EdTech4Beginners
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
It is great to create quizzes and tests for your class, but why not flip this? Ask your students to make one themselves. Recently my class used the brilliant website Kahoot! to create maths word problems. Here is an example a pupil in my class made: When they were complete, we played the games that had been created: It was great because the students led the game themselves; it certainly engaged and empowered them!
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
November 20, 2016 Whether you are a new or a veteran practitioner of project based learning approach in your teaching, the books below will provide you with a solid theoretical and pedagogical.read more.
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MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Given social media’s popularity as a news source, writes media literacy expert Frank Baker, it’s critically important that students gain the insight and the analytical skills to distinguish fact from fiction. Baker highlights the pervasive rise of fake news and shares key resources for teaching and learning.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Common Core, Race to the Top, and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)—just a few top-down, often-controversial, metrics-heavy K-12 reform initiatives favored by the Obama Administration that seemed to have a lot more traction during the President’s first-term with Education Secretary Arne Duncan at the helm than during the second term. “President Barack Obama will perhaps be best remembered for what many considered a top-down approach to education reform, and Arne Duncan was the architect of t
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
November 20, 2016 In this week’s pick of educational apps that are on sale we selected for you the five titles below. Using these apps will enable you to convert any web page to PDF for offline.read more.
My Paperless Classroom
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Have you ever wanted to open your classroom walls up and bring in experts from around the world to work with your students? In this episode of the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Spotlight Series Podcast, Jeff sits down with Pennsylvania educator, Michael Soskil (@msoskil) to discuss why YOU should participate in this years Skypeathon. The post What makes the #MIEExpert Community so special?
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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Ed. note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. NASA Visualization Explorer. What’s It Like?
MiddleWeb
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Few things are more important to Cheryl Mizerny than creating a classroom environment that honors all of her multicultural students. She looks at beliefs, the visual environment, instructional materials, and teaching choices for ways to support everyone's learning.
EmergingEdTech
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week … discover hands-on, active learning. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].
The Innovative Educator
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
I had the opportunity to attend #GovTechLive and listen to Anthony Huey ( @AnthonyHuey ) share some ideas about "Communicating the right way." He started his presentation by sharing what could happen if you wing it. While you may be lucky enough to not have such an experience, there is a reason that speaking to an audience is one of the greatest fears of humankind.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
ASIDE
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Creating videos and motion graphics nudges both students and teachers to blend a host of proficiencies. It involves visual design in colors and templates, just as it requires language skills of narration and storytelling. It supports key technological skills in manipulating online media, and it reinforces the importance of publishing in sharing child creations with peers and parents.
The Cornerstone for Teachers
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Though each school has it’s own unique dynamics between teachers, I’ve discovered that there are a couple common threads between the typical dilemmas. Read on as I address the five of the most common–and most difficult–teacher co-worker problems. Scenario 1: Your coworkers pop over on a daily basis to say, “So, what are we doing this afternoon?
The Jose Vilson
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
On the Wednesday after Election Day 2016, I told myself to maintain my composure. For three weeks, I heard my mostly South and Central American students excoriate the President-Elect for his racist, sexist, xenophobic, Islamophobic comments over the last year. My students call out malicious behaviors quicker than many in mainstream media. Outlets like CNN and MSNBC choose more benign qualifiers like “controversial” and “inappropriate.” Now, I had to walk into my students&
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Nobody likes change, but the fact is that change is at our doorstep. Changes in technology are quickly beginning to force the hands of schools and districts across the world. This poses some good news for students, as transformation efforts are under way to provide authentic learning experiences that provide relevance, value, and tangible skills in an unpredictable world.
This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.
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