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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY

Every other Wednesday, I post ideas about how to improve the learning going on in the classroom. There are so many buzzwords and great ideas floating around about what could make education better: blended learning, 1 to 1 education, media labs. It would take 30 hours a day to get schools to be perfect and for…

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INNOVATION WEDNESDAY

Thinking about video and media literacy tonight. I just returned from accompanying my children to a school board meeting where they were part of group of students invited…

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ED TECH MONDAY

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IPAD FRIDAY

Inevitably, we need to assess our students to make sure that they are reaching our learning objectives and improving achievement! Teachers are spending more time than ever before testing students, but testing alone does nothing to improve teaching or learning. It's the use of analyzed test data that improves teaching and enhances student…

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            I shamelessly admit that I have learned a lot from Dummies books. Before the proliferation of YouTube videos, if I wanted to learn about anything and everything I would check out the Dummies book from the library.  I have learned much from Pregnancy for Dummies, Photoshop CS6 for Dummies, and Moodle for Dummies.  I have borrowed Guitar for Dummies for…

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A More Natural and Enjoyable Way to Learn Chumash

There is no doubt that we must teach our students the importance of every word and every letter in the Torah, but does that mean, that from the very first day of Chumash class, we should expect them to remember the translation of…

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ED TECH MONDAY

While watching a comedy show last night, I was amused and amazed by how well Louis C. K. described the interaction of education and technology from a parent’s perspective. His story was about how parents let their digital devices – cameras, phones, and even IPads – get in the way of actually watching their children. It was…

Have you ever wanted to present an idea or concept but lacked the full ability to express it visually due to the blandness of Powerpoint?  If so, you’ll love Prezi!  Prezi is a cloud-based presentation app that completely changes the way that we present ideas.  Prezi has actually been dubbed the Powerpoint on steroids, and for good reason.  Instead of working on a slide to slide basis like in Powerpoint, Prezi allows you to organize your thoughts and put all of your content,…

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I'VE DONE some traveling recently.  I flew East.  My destination was a conversation.  I traveled to connect with Jewish educators who are honing and advancing their craft - who want to reach each and every one of…

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The Common Core

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         When Jean Piaget (1896-1980) theorized on Social Constructivism, the world was much simpler and smaller. Piaget's theory of constructivism argues that we produce knowledge and form meaning based upon our experiences. As a psychologist,…

As I write these words, the excitement I felt hours ago is still here!

WOW!

Those three letters basically sum up what took place today at Yavneh Academy. The first, ever, JedcampNJNY (second Jedcamp ever!) began at 9am and what an event it was! (You just didn’t want it to end!)

From the get go, educators from all over began to pour in and the connections began.

I couldn’t keep up.

 Everywhere you turned another new face was ready to connect (Wow!). The…

I never knew wikis could be so much fun! I am astounded with how easy it is to create and edit a wiki. I feel that this is something I really can use in my class.

Appolearning.com is a wonderful site for getting intelligent choices of worthwhile and heuristically valuable iPad Apps.

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Torah Studies with the iPad is “insanely great” because…

Can you complete the sentence? I keep thinking about this and still do not know the answer. Sure, there are advantages to having an all-around tool that can be used to take pictures, record, and take notes, but those will enhance any classroom. I wanted to know if there is anything that specifically makes the Chumash or Gemara easier for the students to learn

Recently, I bumped into a colleague from another school and…

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Have you ever found yourself with the following dilemma?

You are an OK teacher, but sometimes the kids drift off in your class. Or you explain a concept for five minutes and the…

This assignment was supposed to be a blog about our favorite Web 2.0 tools. How can I even think of limiting it to one favorite. Until 3 years ago, I had no idea that Web 2.0 existed. I signed up for a course in NY on “web 2.0 in the classroom,” not even knowing what Web 2.0 was. Wow, that opened a new world to me.

How do I use Web 2.0? From the time I wake up, I am using it. When I get up, I check my…

I tried navigating Second Life and frankly do not see the beauty or the need for it in education. I found it hard to navigate and actually got a little nauseous trying to find the treasures. It did not even hold my interest enough, to want to go back and explore more on Second Life. I am also not sure, I accomplished what was asked of me in the assignment. 

I went into YU2.0 and tried looking at other blogs about Second Life. I went into Eliezer Jones' Second Life about the Kotel. I…

               I love assessments. They’re a great way of figuring out how well your students are receiving, reacting and engaging with the learning that is going on in the classroom. Unfortunately most of us are used to utilizing only one type of assessment i.e. summative (tests, final exams, regents, SAT’s, etc.). It’s the “other” assessment which I enjoy as an educator: formative assessment.

                According to the book, Transformative…