Last week we surveyed local schools to find out about their cell phone policies. The results indicate that many districts are relaxing their policies and at the very least allow use in classrooms with teacher discretion for educational purposes. Other districts allow use in hallways, cafeterias and during study halls. Certainly this information is something to consider as we move forward.
Now, on to useful tools for the classroom. Scrible is an online text annotator which allows students to easily highlight and annotate webpages. Students install a toolbar, visit a website and highlight and annotate away.
When students have finished marking up a page they can save the page and their notes as a unique URL saved in their Scrible personal library.
The Common Core calls for a large increase in nonfiction reading, an increase in research writing and for reading and writing to take place in all content areas. Scrible is a great tool for this type of work. The tool is free and students with educational emails are eligible for account upgrades.
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