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Destinee Kafka

Technology for Teaching: 10 Ways to Improve Classroom Learning | Scott Steinberg - 0 views

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  • Share Content Online - Whether it's posting videos to a private channel for class members and parents to see, using Google Docs to share materials so students can collaborate on a shared project, or posting homework assignments to a class website for everyone to access, using technology as a tool demands a base level of proficiency from students that they'll need to continue to build on.
  • Create a Class Blog or Wiki - Encourage kids to respond to in-class lessons or current events and topics, and devise a system for posting thoughts, news or impressions of them to a class blog or Wiki. Kids will love improving their creative writing skills and seeing their work appear online, and parents will love being able to feel more connected to the classroom. As the school year progresses, it's often great fun to watch a class' page fill up with posts and discussions, and see kids, parents, and educators engage in more frequent and ongoing dialogue.
  • Promote Greater Good - If there's an international, national or even local need for charitable donations or disaster relief, classrooms can use online tools to solicit and track charitable donations, or spread awareness for these causes. Sites like FirstGiving or Pledgie can help teachers use technology as a complement to cause-based learning. Helping kids create social awareness, all show how high-tech solutions can be used as a tool for kindness, understanding, and good.
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  • Embrace Connected Learning - The concept of "Connected Learning" is at the center of a new theory that champions say "is a model of learning that holds out the possibility of re-imagining the experience of education in the Information Age" that draws on "the power of today's technology to fuse young people's interests, friendships and academic achievement." According to Dr. Mizuko Ito, a leader in the field of Connected Learning and a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and cultural anthropologist of technology use, examples of Connected Learning are when a teacher may ask a student to do a report on their favorite video game, or if a kid who likes to draw on the computer creates the signs and banners for a classroom party.
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      lemaykm07 on 02 Feb 15
       
      Learning in a classroom is often easier with the help of technology, for the student as well as the teacher.
  • Matt Bisbee on 06 Mar 13
     
    More helpful tips on improving classroom learning.
  • Tessa Fure on 07 Mar 13
     
    Technology to improve teaching.
  • Kylie Hedgepath on 02 Feb 15
     
    This websites uses up to date applications that most children and teens are familiar with. This website uses twitter and blogging as means of teaching technology which should spark their interest in the classroom.
dahlkesm31

Big Ideas for Better Schools: Ten Ways to Improve Education - 0 views

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  • dahlkesm31 on 10 Feb 15
     
    Fourteen years ago The George Lucas Educational Foundation was created to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. Since then we have discovered many creative educators, business leaders, parents, and others who were making positive changes not only from the top down but also from the bottom up.
Rachel DeVoe

Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2013 | American Association of School Librarians ... - 0 views

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  • Media Sharing
  • Pinterest  Create connections, encourage collaboration, ignite discussions, or simply share mutual interests through Pinterest. Uploaded or “pin” images and videos from websites, blogs, or your own computer, smartphone, or tablet to create boards. These boards can be private or public, and others can be invited to pin on any of your boards. Any “pin” can be "repinned", and all pins will link back to their source. Grades 6-12. Tip: Have students work in groups to create research projects and share their sources visually.
  • Manage & Organize Standards for the 21st-Century Learner 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful. 2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information. 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use and assess.
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  • edcanvas   (Now known as Blendspace ) Edcanvas is a connected space where students and adults can organize, present and share information. Gather, annotate and share presentations easily by dragging and dropping images, movies, maps, audio and text and embedding hyperlinks onto a blank canvas. Use multiple frames on each canvas to pre-teach a topic, provide 1:1 and differentiated instruction, and share pathfinders and explore connections. Use your own content or searching on the Internet, without leaving the Edcanvas page to create collaborative projects. Older elementary and secondary students can create collaborative projects by copying individual canvases to make a complete dynamic canvas. Grades 6-12.
  • Curriculum Collaboration
  • Standards for the 21st-Century Learner 1.3.4 Contribute to the exchange of ideas within a learning community. 3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners. 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess. 4.3.1 Participate in the social exchange of ideas, both electronically and in person
  • Codecademy   What happens when you combine the knowledge and talent of a handful of techies that want to make a change in education? Visit Codeacademy and participate in the teaching and learning experience of the future! Codeacademy has set out to create an online social instructional experience that teaches programming to people around the world. Learn the fundamentals of various programming languages, participate in online coding language labs, and learn how to start a coding academy at your own school. Grades 6-12.
  • The 2013 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
  • inklewriter   Are you searching for technology that will motivate budding and reluctant writers to author the next great story? Inklewriter provides the format for writing interactive branched stories. While students focus on writing, Inklewriter handles the story paths that end and those yet to be developed. Students who love the "choose your own ending" stories will enjoy writing, editing and reading on this dynamic site. Branched stories with the potential for multiple endings will also intrigue those interested in game development. Finished projects can be shared with a limited or global audience at the author's discretion. Tip: Use Inklewriter to explore decision making and consequences in secondary Health, Social Studies, Science, and English classes.
  • Torchia Rogers on 26 Sep 14
     
    These are the best websites that should be used for a teacher wanting to combine education and technology. They will be helpful in the class room and outside of the classroom as well. 
  • Molly Spurgeon on 09 Oct 14
     
    This page offers websites to help teachers.
Michael Barrette

50 Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom - 0 views

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  • used by teachers for their classes
  • Word Processing
  • Spreadsheets and Databases
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  • Email
  • Videoconferencing
  • Digital Camera
  • Presentation Software
  • Web Page
  • Digital Video
  • Word Processing
  • class projects
  • Word Processing
  • Expand vocabulary within any written work using the thesaurus in your word processing application
  • Strategize for a fund-raiser by working with supply, demand, and price
  • Build a class "contact list" for homework help and information sharing
  • Internet Scavenger Hunt
  • Start the day or week with "Current Events," even in a content area, from major news sources
  • Become an "e-pal" to someone anywhere in the world
  • class presentation with each group having a few slides in a presentation
  • . Record "class info and rules" for new student orientation
  • Converse and collaborate with another class on a project
  • Document processes for use and review
  • . Upload a page with results of students’ work—art, maps, or even digital presentations
  • class presentations, field trips, or activities!
  • Internet 19. Go on an Internet Scavenger Hunt 20. Explore places you could never visit through streaming video 21. Investigate any situation through a WebQuest—created by someone else or you can create your own 22. Track data—the weather over time, or in different places, or changes in the Stock Market 23. Start the day or week with "Current Events," even in a content area, from major news sources 24. Watch or join an adventure online 25. Contribute to a research team—student data contributions and tracking are used for many projects 26. Research what happened the day you were born 27. Play a role in an online simulation—there is even a United Nations simulation for Middle School 28. Test your knowledge with daily quizzes—the National Geography Bee posts new questions daily 29. Become a "Jason Project" member 30. Follow the Iditarod
  • Tia Lund on 19 Oct 12
     
    50 ways to use technology in a classroom. It states lots of methods under certain topics to help you use technology.
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  • Jordan Rispalje on 14 Mar 13
     
    Easy and fun ways to use technology in a classroom
  • Claire Temple on 25 Sep 14
     
    This website can be useful to teachers because it tells you many different ways you can use technology in the classroom.
  • Jordyn Hameau on 11 Apr 15
     
    Site offers different creative activities that allow you to use technology. 
Nicole Mottl

10 Reasons Today's Students NEED Technology in the Classroom - 0 views

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  • help prepare students for their future careers
  • reach diversity in learning styles
  • encouraging collaboration.
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  • Technology helps the teachers prepare students for the real world environment.
  • helps students stay engaged
  • 7) When mobile technology is readily available in the classroom, students are able to access the most up-to-date information quicker and easier than ever before.
  • 9) Students become more responsible. Technology helps students take more control over their own learning. They learn how to make their own decisions and actually think for themselves.
  • 10) Student can have access to digital textbooks that are constantly updated and often more vivid, helpful, creative, and a lot cheaper than those old heavy books.
  • Nicole Mottl on 02 Oct 15
     
    Great explanations on why integrating technology into the classroom is helpful. 
Hayden Fenner

The Most Powerful Tool in the Classroom | Sarah Wike Loyola - 0 views

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  • The most influential tool in the classrooms of today is the Internet, and districts, schools, and/or teachers that are not dealing with this reality are truly doing a huge disservice to their students
  • The most influential tool in the classrooms of today is the Internet, and districts, schools, and/or teachers that are not dealing with this reality are truly doing a huge disservice to their students
  • The most influential tool in the classrooms of today is the Internet, and districts, schools, and/or teachers that are not dealing with this reality are truly doing a huge disservice to their students.
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  • We were taught very differently because we only had access to the "Encyclopedia Britannica", text books, and card catalogs. The students of today have access to a colossal amount of information. We must take this into consideration if we are going to prepare them for the modern workplace and a future so technologically advanced that it is inconceivable at this momen
  • students need to be more in control of their own learning. In order for this to occur, educators must move aside and give up some power. This is the only way we can begin to make true educational progress, and the Internet must be our guiding force
  • As we progress in this technologically charged world, we face a very important question. What is to become of the role of teachers? Will they become obsolete?
  • The hard truth is that the tech-savvy students of today do not want to be lectured to about facts they can instantly find with the click of a button on their smart phones. Siri can often give a more comprehensive answer than many of us on any given topic. Therefore, the honest truth is that HOW we teach must change. Making students memorize rote facts and regurgitate them is no longer sensible, and educators now have the opportunity to have students think much more critically, solve problems, and use their creativity in ways they never have been pushed to do in the past.
Kaitlin Stern

Five Ways Teachers Can Use Technology to Help Students - 0 views

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  • Thomas Edison once said, "Books will soon be obsolete in the public schools... our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years.
  • Teachers should embrace the Common Core State Standards. Common standards make teaching simpler. Teachers have to write lessons that comply with district, state, and national standards (e.g. NCTM or NCTE). Having a single set of standards eliminates redundancy and conflicting guidelines. Furthermore universal adoption of common standards will support future technological innovations that aid teachers. From a technical perspective, standards facilitate the development of new technologies. Innovators can focus on developing tools that better serve students rather than solving technical challenges of interoperability created by multiple sets of standards.
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  • Schools must use technology that empowers teachers. Teachers rightly reject education technologies that divert their attention from instruction. The best education technologies enable teachers to do more with fewer resources. Communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr enable dynamic communication with students. Teacher-empowering technologies include mobile apps that grade written student work and provide lesson plan databases. School systems need to aggressively track what works for their teachers and put all other unworkable technologies aside.
  • ducation portfolios to evaluate students. Educators have known about the benefits of paper based portfolios for generations. Portfolios allow students to express creativity for difficult to assess subjects. Teachers can choose from a variety of online portfolio providers tailored to the needs of their classroom. They also serve as a platform for students to demonstrate growth. Online portfolios have many advantages over paper based options because they cost less and allow for more robust outreach. Online portfolios are also amenable to a wider variety of formats including video, music or other interactive features.
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  • classroom experience has changed very little in the 100 years
  • revolutionized how people communicate and learn in nearly every aspect of modern life except for education.
  • Technology has failed to transform our schools because the education governance system insulates them from the disrupti
  • persuade teachers that technology will empower them and help their students learn.
  • five strategies for successful teacher adoption of education technology
  • Teachers should not fear open-source technologies. Many mistakenly believe that education technologies are expensive and complicated to use. Open-source technologies are stable, secure, and compatible with other platforms. Organizations both small and large use open source devices every day. Many businesses use open-source servers for their efficiency and costs savings. They often have large communities that provide high quality customer support. Best of all, open-source technologies often cost less than proprietary products.
  • To overcome these obstacles, we must persuade teachers that technology will empower them and help their students learn.
  • Many businesses use open-source servers for their efficiency and costs savings. They often have large communities that provide high quality customer support. Best of all, open-source technologies often cost less than proprietary products.
  • Schools must use technology that empowers teachers. Teachers rightly reject education technologies that divert their attention from instruction. The best education technologies enable teachers to do more with fewer resources. Communication platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr enable dynamic communication with students. Teacher-empowering technologies include mobile apps that grade written student work and provide lesson plan databases. School systems need to aggressively track what works for their teachers and put all other unworkable technologies aside.
  • Emily Dulle on 02 Oct 13
     
    Ways Technology helps Students
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  • Emily Russo on 28 Oct 13
     
    This is also a good way to help students with technology, by showing that teachers need to be comfortable with it first.
  • Alexa Harrison on 30 Oct 13
     
    Five ways that teachers can use technology the classroom to help students.
  • jamie carter on 30 Oct 13
     
    One of the 5 steps is don't fear technology. Technology is expanding and as future teachers we have to keep up to date with it so that we can use it instead of fearing it.
  • Kaitlin Stern on 28 Jan 16
     
    Ways we can use technology to help students
Erica Mitten

Essay Writing Lesson Plan Collection | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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  • , students will learn how to edit work and will practice common editing notations, marks and the use of colored pens when editing and rewriting work.
  • Encourage prewriting steps as well as both creative and persuasive communication with this easy lesson.
  • Allow your students to dig into their own personal backgrounds to write an expressive essay.
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  • Emphasize the importance of drafting and revising essays with this lesson, and encourage students to use their imagination!
  • his lesson, students will explore the idea of "sequencing" as related to stories the class has read and in the routine of daily life.
  • Erica Mitten on 11 Feb 16
     
    How to teach different grade levels to write a paper
greenwalca27

10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes | Ditch That Textbook - 0 views

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  • greenwalca27 on 18 Nov 15
     
    Unique ways to teach students without relying on the textbooks.
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