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Lisa Stewart

10 Mobile Learning Trends for 2012 « Educational Publishing - 1 views

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      This article resonates with me because it is an easy to follow summary of what will be HOT this year in mlearning. I appreciate its simplicity and think it could go a long way to helping teachers map out the integration of technology in their classrooms.  
Kate Spilseth

Why Khan Academy is so popular-and why teachers shouldn't feel threatened | eSchool News - 0 views

  • eachers who are using the service with their students feel more empowered than ever.
  • liberates the classroom,”
  • Students can access the content “when and how they want it.”
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  • ability to engage with the content in private—over and over again, if necessary—was cited as a key advantage in a video testimonial that Khan showed of a man who was able to earn a degree in electrical engineering with help from Khan Academy.
  • providing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.”
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    Uses of a flipped classroom.
Maru Gutierrez

Using Google's Online Apps to Enhance a Class and Accommodate Students - Page 2 - Techn... - 0 views

  • Google Docs
  • respond in a variety of ways to questions posed during the course of a lecture or reading. How
  • collaborate and maintain documents online
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  • organize
  • to access their wo
  • view the changes and additions made to any document by a pe
  • add their own changes for their peers to review
  • Google Groups
  • skills will benefit from the linear posting nature
  • an instantaneous method of organization.
  • support
  • audio
  • files
  • xt-to-
  • speech
  • groups
  • freedom that is available when st
  • responding in a variety of different ways (such as through video or audio presentations or essays)
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    The challenge of providing aid in organization for some students with special needs can be ameliorated with just a few available tools.  Google voice could be used to record up to 3 minutes of oral instructions given by the teacher that can be replied when needed.  The possibility of sending assignment or test oral or printed reminders that can be listened to a whole group of students has great potential.  
RODRIGO PRIEGO RAMIREZ

Classrooms Need More Pizzazz - Sputnik - Education Week - 0 views

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      Teacher to misbehaved student: "Sometimes it's not you, its me".
  • Kids who feel confident, engaged, and motivated to learn do not act out.
  • using classroom management methods to get students to attend to boring lessons is shoveling against the tide.
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  • The key ingredient in effective lessons isn't alignment, it's pizzazz: excitement, engagement, challenge.
  • Stimulating video content can add to excitement and understanding. Hands-on experimentation helps a lot when appropriate, as does competition between teams or against the clock.
  • Classroom management strategies matter, of course, but pizzazz matters more. Motivated, engaged, challenged, and successful students are well-behaved, not because they've been threatened but because they are too busy engaged in learning to misbehave.
Cynthia Castro

Apps and Ideas for Literature Circles on iPads -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • One method of getting kids to engage reading in different ways is through a tablet-based literature circle.
  • Don’t understand a word in the text? A single tap on the screen pulls up a dictionary that gives the definition, and another tap returns the reader to the page on which the word appears. If a student is reading about the Great Depression but ha
  • s no understanding of what that is, the tablet can help.
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  • If you make it more memorable and you give them a variety of different systems to use to articulate--drawing, web clips--you’re using more aspects of the mind, which makes it a more memorable experience, and it’s more likely they’ll remember information.”
  • The tablet is used to read an e-book--
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    Great ways to use ipads and tablets when students participate in Literature Circles!
Lee Ann Seifert

iPad As.... - 0 views

  • the iPad as.... Reader Creator Student Response SystemClassroom Manager Study Tool Organizer Differentiator
  • In order to help educators integrate iPads effectively, we have compiled a list of apps focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD framework.
    • Lee Ann Seifert
       
      Many ways to incorporate iPads into the classroom. 
Debora Gomez

8 Great Free Web Resources Focused on Using the iPad in Education | Emerging Education ... - 0 views

  • Some of the Internet’s best resources dedicated exclusively to educational uses of the iPad.
  • put together links to apps grouped by Academic Subject.
  • published hundreds of helpful and insightful articles about iPad apps for teaching and learning
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  • “Bloom’s Taxonomy”, “Device”, “Grade level”, “News”, “Price”,“Student reviewed apps”, and “Subject”, and these categories can be mixed to narrow right down to a targeted topic.
  • YouTube video channel we found that is dedicated specifically to “videos of useful apps for education”
Carolina Montes

Jose Popoff: 10 reasons why I believe students should blog - 0 views

  • my ten reasons why I believe your students should be blogging:
  • 1. It helps students think global.
  • It indirectly improves students' grammar and spelling.
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  • Being aware of how exposed they are to the world through their writing, drives them to take special interest in their grammar and spelling
  • 3. A view of visitors to one's blog is pretty stimulating.
  • 4. Responsible digital and world citizenship.
  • Students feel compelled into posting valuable and sensitive content.
  • hey will feel the pressure of being responsible with what they express and how they express it.
  • 5. Stimulates critical thinking.
  • . Enhances web-creating skills.
  • Fosters creativity and artistry
  • Positive digital footprint
  • Blogging develops collaboration skills.
  • A blog could represent a nice cover letter when applying for a job.
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