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Carolina Montes

Free Technology for Teachers: State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet - 0 views

    • Carolina Montes
       
      This could be a great tool to be used in our Social Studies Classes, for Geography and Biology. To show how climate change and other disasters have influenced the way the world looks like.
Carolina Montes

Free Technology for Teachers: State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet - 0 views

  • State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet
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    Images of our changing planet
Carolina Montes

Free Technology for Teachers: ScootPad - Students Practice Skills from Any Device and T... - 1 views

  • cootPad activities can be played on just about any device including iPads, Android tablets, and Chromebooks.
  • s a free service offering mathematics and reading practice activities to elementary school students and their teachers.
    • Carolina Montes
       
      Scoot Pad has a lot of features and activities that go hand in hand with common core standards.
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  • teacher panel allows you to assign homework to your students.
  • students sign into their accounts to complete the activities anytime during the open window. Their results are instantly visible in your teacher panel.
  • students and teachers can post messages for each other.
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      The messages between the teachers allow a better communication
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    ScootPad is a free service offering mathematics and reading practice activities to elementary school students and their teachers. 
Carolina Montes

Free Technology for Teachers: Silk Slides - An Easy Way to Share & Discuss Slides - 0 views

  • Silk Slides is a new service for easily sharing and discussing slideshows. It is very easy to use the service.
  • upload your slides
  • then enter your email address.
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  • share your slides by sending the URL assigned to your slides to anyone you like.
    • Carolina Montes
       
      This is a great tool for students to ask questions on the slide they did not understand
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    Silk Slides, easy way to share and discuss slides
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http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/what-thoughts-are-made-of.pdf - 0 views

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      how do we think, in words, in color, in images?
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      The original idea was a language like symbols that were innate to humans. Cognitive researchers are now saying that the evidence shows that representation is constructed from the imputs
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    Are thoughts stored as images?
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Google Reader (1000+) - 0 views

  • Make Your Grandparents Proud
  • I saw a banner posted in the hallway of an elementary school this week that read, “Is This Your Best Work? Make Your Grandparents Proud.”
  • this school community is helping children build habits of meaningful self-reflection and consistent good effort, and teaching them to show and share pride in their learning.
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  • we might even notice a few Standards for the 21st Century Learner that fit right in. “Is this your best work” is a self-check that sounds a lot like “Assess the quality and effectiveness of the learning product” (3.4.2) and “Recognize how to focus efforts in personal learning” (4.4.3).
    • Carolina Montes
       
      Using grandparents as the figure, instead of parents who are likely the person to be contacted when there is poor behavior or work, or even when there is good news to share, reminds students that their work matters.
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    This article shows how an image and banner can change even habits on our students.
Carolina Montes

Alternative Video Use in the Flipped Classroom - 0 views

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      When to use a video: 1. VIDEO INTRODUCES TOPIC and CLASS TIME EXPANDS ON IT
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      2. A video as an interlude to introduce a challenge
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      3. To show H.W.
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      4. As video prompts reflections. 
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Alternative Video Use in the Flipped Classroom - 0 views

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    This article shares different ways of using videos in the classroom. 
Carolina Montes

The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine - 0 views

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    This is an article that shares different tools or applications to create visualizations for class, from graphs to maps.
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How to Bring History to Life Using Facebook Timeline and Twitter - 0 views

    • Carolina Montes
       
      Both sites can be combined, this is a great way to use social media for learning, specially because of the timeline feature and the possibility of being interactive.
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Teachers - Primary - English and Literacy - 0 views

    • Carolina Montes
       
      We should encourage children to develop their visual literacy skills because it will help them support their understanding, building on their home experiences and developing writing.
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Visual Literacy, New Literacy & Digital Natives: A Guide for UMUC Online Teachers - You... - 0 views

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      Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world. 
  • Introduction to the new literacies used by today's digital natives (those who have grown up in the digital revolution) and their need for multimedia materials to match their new way of learning.
    • Carolina Montes
       
      The new literacy is the ability to read and produce texts that contain not only words but also photographs, videos, info-graphs, art work, excel spread sheets, etc.
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      This is a new language been born and teaching has to adapt to teach this. 
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Visual Literacy - YouTube - 0 views

    • Carolina Montes
       
      As it has been said, an image says more than 1000 words. Lots of images that have been able to go through society and become part of it. Logos and signs.
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