The GTA is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies.
As blended learning's popularity continues to grow in high schools and middle schools, KIPP Empower Academy (KEA) in South Los Angeles has taken the model a step further by introducing it to kindergarten students.
Edit existing videos from Khan Academy, YouTube, LearnZillion and EDpuzzle to make them just right for your class. Crop, add your voice, insert video notes and quizzes. Useful for flipped classrooms.
Mind map for using Google. Links include classroom tools, google teacher academy, teacher community, NECC presentations, classroom activities, and classroom posters. I like the way the author used the web to map everything out. Kind of reminds me of a sports playoff bracket but in this case it's used to help you pinpoint exactly what you need.
The Khan Academy website offers a free online collection of more than 3,600 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, and organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science.
Great site for improving your tech-savy ways! Lots of info. on tools, apps, and software that you can access and use with your students. Also, great opportunity for continuing education program (Google Teacher Academy).
WOW! This is a wonderful tool to use in your classroom to enhance learning. The Geo Education link is amazing. This link allows you to access googlesky, googlemaps and googlesketchup. The googlesky link is wonderful for Earth/Space Science units in the classroom.
This is an awesome website with short (and free!) videos to help teach all types of math from 1st - college and some higher level sciences. It's great for those days when the kids don't want to listen to your voice anymore.
Yes! Flipped Classroom is a terrific concept. I have been really wanting to try it, but have not been able to make it around to creating the videos. A great site for videos is Khan Academy...maybe I should post that! :)
Come be a part of the fun at this year's 2015 UCF Book Festival. This year it will be held at the Education Complex, Teaching Academy and Morgridge International Reading Center. Special Guests and Food Trucks will be attending this year. You don't want to miss it!
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The article provides an overview of the process involved in envisioning, developing and incorporating mobile technology into the curriculum at 2 institutions of higher education and a public charter school. Topics discussed include the 3 projects for experiences envisioning, developing and integrating digital media and technology at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a prekindergarten class at Big Pine Academy, Florida and University of Central Florida (UCF)
The American Academy of Pediatrics is catching up with the times. Back in 2011, it issued a policy called "Media Use By Children Younger Than 2 Years," which recommended no more than two hours of screen time a day for kids older than 2, and discouraged any time at all in front of a screen for toddlers...