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"Do you foster an anxious mindset or a resilient mindset in your children or students? The USA is currently the number 1 most anxious country in the world with 27% of the population living with anxiety and depression. In Australia 20% of the population experience a mental illness in any year. In the UK 1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year and about 10% of children have a mental health problem at any one time."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post discusses an app for the iPad or iPhone that helps students understand their feelings and how their mind works. There are three parts to this strategy. * Catch - Students learn to identify thoughts that impact how they feel * Challenge - Students learn to challenge their thoughts, asking if they are based on assumptions, facts, perhaps overly negative * Change - Students choose to change the way they think There is a table within the post that provides Do's and Don'ts for each of the three C's listed above. Consider posting the image as well as the table within the post "to help teach children to identify the exact nature of their thoughts, unpack and challenge those thoughts and stories and change how they feel." 
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PhotoCat is a free online photo editing app for you to edit photos, retouch photos, make photo collages, apply effects, filters, add frames, text, speech bubbles & more, great for editing facebook photos.
Beth Dichter's insight:
This also works on the iPhone (and therefore the iPad and iPad Touch. You can quickly upload images and edit them in numerous ways. A great tool for school or home!
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Do you use Readabilility? It is a great tool that allows you to remove the clutter from a webpage and save the article...and it is free! They have just upgraded the app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod. For more information check out their blog post.
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You can help get kids interested in STEM fields no matter their age with the help of the iPad and its numerous apps. The fifty apps are categorized into General, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. A short explanation of each is provided.
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"When we ask students to work with and learn from primary sources, we transform them into historians. Rather than passively receiving information from a teacher or textbook, students engage in the activities of historians — making sense of the stories, events and ideas of the past through document analysis. Use DocsTeach activities for classroom demonstration, as full-class activities, as small-group activities, or as individual in-class or homework assignments. Manage activities in your account. Share both activities you find and those you create with your students on DocsTeach." With many ready-to-use tools for teaching with documents and thousands of primary documents from the National Archives this site is rich with resources... Now available for the iPad - to download free app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/national-archives-docsteach/id513465174?mt=8
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...Now, however, there is an iPad app that can simply and flexibly create professional-looking infographics of almost any kind. Visualize is a free (woo-hoo!) app from Reallusion, Inc., that offers a versatile canvas for designing information. Students can choose from a large array of fonts, shapes, call-outs, stickers, post-its, and backgrounds to lay out their graphics.
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First of its kind evidence shows that an iPad learning app can measurably deliver educational value.
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Symbly is a new tool to create and share visual supports, communication boards, social narratives, and more. It features a powerful editor, an amazing community, expert examples, and an iPad app for supports on the go.
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I took a chance and tried using Nearpod in my classroom. What happened next has changed my classroom forever.
Beth Dichter's insight:
A teacher shares their experience with Nearpod, a free app that allows you to "present an interactive lesson on the students’ iPads." Later in the post he states "The excitement, engagement, and of course, every teacher’s favorite word, data proved this app to be useful. I was able to go into the Nearpod website with my log-in credentials (free account) and access all the information gathered during the lesson. I could see the Draw Its each student submitted and create graphs on student responses." There are a number of apps that allow you to share resources. Consider checking out Nearpod if you have not yet tried it.
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Knowmia for Teachers – Add your own lessons (and you may create lessons on the site), upload lessons, add lessons from YouTube or Vimeo, and share. A lesson planning and recording tools is available for the iPad. Using this tool you may bring in resources from multiple sources, organize them, and create a video lesson on any subject. Coming soon is MyKnowmia, a tool to help you flip your class. Students and parents may also create accounts and access materials.
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Apple's popular tablet can be a great tool for students, parents, and teachers dealing with PDD and Autism Spectrum Disorders, or with other learning disabilities. This post discusses a number of apps that are geared to students with disabilities and also shares a free app, Autism Apps, that "provides easy access to what appears to be at least a hundred apps that are being used by and with people diagnosed with autism or other special needs. Apps are grouped into dozens of categories and a search tools is also provided, so users can easily search through their excellent database of apps. Each app listed may include screenshots (for both the iPad and iPod if available), reviews, video reviews, and an “Email to a Friend” function. This is really a top notch resource and we highly recommend it."
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A free app that makes your lessons more engaging trough interactive multimedia presentations. Benefits of Nearpod include: * Create interactive classes with ease * Engage students * Share content in real time * Control students' devices (as in see student activity in real time) * Quickly assess student progress Applications are free; currently for iPad but Android and Window apps are in the works. Much more information is available at the website.
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IBM and the Eames Foundation have released a multimedia exploration of the fascinating history of mathematics for the iPad, Minds of Modern Mathematics. * Get a bird's-eye view of the history of math * See the interplay of ideas between contemporary mathematicians, culture and history * 3D chronological view - one object at a time * Mathematician profiles plus links to online resources * 500+ high-resolution images of artifacts (from the original Mathematic exhibit) * High-resolution version of original Men of Modern Mathematics poster (fully navigable) * Eames mathematics films - watch nine original Eames educational films
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In order to help educators integrate iPads effectively, we have compiled a list of apps focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD (collect - relate - create - donate) framework...this list is driven by specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments.
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There are many learners for whom mind mapping offers an invaluable strategy for organizing thoughts — when doing research, as preparation for any kind of project or just for retaining and reviewing information. Here is a free option for any of Apple’s hand-held devices.
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"...a nice diagram showing iPad applications against different levels of Bloom’s revised taxonomy."
Iman El Hoz's curator insight,
December 11, 2018 4:28 PM
a wide range of educational applications, built upon Bloom's taxonomy!
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This is a really interesting post, in the way that it not only informs you about anxiety, but also shows ways to cope.
The 'Catch, challenge, change' stratergy has been created to help children and young adults relistically-
think about their thoughts-
"What am I worrying about?"
Challenge your thoughts-
"Is this definately going to happen?"
"What will happen if I do do it?"
And change thoughts-
"What can I do to make myself feel less anxoius? Talk to someone?"
I believe that once you know about certain disorders, they become less scary. Helping children and young adults learn and understand anxiety, even if they dont experience anxiety themselves, is an important step to teaching kids to understand themselves and people around them.
This is a great resource for helping students build resilience, especially those who have previously experienced trauma. Taking the time to show them how they can think about and handle what happens to them in a more positive way can be life changing in children. This could be integrated into any subject matter; it doesn't need to be limited to the school counselor; in fact, doing so would be a disservice. As I future school leader it is my goal to ensure that students are receiving as well-rounded of an education as possible--and not just academically-speaking. We should be addressing the whole person, and that includes helping them be socially, emotionally, and mentally successful as well.