Tract Now Offers Guides for Project-based Learning
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Tract is an online platform for engaging students with fun, project-based learning activities. I’ve written about it quite a bit over the last year as it has grown in popularity. Part of the reason for its popularity is that it can be used in a variety of settings […]
Webinar Recording – Get to Know Your Students With Tract
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Yesterday afternoon I hosted a webinar titled Get to Know Your Students With Tract. I was joined in the webinar by Tract’s co-founder Ari Memar. If you missed the webinar, you can now watch the recording of it. The recording is embedded below along with links to resources […]
Free Webinar – Get to Know Your Students Through Tract
Last year, Tract emerged as one of my favorite new edtech companies. Backed and co-founded by education pioneer Esther Wojcicki, the start-up enables busy teachers to transform what they teach in the classroom into interactive and fun educational projects created and led by kids. With Tract, students sharpen their critical thinking skills and solve real-world […]
Tract Offers Fun Ways to Wrap-up the School Year
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com At this time last year my students were starting to get antsy and I was starting to think of some fun ways to keep them excited about learning even as they were starting to get excited about the end of the school year. One of the things that […]
Try Tract to Find Inspiration for Fun Lessons
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Last fall I introduced many of you to Tract as a platform for Genius Hour activities, for PBL, and for remote learning. Many of you have reported that it has been great for all of those things. Now I’d like to suggest another way to think about using […]
All About Tract – PBL, Peer-to-Peer Learning, and More!
Disclosure: Tract is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Tract is a service that launched a few months ago and is quickly becoming a hit in schools because of its format and its flexibility. The format is a relatively simple one of students teaching students. The flexibility is that it can be used across grade levels […]
Try Tract for PBL and Win Prizes
Disclosure: Tract is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com “Real world projects have to be projects that matter to kids” is something that I say whenever I give my presentation, Connecting Kids With Projects That Matter to Them. When the problem they’re tackling matters to them, students feel ownership of the project process. Even a cursory […]
Five Genius Hour Activities With Tract – Students Teaching Students
Disclosure: Tract is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Genius Hour or 20% time in a classroom provides students with an opportunity to pursue topics and projects of their choice. Rather than the teacher telling students what project they should complete and how they should complete it, students choose the topic and the project that appeals […]
Tract – Project-based, Peer-to-Peer Learning
Disclosure: Tract is an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Tract is a new service that offers fun lessons for elementary school and middle school students taught by high school and college students. The lessons and corresponding activities cover a wide array of fun and interesting topics. On Tract you will find lessons about photography, gaming, cooking, music, […]
My Party PBL – Technology and Project Based Learning
This week I am welcoming some guest bloggers. This one is from Debbie Carona. The PBL, My Party Election, originally written by Mike Kaechele, became a part of the U.S. History curriculum for 8th graders at St. John’s Episcopal School Dallas during the Presidential Election of 2016. Students worked in groups with politically like-minded teammates […]
Reminder – Real World Problems = Problems That Matter to Students
As the new school year gets rolling many of us will be considering using problem-based learning to engage our students in learning experiences. Some of us will try to incorporate “real world problems.” When we do so we have to remember that what we think of as “real world problems” are always “real world problems” […]