FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

"There are some breakthrough technologies that are already shaping the world today in such a fantasist way. What technologies are these? The following list, based on a report published by MIT technology review,  identifies some, the ones we believe will pave the way for significant change."

"The great part of integrating technology in the classroom is that it gives students a voice...sometimes a voice without having to be audibly heard."

"Many school administrators, teachers and parents want the education provided to children to be high quality, rigorous and connected to the world outside the classroom.Teachers are trying to provide these elements in various ways, but a group of schools calling itself the "Deeper Learning Network" has codified some of what its members believe are essential qualities of deep learning (check out how students lead parent teacher conferences in this model)."

"How it Works 1. Create an Assignment; 2. Create an Assignment; 3. Assign to Students; 4. Receive Live Results; 5. Give Feedback Formative runs on any internet connected device and is optimized for any 1:1, BYOD, flipped or blended classroom."

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."

Read Write Think is a wonderful collection of classroom resources, which includes tools for writing and interactive activities for students. They also have a collection of lesson plans, as well as activities for students to do.

"While faculty toil over getting that perfect lecture, the variation in learning outcomes from different lectures is negligible. So what did matter? Feedback. Feedback on student work has been consistently shown to be among the biggest influences on student achievement. Yet faculty usually give little thought to how they provide feedback to their students. Many go through a student's work, making margin comments such as "vague" or "grammar" or "needs synthesis.""

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"One of the things teachers do best is collecting evidence. We survey students about their knowledge and use the results to provide feedback to students as well as make adjustments to instruction."

GoSoapBox is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive student response system for educators to use in their classrooms. Leveraging web-enabled devices, teachers digitally engage students to conduct formative assessment and gain insight into student comprehension that was never before possible.

"Digital Citizenship: Using the internet and social media in a responsible and ethical way Digital Leadership: Using the internet and social media to improve the lives, well-being, and circumstances of others."

"An infographic is an illustration that uses words and pictures with visualizations that may include graphs, charts, and tables. Infographics are used predominantly as a text feature in journalism and textbooks."

"Indeed, a host of national and regional surveys suggest that teachers are far more likely to use technology to make their own jobs easier and to supplement traditional instructional strategies than to put students in control of their own learning. Case study after case study describe a common pattern inside schools: A handful of "early adopters" embrace innovative uses of new technology, while their colleagues make incremental or no changes to what they already do."

"Innovative educators enjoy using high quality digital programs to support learning where they work, but it does mean their role shifts."

a history project linking Wikipedia to a dynamic map with a time slider Note that the data used in this app is yet inconsistent and will be editable by the community in the final release

PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images.

"Combine creativity (the development of ideas in our imagination) with innovation (the implementation of ideas into real solutions) and students have a process for problem finding and solving that can be implemented beyond their school years. "

Welcome to WorldPopulationHistory.org, an interactive site that lets you explore the peopling of our planet from multiple perspectives - historical, environmental, social and political. It is about the 2,000-year journey of human civilization and the possible paths ahead to the middle of this century.

I once heard class discussions described as "transient instructional events." They pass through the class, the course, and the educational experiences of students with few lingering effects. Ideas are batted around, often with forced participation; students don't take notes; and then the discussion ends-it runs out of steam or the class runs out of time. If asked a few days later about the exchange, most students would be hard-pressed to remember anything beyond what they themselves might have said, if that.