Skip to main content

Home/ Web Tools for Educators/ Group items tagged knowledge

Rss Feed Group items tagged

David Wetzel

How to Integrate Wolfram Alpha into Science and Math Classes - 2 views

  •  
    What is Wolfram Alpha? It is a supercomputing brain. It provides calculates and provides comprehensive answers to most any science or math question. Unlike other search sources, you and your students can ask questions in plain language or various forms of abbreviated notation. Contrary to popular belief, Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. Unlike popular search engines, which simply retrieve documents based on keyword searches, Wolfram computes answers based on known models of human knowledge. It provides answers which are complete with data and algorithms, representing real-world knowledge.
Alexandre Oliveira

Rationale for educational blogging | EduBlog Insights - 2 views

    • Alexandre Oliveira
       
      Must we always talk about 'children' as the learners?
  • skills and concepts
  • help teachers learn to use blogs
  • ...20 more annotations...
  • writing for a public audience
  • cite and link
  • comment tool
  • how to read web materials m
  • sharing opinions
  • grow communities of discourse and knowledge
  • knowledge as interconnected
  • meaning of voice
  • ownership and choice
  • worldwide audience
  • skills to foster a contributing audience on their blog.
  • archive feature
  • opportunity for collective and collaborative learning
  • possibility of connecting with experts
  • interactive nature
  • creates enthusiasm for writing
  • engages students in conversation and learning
  • global conversations
  • learn to write for life-long learning
  • teach responsible public writing
Susan Oxnevad

24 Multimedia Tools That Support The Common Core - Edudemic - 12 views

  •  
    Students can construct deep knowledge about a topic as they engage in building a multimedia project. If used effectively, a well designed student-driven learning experience can take the place of traditional methods of teaching content. Use of digital tools can provide students with flexible learning paths to meet their unique learning styles.
Susan Oxnevad

4 Tools to Build Academic Vocabulary - 12 views

  •  
    Technology is an effective and engaging tool that can be used to improve vocabulary acquisition for all learners and engage them in the learning process. Technology resources can provide students with a variety of multimedia content to help them construct knowledge about vocabulary in a way that meets their unique learning needs. Technology allows teachers to design learning experiences that provide students with flexible learning paths. This post will explore some digital tools for helping students construct knowledge about vocabulary.
anonymous

Digital Is | Digital Is ... - 7 views

  •  
    The NWP Digital Is website is a teaching-focused knowledge base exploring the art and craft of writing, the teaching and learning of writing, along with provocations that push us to think in new ways about culture and education in the digital age.
Carla Arena

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Informal Pedagogy of Anime Fandom: An Interview with Reb... - 0 views

  • Interestingly enough, schools often seem to discourage activities with these distributed forms of knowledge and resources, instead focusing on testing for what students have "inside their heads". However, I think it's just as important to recognize, evaluate, and help develop students' strategies for learning, collaborating, and accessing knowledge that they don't already possess, as this seems to be much more aligned with what we do as adults. I mean, I don't know all sorts of things, but I have pretty good strategies in place for finding them out.
    • Carla Arena
       
      the importance of informal learning
  • experts and novices participate in the same areas and activities in affinity spaces. So, as I mentioned previously, novices aren't prevented from engaging in creative activities that they find interesting, even if these activities are challenging for them. And, through working in the same space as experts, novices are able to benefit from this exposure, by asking questions, collaborating, and by observing how experts go about certain tasks.
    • Carla Arena
       
      Profiting from our educators' affinity spaces here.
Eric G. Young

Let Infographics Convey Information More Clearly Than Words Alone - 8 views

  •  
    As this article from Webdesigner Depot aptly puts it, "Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information." Infographics take advantage of the adage, "A picture is worth a thousand words," and the can give broader appeal to a message by tapping into the appetites of visually-oriented consumers.\n\nI find infographics particularly useful to help explain difficult or complex topics, and frequently make use of graphics applications like "mindmaps" in my own work. In fact, I wish my primary field would embrace more creative ways of conveying information to consumers and students. The legal world might be surprised to discover how much more interesting and informative the information would be.\n\nThis article contains infographics aimed primarily at web designers and those with a fairly advanced knowledge of technology. However, there are a number of infographics, such as no. 14, which I think do an excellent job of explaining how different social media outlets can be used by a business to attain different marketing goals. It takes no particular technical skill to understand the information displayed in no. 14, which is what makes it a good infographic for anyone.\n\nIf you are interested in this topic professionally, or you just want to look at some interesting graphics that convey information, check out the article. It's worth a look.
Maggie Verster

Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning (pdf ebook) - 7 views

  •  
    The report Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning, by Cooney Center Industry Fellow Carly Shuler, makes the case that our nation's leaders should not overlook the role mobile technologies can play, if well deployed, in building human capital and in helping to stimulate valuable innovation. As Sesame Street has proven over four decades of remarkable work, exposure to research-tested educational media starting early in life can accelerate children's skills, while producing enduring economic benefi ts to society. Pockets of Potential argues that despite legitimate public concern about the "disruptive track record" of mobile devices in schools, there is reason to be excited about their potential. As an analysis of key industry trends, opportunities, and challenges, including small-scale studies of academic and industry projects, the paper recommends a series of urgent action steps for key sectors to consider. Of particular note are the promising innovations developed by an international group of mobile technology thought leaders - from Silicon Valley to Seoul to sub-Saharan Africa - whose pioneering work is featured in this report and its appendices. The report joins a series of studies the Cooney Center has undertaken since launching one year ago. We hope to stimulate a new debate that will lead industry, funders, scholars, and caregivers to consider how the devices children now rely upon as their social currency may one day help them learn essential skills needed for success. As Mrs. Cooney recently noted, "Now is the time to turn the new media that children have a natural attraction to into learning tools that will build their knowledge and broaden their perspectives." Unless we do, the gulf between what children do informally and in school will widen, diminishing the educational opportunities all of our children need and deserve.
Maggie Verster

50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom - 2 views

  •  
    "Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom. Read below to learn how you can take advantage of the power of Skype in your classroom."
Denise De Felice

Brain and Language Lab - 0 views

  • We are interested in understanding the biological and computational bases of language
  • memory
  • Specific Language Impairment, ADHD, dyslexia, autism
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Specific Language Impairment, ADHD, dyslexia, autism,
  •  
    Here we can find the results of important research conducted by credible neuroscientists. It may help those interested in the topic to build knowledge in the field of neuroeducation.
Maggie Verster

9 Free WYSIWYG Tools to Create Online Forms - 0 views

  •  
    Forms are an integral feature of any website or blog but not everybody has the HTML knowledge to create forms easily. If you are one of those people, don't worry! Because now you can create forms without writing a single line of code. These WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) form builders let you create all sorts of forms by simply dragging and dropping desired fields and pasting the code on your website
Maggie Verster

TWiki - the Open Source Enterprise Wiki and Web 2.0 Application Platform - 12 views

  •  
    "A flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application platform. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet, extranet or the Internet. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. TWiki fosters information flow within an organization, lets distributed teams work together seamlessly and productively, and eliminates the one-webmaster syndrome of outdated intranet content."
Susan Oxnevad

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners: TeachEm: Create Guided YouTube Lessons - 10 views

  •  
    TeachEm is a free and user friendly digital tool that allows users to capture YouTube content, organize it, and add time stamped flashcards to guide the learning.
Susan Oxnevad

Cool Tools to Curate Content - 12 views

  •  
    Content curation is one way to find and share useful knowledge efficiently. There are plenty of user friendly push-button digital tools to help you collect, organize and store web content in flexible ways to allow for shared resources that are accessible online.
Susan Oxnevad

3 Free Cool Tools to Curate Content - 9 views

  •  
    Content curation is a great way to find, organize and share useful knowledge efficiently. There are many free digital tools available to help manage web content in flexible ways allowing us to quickly share resources that are accessible online. Use of curation tools is social and will connect us to the ideas of others and help build our professional learning networks.
1 - 20 of 30 Next ›
Showing 20 items per page