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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Check out @EmilyBHardeman on Twitter. Norbert College where she taught the course Language Analysis and Applied Linguistics. Reading stamina matters. We need more positive stories of teachers and students persisting to move forward in reading.

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Student well-being and pedagogy by making learning contextual: Tapping into students’ life experience for learning

Hapara

Learners can make a connection to something they already have a frame of reference for or understand. Teachers need to have the time to do critical analysis and include student voices in the discussion so they can see another perspective. Bios and social media: . para ( LinkedIn , Twitter ).

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10 Reasons Twitter Works In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

10 Reasons Twitter Works In Education. As a social media platform, twitter is extremely likeable. The best I’ve heard explanation we’ve heard for the difference between twitter and facebook is (paraphrased), “Facebook makes me dislike people I’ve known for years, while twitter makes me like people I’ve never met.”.

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The role of technology in the PYP

EdTech4Beginners

For more information, please refer to the IB website. The document also makes reference to further uses of technology in specific subject areas, but again, these are identical to non-IB schools. I sent their questions to Greg over Twitter and, wonderfully, he created a video message for my students in order to answer them.

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Fake Instagram Template with Google Slides (FREE)

Shake Up Learning

Leveraging social media to teach students has been a huge win for me in the classroom. Of course, they are referring to the day I taught them how to create booksnaps. Of course, they are referring to the day I taught them how to create booksnaps. I had been hesitant to join social media beyond Facebook at the time.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand. This is typically done by sharing documentation of learning and final reflections through social media.

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MOOCs for Professional Development - #TCEA15

EdTechSandyK

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. It was free, but offered a certificate of completion. Why are we encouraging the use of MOOCs?

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