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Laura H.

10 Signs of a 21st Century Classroom | Edutopia - 1 views

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    signs of best practice in classrooms
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    A list of ways to know if you have successfully created a 21st century learning environment.
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    Best practices for teachers to evaluate and gear their instruction towards 21st century learning skills.
Tyler Schaben

A Guidebook for Social Media in the Classroom | Edutopia - 4 views

  • 12 Ways Teachers are Using Social Media in the Classroom Right Now Tweet or post status updates as a class. Teacher Karen Lirenman lets students propose nuggets of learning that are posted for parents to read. Write blog posts about what students are learning. Teacher Kevin Jarrett blogs reflections about his Elementary STEM lab for parents to read each week. Let your students write for the world. Linda Yollis' students reflect about learning and classroom happenings. Connect to other classrooms through social media. Joli Barker is fearlessly connecting her classroom through a variety of media. Use Facebook to get feedback for your students' online science fair projects. Teacher Jamie Ewing is doing this now, as he shared recently. Use YouTube for your students to host a show or a podcast. Don Wettrick's students hosted the Focus Show online and now share their work on a podcast. Create Twitter accounts for a special interest projects. My student Morgan spent two years testing and researching the best apps for kids with autism (with the help of three "recruits"), and her work just won her an NCWIT Award for the State of Georgia.
  • Ask questions to engage your students in authentic learning. Tom Barrett did this when his class studied probability by asking about the weather in various locations. Communicate with other classrooms. The Global Read Aloud, Global Classroom Project and Physics of the Future are three examples of how teachers use social media to connect their students as they collaborate and communicate. Create projects with other teachers. (Full disclosure: I co-created Physics of the Future with Aaron Maurer, a fellow educator I first met on Twitter.) Share your learning with the world. My students are creating an Encyclopedia of Learning Games with Dr. Lee Graham's grad students at the University of Alaska Southeast. The educators are testing the games, and the students are testing them, too. Further a cause that you care about. Mrs. Stadler's classes are working to save the rhinos in South Africa, and Angela Maiers has thousands of kids choosing to matter.
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  • The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchat
  • If you're going to ignore social media in the classroom, then throw out the ISTE Standards for Students and stop pretending that you're 21st century.
  • Tweet or post status updates as a class. Teacher Karen Lirenman lets students propose nuggets of learning that are posted for parents to read.
  • Use YouTube for your students to host a show or a podcast. Don Wettrick's students hosted the Focus Show online and now share their work on a podcast.
  • Communicate with other classrooms. The Global Read Aloud, Global Classroom Project and Physics of the Future are three examples of how teachers use social media to connect their students as they collaborate and communicate.
  • Create projects with other teachers. (Full disclosure: I co-created Physics of the Future with Aaron Maurer, a fellow educator I first met on Twitter.)
  • Further a cause that you care about. Mrs. Stadler's classes are working to save the rhinos in South Africa, and Angela Maiers has thousands of kids choosing to matter.
  • Surely students will post thousands of status updates, pictures, and blogs in their lifetime.
  • If you're going to ignore social media in the classroom, then throw out the ISTE Standards for Students and stop pretending that you're 21st century. Stop pretending that you're helping low-income children overcome the digital divide if you aren't going to teach them how to communicate online.
  • Don't mistake social media for socializing. They're different -- just as kids talking as they work in groups or talking while hanging out are different.
  • Fictional twitter accounts! I just wanted to share something that I have really gotten a kick out of recently. I started a Twitter account for Holden Caulfield @_therealholden_ and "Holden" tweets updates that center on our reading of The Catcher in the Rye. Students can interact and the whole thing has been a lot of fun.
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    This is a great article about integrating social media into the classroom. It offers a short quiz at the beginning of the article.
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    A teachers how to incorporate social media in their classroom.
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    A teachers how to incorporate social media in their classroom.
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    This site offers 12 ways teachers are using social media in their classrooms.  It provides links to classroom examples and other teachers.  
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    This article talks about the use of social media in the classroom.  This resource is helpful for wanting to know pointers for using social media in the classroom.
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    Defense of social media in the classroom and ideas for how to use it.
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    This article asserts why it is important for teachers to address social media in the classroom and 12 ways teachers are using it.
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    This is a great article that explains different ways to use social media in the classroom. One idea that I wanted to share, but it was not on there, was this idea about having a Twitter Debate. I heard about it in a webcast that I watched last week. I think this could also be a very effective tool for students who are trying to get their point across. They would have to find an article to support their point, and by using Twitter and limiting them to 140 characters, it would force them to make their point consice. I think this article could be helpful with teachers. Teachers can have a lot of different ideas to help students use social media in their classroom. I think that I could use different ideas for the library, specifically tweeting different things that are going on in the library.
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    I really like the idea of connecting with other classrooms through social media. I think this could work for my writing classes as a very authentic way of getting an audience. Maybe "Share your journal entry on social media and see if you get responses from people other than me and the rest of the kids in this class"? Kids and teachers can take control over this and use it in so many ways: sharing their work, reaching out to other people and classes, connecting with each other outside of class, etc. Plus there are so many different platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest) that allow us to do a variety of things so that you don't have to stick with just one. Thanks for sharing!
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    This was a great article that gave a lot of diverse ideas for using social media in the classroom. One that I found I could use in my class would be a discussion forum for students who are in different periods, but taking the same/similar class, to communicate with each other on a variety of discussion topics. It could also be applied to allow my engineering students to communicate with the physics classroom. I believe this resource would most benefit teachers, administration, and technology integrationalist. It would be a great way to introduce the idea of incorporation social media into the classroom at a PD meeting.
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    This was very informative on how to use social media in the classroom in a fun and appropriate way. There are so many platforms for students to seek or gain information, and I find that some teachers are afraid of allowing their students into the social media world in a classroom setting. Also, I would state that those teachers have not themselves explored social media in an educational format. This could be a great resource for many teachers.
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    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!
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    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.
bretthutch

An Examination of the Instructional Practices in Co-Teaching - 0 views

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    This publication takes a deeper look at the best practices in co-teaching in the english classroom to provide meaningful instruction for students will special needs.
butchsaa

Best Instructional Practices - 0 views

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    This site includes some of the best practices teachers need to live by in order to be productive educators. I do believe that I need to make sure to follow these at all time, including differentiation.
Cassidy Winslow

http://journals.sagepub.com.proxy.lib.uni.edu/doi/pdf/10.1177/0735633116636767 - 0 views

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    A Classification Framework for Exploring Technology-Enabled Practice-FrameTEP
hoffeuni

"How Can I Coach a Resistant Teacher?" (Part 1) - The Art of Coaching Teachers - Educat... - 0 views

  • Resistant means "refusing to accept new ideas or changes." This label carries a layer of judgment that may prevent us from trying to understand our coachee's reality, dilemmas, competing commitments, or even aspirations.
  • Inquiry is an ongoing process of asking questions and examining evidence in order to improve our practice.
  • What might be underneath the resistance I'm feeling?
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  • How safe does she feel to discuss weaknesses in her practice?
  • Above all else, approach your coachee with humility.
  • When I arrive at coaching with equal parts humility and confidence in what I have to offer, I inevitably can see past "resistance" to the person in front of me - with her own unique story, values, and capacities to build from.
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    Steps and ideas to help teachers work with other teachers that are resistant to change.
Staci Novak

The Library Voice: Let Students Share What They Have Learned Using Buncee! - 0 views

  • You will find this STEM Challenge here on Maker Maven's site. 
  • Education, Makerspaces and so much more which are perfect to start stories of what was learned. 
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    Blog to follow for ideas to incorporate more and improve practice.
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    Techissues
Taylor Niewohner

Teaching Students with Special Needs: Advice for Teachers (Grades K-12) - TeacherVision - 1 views

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    talks about different instructional practices that can be used with special needs students
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    This resource is great for beginning teachers and teachers who have not worked with students with different abilities before. I like how it also notes the gifted populations as well as those students with a disability. This resource could be used by both teachers and students. Teachers could use it to learn a brief amount more about students with special needs, while as students can use it to understand what other options/strategies might work best for them if they fall into one of the categories listed. There are many other resources that provide strategies/information about how to work with special populations. One I like to check out as a special ed teacher is ldonline.com.
Ryan

Best Instructional Practices to Use in the classroom. - 0 views

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    Defines some parts to instructional practices
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    When using technology in the classroom, it is important to understand how to use it.
Taylor Niewohner

Guide to Using Twitter in Your Teaching Practice | KQED Education - 0 views

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    This website talks about safely using twitter and how to implement it in the class
Kim McCoy-Parker

Math Coach's Corner - 2 views

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    My personal favorite blog for math ideas for the classroom by Donna Boucher. Every week free links to classroom activities are also included.
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    This looks like a great blog for resources, Kim! This blog seems to be full of math resources and ideas which could be a great asset to teachers! This would obviously be best utilized by teachers to prepare for their math lessons, etc., though the students would benefit from the added preparation and materials this blog provides for their math sessions as well! I know of many other blogs that provide resources and ideas like this one, and they are always so helpful in brainstorming new teaching practices!
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    This looks like a great resource for math teachers! I love that she gives new tips with each entry. I can see where this could be a resource for teacher, but also, how students could benefit from some of resources that she posts about. I could definitely see myself consulting this for different reasons throughout my lesson planning. Another website that also offers some great math resources is www.k-5mathteachingresources.com
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    Amber - Thanks for the addition site suggestion I have marked if for a future lesson planning resource.
Ping Gao

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice | Just another WordPress.com weblog - 0 views

  • I would like to add another to her list of sensible ways of preparing teachers for urban schools. Look at the largest charter organization in California, Aspire Public Schools. The first 18 highly selective Aspire Teacher Residents in 2012 completed their first year of a four year stint–sounds like medical residents– of a closely supervised internship that includes a stipend of $13,500 and health insurance. Fifteen have been hired to work full-time in the schools in which
Nikki Lyons

edWeb: A professional online community for educators - 1 views

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    "edWeb.net is a highly-acclaimed professional social and learning network that has become a vibrant online community for exceptional educators, decision-makers, and influencers who are on the leading edge of innovation in education. edWeb members are teachers, faculty, administrators, and librarians at K12 and post-secondary institutions. edWeb is a place where educators who are looking for ways to improve teaching and learning can gather and share information and ideas with peers and thought leaders in the industry. Any educator can use edWeb for free to create a personal learning network or professional learning community to make it easier to collaborate, share ideas, and move forward faster with new ideas and initiatives, particularly those than leverage technology to accelerate improvement."
bredvick

Why Educators Should Spend 15 Minutes a Day on Social Media - 0 views

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    Taking the time, even 15 minutes a day on social media for your classroom can make a different. I think this is an important reminder on the reasons why we should use social media. This is a great starting point if you are just introducing social media into your classroom. I will continue to revisit this website to improve my instructional practice.
tabathaduncan

Supporting English Language Learners - Benchmark Education Storefront - 0 views

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    This module explores ways to address the specific needs of ELL students and how to scaffold their language and literacy development. You will examine observable behaviors that indicate students' progression through stages of language acquisition. English-language learners are students who have acquired their primary listening and speaking skills in a language other than English.
Heather Davis

LessonCast | Next Generation Teacher Preparation - 3 views

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    This website helps teachers connect and share their ideas with other users in order to enhance classroom learning
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    This website helps teachers connect and share their ideas with other users in order to enhance classroom learning
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    I like the fact that the lesson cast offers teachers support with assigning, monitoring, reviewing, and evaluating assignments.
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    I LOVE lesson cast, it offers great support for all teachers. You can practically find anything you are looking for. This is mainly for teacher use but students benefit from it based on the quality of lessons teachers are giving them.
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    I have never heard of LessonCast until your post. I looked around the website and I plan on adding into my personal diijp library because it seems like an awesome resource. I like how it has lessons that are already aligned with certain standards.
Christa McCaulley

Open Educational Resources - 0 views

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    Open Educational Resources (OER) are high-quality, openly licensed, online educational materials that offer an extraordinary opportunity for people everywhere to share, use, and reuse knowledge. They also demonstrate great potential as a mechanism for instructional innovation as networks of teachers and learners share best practices.
Ping Gao

http://eval.fi.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/FI-Eval-Research-Highlights.pdf - 2 views

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      critical issues about a 1;1 learning environment: Instructional practice
Ping Gao

Flipped Classroom | Edutopia - 1 views

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    Useful resources for flipped instructions
Ping Gao

20 - Blended or Flipped Classrooms - 2 views

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    Useful resources for Blended Instruction.
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