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jeffery heil

Investigating instructional strategies for using social media in formal and informal le... - 1 views

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    "Investigating Instructional Strategies for Using Social Media in Formal and Informal Learning"
jeffery heil

9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator | Online Universities - 0 views

  • Blogging Teachers competent in WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and other free, popular blogging platforms have an excellent (and paperless!) tool at their disposal
  • Social media: Social media doesn’t have to worm its way into assignments to prove itself educationally valuable. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn burst with teachers and other academic professionals chattering about ideas, strategies, resources and tools.
  • Interclassroom communication: More and more, teachers turn to Skype, Cisco and other communication tools to connect with other schools worldwide. Why set up international pen pals when technology allows kids to interact almost literally face to face?
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  • Cultural literacy: Cultural literacy has always been a desired skill in teachers abroad and living in multiethnic domestic regions.
  • Socratic seminar:
  • Community engagement:
  • Information literacy: Seeing as how information literacy is considered integral to student success, schools have little use for teachers without the relevant skills.
  • Networking: A networking teacher is, ostensibly, an open teacher.
Sherilyn Crawford

100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom | Online Universities - 0 views

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    Really cool article with great ideas and direct links to examples that illustrate them
Sherilyn Crawford

5 Traits of the 21st Century Teacher - 0 views

  • Driven to Learn
  • A Media Creation Expert
  • A Digital Navigator
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  • An Empathetic Mentor
  • A Technology Harmonizer
  • It is no longer acceptable to teach only from a textbook, to rely on the same worksheets an methods year after year without at least questioning them and researching why they are the best resource available.  
  •  Powerpoint and Word are becoming antiquated as newer and more powerful presentation and editing suites become available to teachers.
  • This means having social media accounts and understanding how they are used, even if you don’t use them specifically for learning.
  • This student-centered focus also creates learning opportunities for the teacher to learn with students, developing their teaching and collaborative skills
  • One of the keys here is that we work at making the technology work (in the best way we can) so the lesson becomes about the learning instead of the management of machines.
jeffery heil

35 Ways To Build Your Personal Learning Network Online - 1 views

  • Although PLNs have been around for years, in recent years social media has made it possible for these networks to grow exponentially.
  • Use Twitter resources to discover more people to follow:
  • The Innovative Educator: 5 Ways to Build Your 1.0 and 2.0 Personal Learning Network:
jeffery heil

3 Ways Disruptive Theory Can Change Education | Edudemic - 1 views

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