Skip to main content

Home/ educators/ Group items tagged classes

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Martin Burrett

XtraMath - 10 views

  •  
    This site helps students practise basic maths skills through short online exercises that are intended to be used each day. Teacher can get analysis of progress and more. Signing up a class is quick and easy. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Martin Burrett

Vokle - 12 views

  •  
    Present a live, interactive webinar or presentation quickly and easily with this superb online tool. Setup is simple and you just share the url with your audience. The video is recorded so it can be watched again. Get your class presenting to other children/parents. You may even be able to persuade you head teacher to conduct a staff meeting virtually! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
tmbellah

TypingClub - 13 views

  •  
    Beta version of simple, easy typing courses for students. Can be managed by instructors and organized by classes. I like it so far!
Martin Burrett

Tools for English - 9 views

  •  
    A superb site for creating a range of English game and activity sheets to use in your class, including word and paragraph scrambles, matching pairs and much more. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Martin Burrett

Steve Spangler Science - 14 views

  •  
    A wonderful YouTube channel featuring over 400 science experiments and activities to try in your class. Each video is succinct and easy to follow. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Martin Burrett

Storybricks - 17 views

  •  
    A 3D role-playing game designer that encourages learners to create stories narratives by playing the game. Designing games is fun and it is easy to share with your class mates. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Clif Mims

LectureTools - iPad app fostering engagement in lectures - 13 views

  •  
    "LectureTools is a student response system that also allows students to take notes linked with the slides and videos presented in class, answer instructor generated questions and pose questions to the instructor. All notes, questions and activities are instantly synchronized with the LectureTools web application."
Vicki Davis

August activities and lessons - 7 views

  •  
    This is a list of lessons for August. Bookmark it as lessons are added, you'll be able to find them here. I am reviewing the back to school lessons for my classes (I always love ideas to help welcome students and start well.) You can also upload your back to school lessons to enter the competition.
Ed Webb

Peru's ambitious laptop program gets mixed grades - Yahoo! News - 0 views

  • what we did was deliver the computers without preparing the teachers
  • the missteps may have actually widened the gap between children able to benefit from the computers and those ill-equipped to do so
  • Inter-American Development Bank researchers were less polite."There is little solid evidence regarding the effectiveness of this program," they said in a study sharply critical of the overall OLPC initiative that was based on a 15-month study at 319 schools in small, rural Peruvian communities that got laptops."The magical thinking that mere technology is enough to spur change, to improve learning, is what this study categorically disproves," co-author Eugenio Severin of Chile told The Associated Press
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • OLPC laptops, which are rugged and energy efficient and run an open-source variant of the Linux operating system, are in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mongolia and Haiti, and even in the United States and Australia. Uruguay, a compact South American nation of 3.5 million people, is the only country that has fully embraced the concept and given every elementary school child and teacher an XO laptop
  • no increased math or language skills, no improvement in classroom instruction quality, no boost in time spent on homework, no improvement in reading habits
  • On the positive side, the "dramatic increase in access to computers" accelerated by about six months students' abstract reasoning, verbal fluency and speed in processing information
  • "We knew from the start that it wouldn't be possible to improve the teachers," he said, citing a 2007 census of 180,000 Peruvian teachers that showed more than 90 percent lacked basic math skills while three in five could not read above sixth-grade level.
  • Each teacher was supposed to get 40 hours of OLPC training. That hardly helped in schools where teachers had never so much as booted up a computer. In Patzer's experience "most of them barely knew how to interact with the computers at all."
  • In the higher grades, Martinez said, children's use of the machines is mostly social
  • "For them, the laptop is more for playing than for learning,"
  • Negroponte thinks the main goal of technology educators should be simply getting computers into poor kids' hands.His proposal last year to parachute tablet computers from helicopters, limiting the involvement of adults and "educators," caused some colleagues to wince. But Negroponte is dead serious, and has begun a pilot project in two Ethiopian villages to test whether tablets alone, loaded with the right software, can teach children to read.
  • The OLPC team always considered Internet connectivity part of the recipe for success. They also insisted that each child be given a laptop and be permitted to take it home.Uruguay, a small, flat country with a far higher standard of living and ubiquitous Internet, has honored those requirementsPeru did not
  • Some schools didn't have enough electricity to power the machines.And then there was the Internet. Less than 1 percent of the schools studied had it.
Martin Burrett

StudyChamps - 5 views

  •  
    This site has a good collection of Maths, English, Science & Social Studies PDF worksheets and online interactive resources to use with your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular
Martin Burrett

Online Science Games - 6 views

  •  
    A good collection of science flash games and activities to use in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Vicki Davis

Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink - 5 views

  •  
    Thinklink has made some upgrades for teachers. There is an improved student sign up, the ability to organize students by class. You can create image "channels" and interactive albums and you can have a more safe way to find images and use them. I recorded a session on my podcast this week about UDL and Beth Ritter-Guth highly recommends Thinglink to use with students.
Martin Burrett

Android 4 Schools - 5 views

  •  
    This is an amazing site for any educator with an Android device. See reviews about the best apps and tips on how to use them effectively in your class. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Vicki Davis

Pinterest / Search results for classroom rules - 1 views

  •  
    My favorite graphics for classroom rules are from Pinterest! There are some ideas for class voting, etc. but some very nice photos and graphics. I see some ideas here. One that I'm pinning to my board says "stick together" and I like that.
Martin Burrett

Mathelona Challenge - 4 views

  •  
    A useful maths flash resource where players arrange numbers into a grid of addition and subtraction questions in the quickest time possible. It's great for practising basic skills. Why not set up a competition in your class? There are four levels of difficulty to choose from. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Maths
Brendan Murphy

Power to Preschoolers: making Hungry Guppy, a fun math game | Motion Math - Play with n... - 0 views

  • focus on shape instead of number
  • it wasn’t clear that preschoolers really understood “winning” or “losing”
  • the University of Missouri correlates 1st and 5th grade math skills, controlling for IQ and socio-economic lev
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • just hand them the iPad, keep our mouths shut
  • Testing out Hungry Guppy
  • n addition to being at a different cognitive level, younger children lack fine-motor skills,
Vicki Davis

Jolly Phonic alphabet chart - Resources - Share My Lesson - 12 views

  •  
    An alphabet chart that you may print out and use for your classes to help them remember the sounds of letters.
Vicki Davis

Ending Slavery: An Unfinished Business - 8 views

  •  
    This is a lesson plan that you can use as a starting point if you choose to involve your classrooms in the movement to end slavery in the world. Could you imagine if we could leave a legacy of this one thing. Our job is to speak for the helpless and to encourage empathy and understanding for others in this generation of children. It isn't all about what you can get, but about what you can give. This booklet is out of the UK. "The antislavery movement was the first major campaign in Britain to involve ordinary citizens across all classes (as well as the slaves themselves) in the struggle to end the practice. As such it is a good example of how change can come about when people work together for a just cause. This booklet More…intends inspire and equip young people to take a stand against the continuation of slavery and injustice in the world today."
Martin Burrett

YouTube for Schools - 6 views

  •  
    YouTube for schools is where students can access educational videos in a safe and controlled environment. Make an administrator account for your class or school today. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Video%2C+animation%2C+film+%26+Webcams
Vicki Davis

Jaden's Awesome Blog - 3 views

  •  
    Started in November 2010 in Mrs. Yollis' Grade 3 class and he's the winner of tonight's best student blog. He's in fourth grade. Edublog awards. He went and said thank you tonight. His thank you was so touching.
« First ‹ Previous 181 - 200 of 678 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page