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Barbara Lindsey

OSnapplications | uTourX - Augmented Reality College Tours - 3 views

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    App Yalie and 2 high school students created for the iPhone. What's interesting is the ability for students to create their own customized tours based on their specific interests.
EdTechReview Community

Actively Learn: Transform Your Students into Critical Thinkers - 5 views

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    Actively Learn aims at creating minds that can be beneficial to the society and contribute something for its betterment. It transforms students into critical thinkers.
Michael Sturgeon

Gooru | Featured Courses | - 0 views

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    "Transform Learning. Inspire Students. Create and share collections of engaging web resources with your students. Browse courses in our K-12 Community Library to get started."
Allison Kipta

TCRecord: Engaging Parents Beyond the Parent Conference by Using a Shared "Parent Journal" - 0 views

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    This article details the use of an assessment tool entitled, the parent journal. The parent journal is a response to a reading writing exercise in which the students respond in school then bring the journal home for their parents to either respond to the student's writing or craft their own response to the topic. I would then respond to each of the journals, creating a circle of communication. Over the four years the parent journal has been in place, parents have been much more involved with their child's education and subsequently almost all of the students' academic performances dramatically increased.
Barbara Lindsey

Philosophy | Intrepid Teacher - 2 views

  • The 21st century classroom must be a place to network, to create, to publish, to share.
  • The new classroom does not integrate technology into an outdated curriculum, but rather infuses technology into the daily performance of classroom life.
  • In this new classroom, the teacher is not the sole expert or the only source of information, but rather the teacher is the lead member of a network—guiding and facilitating as students search for answers to questions they have carefully generated.
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  • It is important to note that some students may be quietly sitting in the corner engrossed in an old fashioned text.
  • Daily and total access to computers allows students to realize that technology is not something they “do” when they go to the lab or when the teacher has checked out the laptop cart, but rather technology is something they can use everyday in class to help themselves learn.
  • In this new classroom, students will begin to understand that their computer is not simply a novelty to take notes with, but it is their binder, their planner, their dictionary, their journal, their photo album, their music archive, their address book.
  • tudents will begin to understand that their computer is not simply a novel
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    Outstanding teaching philosophy that gets at the heart of how and why technology should be used in learning.
Barbara Lindsey

Paly Voice - Home - 3 views

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    Palo Alto High School Online Journalism Site. Excellent example of authentic student work.
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

WebQuests by Nellie Deutsch - 0 views

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    Create your own WebQuests to suit you and your students' needs.
Michael Sturgeon

Voki Home - 0 views

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    Voki is an animation website . It is " a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profiles and in email messages". This web2.0 tool is very important in education as It enables teachers and students to express themselves on the web in their own voice , using a talking character.
anonymous

The Future of Tablets in Education: Potential Vs. Reality of Consuming Media | MindShift - 0 views

  • deep integration of new learning technologies into classrooms requires substantially rethinking pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and teacher practice (someday
  • teachers need to start somewhere (Monday
  • Both pathways are important to teacher growth and meaningful, sustained changes in teaching and learning.
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  • four dimensions
  • consumption of media to curation, creation, and connection
  • flexible, mobile device for creating multimedia performances of understanding
  • foster critical reading of text, images, audio, and film
  • read in communal settings, leveraging social technologies to allow users to share notes, highlighted passages, questions, and ideas.
  • Focused and connected modes of reading are both vital, but they require different habits, disciplines, and settings, and they serve different ends.
  • focused reading mode, we hope young people will engage deeply with a text.
  • imagine how differentiated reading experiences in classes could be more social, how literature circles or book groups could collaborate in reading at home and then discuss their insights together in class.
  • it will be practices rather than apps that help students develop the capacity to read deeply.
  • learn both habits of mind for disciplined reading and how to control their technology environment to minimize distraction.
  • recognize how to strike the right balance between exploring a networked of hyperlinked texts while not wandering away from the core purpose of one’s reading
  • naming “attention” as a skill: having students reflect metacognitively on their attention strategies and weaknesses and think about how best to exercise their own attention muscles.
  • iOS 6 has a Guided
  • shutting down all apps before reading can be a kind of ritual of concentration, like clearing way books and papers from a desk before sitting down to read
  • develop new habits to make the most of our new tools. If our tools can distract us, then we need to learn more about focusing attention and managing distraction.
  • We ask them to quickly synthesize multiple
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    Consumption
Nicole Lakusta

Siemens STEM Academy - Learn, Create, and Innovate with Scratch! - 0 views

  • In this webinar Michael Gorman will introduce Scratch, show some beginning basics, give student examples, and show how Scratch can be applied across the curriculum. He will also take you on a tour of the Scratch site and other sites built to get you and your students started.
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