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

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  • 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.
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  • 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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      Shawni Mutter on 23 Oct 14
       
      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.
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  • make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective.
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  • 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
  • Rhona Buchta on 27 Sep 13
     
    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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  • Abigail Christensen on 28 Oct 13
     
    Lots of different sites and blogs that you can use to be able to teach your students any way you would like to.
  • Alyssa Bohm on 01 Nov 13
     
    This site gives information and tools on things all teachers should know about technology.
  • Jenny buck on 04 Nov 13
     
    This site has some good resources for learning that make a lesson more interesting.
  • Anthony Hall on 08 Nov 13
     
    This website will be useful because it shows 50 different technology tools teachers should know
  • Erin Bless on 11 Nov 13
     
    Explains all the different technology that a teacher should know how to use in the classroom
  • Danielle Smith on 13 Nov 13
     
    50 useful technology websites for teachers
  • Vanessa Brooks-Cobbins on 17 Feb 14
     
    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.
  • Julie Parrish on 20 Feb 14
     
    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.
  • patess06 on 06 Mar 14
     
    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.
  • Jennie Anderson on 07 Apr 14
     
    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.
  • Mary Gragg on 23 Sep 14
     
    "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."
  • Emily Sternemann on 26 Sep 14
     
    "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."
  • Lauren Krolikowski on 26 Sep 14
     
    Basic technology tools that will help teachers better connect their students with education and technology.
  • Megan Gill on 26 Sep 14
     
    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.
  • Nicole Warren on 06 Oct 14
     
    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.
  • Jaden Delney on 06 Oct 14
     
    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. 
  • Melissa Trew on 07 Oct 14
     
    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.
  • koltonjk22 on 09 Oct 14
     
    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.
  • grundlkm21 on 13 Oct 14
     
    Resources for using technology in the classroom. 
  • Kelly Kerzman on 17 Oct 14
     
    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!!
  • Anna Drake on 21 Oct 14
     
    This article provides ways for teachers to use technology through lesson plans, and it provides many different useful apps to use in the classroom.
  • Kristen Delano on 30 Oct 14
     
    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.
  • Rachel DeVoe on 10 Nov 14
     
    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. 
  • Amanda Mogensen on 17 Nov 14
     
    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. 
  • Nolan Pawelski on 02 Feb 15
     
    This article provides some different tools that can be utilize in the classroom.
  • Nolan Pawelski on 02 Feb 15
     
    This article provides some different tools that can be utilize in the classroom.
  • Kelli Hedgepath on 02 Feb 15
     
    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.
  • garretta123 on 02 Feb 15
     
    50 different examples of technology that could be useful in a classroom
  • Emily Riesterer on 18 Feb 15
     
    These are technology tools that would help a teacher out in different ways.
  • Kenndrah Fierro on 11 Mar 15
     
    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.
  • Benjamin Jarolimek on 11 Apr 15
     
    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
  • Alyssa Pearson on 16 Apr 15
     
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amelia bakke

What makes a great teacher? - Quality Teaching | GreatSchools - 0 views

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  • We know that high-quality teachers make all the difference in the classroom.
  • Raise professional standards for teachers. Improve salaries and working conditions. Reinvent teacher preparation and professional development. Encourage and reward teacher knowledge and skills.
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    Description of what makes a great teacher in today's classrooms. Some things to take into consideration!
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  • Numerous studies have been done to assess the impact of class size reduction. Although most studies do show a relationship between small class size and increased student achievement, researchers disagree on how to interpret the results. Because there are so many variables in the average classroom — the quality of the teacher, the home environment of the students, the quality of the curriculum, the leadership of the school — it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions about student achievement based on class size alone. In other words, strategies effective in one setting may not be equally effective in another. Nevertheless, studies over a period of years have pointed to a number of trends as a result of lowering class size: Gains associated with small classes generally appear when the class size is reduced to less than 20 students. Gains associated with small classes are stronger for the early grades. Gains are stronger for students who come from groups that are traditionally disadvantaged in education — minorities and immigrants. Gains from class size reduction in the early grades continue for students in the upper grades. Students are less likely to be retained, more likely to stay in school and more likely to earn better grades. Academic gains are not the only benefit of lowering class size. A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health revealed that reducing class sizes in elementary schools may be more cost-effective than most public health and medical interventions. This is because students in smaller classes are more likely to graduate from high school, and high school graduates earn more and also enjoy significantly better health than high school dropouts.
  • Alex Betczynski on 04 Dec 12
     
    This website gives great facts on why smaller classrooms is so important for a students education.
Kaitlyn Kaska

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teaching education great teacher

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  • Kaitlyn Kaska on 08 Mar 13
     
    This would be useful for teachers because it will tell teachers good skills so they can succeed in the schools and become a great teacher. Knowing what skills would make you a good teacher could help anyone teaching!
Kaitlin Stern

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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.
  • Use online e
  • proven quite wrong.
  • 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.
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    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
Rachel Martin

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  • Social Media in the Classroom? In this information age, we can now talk to each other in ways we never imagined. Teachers and administrators face a new challenge, however, as they try to find a way to safely incorporate this technology in the classroom. Five for Fun Lots of image generators are available on the Web. Most are free and easy to use -- so easy even a technology director can manage them. Here are five of my favorites.
  • Using the Internet When it's educational material you want, searching with an educational engine will save you time and point you in the right direction. Discover some of the best.
  • The Best K-12 Freeware  Are you anxious to teach with technology, but find yourself short of computer resources? Did all your district's technology funds go to hardware -- leaving little money left over for educational software? Discover the variety of quality freeware available online -- and learn which ones the Education World Tech Team voted as their favorite finds!
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  • Dont let Mac users have all the fun. Teachers and students can record, upload, and share online recordings called podcasts using just a classroom computer or even a phone.
  • Members of the Education World Tech Team talk about the technology tools they find most useful in their professional lives, and the technology they use most successfully with students.
  • Discover how technology enhances the science program in the Greece Central School District, Rochester, New York.
  • Morgan Moodhe on 09 Apr 13
     
    Many links and subjects that can help teachers in the classroom. Along with tips and safety rules that can make sure a teacher is safe while on the internet. 
  • Rachel Martin on 18 Apr 13
     
    Shares information on how students can record, upload, and share podcasts. Also shows how science programs can utilize technology. 
Samantha King

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  • nd parents. Explore our
  • 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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  • Michelle Prailes on 20 Sep 13
     
    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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  • Kelsie Stublaski on 20 Nov 13
     
    Ideas for the classroom with fun learning experiences in the classroom.
  • Savanah Smith on 28 Apr 14
     
    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.
  • Samantha King on 25 Sep 14
     
    This is another great website for teachers. There are games, teaching resources, and even lesson plans!
Alie Donnan

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  • Seventh graders with a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional disabilities benefited from the use of laptop computers, provided to students as part of Maine’s Laptop Technology Initiative. “Overall, special education teachers viewed the laptops as highly beneficial to their students with few exceptions,” according to a teacher survey. “The laptops were credited with improving the engagement of students with disabilities with their school work; increasing their motivation and ability to work independently; and improving their class participation, interaction with other students, interaction with teachers, and class preparation. Special education teachers and parents indicated that the laptops also increased students’ personal organization. Another important finding of this study was that special education teachers perceived their special education students to have increased the quality and quantity of their writing.
  • Alie Donnan on 30 Oct 13
     
    Technology in a Special needs classroom.
Erin Krueger

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  • 1. Get Some Training. You don't have to become a computer expert, but you need to have some basic understanding of how computers operate and what to do when they do not operate properly. You should also become familiar with a web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer and websites that provide tech-integration resources and tutorials. Your school or college likely has an instructional technology specialist to help you in this regard. 2. Don't Re-invent the Wheel. There are plenty of credible and experienced educational technology organizations, administrators and teachers out there who can lead you to quality materials, lesson plans and activities for use in your classroom. You don't have to spend hours using search engines to locate appropriate sites and materials. Some of the best educational Web sites for integrating technology in the classroom are: Center for History and New Media Classroom 2.0Edutopia Discovery Education: Kathy Schrock "Guide for Educators"PBS Teachers: Media InfusionThinkfinity 3. Establish a Partnership with Your Students. Many of your students will be excited about computer use, but you and they may be apprehensive about how technology will change your learning environment. Tell your students that computer use in your classroom is new and exciting for you as well, and that you are all part of an experiment whose ultimate success will largely depend on your combined efforts and cooperation. Stress how special this educational opportunity is and how much you need their input. Remember, it's about the students, not you. Your students will probably appreciate you asking for their help, and it may spur them to take ownership of the program. It also may soften some frustrations when technical problems occur. 4. Have a Plan B Ready. You are going to run into some technical difficulties in class and how you handle them will go a long way in determining how successful and enjoyable your technology experience is. You can minimize unwanted surprises by getting some training from an instructional technology specialist and by minimizing your reliance on live web connections. However, you will invariably run into technical problems during class that you are not able to solve immediately. In such instances, if you appear overly perturbed and frustrated you will send a signal to your students that they too can moan about technical problems and perhaps use them as excuses to forego completing computer-based work. Even worse, you may inadvertently cause them to question the ultimate merit of computer-based learning. Instead, try to make a smooth transition to a backup lesson plan, thereby sending a signal that technical glitches are just part of your educational adventure.
  • Erin Krueger on 13 Feb 14
     
    Different ways you can incorporate technology in the classroom. Different websites and helpful tips.
Angela Ravanesi

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  • The I-RtI Network is a State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) initiative of ISBE and is administered under a multi-year grant awarded to Lee/Ogle Regional Office of Education 47 in June 2011. The overarching goal of this initiative is to: Improve the learning and performance of all students in grades K-12 by building the capacity of Illinois public school districts and schools to develop, use, and sustain a multi-tiered system of research-based curricula, instruction, intervention, and assessment. The services of the Network primarily involve the delivery of high quality professional development based on adult learning principles and consisting of training, technical assistance, and coaching. For more information and to access numerous RtI-related resources, including a schedule of regional Networking Meetings that are open to all school and district teams, please go to http://www.illinoisrti.org/i-rti-network.
  • Angela Ravanesi on 22 Sep 15
     
    Illinois State Board of Education website. I can check up on all the changes in Illinois. 
Max Grinde

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  • Using Video in the Classroom Resource Details Cost Animoto Animoto helps you create videos from your photos, video clips, words and music. iphone/ipad app. Free 30 sec videos/Paid membership for full length, pro or HD videos Skype in the classroom Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom. Meet new people, talk to experts, share ideas and create amazing learning experiences with teachers from around the world. Free VoiceThread VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables users to add images, documents, and videos, and to which other users can add voice, text, audio file, or video comments. You can post your VoiceThread on your website or save it to an MP3 or DVD. VoiceThread allows those with hearing impairments to collaborate through webcam commenting and sign language. Free single eduactor licence/Paid memberships for class or departments Google Earth Get the world’s geographic information at your fingertips. Take a virtual journey to any location in the world. Explore 3D buildings, imagery, and terrain. Find cities, places and local businesses. Take a trip to a faraway place, stroll through a 3D forest and travel back in time. Record a tour to present in class or view online. Free download, desktop, web or mobile/Google Earth Pro, free trial, paid licence Web cams Many Internet sites have "web cams" which automatically load camera images of various objects or locations. The images are then uploaded to a web page. No special software, plug-ins, or equipment is needed to view web cam images. Free Camtasia Record your screen, edit and customize professional quality videos, and share them with anyone, on nearly any device. Free 30 day trial/Paid license AV apps Got an AV app for that? Yes, InfoComm does! iPhones, iPads and other mobile device bring pocket light meters, troubleshooting guides, signal generators and more right to your phone. Free - Paid 80 educational alternatives to YouTube Watching educational videos is a great way to learn because it allows studetns to build a visual picture or model in their mind. The visual dimension not only helps them understand concepts better but also stimulates curiosity and encourages self-training. Free ebook
kaylaweiner

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  • kaylaweiner on 11 Feb 15
     
    by onlineuniversities.com Students and educators have a wealth of learning and productivity tools available to them online. Google offers some of the highest-quality resources on the web to meet all your study and teaching needs, and all you need to access them is an internet connection.
Courtney Tollefsrud

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  • . Put kids in touch with the world. The classrooms of brilliant teachers [hokey metaphor alert] have no walls. Those teachers "get" the flat world challenge, understanding that tomorrow's citizens and workers will have an advantage if they can work successfully with other cultures. From "keypals" back in the day to Vicky Davis's Flat Classroom Project today, brilliant teachers give even the most remote students a glimpse and dream of the bigger world -- and help them both communicate and empathize with those in it.
  • Technology is an amplifier of natural abilities. Brilliant teachers see that good writers become better writers, good debaters become better debaters, good French speakers become better French speakers, good mathematical problem-solvers become better mathematical problem-solvers, and so on. by helping their students harness technology. They do not see technology as a crutch, but as a propellant. Brilliant teachers have experienced the empowering power of technology themselves. Brilliant teachers use good assessment strategies to rigorously determine the quality of technology-enhanced projects.
  • Alysa Lutzke on 19 Feb 15
     
    This website explains why technology plays such an important role in the classroom.
  • Courtney Tollefsrud on 19 Mar 15
     
    This site would be helpful for teachers who are against using technology in the classroom by showing how using it can be very beneficial. 
Rachel DeVoe

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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.
Rosa Polo

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  • live in (the century they will, in fact, shape), media
  • literacy will not be a luxury; it will be a necessity."
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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.
  • Rosa Polo on 21 Oct 15
     
    Teaching strategies for using technology in the ELL Classroom
Kaitlyn McGuinn

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  • Kaitlyn McGuinn on 06 Nov 15
     
    This website is helpful for teaching math in the classroom. These games are helpful for students who are struggling in math. The website say "Illuminations works to serve you by increasing access to quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students and instructional support for teachers."
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