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Digital Activities & Icebreakers for Gen Y

Teacher Reboot Camp

In Learning to Go , you’ll find hand-outs for designating roles and permissions. Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. Find out more in this post about learning missions. Check out my bookmarks for creating digital badges. This idea came from Nicky Hockly.

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The 7 C’s of Meaningful Learning Begin with Citizenship

Teacher Reboot Camp

Send them on learning missions and get them to create digital badges to give to their peers to recognize bravery, kindness and compassion. Here are resources for brainstorming , digital research , and digital research apps. Collaboration - Create a community with digital icebreakers.

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The 7 C’s of Meaningful Learning Begin with Citizenship

Teacher Reboot Camp

Send them on learning missions and get them to create digital badges to give to their peers to recognize bravery, kindness and compassion. Here are resources for brainstorming , digital research , and digital research apps. Collaboration - Create a community with digital icebreakers.

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Give Your Traditional Syllabus a Needed Makeover!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom. Give digital badges or set it up to where students can level up on a leaderboard ! I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Uncommon Learning

A Principal's Reflections

If students cannot learn the way we now teach or in the conditions that are prevalent, maybe we need to teach the way they learn and create a school environment that more closely aligns with their world. Effective digital learning environments focus on learning outcomes as opposed to the tools themselves.