Ten years ago, Stanford’s Larry Cuban noted that computers in the classroom were being oversold and underused. In short order, the iPad craze could take the same turn. My lesson from ZIS is that we should make sure we have teachers who understand how to help children learn from the technology before throwing a lot of money into iPad purchasing. It wasn’t the 600 iPads that were so impressive— it was the mindset of a teaching staff devoted to giving students time for creation and reflection. Are American public schools ready to recognize that it’s the adults and students around the iPads, not just the iPads themselves, that require some real attention?
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Making a Good Impression: Get To The Point! - Articles - Educational Technolo... - 21 views
Four Stats That Will Impact Higher Ed in 2017 | Academic Impressions - 22 views
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2017 has the potential to be a volatile year in higher education, and that was the case even before Donald Trump took office. Regulatory uncertainty, continued economic and demographic headwinds, and shifts in both domestic and international student enrollment trends are just a few of the rapids that higher-ed leaders will need to navigate. At Academic Impressions, as we review current research and much of the best current thinking on paths forward for colleges and institutions, we want to draw your attention to four stats that are likely to have an immediate impact in 2017-but that not many are paying heed to.
Video: Astonishing timelapse video - Natural Phenomena - 185 views
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"This timelapse video was six months in the making, and could quite possibly the most impressive ever made"
The Classroom Newspaper Google Docs Style | The Thinking Stick - 151 views
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"3rd Grade Teacher, Laura Chesebro here at ISB continues to impress me with her innovative use of technology with kids. ... And if that wasn't enough, she's now reinventing the way a classroom newspaper is created. "
IPads in the classroom: The right way to use them, demonstrated by a Swiss school. - Sl... - 244 views
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iPad as a creation tool rather than a consumption tool.
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"It wasn't the 600 iPads that were so impressive- it was the mindset of a teaching staff devoted to giving students time for creation and reflection." So correct! So, how do we develop such a mindset? Does PD ever emphasize this? -
When you introduce anything new in most schools, you have to sell it to teachers as making their lives easier. An app that reteaches a math skill makes teacher's lives easier, whereas asking them to develop an authentic assessment with multimedia does not. The challenge is, how can we use these technologies to something different and more effective, not to do the same things easier. -
The SAMR model developed by Dr Ruben Puentedura is the one that will help teachers use technology most effectively. -
Need to remember the SAMR model. The NEW alsways IMITATES the old: e.g. early TV a film of radio etc.
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Mindset rules, not technology
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Following Dr Ruben Puentedura's SAMR model should help teachers use technology in the classroom more effectively.
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The Nerdy Teacher: What Makes Project Based Learning Effective? #Edchat #EngChat - 132 views
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1. OWNERSHIP is key. For this project, the students were not listening to me on why Twain was or was not a racist, they were showing me and the rest of class what they thought. They were invested in winning their argument. They knew that their work was going to determine if he was guilty or not. Although I gave the assignment, the students were in charge the rest of the way. It was their project and they wanted to do it win. When students feel they own what they are doing, they will work harder. When the audience is larger, they want to impress everyone. These are not crazy ideas, they are the results of owning the work they are doing. OWNERSHIP is a major factor in the value of PBL. 2. CREATIVITY is the another major part of the PBL and is closely linked with OWNERSHIP. Students were allowed to be creative in their work as a lawyer or witness. Witnesses needed to stay within character, but could add their own elements on the witness stand. Allowing the students to create gives them a bigger sense of OWNERSHIP. 3. Another part of the PBL is the COLLABORATION. Students were working with each other trying to decide the best plan of attack. Witnesses would meet with their lawyers and discuss how the questions they were going to ask and how they should dress. The Jury worked on group projects researching the previous public opinions on Twain and his writing. Students were sharing ideas freely with one another. I had three sections of American Lit at the time, so I had three trails running. Lawyers would help others in the other classes and trash talk the opposing lawyers as well. It was all in good fun, but the collaboration had students working hard with one another to accomplish this goal. 4. Depending on how you set up your project, CRITICAL THINKING, is also an important part of PBL. With my Twain Trail, students needed to think about both sides of the argument. Students needed to prepare their witnesses for potential cross-examination questions. They needed to
8 Observations on flipping the classroom - Articles - Educational Technology ... - 128 views
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Flipping is not for everyone. There is not one right way to teach. There is not even one way to flip your classroom.
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The videos are a very basic part of the class. It is not the entire story
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One of the more unfortunate buzzwords to appear in online education circles and the press is "flipping the classroom". .. The students watch the videos for homework, freeing up the lesson for interactivity, project work and so on. I not impressed with this brilliant "new" idea. Why not?
Ahead - Playground for creative minds - 7 views
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Readu tp make an online impression?
Snapshot of a modern learner | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 84 views
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Read - You will be impressed
Classroom Management - cheating | CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FOR TEACHING TEENAGERS - 64 views
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"if you do not aggressively deal with cheating your students will lose respect for you and what you are teaching. Cheating will happen, and you must be prepared to deal with it. Worse yet, though, is that when a teacher sees a student cheat, it often forever taints his impression of the child. Before talking about how to deal with cheating, it might be useful to put it in a reasonable context."
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Swift and draconian teaches one thing: don't get caught. They know they're not supposed to cheat and, largely, why. Although I will agree with the point regarding a lack of intrinsic value in rules for teenagers. However, there is no reason we can't try to begin developing a sense of genuine effort for ones own gain. Authentic assessment is a much more productive approach to reducing cheating behaviors. Good scaffolding and levels of feedback on research projects discourage academic dishonesty simply due to the attention the work receives. Kids cheat because they think they can get away with it. Why? Because objective assessments make it easy? Because teachers don't pay enough attention to the work? If we, as professionals, model a means of making work easier for us, how can we blame the kids for following our lead?
Extreme Snowboarding - 67 views
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If you are still waiting for snow this Christmas, practise snowboarding with this great game. Perform tricks to impress the judges. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Winter+%26+Christmas
Do Humans Matter? | Culture of Science - 4 views
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The History of the Earth as a clock. Very impressive way of showing how much time has passed since the formation of the Earth - according to Science.
Word Cloud - 95 views
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A word cloud creator with an impressive range of customisation. Just enter the text file or url to input the text and then tweak.
Smart Science New Era in Science Education - 45 views
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"Smart Science® online hands-on labs provide outstanding science education. Inexpensive and efficient STEM education. Built-in scientific inquiry facilitating student discovery of science. Online hands-on real experiments, not simulations. Online lab reports, easy to write and grade. Archive of lab reports obtained with a simple mouse click. Retention of lab reports and all student work for 5 years. Differentiated reading levels" Wow, pretty impressive and just might be worth the money. Do the lite demo they provide and see what you think.
What is Twitter? - 36 views
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Twitter is growing at an impressive rate. But what does Twitter look like? How does it work? And how do you get started with it? In this film you learn everything you need to know to get started with Twitter
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Thanks, Jodi! Great little video.
Six ways that artists hack your brain - New Scientist - 73 views
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Since humankind first put brush to canvas, artists have played with the mind and the senses to create sublime atmospheres and odd impressions. It is only recently, with a blossoming understanding of the way the brain deconstructs images, that neuroscientists and psychologists have finally begun to understand how these tricks work.
Making a Good Impression: Efficient Reading - Articles - Educational Technolo... - 33 views
YouTube - TeachingChannel's Channel - 130 views
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Impressive teaching; Kajitani fully engages students by teaching them math concepts by showing their applicability and using music to aid memory.
PhotoSnack | Photo slideshow maker - 3 views
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A great looking tool to make impressive photo slideshows. Embed them onto a website or share the link to see them online. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images