Group items tagged

Steps to integrate technology in the classroom, apps, websites, lessons. IWB, computer, laptop cart, mobile devices.

This is a great resource! I actually just found this website today myself. I will have to follow them on Twitter. I like this article because it puts the ideas into a bulleted list. This way you can see the main points they want to make. I have found that I really like that about articles on Edutopia. What a great, teacher centered, article!

Alexis, I think this is a great resource for integrating technology in the classroom. I really like that it includes specific ideas and examples. While this resource is primarily aimed at teachers, the examples are definitely aimed at developing student activities. As a teacher, this is a great starting point for beginning technology integration. Edutopia seems to be a great resource overall, and I enjoyed looking through some of their other articles as well!

Ways to incorporate technology into music education I can use the technology links to integrate more technology into my classroom.

Ways to incorporate technology into music education I can use the technology links to integrate more technology into my classroom.

This article goes in depth about what educational technology truly is and how it can be properly integrated into the classroom.

Great article! I think that this would be very helpful to a teacher when they are starting to integrate technology in their classroom.

The information in this article supports one of the things that my school tech integrationist is trying to get teachers to do with social media. He is asking teachers to do Penpal Schools, which will connect students with other students from around the world. I am going to be having my class do Penpal schools. I also want to try out having my students blog about books we are reading in 7th grade language arts after reading about the benefits of blogging in this article.

Very cool! I really wish I had students at an older age level. Though I can do something like this for 2nd graders it is more difficult with their reading and writing skill levels. Still a pretty cool tool to use for students and teachers alike. Thank you for sharing!

Social Media is important. When I was in middle school and high school we didn't learn about social media or how to be safe on the internet. It was more of a foot note than a subject in class that we learned about. Blogging was foreign to me until now. I feel like I have missed a lot because of this.

The CoolCatTeacher is an education blog that focuses in on technology. Blogger, Vicki Davis writes an article about the very FIRST ever student-led technology conference (back in Jan, 2015).

I enjoyed this article because it talks about the 10 signs of a 21st century classroom and how to work on achieving these goals.

This is a good resource to use with administrators and school board members. I feel like sometimes we run into roadblocks because people just don't know what technology integration should look like. This resource could also be used with teachers to give them some ideas on how a technology integrationist could provide support to them in the classroom.

This is a good article to look at. I feel that it would be good for a classroom because it is talking about how to transform a classroom into a 21st century classroom and what it should look like. This would definitely benefit both teacher and student. The teacher can use the technology to help teach while the students can use the technology to help learn and grow.

Offers ways to use technology to deal with behavior management in the classroom

Offers ways to use technology to deal with behavior management in the classroom

I feel like people are often so worried about integrating technology into the classroom that they often forget about how this is going to affect classroom management. As we implement technology into the classroom we are going to have to change other aspects of our classroom, and classroom management is going to be one of them. Great resource!

This website has original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts. I will use it for different lesson ideas and ideas on how to integrate technology into my classroom.

This post is a set of responses from educators who attempt to define 21st-century skills and tools. It is useful to remember that this means many different things to different people, yet there are running trends through the comments as well!

This video gives an introduction to the SAMR Model that teachers can use to evaluate technology integration.

This video gives an introduction to the SAMR Model that teachers can use to evaluate technology integration.

Hey David, I liked this video! It really gave a good layout to what SAMR does, what the idea behind it is, and just helped get the idea out. It will come in handy when it comes time for us to break it down and figure out how we want to portray these ideas in our project!

Great question style wiki!

Wiki designed to promote technology and 21 century skills to use for technology integration ideas.

List of technology resources that can be applied in the CTE areas.

10 Education Tech Blogs - ideas and resources for integrating technology, Web 2.0 tools, and iPad apps into the classroom

This is a great article about integrating social media into the classroom. It offers a short quiz at the beginning of the article.

This whole website in general is really good. What I decided to focus on specifically was this article about good practices for social media in the classroom. If you have the time I would also check out the comments. There are educators that posted their own uses for social media in the classroom that were not mentioned in the article. This is a good read!

I think this is an awesome resource to give teachers ideas of how to integrate social media in the classroom more effectively. Edutopia always has lots of great, reliable information and resources. One of the things that I think is the most effective is how this article has links to other sites where specific real life teachers have used social media in the classroom effectively.

article discussing different ways in which twitter can be used in the classroom

Sarah, Thank you for sharing this article. Twitter exploded last year in my district, especially at the high school, as a form of communication for everyone. The middle school, where I am primilary at, is slowly catching on. However, I LOVE Twitter as a professional resource. I think it is like a social bookmarker. I can share the websites, and then go back when I have time to explore them more. I agree this can be used in my library to be an effective communication tool for both students and staff. I believe this resource can be used for both students and staff, but they have different purposes. As a professional, using hashtags can be very benefical to find information. It can also be a great way to network, using the Twitter Chats that go on all around the United States and the world. Students can use this to communicate. For example, the students wanted to have a blue out in honor of a student who has cancer at the football game last night. They asked the opposing team to join them in wearing blue to honor a young man who is fighting for his life. They did, and they donated an additional $425 because they found that information on Twitter! I am not aware of other resources that do that same thing. I believe Twitter is unique with their limit of 140 characters and the strong hashtag movement they begun all throughout the internet world.

Emma, are you in Clinton? I heard about the "blue out"! I like to use Twitter for mainly professional use, but that varies from anywhere between retweeting professional articles to reminding the study body to buy their yearbooks. I try to throw in some personal stuff every now and again just to show that their teacher is an actual human, too. :)

100 different and unique ways to incorporate social media into the classroom

I think this is a great resource for many different ways to integrate technology into the classroom. If one of these doesn't work another one could. There are so many ways on here that I had never even thought about!

This will give me ideas to use social media in my classroom

good ideas for high-interest, engaging lesson activities

These strategies are great suggestions. I especially like the idea of four corners. I feel like I could use it when I have students do current technology articles. I also like tea party, that would be a great way to introduce a careers research assignment, giving each student a basic definition of a career in the field and having the "tea party" before they choose their topic. I feel that this is geared towards teachers looking to improve their classroom and shift more toward a learner-centered room. As the blog states, it is also a great resource for teachers who have especially active students.

I was pleasantly surprised by this article! When I first clicked on it I expected it to be elementary based like so many engagement articles are. But then I realized it was for secondary so good for me! The main thing I pulled out of this article was the idea for crowd sourcing. It seems like a simple concept but I had never thought of it before. I think this is a great resource for teachers and I plan on using the crowd sourcing technique on Tuesday!

Engagement: Social Learning: Use time outside of class better, so you can use in-class time better It provides opportunities for writing and writing assessment: Encourage dialogue, reach more students Help students get ahead of the professional curve: Build connections

I agree that I could efficiently use this resource in my future classroom to an extent. Because the article only outlines reasons why social media should be used in a classroom, there are no specific ways mentioned on how to integrate social media... there are only a list of benefits to using it. I believe this article could be intended for teacher or student use because it allows both teachers and students to understand the benefits and purposes of using social media in the classroom. One similar resource that could also be considered is "How to use Social Media as a Learning Tool": http://www.edudemic.com/how-to-use-social-media-as-a-learning-tool-in-the-classroom/. This site seems more beneficial to me because it specifically offers ways for teachers to implement social media in the classroom (rather than just stating advantages), such as a class Facebook group, Twitter feed, blog post, YouTube videos, and Instagram. Are you aware of any similar resources that should be considered? If so, what are those resources?

You also have to keep in mind the overall purpose of social media being in the classroom.

Defines some parts to instructional practices

When using technology in the classroom, it is important to understand how to use it.

Blog for K-16 teachers about digital writing.

Blog for K-16 teachers about digital writing.