The 3 Hottest Posts Innovative Educators Are Reading

If you haven’t been keeping up with The Innovative Educator, don’t worry. That’s what this wrap up is for.  Here are the three hottest posts that you don’t want to miss!

Taking the top spot for the first time is a post explaining how to Choose the Right #EdTech Resources. The post highlights a great tool from Common Sense Education and points to some other important resources that innovative educators use to choose what is best for teaching and learning.

Next up is a post that shares a trick to help teachers and students Deliver Killer Presentations.

Rounding out the top is a post that hits on a topic that’s on top of mind for many innovative educators: How to handle fake news and think about if your students are able to evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and  relevance of information, media, data or other resources.

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Choosing the Right #EdTech Resources... Dec 11, 2016,	3353
This Hack Will Help You Deliver Killer Presentations... Nov 20, 2016,	2839
RIP to The Innovative Educator & Other Fake News... Dec 8, 2016,	2220

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3 Language Arts Resources You're Probably Not Using - Yet!

To prepare students for language arts these days, the most important resources we must ensure they become fluent in using are those that students will be using in the world outside of school. For example using a free productivity suite like Google’s docs, sheets, and slides is a given. Knowing how to write an effective email is another. Understanding how to publish on a website or blog using tools like Blogger, WordPress, Wix, or Weebly is important as well. Using infographic tools such as Piktochart is also important. Perhaps most important of all is knowing how to publish for an authentic audience using social media such as Facebook, SnapChat, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, etc.

How do you get there? Here are my favorite tools to support language arts at each grade level.

Grades PK - 2

One of my favorite literacy and publishing tools for PK - 2 is Footsteps 2 Brilliance. The cost is well worth the price. The research shows that even without a teacher, the tool alone can teach students not only how to read, but also supports them in writing and publishing books.