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Casey Chopp

Assistive Technology in the Classroom | Assistive Technology Tools - Understood - 0 views

  • These tools can help them work around their challenges while playing to their strengths.
  • There are AT tools to help students who struggle with listening, math, executive functioning, reading and writing. The variety of available AT tools has grown rapidly in recent years. Despite the word “technology,” not all AT tools are high-tech. AT ranges from simple adaptive tools (like highlighters and organizers) to high-tech tools (like text-to-speech software).
  • IDEA also says the school district is responsible for choosing and purchasing the technology. The school must train its staff and your child to use it.
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  • t’s important to keep in mind that AT’s role is to assist your child’s learning. It doesn’t replace good teaching, but it can be used in addition to well-designed instruction.
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    More information on what assistive technology is to better help parents and teachers understand why a child may be using AT.
Kyrie Staab

Reading Responses and the Common Core | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • SmartNotes page is a two-column chart that organizes student thinking to show the relationship between direct text evidence and different reading strategies.
  • students practice it by pausing while they read to identify textual evidence from their independent reading book that connects to their thinking related to the specific strategy.
  • SmartNotes are great because they are a quick and unobtrusive way for students to organize their thinking without disrupting their engagement in their independent books.
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  • SmartNotes can be collected to display the development of ideas over time.
  • there are times when more detailed reading responses are necessary.
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    Strategy for independent reading assignments
gredebl02

Seasons Lesson Plans and Lesson Ideas | BrainPOP Educators - 0 views

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    The Seasons resource page with lesson plans and teaching tips, teaches about the weather, the equator, and how the Earth's orbit causes summer, winter, spring, and autumn or fall.
Rachel Probst

Audio Textbooks Help Students With Reading Problems Access Curriculum - Individuals Wit... - 0 views

  • We call the bridge the "remediation-accommodation continuum." From the remediation side, educators say, "Give us a literacy curriculum based in structured language, give us specially trained teachers, give us sufficient classroom hours, and we will remediate kids; we'll teach them how to read print." But at the same time - and here's the "bridge" language - we also say, "Bring in the accommodation of recorded books to enable subject content acquisition at school." So, while we're trying to teach somebody to read, we should also provide the student an audio version of his health book, his social studies book, and his math book, so he can keep up with peers in subject content acquisition.
Julie K

Mobile Learning in Education: Platforms, Apps & More - Teachability Community - 0 views

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egcourtois

Technology Integration for Elementary Schools | Edutopia - 1 views

  • Interactive whiteboards
  • Remote clickers
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  • Mobile devices
  • Have a backup plan.
  • Gradually give kids more independence.
  • Relax. Young and rambunctious as the students may be, Forest Lake has not had one laptop dropped or broken beyond repair. Williams suggests you teach them basic care: Wear the camera strap around your wrist; tuck the computer cables under the table; use protective cases when possible. Beyond that, make the kids feel like these valuable tools are theirs, and chances are they'll want to take care of them.
  • Maintain the same rigor as in pen-and-paper projects.
  • Start with the standards. Use technology only when it enhances your content -- not the other way around. It's less effective if you use technology for technology's sake.
  • Connect with peers far away. Penpal programs have come a long way, baby. With webcams and video conferences, kids can actually see and talk to their peers in real time -- and that's exciting. Williams recommends you prepare before the meet-up: study the culture, brainstorm questions, discuss Internet safety, and learn email etiquette.
  • Give kids a real audience. Technology opens up new ways for kids to show their work to the world (which, no disrespect intended, can be more motivating than just handing it in to a teacher). At Forest Lake, fifth graders studying erosion took photographs of patches of their playground that were washing away, then sent the snaps to the school district office with suggestions on how to correct the problem. Second graders videotaped themselves reviewing books they'd read, then voted on the best recordings to show to kindergarteners down the hall.
  • Put the tools in kids' hands.
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  • Technology Integration for Elementary Schools
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  • Portability is key
  • It's important that students learn to safely explore the Web
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    Explains how to better use technology in your classroom.
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    This website would be useful for teachers using technology in their classroom because it talks about integrating technology into the classroom.
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    This is helping teachers and giving them ideas on how and what to use, technology wise, in their classrooms.
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    This explains why how to incorporate technology into your classroom. Each technological tool is and how it can be used is explained throughout the reading. Also, discusses keeping balance in the classroom between pen and paper and technology.
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    This website talks about the ways technology can be used by the students.
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    The use of technology can enhance content of curriculum but always have a back up plan.
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    Ways to integrate technology into an elementary classroom. Helpful tips on ways to use the technology but a reminder not to rely on technology to much where it will ruin a lesson due to a malfunction.
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    This website has tips on ways to use different types of technology in the classroom.
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    This website gives ways to bring technology into a classroom. With so many options out there, this helps organize all these ways.
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    This site has a list of reasons of how technology would be helpful in the classrooms. it is short and to the point so it will be easy to read. It will not get boring because of its layout.
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    This is pretty nifty if you're trying to figure out good ways to incorporate technology into the classroom without making the lesson all about the technology.
Samantha King

Free Teacher Resources | Digital textbooks and standards-aligned educational resources - 0 views

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  • Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell.  Foster deeper engagement and opportunities for students to take charge of their own learning with high quality, engaging, relevant tools designed for today’s busy teachers a
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    Has resources for every grade level. Also has a wide variety of subjects so that everything you need is on one page!
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    Ideas for the classroom with fun learning experiences in the classroom.
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    Discovery Education is a free website for teachers to share information and resources amongst each other. It covers grades K-12 and it covers Science, English, Social Studies, and Math.
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    This is another great website for teachers. There are games, teaching resources, and even lesson plans!
Lexie Pellett

Scholastic Publishes Literacy Resources and Children's Books for Kids of All Ages - 0 views

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    This site contains fun activities to assist in teaching students various subject areas. Activities that can be used in the classroom can be found under both the Teachers drop-down menu and the Parents drop-down menu.
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    This is a link to the scholastic website, which has games and reading activities.
Zach Vossekuil

The 6 Biggest Challenges Of Using Education Technology - Edudemic - 0 views

  • The Challenges Faculty training still does not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. Teachers needs to be learning how to use the technology themselves, too. Where formal training lacks, professional development needs to step in, and does in many cases. But integrating the how-to of technology with the how-to of teaching needs to happen. The emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing, and researching outpace sufficient and scalable modes of assessment. The traditional approaches to scholarly evaluation don’t always match up with the more ‘modern’ forms of research (things that include social media use, online collaborations, etc). Though these things often happen in the real world, the academic decision makers who deem what is acceptable and what is not haven’t caught up yet. Too often it is education’s own processes and practices that limit broader uptake of new technologies. Things like the promotion and tenure process don’t lend themselves well to integrating technology – that is, if you’re working towards tenure and your field of specialization isn’t education technology, figuring this stuff out is not on the top of the priority list (or even encouraged). The demand for personalized learning is not adequately su
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  • New models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models of higher education. MOOCs are huge – and proponents are constantly touting the advantages, but we need to assess both the pros and cons of these new learning models and look at how they fit in with existing models of learning and assessment, too. Most academics are not using new technologies for learning and teaching, nor for organizing their own research. How can you teach using digital methods and expect students to use the if you don’t bother to try? The overwhelming attitude in higher education (according to the report) seems to be that these sorts of forays into technology bring the focus to the technology rather than on the material at hand, and so there is no expectation or drive to do so.
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    Challenges teachers have with technology.
Savanah Smith

The Teacher's Corner - Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Activities - 0 views

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  • PRINTABLES FROM THE TEACHER'S CORNER!
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  • Here is a great science resource. Be sure to check back each week for the new experiment. This week's experiment: Microwave Ice       These experiments are brought to you by The Teacher's Corner and Robert Krampf's Experiment of the Week.
  • TEACHER FORUM - CHAT
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    This website allows teachers to collaborate online with each other.  There are lesson plans for every grade level and subject area available to anyone.  There are also printable assignments and handouts for class.  There's also a live chat where teachers from all over can talk about resources and plans that have worked for them and what they recommend.
Emilia Cedron

TeachAde - Free Educational Resources for Educators and Teachers - 0 views

  • TeachAde is the first social network and resource sharing website designed specifically for educators.
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      This site is amazing for teachers! It's full of ideas and ways to fill your classroom with as much knowledge as possible. 
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tnieves07

Teaching Tips: Team Building Activities for Elementary Students - eThemes - 0 views

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  • Here are suggestions for games, activities, and lesson plans to encourage team building among elementary school students
  • This site has ideas for games that explore the benefits of teamwork. These activities were designed with younger children in mind, but could be adapted for older students.
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  • Students can work together to create artwork. These activities were designed with younger children in mind, but could be adapted for older students.
  • Students can learn more about each other with this lesson by using Venn diagrams to describe the ways in which they are similar and different.
  • This is an activity designed to encourage students to think about the importance of working together. This lesson requires the poem Nine Gold Medals by David Roth from Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul. This activity can be used before starting a group project. NOTE: The site includes ad
  • Read articles that define and explain how to use cooperative learning strategies in the classroom. Includes cooperative learning lesson plans for a variety of subjects and grade levels.
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    This website has a lot of ways to get your students to interact with one another.
Kayla Driskill

The Teacher's Guide To Twitter - Edudemic - 0 views

  • exchange ideas and conversations with others using the #hashtag conversations you’re involved in
  • Just like going to the gym once every two weeks isn’t going to keep you in peak physical condition, participating in Twitter #hashtag chats and interacting only occasionally isn’t going to make your Twitter community very robust. You don’t have to be a chronic Tweeter to stay regularly involved – but it is important to check in, reply, and participate to keep the conversation going
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    Gives some advice for teachers who want to use twitter. It also talks about education #hashtags.
Kelsie Kerchefske

Technology for Kids - Free Games, Activities, Experiments, Science Online - 0 views

  • Step into the future and discover technology for kids with our cool range of experiments, free games, science fair projects, fun quizzes, interesting facts, amazing videos, worksheets and more! Learn about robots, computers, cell phones, engineering and all kinds of interesting technology topics. As well as activities for children, there are also lesson plans for teachers, ideas for parents and free teaching resources for anyone interested in technology and learning about science online.
Dorothy Moffat

How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms | Pew Research Center... - 0 views

  • OverviewA survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization. At the same time, the internet, mobile phones, and social media have brought new challenges to teachers, and they report striking differences in access to the latest digital technologies between lower and higher income students and school districts. Asked about the impact of the internet and digital tools in their role as middle and high school educators, these teachers say the following about the overall impact on their teaching and their classroom work: 92% of these teachers say the internet has a “major impact” on their ability to access content, resources, and materials for their teaching 69% say the internet has a “major impact” on their ability to share ideas with other teachers 67% say the internet has a “major impact” on their ability to interact with parents and 57% say it has had such an impact on enabling their interaction with students The survey finds that digital tools are widely used in classrooms and assignments, and a majority of these teachers are satisfied with the support and resources they receive from their school in this area. However, it also indicates that teachers of the lowest income students face more challenges in bringing these tools to their classrooms: Mobile technology has become central to the learning process, with 73% of AP and NWP teachers saying that they and/or their students use their cell phones in the classroom or to complete assignments More than four in ten teachers report the use of e-readers (45%) and tablet computers (43%) in their classrooms or to complete assignments 62% say their school does a “good job” supporting teachers’ efforts to bring digital tools into the learning process, and 68% say their school provides formal training in this area Teachers of low income students, however, are much less likely than teachers of the highest income students to use tablet computers (37% v. 56%) or e-readers (41% v. 55%) in their classrooms and assignments Similarly, just over half (52%) of teachers of upper and upper-middle income students say their students use cell phones to look up information in class, compared with 35% of teachers of the lowest income students Just 15% of AP and NWP teachers whose students are from upper income households say their school is “behind the curve” in effectively using digital tools in the learning process; 39% who teach students from low income households describe their school as “behind the curve” 70% of teachers of the highest income students say their school does a “good job” providing the resources needed to bring digital tools into the classroom; the same is true of 50% of teachers working in low income areas Teachers of the lowest income students are more than twice as likely as teachers of the highest income students (56% v. 21%) to say that students’ lack of access to digital technologies is a “major challenge” to incorporating more digital tools into their teaching
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    Explains how Teachers are using technology both at home and in school to improve learning experiences.
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    internet is making more and more of an aperinces in are every day lives.
Kyle Eklund

The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration - 0 views

  • The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration
  • Using technology for learning makes sense. Technology creates access, transparency, and opportunity. Any smartphone or tablet is media incarnate–video, animation, eBooks, essays, blog posts, messages, music, games.
  • The modalities of light, color, and sound all arranged just so to communicate a message or create an experie
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  • his is not a new idea, but what makes this graphic useful is the indicators offered that clarify Dos and Don’ts–kind of like an educator’s Goofus and Gallant.
  • Goofus gives iPad to students so that they can Google topics for a “research paper.”
  • The chart continues this pattern, but misses the opportunity to make Highlights allusion for nuance:
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    This would help someone who is trying to understand technology differences. 
Cecily Shain

Tools for Early Childhood Teachers - 0 views

  • Free Lesson Plans, Units, Classroom Materials, Teacher Communities, and More!
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    This website can help you create lesson plans, give you ideas for some materials to put in your classroom and help you search for jobs
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    This website could be helpful to teachers and students. It has free online lesson plans, class materials for students, and an interaction access with other teachers. 
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    great for when you need help with lesson plans and classroom materials.
Alyssa Pearson

Free Technology for Teachers - 0 views

  • The sharing and commenting features in Google Documents are fantastic for giving students feedback about their work. Likewise, those features are great for students to use for peer editing. But if you want to really add your voice to then you'll want to add the Voice Comments application from Learn.ly to your Google Drive account. Thanks to a Tweet from Alec Couros I learned about a Google Documents voice comment tutorial produced by Jennifer Roberts. Her video tutorial is embedded below.
  • One free online method of creating report cards is to use a Google Sheets template. Rather than starting from scratch, my recommendation is to search in the Google Drive template gallery for a report card template.
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    This website would be useful for teachers because it goes through the steps needed to create custom search engines, which is a great way of providing search assistance. It also explains the process of being able to use 3-D models online. Lastly, it gives ideas of free alternatives to use instead of PowerPoint.
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    This website keeps teachers up to date on current technology. It also gives suggestions for apps in the classroom.
Meghan Berther

Using Technology to Enhance Teaching & Learning - 0 views

  • Blackboard SMU uses the course management system Blackboard.  For help creating Blackboard courses and learning the basics, consult Academic Technology's Blackboard help page, as well as this Blackboard online tutorial. Access your Blackboard courses here. Presentation Software Sometimes it's helpful to provide visual aids to complement teaching, stimulate discussion, or allow out-of-class teaching. Tools designed for this purpose, such as PowerPoint, can be used well or used badly. Click here for resources that provide advice for thoughtful use of PowerPoint, as well as a few additional presentation tools. Classroom Response Systems ("clickers") One way to encourage student engagement is by using electronic devices that allow students to record their answers to multiple choice questions and allow you to instantly display the results. The anonymity encourages participation, and their answers help the teacher know when further discussion is needed.  Use of clickers can also serve as a catalyst for discussion.  Click here to learn more about using response systems effectively.
  • Converting a Face-to-Face Course to an Online Course Teaching online, whether in a hybrid course or a wholly-online course, requires different techniques and different tools.  Without the F2F contact, professors will need to be even clearer about setting and articulating expectations for digital work and participation.  Encouraging interaction between professor and student and among students is an additional challenge, as is monitoring student learning as the course progresses.  The online environment requires the use of basic technologies to digitize course materials as well as mastery of the university's learning management system.  And various tools like Skype allow synchronous communications, while blogs and Twitter can encourage asynchronous interaction.  Here are some ideas to get you started.
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    This site gives some examples of technology you could use in the classroom. This includes Presentation Software, Blackboard, etc.
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