Free Technology lesson plan for grades K to 5.
This is a great website to find free lesson plans that you can find grade specific content. I choose to use a lesson that was for K-5 and explained how technology works.
Using technology in the K-12 classroom has benefits for students and teachers alike. Find out how it engages active learners, facilitates collaboration, and helps teachers succeed.
This article gives 5 good reasons why technology should be used in a classroom, not only by teachers, but also by students. The 5 things are: engages students and creates active learners, encourages individual learning and active growth, facilitates peer evaluation, prepares students for the real world, and creates more engaged and successful teachers.
Think that integrating technology into the classroom will only distract students and marginalize educators? Think again. Since students are already interested and engaged in technology, teachers can harness that attention for educational purposes. Incorporating the internet, laptops, tablets and even smartphones into the curriculum has many benefits for teachers and students alike.
This article explains why creativity is so important in the classroom and how it helps students even after they graduate. This article provides us with 5 ideas to bring creativity into the classroom.
This article explains why creativity is so important in the classroom and how it helps students even after they graduate. This article provides us with 5 ideas to bring creativity into the classroom.
ISTE Standards for Teachers are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society. In week 5 we will be teaching discussing these standards.
ISTE Standards for Teachers are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society. In week 5 we will be teaching discussing these standards.
When teachers integrate technology into student activities and projects, they often have a hard time figuring out how to assess it. This website talks about different types of assessments, and also provides rubrics for a variety of topics. In week 5 one of the main questions is "what technologies help make formative and summative assessments more effective and efficient?" This website explains formative and summative assessments, along with ways to create rubrics for what you are wanting to assess.
When teachers integrate technology into student activities and projects, they often have a hard time figuring out how to assess it. This website talks about different types of assessments, and also provides rubrics for a variety of topics. In week 5 one of the main questions is "what technologies help make formative and summative assessments more effective and efficient?" This website explains formative and summative assessments, along with ways to create rubrics for what you are wanting to assess.
This is a video about standards and accountability of schools. It also explains how schools are graded A-F and why. This relates to week 5 because we will be discussing all types of standard, such as, Oklahoma standards, student/teacher standards, and many more.
This is a video about standards and accountability of schools. It also explains how schools are graded A-F and why. This relates to week 5 because we will be discussing all types of standard, such as, Oklahoma standards, student/teacher standards, and many more.
Educators use frequent formative assessments to determine the needs of each student. This video is a good example of how we can use formative assessment that is talked about in week 5 in the textbook. Toby also has taught us about differentiation in classrooms.
Educators use frequent formative assessments to determine the needs of each student. This video is a good example of how we can use formative assessment that is talked about in week 5 in the textbook. Toby also has taught us about differentiation in classrooms.
Watching this video before/during creating a LiveText portfolio will be a lot of help. It walks you through step by step instructions. During week 5 you will have to create a portfolio on LiveText and if you get confused this will be a good video to come back to.
Watching this video before/during creating a LiveText portfolio will be a lot of help. It walks you through step by step instructions. During week 5 you will have to create a portfolio on LiveText and if you get confused this will be a good video to come back to.
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Edutopia is one of my favourite educational web resources . Today while I was checking its Five Minute Film Festival page I came across a link that took me to their YouTube channel where I found a treasure trove of interesting videos on digital citizenship and because digital citizenship is one of the important themes in this blog, I decided to handpick some of the clips that grabbed my attention and share them with you below , you can also check the entire list here.
This website gives resources for teachers to assess their students' content knowledge in a technological way. Assessment of the instruction of content is essential for a teacher. These resources make assessment interesting and show results in a very visual way. This instruction benefits teachers as they get to realize what their students have actually learned. Often students do not want to show that they do not understand the content, these resources give students a chance to share their voice.
In recent years, smartphones have become so good at recording video that they can successfully compete with standalone cameras, at least when it comes to shooting non-professional video. Of course, if you want your videos to look great, you'll usually need an expensive, 4K-capable handset.