Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:21st Century Skills: The Challenge... - 119 views
-
the skills students need in the 21st century are not new.
-
Critical thinking and problem solving, for example, have been components of human progress throughout history
-
What's actually new is the extent to which changes in our economy and the world mean that collective and individual success depends on having such skills
- ...27 more annotations...
Homepage - ReadWriteThink - 14 views
-
Get inspired and make connections with diverse and talented literacy professionals.
-
Edu Leadership:Tech-Rich Learning:The Basics of Blended Instruction - 38 views
-
Blended learning, with its mix of technology and traditional face-to-face instruction, is a great approach. Blended learning combines classroom learning with online learning, in which students can, in part, control the time, pace, and place of their learning. I advocate a teacher-designed blended learning model, in which teachers determine the combination that's right for them and their students.
-
Tip 1: Think big, but start small.
-
Tip 2: Patience is a virtue when trying something new.
- ...17 more annotations...
The Innovative Educator: 10 Proven Strategies to Break the Ban and Build Opportunities ... - 103 views
CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology - 117 views
-
WOW! Free tools related to literacy skills. The book builder tool has a section which reads a story (here's a link for "A Tortoise and a Hare") - They offer professional development and multimedia learning tools. ....."A Tortoise and a Hare" - just this one book offers an amazing variety of learning tools including: activating background knowledge, self assessment and reflection, collaboration and communication, action and expression, coping skills and strategies, challenge and support, recruiting interest, goal-centered learning, and designing flexible curriculum. Each of these skills has a specific activity within the story to address it (almost every page has a different one!). Every page also has a question to think about and respond to. At the end it discusses the moral in another activity and the story itself offers extension activities for follow-up. The story is read by a young girl, but there is also a text reader built in, a glossary, and word-by-word English/Spanish translations.
- ...1 more comment...
-
An educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
-
CAST is an educational research & development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning.
Teaching Reading Comprehension - 10 views
Meeting the Needs of ELL Students in the Literature Classroom - 43 views
-
This article emphasizes that ELLs benefit when literature teachers include techniques that make the learning more accessible. I like the idea of connecting the literature to a real project. I do this same activity with my adult ELLs every semester. For example, this semester they are reading "Breaking Through", a true story about a boy whose parents are undocumented agricultural workers. It is a great story of perseverance and "grit" that shows how immigrants make this country stronger. I am going to pair the reading with a group project called "The Immigrant Experience in Houston". My students will research an immigrant group and chronicle the melting pot that is Houston. They will create a Power Point Presentation and share their research with the class. Food samples always get 5 extra points!
Phonics Instruction | Reading Rockets - 5 views
Should You Flip Your Classroom? | Edutopia - 207 views
-
different forms of instructional video published online for students
-
primarily by Salman Khan's TED talk
-
obtaining core content prior to coming to class
- ...9 more annotations...
-
I like this concept - read more. Works against teacher as delivery system to be ignored.
-
At its core, "flipped instruction" refers to moving aspects of teaching out of the classroom and into the homework space. With the advent of new technologies, specifically the ability to record digitally annotated and narrated screencasts, instructional videos have become a common medium in the flipped classroom. Although not limited to videos, a flipped classroom most often harnesses different forms of instructional video published online for students.
5 Important Tips on How to Better Annotate YouTube Videos to Use with Your Students ~ E... - 95 views
Harvard Education Letter - 27 views
-
-
Learning to see all behavior as a form of communication, for example, is a key principle that helps when teachers are frustrated or confused by how students are acting. Even though students’ behavior can look bizarre or disruptive, their actions are purposeful and are their attempts to solve a problem.
-
About 10 percent of the school population—or 9–13 million children—struggle with mental health problems. In a typical classroom of 20, chances are good that one or two students are dealing with serious psychosocial stressors relating to poverty, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, or a psychiatric disorder. There is also growing evidence that the number of children suffering the effects of trauma and those with autism-related social deficits is also on the rise.
- ...4 more annotations...
Digital Learning Day :: Home - 67 views
-
you tube intro to digital learning day
-
Join us as we create a national awareness campaign to celebrate innovative teachers and instructional strategies. Technology has changed the way we do everything from grocery shopping, to listening to music, and reading books. It's time to take action to leverage this potential with more innovative uses of technology in our nation's schools to ensure every student experiences personalized learning with great teaching.
Socratic Seminars - ReadWriteThink - 4 views
What makes an interactive whiteboard interactive? - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk... - 25 views
-
But many advocates of this technology (myself included), see IWBs as genuine means of bringing more interactivity, more student-focus into classrooms of traditional teachers
-
What we don't want to forget is that someone who is coaching a teacher is not really looking for "good technology use" but for just good educational practices. Having an IWB is not going to change a lecturer into something else.
-
Any item in the Instruction domain can be enhanced using an IWB.
- ...3 more annotations...
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Plagiarism_in... - 0 views
-
Teachers who wish to prevent plagiarism should devote extensive instruction to the component tasks of writing from sources
-
instruction should focus on
-
summarizing sources
- ...5 more annotations...
How to Wake Up Slumbering Minds - WSJ.com - 2 views
-
what school requires students to do -- think abstractly -- is in fact not something our brains are designed to be good at or to enjoy
-
it is critical that the task be just difficult enough to hold our interest but not so difficult that we give up in frustration. When this balance is struck, it is actually pleasurable to focus the mind for long periods of time
-
Students are ready to understand knowledge but not create it. For most, that is enough. Attempting a great leap forward is likely to fail.
- ...4 more annotations...
Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 17 views
-
So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
-
Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
-
the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
- ...5 more annotations...
« First
‹ Previous
61 - 80 of 85
Next ›
Showing 20▼ items per page