EduTechK12November

For the tech teachers

A cool infographic that explains the flip.

"When my students wanted to do a project using social media to bring awareness to human trafficking and the problems. They had a wordpress blog, a Twitter account (we set up twitter feed to send the posts there) and a Facebook page. We tracked engagement levels and things that created likes. What stimulated engagement. Now, this was part of my social media module for 3 weeks but it wasn't just your average "post on facebook." "

Dan's keynote was thoughtful and inspiring. Wellbeing is so important.

Clever

via one of my doctoral students ....use for article on critical thinking..

great videos from math teacher

"A new study shows that students learn much better through an active, iterative process that involves working through their misconceptions with fellow students and getting immediate feedback from the instructor."

Proud of my doctoral student RT @SharBiggs: Good blog about the power of Twitter- http://t.co/lCDvEiMM

""It's really what's going on in the students' minds rather than who is instructing them," said lead researcher Carl Wieman of the University of British Columbia, who shared a Nobel physics prize in 2001. "This is clearly more effective learning. Everybody should be doing this. ... You're practicing bad teaching if you are not doing this." The study compared just two sections of physics classes for just one week, but Wieman said the technique would work for other sciences as well, and even for history." Study: It's not teacher, but method that matters. http://t.co/Te2kaUlp via @Diigo #edtech #edchat #cpchat

""The new website is all about what teachers and students can do with those videos," explains TED-Ed catalyst Logan Smalley. "The goal of TED-Ed is for each great lesson to reach and motivate as many learners as possible. The new website goes a step further, allowing any teacher to tailor video content, create unique lesson plans, and monitor students' progress. By putting this new technology to use, we hope to maximize time in class and give teachers an exciting tool for customizing - and encouraging - learning.""

Must see Amazing math tutorial site by students at @Shirelandca in the UK. http://t.co/s58UHUPf #math #mlearning #edtech #cpchat #edchat

Fascinating conversation on FLOW http://t.co/LfOE8thv. Moving from class to class disrupts flow, self reflection contributes to FLOW

list of educational hashtags to follow in Twitter

" Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress"

" It doesn't solve anything. It is a great first step in reframing the role of the teacher in the classroom. It fosters the "guide on the side" mentality and role, rather than that of the "sage of the stage." It helps move a classroom culture towards student construction of knowledge rather than the teacher having to tell the knowledge to students."