Nice set of manipulatable visualizations to explore basic data and trends and relationships dealing with poverty, gender, and level of educational attainment.
If you want a great education community to dive into right away on Twitter, consider lurking or participating in one of the many scheduled Twitter Chats that go on almost every day of the week. Here's a 2-part video tutorial to help you get started. It's also a great way to find relevant educators on Twitter to follow.
That's it. YOU have to use the tools first so that you can integrate them with your students in a natural, logical way. Demonstrate being a [digital] learner for yourself. Then, it is just a natural extension with your students.
A simple and popular workaround for awkward or potentially unprofessional interactions is to use Facebook pages, groups or separate accounts in the classroom. Pages are essentially separate profiles that students can Like in order to receive updates, and you can add students to groups in order to stay connected. Creating a separate profile for yourself is an easy way to prevent students from seeing any personal information that you would normally have on Facebook.
When you set a social media policy for your classroom, it’s important to delineate clear guidelines with your students on how they should and should not interact with you.
“During the term, I perceive that friending a student creates uncomfortable boundaries for the student-professor relationship,” she says. “After all, students post information about their personal lives and vice versa.”
This guide examines the use of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) models in schools. It looks at the potential opportunities and benefits, as well as the considerations, risks and implications that arise when schools allow students and staff to use
personally owned devices in the classroom and school
environments. Strategies, tips and techniques are included to address the considerations and manage the risks.
A great example of where school districts are heading regarding students bringing their own devices to school for learning. It's full of theoretical benefits, risks, and things to think about.
When all is said and done, kindergarteners will have spent up to 60 days of class time—or a third of the school year—taking various standardized tests. And you wonder why so many wealthy people send their children to private schools.
to hold teachers accountable for how much their students learn—or at least how well they score on standardized tests, which is not always the same thing. But the idea is that high-scoring "good" teachers will keep their jobs and low-scoring "bad" teachers will be fired, presumably to be replaced by the thousands of "good" teachers eager to come to Illinois to give more tests.
"Most of the kids just look at me," says another kindergarten teacher who asked not to be identified. "They're five. They don't what a 'main character' means."
Presumably, by the end of the year the child will know enough to say the bug feels anxious. At which point the teacher will get to keep his or her job, for at least another year.
that student's file her delightfully original take is marked: "Wrong!"
Here's the twist. All teachers record the answers. Think about this, folks: teachers get to grade their own accountability tests. Damn, if they had this for students back in the day, I might have passed chemistry.
A humorous, interactive YouTube video dealing with peer pressure and sexting - a sad but real issue facing kids (and adults :-( ) today
choice embedded at the end of the scenario with feedback.