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Useful Tools

Screencasting Tools

• Screencast-o-matic:  Easy-to-use, free tool for recording screencasts. 
• Educreations:  Easy, free interactive whiteboard app/website that students can use to create their own screencasts.

Video Editor

• WeVideo: Straightford, free, video creation tool.

Gamification

• Typing:  Learning Games for Kids:  Free keyboarding games for students. 
• Typing Club:  Free keyboarding games for students.

Primary Grade Games and Apps

• Handwriting Apps:  Apps for teaching handwriting, recommended by a well-respected first grade teacher.
• NCTM Interactive Math Games (and Apps):  Engaging, sometimes-challenging, math games and apps for students ranging from kinder through 12th grades.
• IXL Learning Games:  Some free, many paid, academic games.  Great for a learning station.
• ABCya! Educational Computer Games and Apps​:
  Many free academic games, great for the primary grades.

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This TED talk by Dan Pink describes how autonomy, mastery, and purpose are the keys to motivation.

Recommended Reading
​and Listening

Articles about In-Class Flipping

• Modifying the Flipped Classroom:  The "In Class Flip" Version:  Easy-to-read Edutopia article about how to launch an in-class flip in the primary grades.
• My First Experience with In Class Flip:  An honest piece about an in-class flip that didn't go as expected, but was still successful.

Websites about Education

• Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - PBL, technology in the classroom, and more
• National Science Teacher's Association - NGSS science lesson plans, resources
• RESA.Net - Lesson plans exploring NGSS
• Buck Institute for Education (PBL): Chapter 1 of PBL for the Primary Grades 
• California Classroom Science - Primary Engineering Unit Template

TED Talk Speakers

• Motivation:  Dan Pink, Linda Cliatt-Wayman, Dan Ariely
• Creativity:  Sir Ken Robinson
• Brain Science:  Sandrine Thuret, Sebastian Seung

Books

• Brain Rules - John Medina

Academic Articles about Differentiation Through Technology

• Bergmann, J. and Sams, A. (2012).  Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day.  International Society for Technology in Education.
• Siegle, D. (2014).  Differentiating Instruction by Flipping the Classroom.  Retrieved from https://edtc5345.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/95580584/Gifted%20Child%20Today-2014-Siegle-51-5.pdf
• Siegle, D (2015) Using QR Codes to Differentiate Learning for Gifted and Talented Students.  Gifted Child Today, vol. 38, 1: pp. 63-66.  Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1076217514556534​

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