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Lauren Krolikowski

Teaching with Technology - Tools of Engagement - 0 views

  • Using Clickers (Personal Response Systems) to Facilitate Active Learning in the Classroom Clickers allow instructors to assess students’ understanding of the subject matter, receive immediate feedback and reinforcement for what is being learned, get shy and under-prepared students to participate, poll students’ opinions and preferences instantly, observe student misconceptions, and encourage peer instruction. Improving In-Class Discussion with Technologies Use principles of priming, integrating and reinforcing to improve in-class discussions. Use available technologies as tools for supporting these principles.
Calvin Giese

Making Learning Awesome! - Kahoot! - 0 views

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    A site that allows teachers to help students through a game based learning setting. It helps them ask questions, take control of there learning and is very engaging and inclusive
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    This site makes quick, informal assessments easy.  Generate discussion and receive instant classroom feedback.
Alyssa Pearson

50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About - Edudemic - 1 views

  • Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Edmodo: Teachers and students can take advantage of this great tech tool, as it offers a Facebook-like environment where classes can connect online. Grockit: Get your students connected with each other in study sessions that take place on this great social site. EduBlogs: EduBlogs offers a safe and secure place to set up blogs for yourself or your classroom. Skype: Skype can be a great tool for keeping in touch with other educators or even attending meetings online. Even cooler, it can help teachers to connect with other classrooms, even those in other countries. Wikispaces: Share lessons, media, and other materials online with your students, or let them collaborate to build their own educational wiki on Wikispaces. Pinterest: You can pin just about any image you find interesting on this site, but many teachers are using it as a place to collect great lesson plans, projects, and inspirational materials. Schoology: Through this social site, teachers can manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators. Quora: While Quora is used for a wide range of purposes, it can be a great tool for educators. It can be used to connect with other professionals or to engage students in discussion after class. Ning: Ning allows anyone to create a personalized social network, which can be great for both teachers and students alike. OpenStudy:Encourage your students to work together to learn class material by using a social study site like OpenStudy. ePals: One of the coolest benefits of the Web is being able to connect with anyone, anywhere. ePals does just that, but focuses on students, helping them to learn languages and understand cultures different from their own.
  • These educational tools can help you to make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective. Khan Academy: Many teachers use this excellent collection of math, science, and finance lectures and quizzes to supplement their classroom materials. MangaHigh: MangaHigh offers teachers a wealth of resources for game-based learning in mathematics. FunBrain: If you’re looking for a great collection of educational games, look no further than FunBrain. On it, teachers can take advantage of fun tools for math and reading. Educreations: Educreations is an amazing online tool for the iPad that lets teachers (or students) create videos that teach a given topic. Perfect for studying or getting students to show off their knowledge. Animoto: Animoto makes it simple to create video-based lessons or presentations for the classroom and to share them with students or anyone else. Socrative: Available for computers, mobile devices, and tablets, this student response system engages students through games and exercises on any device they have on hand. Even better, teachers can easily assess student progress and track grades. Knewton: Adaptive learning has been a hot topic in recent months, and with Knewton it’s something that any teacher can access and use. The site personalizes online learning content for each student according to his or her needs. Kerpoof: On Kerpoof, students can get creative with their learning with games, interactive activities, drawing tools, and more that are both fun and educational. StudySync: With a digital library, weekly writing practice, online writing and peer reviews, Common Core assignments, and multimedia lessons available, this site is a fully-featured tool for teaching and learning that can be a big help in the classroom. CarrotSticks: On this site, teachers can take advantage of a wide range of math learning games, giving students practice while they have fun.
  • These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools. Evernote: Capture great ideas, photos, recordings, or just about anything else on your Evernote account, access it anywhere, and keep it organized. A must-have tool for lesson planning. Twitter: There are so many ways Twitter can be used in education. Teachers can connect with other educators, take part in chats, share their ideas, or even use it in the classroom to reach out to students. Google Education: Google offers a number of great edtech resources for teachers, including email and collaborative apps, videos, lesson plan search, professional development, and even educational grants. Dropbox: Easily store, share, and access any kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to-use and free Dropbox service. Diigo: Diigo lets you treat the web like paper-based reading material, making it simple to highlight, bookmark, take notes, or even add sticky notes. Apple iPad: One of the most widely used, though expensive, tech tools being used in today’s classroom is the Apple iPad. With a host of educational apps being developed for the device, it’s become a favorite of teachers and students alike across the nation. Aviary: Aviary is a suite of tools that make it easy to edit images, effects, swatches, music, and audio or to create and modify screen captures. Jing: If you’re teaching kids about tech or just about anything else, a great screenshot program is essential. Jing is one great option that allows teachers to take screenshots as images, record up to five minutes or videos then edit and share the results. Popplet: You and your students can use Popplet to brainstorm ideas, create mindmaps, share, and collaborate. Google Earth: From geography projects to learning about geological processes, Google Earth can be an amazing and fast way to show students anywhere in the world. DonorsChoose: Need funding for a classroom project? You can get it through this site that hooks up needy teachers with willing donors. SlideShare: With SlideShare, you can upload your presentations, documents, and videos and share them with students and colleagues. Even better, you can take advantage of materials that other have uploaded as well. LiveBinders: Like a real-life three ring binder, this tech tool allows you to collect and organize resources. Much better than a binder, however, the site also comes with tools to connect and collaborate and a virtual whiteboard. AudioBoo: Through this tool, you can record and share audio for your students or anyone else.
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  • Use these tech tools to pull together great lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects. Teachers Pay Teachers: Have great lessons to share? Looking for something to add to your classes? On this site you can do both, selling your own class materials and buying high-quality resources from other teachers. Planboard: Make sure your lessons are organized and that your day runs smoothly with the help of this amazing online tool designed just for teachers. Timetoast: Timetoast is a pretty cool for student projects, allowing them to build sleek, interactive timelines in minutes. Capzles: There are so many different ways that Capzles can be used in the classroom, there’s bound to be an application that fits your needs. What does it do? Capzles makes it simple to gather media like photos, videos, documents, and even blog posts into one place, making it perfect for teaching, learning, or online projects. Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers. Wordle: Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind. QR Codes: QR codes (or quick response codes) are showing up with greater frequency in education. If you’d like to get in on the trend, you’ll need a tool to create and manage the codes like Delivr and one to read codes, like any of those listed on this site. Quizlet: Quizlet makes it easy for teachers to create study tools for students, especially flashcards that can make memorizing important information a snap. MasteryConnect: How are your students performing with regard to state and common core standards? MasterConnect makes it simple to track and analyze both, as well as other elements of student performance. Google Docs: Through Google Docs, teachers can create and share documents, presentations, or spreadsheets with students and colleagues as well as give feedback on student-created projects. YouTube: Not all schools allow YouTube, but they are missing out as the site contains a wealth of great learning materials for the classroom. There’s even a special education-focused channel just for teachers and students. TED-Ed: TED isn’t just a great place to find inspiration anymore, the site also contains numerous videos that are organized by subject and can help you to teach everything from how pain relievers work to Shakespearean insults. Glogster:Glogster is a social site that lets users mash up music, photos, videos, and pretty much anything else you’d like. It’s a great way to create learning materials and a handy tool for creative student projects. Creaza: Want to bring your student projects into the 21st century? Creaza can make that possible, offering tools to brainstorm, create cartoons, and edit audio and video. Mentor Mob: On Mentor Mob, you or your students can create a learning playlist, which is essentially a collection of high-quality materials that can be used to study a specific concept.
  • Edmodo:
  • Social Learning
  • Grockit
  • Learning
  • Useful Tools
  • Lesson Planning and Tool
  • These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools. Evernote: Capture great ideas, photos, recordings, or just about anything else on your Evernote account, access it anywhere, and keep it organized. A must-have tool for lesson planning. Twitter: There are so many ways Twitter can be used in education. Teachers can connect with other educators, take part in chats, share their ideas, or even use it in the classroom to reach out to students. Google Education: Google offers a number of great edtech resources for teachers, including email and collaborative apps, videos, lesson plan search, professional development, and even educational grants. Dropbox: Easily store, share, and access any kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to-use and free Dropbox service. Diigo: Diigo lets you treat the web like paper-based reading material, making it simple to highlight, bookmark, take notes, or even add sticky notes. Apple iPad: One of the most widely used, though expensive, tech tools being used in today’s classroom is the Apple iPad. With a host of educational apps being developed for the device, it’s become a favorite of teachers and students alike across the nation. Aviary: Aviary is a suite of tools that make it easy to edit images, effects, swatches, music, and audio or to create and modify screen captures. Jing: If you’re teaching kids about tech or just about anything else, a great screenshot program is essential. Jing is one great option that allows teachers to take screenshots as images, record up to five minutes or videos then edit and share the results. Popplet: You and your students can use Popplet to brainstorm ideas, create mindmaps, share, and collaborate. Google Earth: From geography projects to learning about geological processes, Google Earth can be an amazing and fast way to show students anywhere in the world. DonorsChoose: Need funding for a classroom project? You can get it through this site that hooks up needy teachers with willing donors. SlideShare: With SlideShare, you can upload your presentations, documents, and videos and share them with students and colleagues. Even better, you can take advantage of materials that other have uploaded as well. LiveBinders: Like a real-life three ring binder, this tech tool allows you to collect and organize resources. Much better than a binder, however, the site also comes with tools to connect and collaborate and a virtual whiteboard. AudioBoo: Through this tool, you can record and share audio for your students or anyone else.
  • Learning These educational tools can help you to make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective. Khan Academy: Many teachers use this excellent collection of math, science, and finance lectures and quizzes to supplement their classroom materials. MangaHigh: MangaHigh offers teachers a wealth of resources for game-based learning in mathematics. FunBrain: If you’re looking for a great collection of educational games, look no further than FunBrain. On it, teachers can take advantage of fun tools for math and reading. Educreations: Educreations is an amazing online tool for the iPad that lets teachers (or students) create videos that teach a given topic. Perfect for studying or getting students to show off their knowledge. Animoto: Animoto makes it simple to create video-based lessons or presentations for the classroom and to share them with students or anyone else. Socrative: Available for computers, mobile devices, and tablets, this student response system engages students through games and exercises on any device they have on hand. Even better, teachers can easily assess student progress and track grades. Knewton: Adaptive learning has been a hot topic in recent months, and with Knewton it’s something that any teacher can access and use. The site personalizes online learning content for each student according to his or her needs. Kerpoof: On Kerpoof, students can get creative with their learning with games, interactive activities, drawing tools, and more that are both fun and educational. StudySync: With a digital library, weekly writing practice, online writing and peer reviews, Common Core assignments, and multimedia lessons available, this site is a fully-featured tool for teaching and learning that can be a big help in the classroom. CarrotSticks: On this site, teachers can take advantage of a wide range of math learning games, giving students practice while they have fun.
  • new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
  • echnology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorit
  • Edmodo: Teachers and students can take advantage of this great tech tool, as it offers a Facebook-like environment where classes can connect online. Grockit: Get your students connected with each other in study sessions that take place on this great social site. EduBlogs: EduBlogs offers a safe and secure place to set up blogs for yourself or your classroom. Skype: Skype can be a great tool for keeping in touch with other educators or even attending meetings online. Even cooler, it can help teachers to connect with other classrooms, even those in other countries.
  • Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Edmodo: Teachers and students can take advantage of this great tech tool, as it offers a Facebook-like environment where classes can connect online. Grockit: Get your students connected with each other in study sessions that take place on this great social site. EduBlogs: EduBlogs offers a safe and secure place to set up blogs for yourself or your classroom. Skype: Skype can be a great tool for keeping in touch with other educators or even attending meetings online. Even cooler, it can help teachers to connect with other classrooms, even those in other countries. Wikispaces: Share lessons, media, and other materials online with your students, or let them collaborate to build their own educational wiki on Wikispaces. Pinterest: You can pin just about any image you find interesting on this site, but many teachers are using it as a place to collect great lesson plans, projects, and inspirational materials. Schoology: Through this social site, teachers can manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators. Quora: While Quora is used for a wide range of purposes, it can be a great tool for educators. It can be used to connect with other professionals or to engage students in discussion after class. Ning: Ning allows anyone to create a personalized social network, which can be great for both teachers and students alike. OpenStudy:Encourage your students to work together to learn class material by using a social study site like OpenStudy. ePals: One of the coolest benefits of the Web is being able to connect with anyone, anywhere. ePals does just that, but focuses on students, helping them to learn languages and understand cultures different from their own.
  • new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education,
  • Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved.
  • new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education
  • ew tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education
  • These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
  • Teachers Pay Teachers: Have great lessons to share? Looking for something to add to your classes? On this site you can do both, selling your own class materials and buying high-quality resources from other teachers. Planboard: Make sure your lessons are organized and that your day runs smoothly with the help of this amazing online tool designed just for teachers. Timetoast: Timetoast is a pretty cool for student projects, allowing them to build sleek, interactive timelines in minutes. Capzles: There are so many different ways that Capzles can be used in the classroom, there’s bound to be an application that fits your needs. What does it do? Capzles makes it simple to gather media like photos, videos, documents, and even blog posts into one place, making it perfect for teaching, learning, or online projects. Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers. Wordle: Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind.
  • Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
  • Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
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      I didn't know there were so many different ways to incoorporate and use technology in your classroom! super useful!
  • Lesson Planning and Tools Use these tech tools to pull together great lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects.
  • Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
  • Learning These educational tools can help you to make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective.
  • Useful Tools These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools.
  • social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
  • make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective.
  • pull together great lessons
  • share?
  • lessons are organized
  • stay connected, organized
  • ncrease the ease of building multimedia lessons
  • Teachers Pay Teachers: Have great lessons to share? Looking for something to add to your classes? On this site you can do both, selling your own class materials and buying high-quality resources from other teachers. Planboard: Make sure your lessons are organized and that your day runs smoothly with the help of this amazing online tool designed just for teachers. Timetoast: Timetoast is a pretty cool for student projects, allowing them to build sleek, interactive timelines in minutes. Capzles: There are so many different ways that Capzles can be used in the classroom, there’s bound to be an application that fits your needs. What does it do? Capzles makes it simple to gather media like photos, videos, documents, and even blog posts into one place, making it perfect for teaching, learning, or online projects. Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers. Wordle: Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind. QR Codes: QR codes (or quick response codes) are showing up with greater frequency in education. If you’d like to get in on the trend, you’ll need a tool to create and manage the codes like Delivr and one to read codes, like any of those listed on this site. Quizlet: Quizlet makes it easy for teachers to create study tools for students, especially flashcards that can make memorizing important information a snap. MasteryConnect: How are your students performing with regard to state and common core standards? MasterConnect makes it simple to track and analyze both, as well as other elements of student performance. Google Docs: Through Google Docs, teachers can create and share documents, presentations, or spreadsheets with students and colleagues as well as give feedback on student-created projects. YouTube: Not all schools allow YouTube, but they are missing out as the site contains a wealth of great learning materials for the classroom. There’s even a special education-focused channel just for teachers and students. TED-Ed: TED isn’t just a great place to find inspiration anymore, the site also contains numerous videos that are organized by subject and can help you to teach everything from how pain relievers work to Shakespearean insults. Glogster:Glogster is a social site that lets users mash up music, photos, videos, and pretty much anything else you’d like. It’s a great way to create learning materials and a handy tool for creative student projects. Creaza: Want to bring your student projects into the 21st century? Creaza can make that possible, offering tools to brainstorm, create cartoons, and edit audio and video. Mentor Mob: On Mentor Mob, you or your students can create a learning playlist, which is essentially a collection of high-quality materials that can be used to study a specific concept. Useful Tools
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    This website offers different technology tools in areas of social media, learning, and other useful tools that may help with lessons.
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    Lots of different sites and blogs that you can use to be able to teach your students any way you would like to.
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    This site gives information and tools on things all teachers should know about technology.
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    This site has some good resources for learning that make a lesson more interesting.
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    This website will be useful because it shows 50 different technology tools teachers should know
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    Explains all the different technology that a teacher should know how to use in the classroom
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    50 useful technology websites for teachers
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    This site contains different social media and other websites and a small description on how they can be used for learning. It gives several sites people use daily and some that no one has really heard of.
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    This site will be useful for teachers because it gives 50 education technology tools that can be used in various aspects. This site links teachers to the technology to help in social learning, educational learning, lesson planning and tools, and organization tools for lessons.
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    This site has many ways to use technology in the classroom. It has 50 different tools for teachers to use to interact with students in learning.
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    Allows teachers to prepare organized lessons and share their lessons with other teachers. Provides useful tips for what technology they can involve their students with.
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    "Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers."
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    "This website has sites or tools that are found online that can help a teacher teach his or her students. It has tools that I have never heard of before and would like to know what they are about."
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    Basic technology tools that will help teachers better connect their students with education and technology.
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    This website gives teachers information in every area.  There are various ways to get students connected, engage learning and think about lesson planning and the tools you can use during lesson planning.
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    This shows many different tools to help teachers use technology in their classrooms. Between social learning  and lesson planning and tools, this helps the students and the teachers.
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    The website gives many different resources for teachers to use with their students. The many websites are links for games students can play to help understand different topics. Such include social learning, learning, lesson planning and tools, and useful tools. 
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    A website that shows different tools for teachers to use to enhance learning for students. It shows different social media sites, educational tools to make learning fun and effective, and lesson planning tools.
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    Has many different new types of technology that would be useful for teachers. Also explains what each site is and why it's good to use. Names very popular sites that most people know and can be beneficial to use in the classroom.
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    Resources for using technology in the classroom. 
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    This is a great website to use for multiple reasons!! There is social learning that has tools to use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers to connect together. Of course learning objectives that can be fun, interesting and effective. Lesson Planning and Tools and so much more!!
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    This article provides ways for teachers to use technology through lesson plans, and it provides many different useful apps to use in the classroom.
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    This is a webpage with multiple tips for a teacher who isn't sure what to use. It explains that technology is becoming more and more prudent and gives options to the teachers.
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    This website shows tools for lesson planning, social learning (apps). Alot of students will come into class knowing how to do a few of these things. It is good to be prepared and to understand how to work certain tools. 
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    This site would be useful for teachers because it will help teachers get students more involved. Sometimes students learn better when they are able to see different visuals rather than just having a teacher write on the board all the time. Technology is going to be a big thing in the future that every teacher and/or student should be able to use. 
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    This article provides some different tools that can be utilize in the classroom.
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    This article provides some different tools that can be utilize in the classroom.
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    This specific website offers 50 educational technology websites to assist teachers with teaching. This website intertwines technology and education to provide teachers with better teaching skills.
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    50 different examples of technology that could be useful in a classroom
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    These are technology tools that would help a teacher out in different ways.
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    Technology and Education are coexisting more and more these days. This site will help with social learning, lesson planning, and give useful tools in the classroom.
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    This site is really useful. It lists a bunch of technology that is very useful in different aspects of education. I highlighted the lesson planning tools because I utilize a lot of them and they are extremely helpful
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Sarah Kveton

9 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Classroom - 0 views

  • You have your unit of study and your lesson plans. Add this one small piece: everyone– including you–  pick a social media service and follow someone who blogs, tweets, tumbls, scoops, or pins about the topic. If you work with younger students, you can do this as a class and use it as an opener each day or week throughout the unit. Students can write a response to the author, which incorporates what they learn in class or a summary for class that can be used as a basis for discussion. You can also form small discussion groups based on platforms or topics.  The goals of this strategy are to introduce students to a variety of social media sites, teach students how to evaluate social media sources, learn the vocabulary of various social media sites (i.e. the term is tweeter not “twitterer”), help students to see social media as a source of information, and demonstrate the “social” in social media for academic purposes.
tomvaccaro

A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology - 0 views

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    by Terry Heick and TeachThought Staff Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Audience: K-12 & higher ed educators, researchers, institutions, and organizations globally.
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    by Terry Heick and TeachThought Staff Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Audience: K-12 & higher ed educators, researchers, institutions, and organizations globally.
Joshua Gilbert

Designing Curriculums around Technology | Purdue University Online - 0 views

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    Benefits of using technology in the classroom and multiple suggestions for using technology effectively are discussed.
Dana Stormer

Five Ways To Bring Technology into the Classroom Without the Gadgets | Alisa ... - 0 views

  • 6. By now you're probably feeling like there is not enough time to "cover" everything you want your students to learn. As you look at the standards, your school's requirements, etc., think about how each type of content and concept could be learned in the most efficient way. For example, if students need to learn the parts of the cell, can they practice this using an app or software? When they need to experience and discuss how cells are transformed during the process of osmosis, they will most likely need a hands-on experience or a discussion. What content can be delivered and assessed online?
  • . Get clear about what your community needs and values. What do you want for your graduates (whether they leave you in 5th, 8th or 12th grade)? Try to avoid the trap of doing what's always been done -- this is a different time and world from when you were in school (or likely even in college). What skills do students really need for success in today's (and tomorrow's) world? Their time at school is too valuable to focus on anything that doesn't help them develop those skills and doesn't underscore the value of play, failure and hands-on experiences (activities that are often seen as less "rigorous" or less "college prep"). Once you have determined what you value for your students, it is easy to avoid the trap of products that promise instant results or boxed solutions. For us, having our students engage in real-world learning experiences is a priority, so we utilized technologies like video-conferencing that enabled making those connections.
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    Good tips on how to adapt classroom and teaching style without spending a lot of money on technology gadgets.
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    This is really an advice article on how to get the most out of classroom experiences
Nikki Rickert

Educational Leadership:Building Classroom Relationships:The Key to Classroom Management - 0 views

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    This site will be helpful because it discusses how the manage a classroom. It is also a store with helpful material for teachers.
Kiera Kram

Fall vs. Spring Lesson Plan | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • Step 1: Read Apples and Pumpkins (or any other book that describes what fall is like).
  • Step 2: Discuss the different characteristics of fall.
  • Step 3: Have the students go to their seats and cut out pictures from the magazines that correlate with fall. (Have the students put the pictures on a paper plate in the middle of the table.)
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  • Step 1: Read It's Spring!
  • Oh, the leaves turn red and yellow in the fall. Oh, the leaves turn red and yellow in fall. Oh the leaves turn red and yellow, the leaves turn red and yellow, oh the leaves turn red and yellow in the fall. Yee-Haw!
  • Step 1: Read The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. Discuss how flowers bloom and trees blossom in the spring.
  • Evaluation
  • Assess Students
Rosa Polo

Preparing ELLs to be 21st-Century Learners | Colorín Colorado - 0 views

  • "In the 21st Century, the century our children will
  • live in (the century they will, in fact, shape), media
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  • nts learning technology, it is especially important to focus on effective teaching strategies that are commonly used in other content areas, such as academic language development and meaningful interaction with the content.
  • Computer tutorials should be organized by tasks: the things most students want to do with the program.
  • For each task, concise, step-by-step instructions should be provided.
  • Each step should be illustrated with a computer screen shot that shows exactly what to do. The bigger the illustration, the better.
  • At the end of each important task, stand-alone exercises should be included to give students an opportunity to practice the tasks. Including multiple exercises will ensure that students who work quickly will remain occupied.
  • Build vocabulary
  • Find out what students know:
  • Review the basics:
  • Use props and demonstrations:
  • Check comprehension:
  • Use handouts
  • Try giving ELLs handouts with visuals of the computer screen so that they can follow along.
  • Create simple assignments for beginners
  • students learning how to use the Word program to create documents should write about something with which they are familiar, rather than having to research a new topic while learning how to use the program.
  • Extended practice time
  • need to find ways to extend the practice time for ELLs.
  • ELL students are making meaning of the instructions given in a second language, while also figuring out how to use the technology.
  • . This also may be an opportunity to pair a tech-savvy mainstream student with an ELL student who is developing computer skills.
  • Use pair and group work
  • If students use the new information, vocabulary, and technology to build something together or to solve a problem, they will learn it and remember it as they discuss different approaches to a problem, activate their knowledge, and learn from each other.
  • Establish meaningful goals
  • it is important to introduce the technology with very basic, well-known information so all students can understand it
  • It is possible to give general guidelines to ensure the quality of the project while still allowing students some options for individuality.
  • Teach students to consider the source
  • ELL students may be particularly susceptible to believing information they receive electronically because they may come from a culture where very little information is printed, and so written information is usually considered reliable.
  • Teachers can also help their students by leading them through a discussion and investigation as to the origin of news, and by teaching them how to determine if information is accurate and relevant to their needs. This also supports the development of good online research skills.
  • Teaching technology is challenging in any environment, but when teachers are trying to eliminate the gap between ELL and mainstream students, it is even more challenging. I hope these strategies will give you some ideas of where to start and what kind of support will be helpful to your students. While ELL students are often at a disadvantage when it comes to learning technology, they are also extremely motivated and enthusiastic about technology when they have meaningful access to the instruction. By taking a moment to observe and reflect on your ELL students' learning needs, you will be able to help them successfully transition to a "high-tech" society and a successful future.
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Sierra Koehler

Beyond books: THS showcases technology - 0 views

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    "It's like Facebook for school," Martin said. "When I'm working on an assignment, I can see who else is working on that assignment right then and we can help each other." English teacher Joy White said the online platform is also useful when students miss class. "I have a student who broke his leg," she said. "Now he can easily keep up with what he missed, still participate in online discussions, reach me easily to ask questions and make sure he stays on track." Most of the teachers' TISD email accounts are connected to their phones so they can answer questions about homework in the evening, officials said. "That way, students have their questions answered before they come to class," Director of Communications Matthew LeBlanc said.  "They have any confusion about a subject cleared up ahead of time so they are ready to learn during actual class time," he said.
Amy Grycowski

10 Classroom Ideas to Try in 2015 - Teaching Toward Tomorrow - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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      I think this site gives good idea for teachers in middle school. Most if these would allow the student to give input for class and still get good computer skills. 
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    These ideas would be great for a middle school. It gives the students the options to discuss many different topics.
Kataryna Altobelli

Education World: Using Technology In The Classroom - 1 views

  • This archive compiles many of the features we have done on the subject of using technology in the classroom. Many of these articles have been updated many times or even rewritten as technology changes. That said, due to the ever-changing nature of technology, there will be articles on this list that are a little past their prime period of usefullness.
  • podcasts describing their favorite books
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  • school districts can use social media tools to connect with the global audience
  • When schools use less energy by effectively using technology, they can have a huge cumulative effect in conserving energy
  • Ten Things Everyone Needs to Learn Your school will try to teach you the facts you'll need to pass their tests, but schools won't teach you the things you really need to learn to be successful. What are they? Stephen Downes offers a list of his top ten things you need to learn.
  • ecurity officer Joe Sullivan. Its educational and safe -- if you follow the rules.
  • Who Is They? Theres no simple resolution to the conflicting priorities between techs and educators, but I know this about making better policy decisions: the best rules and guidelines are those developed collaboratively.
  • Sites to See: Parent Conferences These ten sites, filled with advice, tips, and practical resources, can help ensure that your parent-teacher conferences are a pleasant and positive collaborative experience for all.
  • Seven Brilliant Things Teachers Do With Technology Here are seven technology practices that just make me marvel and feel proud to be a part of the profession. Which do you do?
  • Lets consider eight risks involved in integrating the Internet into the K-12 curriculum -- and some solutions and resources to help you minimize those risks.
  • Things Id Do Differently the Second Time Around I had a woeful initial understanding of the state of technology-readiness of my new students at Sri Padmavathi Womens University in Tirupati, India. I know now I should have spent at least the first couple of weeks in the computer lab going over the basics.
  • Creating Your Own Web Site
  • Teaching? Learning? There's an "App" for That!
  • iPods for online research, to define words, listen to music of historical periods, and more.
  • 11 easy-to-read handouts
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      I think the iPod thing is really cool, i job shadowed my aunts classroom over spring break and they used iPads and the students loved it(: 
  • Technology
  • Learning 2.0 solutions reverse the e-learning model in which content is produced by publishers and consumed by students. Instead, Web 2.0 tools allow information to be integrated immediately into a standing curriculum, engaging students and providing innovative, collaborative solutions for instructors.
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    This website has different games students can use to help learn. This website also has different articles on what technologies are useful in the classroom and which are not as helpful.
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    This website would be useful because not only does this site provide different resources and examples of how technology is used in classrooms, it also provides articles that are constantly being updated... as the technology changes so do the articles so they can accurately reflect what is currently going on with technology. It also offers newsletters and even templates/worksheets to apply the concepts that are being learned.
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    Helpful tips on how to use technology in the classroom. The site would be useful for teachers because it gives a lot of information on how to use technology with students as well as giving examples from other teachers of how these things went with their classes and the "dos and don'ts." 
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    I think this website would be useful because it has a lot of different information on tools, planning, safety, etc.
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    This site gives helpful articles that discusses different technology tools to use in the classroom. A lot of the articles update as technology evolves.
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    Great things that are happening from technology being incorporated in the classroom
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    Different Technology you can use in a class room, tips on the different technology
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    Using technology wisely in the classroom.
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    Give tips and information on how teachers use technology in a classroom. Give ideas for teaching technology and lesson plans.
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    Ways to use technology in the classroom. Tips of the week. The latest and greatest technology tools for the classroom and classroom teacher.
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    This article talks about how teachers can use technology in the classroom.
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    This website could be very useful for teachers because it provides a lot of information about different ways to effectively use technology in the classroom. It is a very well organized website that allows teachers to get several different ideas based on the grade level that they teach.
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    Articles relevant to technology use in the classroom, covering a wide variety of topics. 
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    This site would be useful for teachers because there is a wide variety  of tips and information on technology use in classrooms. This information is also updated as technology changes.
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    How to Use Technology in Classrooms
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    this site gives a brief description and different technologies and why they are useful and provides links for more in depth information
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    This website can instruct educators on how to incorporate technology into their classroom in a variety of ways. It gives a lot of great tips and ideas.
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    This website is useful as it talks about social media and how it can actually be integrated into the classroom.
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    This is a good place to start in order to find information on how to incorporate technology into the classroom. It's also a good way to search for ideas.
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    Education world is a website that offers links to articles and information on how to integrate technology into the classroom. It has many good articles including some on the dangers of technology.
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    Different ways to help you understand the use of technology
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    Many tips and tricks of using technology in the classroom.  Most of these tips include those related to the technology many children these days are familiar with.
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    This article shows how using technology is helpful not only to the children but also to make it easier for the parents and guardians to get involved in their child's learning.
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    This site has so many links in it for teachers to go to and check out. 
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    Information and tips for teachers on technology. How to improve the classroom with technology and getting the students involved.
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    how to use technology in the classroom
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    Technology has always been a major focus on EducationWorld.com. This archive compiles many of the features we have done on the subject of using technology in the classroom. Give tips to the everyday teacher on how to apply certain technolgy
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    Technology has always been a major focus on EducationWorld.com. This archive compiles many of the features we have done on the subject of using technology in the classroom.
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    Archive with links involving technology in classrooms.  Discusses the benefits of integrating technology and how to do so properly.  
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    This site will help you with technology in the class room. You can find out if there is an app for that! You could also lean how to create you'r web site! 
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    this website talks about different examples of using technology in the classroom. 
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    Articles on usefulness of certain technologies in the classroom
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    This is ways that technology is being used in the classroom. 
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    This website is useful because it provides teachers with basic technology information they could use in the classroom. It provides ideas of what you can do with the technology you have. It also provides some risks with having technology and allows teachers to be aware of some of these.
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    This is a lesson to teachers on how to use and teach their students with technology.
Kira Olson

Assistive Technology for Autism - Disaboom - 0 views

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      I completely agree with these findings as I have found the same in my brother.
  • High TechnologyVideo taping is often highly successful among people with autism for teaching language and social skills. Children appreciate the predictable outcome, often watching the same video repetitively. Videos can be made of tasks, such as setting the table, or to increase vocabulary by naming objects or actions. Videos can be invaluable in the social arena, with opportunities to demonstrate both acceptable and unacceptable behavior. “Best practices” for social interactions can be modeled, such as smiling and saying hello to classmates. Tone of voice, body language, personal space, facial expressions and vocal volume can be observed and discussed. Research shows that the use of computers increases attention and decreases agitation in students with autism. Assistive technology for autism hardware options abound to ease the way for accessing a computer.
Tylar Edenhofer

7 Fun Ways to Use Technology in the classroom to enrich learning - 0 views

  • YouTube is a great tool for this; chances are you can find a video clip to compliment any lesson there.
  • a video clip to compliment any lesson there.
  • Using mobile devices like iPads and tablets you can keep students involved with all sorts of educational games for just about any subject. Students can keep track of their progress and work to compete with other students to advance to the next level.
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  • use Facebook or Twitter to post a topic for discussion and get all students involved and interacting with one another
  • Having students post their work in blogs is a great way to allow student to showcase all their hard work or works-in-progress. Students can help each other out by posting comments and suggestions for each other.
  • You can easily create and post podcasts for students who want to review or were absent so every student has the opportunity to soak it all in.
  • peak with virtual guest lecturers, and make friends and interact with others in different countries.
  • A great way to optimize collaboration is to use mobile devices in the classroom by letting students use them in group work.
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    I think this site is useful because it gives great ideas on how to use technology in a fun manner in the classroom. I would definitely want to try some. 
Cassidy O'Brien

28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter | MindShift - 0 views

  • 28 ways to use Twitter in class.
  • utilizes Twitter to gather real-time feedback
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  • allowing students to answer questions via Twitter rather than raising their hands
  • This greatly aids studying, too, as they can easily refer back via dedicated classroom hashtags.
  • an excellent way for his students to continue class discussions after they’ve already ended
  • far easier to tweet changes, cancellations and other important announcements.
  • many students use Twitter now to alert their teachers about when they’ve finished their work
  • The 140-character limit offers a nice little challenge for students, and innovative educators and authors like have taken notice.
  • Word, trend or hashtag tracking:
  • ask them to actually tweet a response and open a discussio
  • Take notes:
  • For high schoolers and the college crowd, this assignment might very well help them discover some personal career goals.
  • Share a story:
  • The first tweets a sentence, the next builds off of it and so forth; try assigning a hashtag to make reading everything faster.
  • Keep parents informed: When teaching the younger set, parents may like to follow along with what’s going on in their children’s day. Keep a Twitter feed updating them about the different lessons and activities as they happen for greater engagement between the home and the classroom.
  • For kids just learning about distance, this makes for a lovely way to get them to know more about where everything is in relation to their own cities and towns.
  • ______ of the day: No matter the class, a vocabulary word, book, song, quote or something else “of the day” might very well make an excellent supplement to the day’s lesson. When teaching younger kids, tell their parents about the Twitter feed and encourage them to talk about postings at home.
  • A common hashtag and communicative network is all it takes to share insight and recommendations.
  • Keep up with current events: Similarly, educators can set up lists with different news sources, allowing their students to stay on top of current events. Separate them by field for quicker access and even more comprehensive organization.
  • Set up a communal hastag for students and professionals alike to use and exchange their views and lessons.
  • Host a Twitter scavenger hunt: For fun and education, get students moving and organize a sort of Twitter scavenger hunts — maybe even see if other classrooms or professionals want to get involved. As with many of the projects listed here, such an activity can easily be applied to a wide number of grade levels and academic subjects.
  • Not only does it help them reflect on their lessons and their world, but it also serves as a nice, guided introduction to social media.
  • Help students get their names out: College professors hoping to nurture the professional future of their juniors and seniors might like the idea of teaching them the role of social media in job hunting. Business students into the whole “personal branding” fad will particularly benefit from comprehensively exploring such things.
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    This article is talking about how to use twitter in a classroom setting and gives 28 different ideas on how to use it.
Kodi Porter

Technology Tools for Teaching & Learning - 1 views

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    • Betsy Jordan
       
      This website is able to provide a website where educators can properly use technology in their classrooms.
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  • Free account available. Visually appealing interface with extra features. Maps can be shared for collaboration, published, printed/exported as a pdf and embedded.
  • mindmeister
  • ree Google account. Create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, form or drawing. Organize into folders, publish to the web and share documents with other users. Supports existing document upload (word & powerpoint).
  • Google Docs
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    This website includes tools for teaching different web based technologies to students. Students can learn to create timelines, portfolios, books, record audio, etc.
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    Good lay outs and gives examples on what you want your students to learn from these web pages.
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    gives links and tips on different things teacher will want to know about. It also gives teachers ideas on what they can do with students through technology.
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    This website outlines many resourceful ways to use technology as a teacher. There are different learning goals that are laid out and it is very helpful when trying to decide what would work best in your classroom.
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    This website gives a list of things that teachers would use technology for in a classroom, then under each different thing they would use, it gives a list of websites and applications that could be used.
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    Different beta sites for teachers to try in the classroom
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    This is a good site because it has a lot of different things that you can look at that will help from web timelines to recording and editing audio.
Jackie Melbye

Archived: Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students - 0 views

  • Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons.
  • The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information.
  • The teacher's role changes as well. The teacher is no longer the center of attention as the dispenser of information, but rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student activity.
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  • Another effect of technology cited by a great majority of teachers is an increased inclination on the part of students to work cooperatively and to provide peer tutoring. While many of the classrooms we observed assigned technology-based projects to small groups of students, as discussed above, there was al
  • so considerable tutoring going on around the use of technology itself.
  • Increased Use of Outside Resources Teachers from 10 out of 17 classrooms observed at length cited increased use of outside resources as a benefit of using technology. This effect was most obvious in classrooms that had incorporated telecommunications activities (see examples), but other classes used technologies such as satellite broadcasts, telefacsimiles, and the telephone to help bring in outside resources.
  • Increased Motivation and Self Esteem
  • The most common--and in fact, nearly universal--teacher-reported effect on students was an increase in motivation. Teachers and students are sometimes surprised at the level of technology-based accomplishment displayed by students who have shown much less initiative or facility with more conventional academic tasks:
  • student self esteem.
  • Change in Student and Teacher Roles
  • Improved Design Skills/Attention to Audience
  • Project-based work (such as the City Building Project and the Student-Run Manufacturing Company) and cooperative learning approaches prompt this change in roles, whether technology is used or not. However, tool uses of technology are highly compatible with this new teacher role, since they stimulate so much active mental work on the part of students. Moreover, when the venue for work is technology, the teacher often finds him or herself joined by many peer coaches--students who are technology savvy and eager to share their knowledge with others.
  • The kids that don't necessarily star can become the stars. [with technology]. My favorite is this boy . . . who had major problems at home. He figured out a way to make music by getting the computer to play certain letters by certain powers and it changed the musical tone of the note and he actually wrote a piece. He stayed in every recess. . . . When I asked him what he was working on, he wouldn't tell me. Then he asked if he could put his HyperCard stack on my computer because it was hooked up to speakers. I said "sure" and at recess. . . he put it on my computer and played his music and literally stopped the room. And for months he had kids begging him at recess, every recess, to teach them how to make music. And for that particular kid it was the world because he really was not successful academically and was having lots of problems. . . . This really changed him for that school year. -Elementary school teacher
  • More Collaboration with Peers
    • Haylee Lininger
       
      Technology benefits a classroom greatly.
  • Increased Motivation and Self Esteem The most common--and in fact, nearly universal--teacher-reported effect on students was an increase in motivation. Teachers and students are sometimes surprised at the level of technology-based accomplishment displayed by students who have shown much less initiative or facility with more conventional academic tasks: The kids that don't necessarily star can become the stars. [with technology]. My favorite is this boy . . . who had major problems at home. He figured out a way to make music by getting the computer to play certain letters by certain powers and it changed the musical tone of the note and he actually wrote a piece. He stayed in every recess. . . . When I asked him what he was working on, he wouldn't tell me. Then he asked if he could put his HyperCard stack on my computer because it was hooked up to speakers. I said "sure" and at recess. . . he put it on my computer and played his music and literally stopped the room. And for months he had kids begging him at recess, every recess, to teach them how to make music. And for that particular kid it was the world because he really was not successful academically and was having lots of problems. . . . This really changed him for that school year. -Elementary school teacher Teachers talked about motivation from a number of different perspectives. Some mentioned motivation with respect to working in a specific subject area, for example, a greater willingness to write or to work on computational skills. Others spoke in terms of more general motivational effects--student satisfaction with the immediate feedback provided by the computer and the sense of accomplishment and power gained in working with technology:
  • . It is possible for students to get so caught up in issues such as type font or audio clips that they pay less attention to the substantive content of their product.
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    This article talks about some of the benefits and effects that technology has on the classroom, students, and teachers.
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    A article describing how technology has changed the teacher/student relationship. Also how technology has helped change learning. 
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    This site is to show how important technology is in the classroom for the students to learn.
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    This site describes the effects that technology has on the students within the classroom.
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    This article shows how technology helps with student motivation.
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    Some downfalls to technology in the classroom. 
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    The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information, making choices, and executing skills than is typical in teacher-led lessons
Emily Suchecki

Assistive Technology for Young Children in Special Education: It Makes a Difference | E... - 0 views

  • Technology has opened many educational doors to children, particularly to children with disabilities
  • Technology is providing more powerful and efficient tools to teachers who work with children with disabilities. These tools enable teachers to offer new and more effective means of learning while individualizing instruction to the broad range of student learning needs.
  • Text can be read electronically by a digitized voice synthesizer for a person who is blind. For persons with hearing impairments, amplification devices can filter extraneous noise from the background or pick up an FM signal from a microphone on a teacher's lapel.
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  • It is critical to understand the implications of this definition to comprehend its effect on children with disabilities in our schools
  • t is important to understand that virtually all applications of technology -- tools for children to learn, as well as tools for teachers to provide learning opportunities -- can be defined as assistive technology.
  • Technology can be a great equalizer for individuals with disabilities that might prevent full participation in school, work, and the community.
  • Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) (1)
  • Using a portable voice synthesizer, a student can ask and respond to questions in the "regular" classroom, overcoming a physical obstacle that may have forced placement in a special segregated classroom or required a full-time instructional aide or interpreter to provide "a voice."
  • Teachers work with students to improve skills and knowledge, making existing skills and knowledge even more functional and improving fluency so that functional capabilities may be generalized into different settings
  • The benefit of AT is also easy to comprehend when a child who cannot hear can understand his teacher's directions because real-time captioning converts the teacher's speech to text projected onto his laptop computer.
  • Word processing, editing, spellchecking, and grammatical tools commonly found in high-end software facilitate the inclusion of students with learning disabilities in regular classrooms by allowing them to keep up with much of the work.
  • are accommodating physical, sensory, or cognitive impairments in many ways.
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    Discussion of the many types of assistive technology tools that are available for children with disabilities.
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    This is a site where it provides information about technology in the classroom, in this case in special ed classrooms. It is useful because teachers can look at this site and gain knowledge about the gains of using assistive technology.
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    This website explains the benefits specifically for students with disabilities. It levels the playing field so to speak.
ctiehen

Methods of Assessment | Learning Sciences - 0 views

  • “What was the most important thing you learned today?” “What was the most confusing topic today?” “What important question remains unanswered?”
  • Pausing every few minutes to see whether students are following along with the lesson not only identifies gaps in comprehension, but helps break up lectures (e.g, with Clicker questions) or online lessons (e.g., with embedded quiz questions) into more digestible bites. 
  • Having students work in pairs or small groups to solve problems creates space for powerful peer-to-peer learning and rich class discussion. Instructors and TAs can roam the classroom as students work, helping those who get stuck and guiding those who are headed in the wrong direction.
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    Methods of assessing students
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