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Kelly Post

Using Pinterest for Education - 3 views

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  • Kelly Post on 07 Oct 15
     
    Using Pinterest in the classroom for things like group projects (brainstorm and organize) and communicating with other instructors to gather ideas.
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  • Anne Pudenz on 08 Oct 15
     
    Pinterest is an amazing tool to use in education. I receive many classroom ideas from other teachers through Pinterest and it is a great place to store and organize the resources for later use. After reading this article, I think I will create a group board and share it will my students with relevant class articles, ideas, and videos. Pinterest is my favorite resource to use as a teacher!
  • Kim Carlson on 08 Oct 15
     
    I think this article will be useful for my classroom. I use Pinterest now and we are working on maybe having a district pinterest page or links for people to follow and gather information from. I think of this article as more of a teacher article. I'm not sure how many students use Pinterest but in the education field this is huge.
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    I agree that I could use this article for my future classroom because I am already familiar with Pinterest, and the article provides tips for using Pinterest with other teachers as well as students. This article as a whole seems to be geared toward teachers because it is specifically about applying Pinterest to the classroom, but on the topic of Pinterest as a whole, students can also use Pinterest to share ideas with one another and possibly look at some of the boards of their own teacher. For instance, the article states that teachers could create a Pinterest board to share with students so that students could simply use resources from the board to begin writing instead of wasting time researching. The only other site that I have encountered that could be used for similar purposes is Diigo because teachers could also bookmark articles on this site to share with students in the same way that they could with Pinterest.
Lisa Bindert

http://www.ksbe.edu/_assets/spi/pdfs/21_century_skills_full.pdf - 2 views

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  • Lisa Bindert on 07 Oct 15
     
    What are 21st Century skills?
Nicole Heinrichs

New Teacher Support - 1 views

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  • We’ll help you find the resources, support, ideas, and advice you need to make your classroom the rewarding, positive learning environment you want it to be. We won’t pretend that it will be easy
  • LEARN NC is here to help
  • Keep this in mind
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  • help you take advantage of mentoring, l
  • these articles give you the perspectives of real teachers who have faced problems like yours and overcome them.
  • Nicole Heinrichs on 08 Oct 15
     
    This website offers many resources for teachers. It is important, especially as a first year teachers, to know were you can go for help.
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    I agree that I could use this resource efficiently in my own future classroom but probably only for the first couple of years that I teach because it simply provides tips to keep in mind and resources for first year teachers. I like how the article tells teachers to keep in mind 4 key points: teaching is hard, you can't do it alone, every classroom is different, and classroom management means solving problems before they occur. This resource is definitely meant for teacher use because it is meant to help teachers as they first begin their careers, and students would not have a reason to utilize resources for first year teachers. Here is another resource that could be considered for first-year teachers entitled "10 First-Year Teacher Myths and How to Avoid Them": http://plpnetwork.com/2014/05/14/10-first-year-teacher-myths-avoid/
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    Having resources ready for us when we first start teaching will be nice, because after all we know it will not be the easiest thing in the world.
Kim Carlson

15+ Ways of Teaching Every Student to Code (Even Without a Computer) | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • According to Code.org, 90 percent of U.S. schools are not teaching any computer science
  • Apps and Tools to Teach Coding All Year Round
  • Code.org Resources
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  • Teaching Coding to the Youngest Students
  • Teaching Coding to Age 8 and Up
  • Flip Your Classroom or Use an Existing Curriculum
  • Use Hardware and Make Something Cool
  • Kim Carlson on 08 Oct 15
     
    I love the idea of our students learning how to code. It's been my passion for several years.
Katie Upah

Twitter in the English Classroom - 0 views

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  • high school students use Twitter to respond, in character, to issues and events in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. Students tweeted in real-time while reading the play as a class. They needed to consider tone, language and personality of their assigned character in order to respond appropriately.
  • Their results demonstrated that students had significant motivation to participate creatively in communicating their learning processes.
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    This article discusses a research study performed on high school students in which they utilized Twitter to respond to characters, issues, and events while reading a play as a class.
Katie Upah

Life in a 21st-Century English Class - 3 views

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  • To begin with, I don’t lecture. My students don’t take notes, at least not in the traditional sense, and we don’t read a novel and simply answer the questions.
  • It also means my students don’t acquire knowledge just for the sake of acquiring it. They need to do something with it — that’s where “project-based” comes into play.
  • Finally, technology is embedded into the structure of all we do. It’s part of how we research, how we capture information, and how we display our learning. It’s never an accessory tacked on at the end.
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  • One of the most important things we can do is teach our students how to use social media wisely, and how social media can be used for social good.
  • Instead, inquiry and technology are a natural part of our English classes. It’s what my students have come to expect and have started to design themselves.  Instead, of saying, “hand in your assignments,” I say, “publish your assignments and send me the link.” They think about connecting and sharing their learning in the larger world.
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    This teacher describes how she transformed her classroom into a 21st century learning environment for her students.
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  • Katrina Lint on 11 Oct 15
     
    I have this saved to read later. I am interested in how she transformed her classroom.
  • Anna Kron on 12 Oct 15
     
    I found this post very interesting. It is easy to see how PBL may work in a science or math classroom, but I have always wondered how it would look for English. It seems like this teacher has truly grasped PBL, and her students are enjoying the learning process. I think this resource could be utilized by any teacher who instructs about English content, but depending on the age of the learners, the students may not reach full autonomy as those in this article did. I particularly enjoyed one quote from the teacher, "Finally technology is embedded into the structure of all we do... It's never an accessory tacked on at the end." As we have learned about in other EdTech courses, technology needs to truly transform the learning experience. I believe the teacher is doing that in this classroom.
  • Mary Kimani on 12 Oct 15
     
    This Blog is one that I have bookmarked and will coming back to. This teacher's description of her class is how I want to work to make my class to look like. She had her premise but she had been able to create a class based on inquiry, openness and trust. This empowers students to create a social media campaign, create their own curriculum, and at the same time become more advanced in the content. Ms. Barseghian, I'm gushing, but your class sounds inspirational and worth the gushing.
Katrina Lint

5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom - US News - 0 views

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  • Personifying characters on Twitter.
  • "There's a complete shift in how we're doing business," Macy says. "People are now getting their [information] from LinkedIn and Twitter and Facebook."
  • eaches students how to act and react in real time by implementing social media practices.
  • Katrina Lint on 09 Oct 15
     
    twitter uses
Katrina Lint

App Smashing - K-12 Technology - 3 views

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  • Katrina Lint on 09 Oct 15
     
    app smashing ideas and projects
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  • Megan Kannenberg on 10 Oct 15
     
    This is a great resource for app smashing project ideas. It is geared towards teachers, but I can see some excellent ways to incorporate app smashing into my curriculum once the resources become available. I particularly like that it broke each project down into the types of apps needed and for what purpose. This makes it easier to adapt a project to fit my particular classroom or change the topic altogether and use the formula instead.
  • Sarah Ebener on 10 Oct 15
     
    Great resource for everything to do with app-smashing. I especially liked the "Get the Most Out of Google" section because it talked about how to beautify Google Docs. A few teachers have complained to me that they don't like how simplified Google Docs is compared to Microsoft Word, but I want to explore these ideas more to show them how it can be spiced up. Then we could easily move forward and show the kids how to beautify their Google Docs. I've found that the kids get really into picking pretty backgrounds and fonts, lol... We just got done writing our own "Declarations of Independence," and many of them wanted to decorate theirs with aged paper, calligraphy pens, etc. Thanks!
  • Laura H. on 11 Oct 15
     
    Katrina, Thanks for sharing this resource. This is useful to us as students right now because we are working on App Smashing, and I can see it being a useful resource to share with upper level students to inspire them to try something more complex. I also see it as a great resource for teachers because it offers quite a few good ideas of projects to use with App Smashing along with the apps that make it work. If you are a teacher new to app smashing, it is nice to start with a set idea rather than trying to invent your own project to go along with the apps you want to use. I look forward to implementing some of these ideas in my own classroom!
Katrina Lint

App Smashing on Pinterest | App, Apps and Augmented Reality - 1 views

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    App Smash on Pinterest
Katrina Lint

cooltoolsforschools - Home - 0 views

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  • Katrina Lint on 09 Oct 15
     
    awesome collection of web 2.0 for different needs
Laura H.

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

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  • Katrina Lint on 09 Oct 15
     
    signs of best practice in classrooms
  • Laura H. on 11 Oct 15
     
    A list of ways to know if you have successfully created a 21st century learning environment.
  • Ms. Rebecca Carton on 12 Oct 15
     
    Best practices for teachers to evaluate and gear their instruction towards 21st century learning skills.
Katrina Lint

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: google docs - 4 views

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  • Katrina Lint on 09 Oct 15
     
    Several articles on how to use/incorporate google and features of google
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  • Kelly Post on 10 Oct 15
     
    With so many Google options, this site is a nice because it is directed towards Google use by teachers. It gives updates as new features become available. A good site to check periodically.
  • Amanda Eller on 10 Oct 15
     
    Thanks for sharing. I do like the voice-to-text feature in Google Docs. I do fear this is promoting laziness, but it does make life easier! My students figured out this feature before I even showed it to them. I think that this feature is great for teachers too! For example, you can use an extension called Doctopus which will allow you to verbally give feedback to your students through Google Docs. For example, if I was reading a student's paper, this extension would record my voice as I am giving my student feedback. I think this would make life much easier on a student. Who knows, maybe there won't even be keyboards in the future. Maybe we will just talk into our computers? What a crazy thought!
  • Sarah Ebener on 10 Oct 15
     
    Great resource! I was especially interested in the one about how to manage your Google Drive apps because I want to use more of them but don't want to get overwhelmed. There are a number of good ones for doing research, for instance. They can help both me, the teacher, teach the students how to research and organize information effectively, as well as help them, the students, actually go through the process. They really struggle with research, so anything helps. Thanks!
Katrina Lint

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL - 0 views

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  • Katrina Lint on 09 Oct 15
     
    ELL blog
Hannah Hacker

ERIC - Teaching, Learning, and Sharing: How Today's Higher Education Faculty Use Social... - 0 views

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  • Nearly two-thirds of all faculty have used social media during a class session, and 30% have posted content for students to view or read outside class. Over 40% of faculty have required students to read or view social media as part of a course assignment, and 20% have assigned students to comment on or post to social media sites. Online video is by far the most common type of social media used in class, posted outside class, or assigned to students to view, with 80% of faculty reporting some form of class use of online video.
  • 70% say privacy concerns are an "important" or "very important" barrier
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    how teachers today use technology in their clasrooms
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    how teachers today use technology in their clasrooms
Hannah Hacker

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the ... - Henr... - 0 views

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  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    different challenges about media in the classrooms
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    different challenges about media in the classrooms
Hannah Hacker

Open Content and Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education | Caswell | T... - 0 views

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  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    talks about making education distributed worldwide, download .mp4
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    talks about making education distributed worldwide, download .mp4
Hannah Hacker

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00405840802153916 - 0 views

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  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    excerpt from book that is downloaded from ROD library
  • Hannah Hacker on 09 Oct 15
     
    excerpt from book that is downloaded from ROD library
mrsstacycampbell

How Do You Define 21st-Century Learning? - Education Week - 1 views

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  • The term "21st-century skills" is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world.
  • The research, to date, has provided no evidence that having either computers or whiteboards in schools has any positive effect on students’ reading and writing proficiencies.
  • Twenty-first-century learning means that students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures. Students demonstrate the three Rs, but also the three Cs: creativity, communication, and collaboration.
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  • Embracing a 21st-century learning model requires consideration of those elements that could comprise such a shift: creating learners who take intellectual risks, fostering learning dispositions, and nurturing school communities where everyone is a learner.
  • Twenty-first-century technology should be seen as an opportunity to acquire more knowledge, not an excuse to know less.
  • We need classroom leaders setting an ambitious vision, rallying others to work hard to achieve it, planning and executing to ensure student learning, and defining the very notion of teaching as changing the life paths of students.
  • Technology allows for 24/7 access to information, constant social interaction, and easily created and shared digital content. In this setting, educators can leverage technology to create an engaging and personalized environment to meet the emerging educational needs of this generation.
  • But being able to Google is no substitute for true understanding. Students still need to know and deeply understand the history that brought them and our nation to where we are today.
  • Twenty-first-century learning will ultimately be “learner-driven.”
  • he term "21st-century skills" is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today's world.
  • Twenty-first-century learning embodies an approach to teaching that marries content to skill. Without skills, students are left to memorize facts, recall details for worksheets, and relegate their educational experience to passivity. Without content, students may engage in problem-solving or team-working experiences that fall into triviality, into relevance without rigor
  • Twenty-first-century learning will ultimately be “learner-driven.”
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    This article showcases 11 different education experts and their definitions of 21st-century learning.
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  • Morgan McFate on 12 Oct 15
     
    Takes many view points on how to define 21st-Century Learning and Skills
  • butchsaa on 12 Nov 17
     
    This is a nice tool for teachers to use. I know that I can definitely take a look at it for my own classroom. Learning definitely changes with the use of technology and how accessibly it can be for students to learn facts.
  • Dave Brahn on 13 Nov 17
     
    I think this resource is very applicable to my classroom because one of my main goals to to have my students evaluate and create which is what a lot of the article discussed. Overall this is more for teacher use as it is discussing 21st century skills and what they look like. Also it comes from the Teacher PD source book. I shared an article that was very similar to this that covered 10 signs of a 21st century classroom.
  • msswanson_c9 on 13 Nov 17
     
    I really like the way that this article breaks down 21st Century learning and dispels the myth that 21st Century Learning is the same as learning with technology. I especially like the quote that you highlighted that states "Twenty-first-century learning means that students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures." I think this is a useful article that helps us focus on what will truly help students become 21st Century thinkers, instead of just figuring out ways to have them do their work on the computer.
  • lm522791 on 13 Nov 17
     
    This is a great article and gives me a great definition to wrap my head around. One item I feel is really applicable to learning in no matter the date is "...students master content while producing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from a wide variety of subjects and sources with an understanding of and respect for diverse cultures." Otherwise really good information! Thanks for sharing this.
  • unipatricia on 14 Nov 17
     
    I think this website is a great start when it comes to thinking about teaching 21st century skills. Before you can understand something, you must understand the definition of it. I think it is important to note that 21st century learning is not the same as teaching/learning with technology. This website would be especially useful for teachers, because they need to understand 21st century learning before they can teach it. Great article, thanks for sharing!
Katie Upah

Nine Strategies for Reaching All Learners in English - 0 views

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  • Readers and Writers Workshop is an instructional model that focuses on students as learners, as well as readers and writers in practice. As readers and writers, students are mentored, working in a supportive and collaborative environment with their mentor on touchstone texts.
  • As a middle school ELA teacher, I continue to collaborate with my peers in the building and across the school district. I participate in planning and designing instruction, inquiry-based studies, and collaborative coaching and learning. These activities have provided me with a repertoire of research-based best practices to engage the readers and writers in my ELA classroom.
  • Provide instruction in basic reading strategies using reciprocal teaching practice that includes predicting, visualizing, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.
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  • From the first day of school, we encourage students to choose the books they read. We model how to choose and review a book for reading. We also encourage students to choose books at their independent reading level rather than at their frustration or difficult level. Students read for 30 minutes daily and complete an entry on the reading.
  • Teach students to mark or highlight text for main ideas and also for answers to specific questions. Text annotation is an excellent method to make meaning and provide evidence to support answers.
  • Use t-chart graphic organizers to have them identify specific lines from a text and explain their thoughts about the lines.
  • Katie Upah on 08 Oct 15
     
    This article lists 9 general strategies to appeal to all students in the English classroom, both in the middle school and the high school.
Kim Carlson

Beyond the Maker Movement: How the ChangeMakers Are the Future of Education - Forbes - 0 views

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  • Kim Carlson on 08 Oct 15
     
    This article discusses markerspaces in schools and libraries. This is a possible topic of mine and I'm interested in putting makerspaces in my libraries.
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