Effective vocabulary instruction requires active and positive student participation. In addition, familiarity with high-frequency affixes and roots promotes comprehension of numerous words in which they occur as meaningful chunks. In this online activity, students flip two chips to mix and match four word parts and make four words. Students then insert the four words into a paragraph, using context clues to determine where each word belongs. After each exercise, students can print their work to check whether they placed the four words in the paragraph correctly.
Online learning is sweeping across America. In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took
an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K-12 students did. What was originally a distancelearning
phenomenon no longer is. Most of the growth is occurring in blended-learning environments,
in which students learn online in an adult-supervised environment at least part of the time. As this
happens, online learning has the potential to transform America's education system by serving as the
backbone of a system that offers more personalized learning approaches for all students.
An app that allows teachers to make a puzzle out of a photo and determine the number of pieces. Students to put the puzzle together throughout the day. When the puzzle is complete it is a photo of the reward student has earned. Engaging animation and sound effects. Teachers can add to individualized banks of puzzles for multiple students.
Through the use of these math applications, students will improve their skills with basic math facts and mental computation. Used on a weekly basis, this apptivity has shown documented improvement in students' abilities on timed addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tests. This apptivity is designed to be used as math centers, which the students rotate through in fifteen minute intervals over a 45 minute math period.
Online learning appears to be a classic disruptive innovation with the potential not just to improve the current model of education delivery, but to transform it. Online learning started by serving students for whom there was no alternative for learning. It got its start in distance-learning environments, outside of a traditional school building, and it started small. In 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took an online course. But by 2010, over 4 million students were participating in some kind of formal online-learning program. The preK-12 online population is now growing by a five-year compound annual growth rate of 43 percent-and that rate is accelerating.
The purpose of 21things4teachers is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as online course requirement.
You have a computer, and your students have phones. Use ClassParrot to connect them both - safely, securely, privately. So you can update your students with the reminders they need!
"Education 2.0: Social networking for your class
Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged."
StoryRobe is a free app that students can use to make a Quicktime slideshow/movie in 3 easy steps. Students can select photos and record their voices talking about the photos or narrating a story.
Animation app in which you can create flipbook and motion path clips. Great because students don't have to redraw every frame. Great alternative means for students to demonstrate content knowledge.
iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. iRead will give you a chance to create meaningful,
curriculum-centered audio projects with your students. Teachers are using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, Garageband, iTunes,
Keynote, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading
processes. Teachers meet on a monthly basis to exchange ideas and strategies. We started in 2006-07 by collecting data
about fluency rates - this has been very promising.
So what is a teacher's role in keeping students safe online? Teachers and schools can actively block websites on desktops, laptops, and iPads but when it comes to a student's personal phone… that's a tricky area.
Today's digital students have access to a wealth of information, yet many struggle to navigate, evaluate, organize, or even comprehend this information appropriately and effectively.
To succeed in today's digital world-and in the future-all learners need accessible, leveled content-area information and interactive, personalized learning tools.