it with whatever the student writes or types -- to capture the context of the class discussion or lecture. When reviewing their notes, students could click or tap on their notes and then jump directly to that point in the audio recording.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Teachers might provide students with their presentation slides or other note taking guides as PDF files. Now, students can focus on taking notes — using any modality — for synthesis, elaboration, reflection or analysis rather than in an attempt to capture content verbatim.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In 1949, neuropsychologist \u003ca href=\"http://can-acn.org/donald-olding-hebb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Hebb\u003c/a> famously wrote, “Neurons that fire together wire together.” When scaffolded for students, digital note taking has the power to transcend the traditional definition of what has been typically considered “notes.” By encouraging students to focus their note taking on building deeper connections instead of just capturing content verbatim, then they create a more integrated neural network around the ideas. With the right support from teachers, digital note taking can be so much more than just capturing a lesson. It can encourage students to actively engage in the note taking process and also reflect on their own development as learners. They might even tag their notes as such!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concept Mapping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Johns Hopkins professor \u003ca href=\"http://scienceoflearning.jhu.edu/about-us/our-experts/dr-mariale-hardiman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mariale Hardiman\u003c/a>, concept mapping helps students to build deeper connections, more easily recognize links between content elements, and increase their conceptual understanding of the topic. She compares providing a concept map to students with using the picture on the box of a jigsaw puzzle -- it’s the “big picture” for how seemingly disconnected pieces of information fit together. Teachers can offer concept maps at the beginning of a unit as a way to frame the learning, but students can also make their own concept maps to visualize connections across content areas through \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/07/15/making-learning-visible-doodling-helps-memories-stick/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diagrams or sketch notes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the powerful components of digital note taking is that the pages never end, and a full page isn’t an artificial barrier to limit thinking. Students can work on an infinitely expanding canvas to include as much information as they need. For example, concept mapping tools such as \u003ca href=\"https://coggle.it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coggle\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://padlet.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Padlet\u003c/a> allow students to create networks of ideas using text, links, images and even video without ever running out of room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ever-expanding canvas removes all physical constraints on students’ thinking and connecting ideas. To illustrate this concept, \u003ca href=\"http://www.askmsq.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sabba Quidwai\u003c/a>, former director of innovative learning for the physician assistant program at USC's medical school and now K-12 development executive at Apple, shared the image below from an anatomy student. The student constructed a concept map in Notability using sketches, screen shots and handwriting to illustrate key points about the circulatory system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_48903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-48903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2017/08/conceptmap-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A medical student's digital concept map for anatomy class. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sabba Quidwai )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Visible Thinking Routines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, students of all ages struggle to make connections to the content as they read and write, regardless of the note taking medium. Whether asking an elementary school student to pick out the main idea in a passage or a high school student to synthesize across multiple sources, all students need scaffolding for their thinking and reflection. \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visible Thinking routines\u003c/a>, sets of questions designed by researchers at Harvard’s Project Zero, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/31/when-kids-have-structure-for-thinking-better-learning-emerges/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encourage thinking\u003c/a> and support student inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider the potential of using \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03c_Core_routines/SeeThinkWonder/SeeThinkWonder_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See-Think-Wonder\u003c/a>, one of those routines, to focus notes about a reading or a presentation. Instead of directing students to “take notes,” teachers could suggest that they create three columns on a page, or nodes on a concept map, and then take note of what they see, what they think, and what they wonder. Not only does this guide their note taking but it also encourages them to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/12/08/how-dissecting-a-pencil-can-ignite-curiosity-and-wonderment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ask questions about the content\u003c/a> as they record it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, students might use another routine, \u003ca href=\"http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03d_UnderstandingRoutines/ConnectExtendChallenge/ConnectExtend_Routine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connect-Extend-Challenge\u003c/a>, to summarize notes at the end of the day and reflect on their learning. This thinking routine asks students to connect new content to prior knowledge, acknowledge what has extended or pushed their thinking in a new direction, and then address what they still find challenging or confusing. Whether completed on paper and then added to a digital notebook as a photo, or constructed completely digitally, visible thinking routines provide concrete strategies to help students engage with the information they are capturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often, educators project their own note taking habits onto their students, applying paper-based strategies to digital tools. With that mindset, it becomes far too easy for short-sighted studies to confirm previously held biases against technology. However, as students progress in an increasingly digital and connected world, one challenge for educators will be to view digital note taking as a unique, necessary and completely different skill set to be taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The cubist revolution, now in its eighth year, is thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's Minecraft cubes, of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The game where you build virtual Lego-like worlds and populate them with people, animals and just about everything in between is one of the most popular games ever made; it's second only to Tetris as the best-selling video game of all time. There's gold in them thar cubes: More than 120 million copies have sold since Minecraft launched in 2009.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's behind the game's enduring appeal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Isiah Hammonds, 9, it's all about the creative potential every time you fire up your computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can build anything – anything that you put your mind to! You can work with other people. It's social. It's just super fun!\" he says while focusing intensely on finishing his virtual ice arena with his multi-player team of fellow Minecraft campers in Richmond, Calif. \"It's for our ice boat racing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammonds, a third-grader, is in a basement room in Richmond's City Hall, next to the cafeteria and a janitor's closet. There are long, narrow white tables with black computer monitors on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of tech summer camps like this can cost upwards of $1,000 a week — but these 20 children are in a city hall basement because the space is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is the program, which is run by the non-profit \u003ca href=\"http://bbk-richmond.org/\">Building Blocks for Kids Collaborative\u003c/a> with help from a group called Connected Camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It serves predominantly low-income African-American and Hispanic children, many of whom face basic barriers to catching the tech and gaming bug — like access to the internet and access to devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the children here are playing Minecraft for the first time, explains the camp's digital literacy director, Teresa Jenkins. That's because a lot of the families who come here don't have computers at home. Or if they do, she says, they can't afford high-speed internet or it's simply not a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent. Food. Gas. 'How am I doing to get the kids back and forth to school? How am I going to get back and forth to work? ' \" says Jenkins, \"that's the priority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is gentrifying amid the Bay Area's tech-driven economic boom. 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The game can help teach the basics of computer literacy and the key foundations of coding, animation, circuitry and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children can absorb the broccoli of computer knowledge while reveling in the popcorn of building elaborate worlds out of cubes. And in camps like this, they can learn to work together as a team, says \u003ca href=\"http://morganya.org/\">Morgan Ames\u003c/a>, a postdoctoral \u003ca href=\"http://cstms.berkeley.edu/\">scholar at U.C. Berkeley\u003c/a> who helped create this camp and has studied its impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campers here, she says, get to work through \"the steps of designing something technological that somebody else will play.\" Using a Minecraft tool called \u003ca href=\"http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Redstone_circuit\">redstone circuits\u003c/a>, kids can \"think through the basics of circuits.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to really get that full experience, kids need the PC or Mac version of the game. 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There are long, narrow white tables with black computer monitors on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of tech summer camps like this can cost upwards of $1,000 a week — but these 20 children are in a city hall basement because the space is free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is the program, which is run by the non-profit \u003ca href=\"http://bbk-richmond.org/\">Building Blocks for Kids Collaborative\u003c/a> with help from a group called Connected Camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It serves predominantly low-income African-American and Hispanic children, many of whom face basic barriers to catching the tech and gaming bug — like access to the internet and access to devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the children here are playing Minecraft for the first time, explains the camp's digital literacy director, Teresa Jenkins. That's because a lot of the families who come here don't have computers at home. Or if they do, she says, they can't afford high-speed internet or it's simply not a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rent. Food. Gas. 'How am I doing to get the kids back and forth to school? How am I going to get back and forth to work? ' \" says Jenkins, \"that's the priority.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is gentrifying amid the Bay Area's tech-driven economic boom. 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