Thinking Blocks provides interactive templates in which students use brightly colored blocks to model and solve problems. As students work through the problems they are provided with feedback as to whether or not they are using the correct sequence to solve each problem. There are templates and problems for addition, multiplication, fractions, and ratios. You can also develop your own problems using the modeling tool.
Software that models Boolean operations.
Uses key terms and graphical pieces to apply Boolean logic in visual way.
Helps build mental model of search.
Helps with comprehension and understanding of search.
Software that models Boolean operations.
Uses key terms and graphical pieces to apply Boolean logic in visual way.
Helps build mental model of search.
Helps with comprehension and understanding of search.
How teacher assessment is standardized in our area. Shows what goes into an evaluation, and what teacher's are assessed on. Not everyone's model, but resembles most.
This web site offers tools and resources for blended learning, grouped into five functional sub-menus: Process, Model Courses, Effective Practices, Evaluation Resources, and a Faculty Development section
Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model. This infographic clearly explains a flipped classroom and the benefits. If you are having trouble completely understanding the idea of a flipped classroom this will help.
In this website related to evaluating resources, teachers can find tips/ideas on how to teach students to validate information and sources. Educators can offer this URL to students, and the learners can analyze what is required in authenticating information they find. For instance, the dimensions of critical analysis (relevance, accuracy, bias/perspective, and reliability) are clearly defined and explained. The teacher can then model examples of each dimension for children. Along with this and much more, questions to consider before using a source in your papers, etc. are identified.
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are a set of standards published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) for the purpose of leveraging the use of technology in K-12 education to enable students to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital society.
What we Found:
The National Educational Technology standards give information about the standards with technology. Some of these standards include:
-Teachers model and advocate safe teaching
-promote digital etiquette, and they exhibit legal and ethical responsibility and respect
-teachers identify the societal global issues of media literacy in an evolving digital world
-exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources
Natalie Copens
Brenda Tucker
Randy Reed
Allee Bernheimer
This information is adapted from a presentation made by library media specialists Ann B. O'Neill, Franklin High School, and Carrie Everhart, Randallstown High School, Baltimore County Public Schools, at the Maryland Educational Media Organization (MEMO) Fall 1997 Conference "School Libraries: Plugged In & Connected," October 23-24, 1997.
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