This will give you a chance to search trending topics by #hashtag on Twitter without having to log in to an actual Twitter account. This could be beneficial in a classroom to remove some of the personal connection while still providing the students with live media. Current events are simply summarized and given personal perspective on Twitter, without the students seeing a random comment about what one of my friends is having for lunch.
Not a new tool - but a refresher of the resources and content on the website. Provides educators/students resources including lesson plans and examples of student work. Many of the examples are for reading/language arts, but can easily be adopted for other subject areas (all grade levels).
ReadWriteThink offers interactive tools - these could be a great option for when students need to create their own games / review activities. 59 Tools (14 currently can be saved/shared - currently trying to make more of them saveable). ReadWriteThink is working on an app for iOS (currently heavily Flash driven)
Throw away the worksheet, open your mind to exploring creativity in the classroom to meet the standards and engage your students with direct involvement . Worksheets don't grow dendrites, not that students even realize they are growing them to begin with! They also don't engage the students to where they want to be part of the learning environment.
SOPHIA is a social teaching and learning network. It's where you can teach what you know and learn what you don't. Whether you're a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, SOPHIA makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it's free.
Sophia offers tutorials that could earn a teacher a Flip Classroom Certificate.
Students speaking -> formative feedback -> students speaking -> formative feedback -> speaking fluency
The blog post also describes the role that technology has in the process.
Students and classes can use the app to create Photo Stories. They can record audio/narration over the pictures. The finished product can be shared by a link or an embed code. Parents could order a print copy of the book too.
Find, remix, share, monitor digital resources. You can also add questions to check for comprehension along the way. Works with Google login for students.
Formative provides a live results view of student work. Besides text, it also allows drawing for answers. This has so much potential I need to investigate more.
The SlideShare to go along with the Curated Learning: Empowering Students to Navigate their Learning Path. There are great links and stories directly in the SlideShare.
This is the site to match the paneled discussion for Curated Learning: Empowering Students to Navigate their Learning Path. The entire presentation / conversation was exciting, inspiring, and passionate. There are resource links and will be on going discussions.
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