“What makes it worthwhile are the interactive features and getting the kids at the board to connect with the material, because on the whiteboard you can present it in a way you cannot do with a chalkboard or overhead projector,” says Gilley, who began teaching a decade ago after a career in business. The ability to present multimedia material that is verbal, visual, auditory, and interactive, she says, is essential to draw today’s students into the subject matter.
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Education Week's Digital Directions: Whiteboards' Impact on Teaching Seen as Uneven - 0 views
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teachers who don’t know how or refuse to use them
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The teachers who were most effective using the whiteboards displayed many of the characteristics of good teaching in general: They paced the lesson appropriately and built on what students already knew; they used multiple media, such as text, pictures, and graphics, for delivering information; they gave students opportunities to participate; and they focused mainly on the content, not the technology.
The Innovative Educator: Scoop.it! Lets You Create Beautiful Subject-Specific Reading C... - 3 views
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Students working in cooperative groups can create a Scoop.it! about a topic of interest or study. Teachers can create Scoop.Its! about topics they are studying for professional development. Teachers can create Scoop.Its! about topics their students will be studying. Students and Teachers can look at existing Scoop.Its! to connect with others who share their interests and learn about interesting things. Here are some interesting Scoop.its! that I found about learning innovatively:
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - 2 views
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Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps.
What's the difference between PBL and Design Thinking? - Ewan McIntosh | Design Thinkin... - 0 views
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A PBL project tends to explore a relatively narrow subject area, with a narrow essential question
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In Design Thinking, the students, not the teacher, write the essential question(s)
Control Alt Achieve: Free Tech Curriculum for all Subjects with Google's Applied Digita... - 0 views
How important are high school courses to college performance? Less than you might think - 0 views
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we believe that freeing up some curricular time to pilot alternative pedagogical approaches that would be studied may yield more evidence on what works for whom without the worry that students will be shortchanged by less drilling on subject content.
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