Teachers on Pinterest - A Great Resource for Teachers. Pinterest has recently rolled out Teachers on Pinterest, a page packed full of Pinterest boards for teachers.
I have been going around these boards and found them really interesting. Some Boards are labelled according to student grades and therefore you will find grades for preschoolers, kindergarten, 1st grade to the 6th grade. All thee boards feature interesting learning and teaching materials, tips, lesson plans and ideas that you can use with your students. There are also boards for different content areas such as Art, Literacy, Science, Math. The rest of the boards cover a wide range of topics including : classroom management, educational blogs, class decor, and technology in classroom. Teachers on Pinterest is a good place to start with when looking for teaching resources to use in your class. Teacher's Guide to Creating Facebook Group for Students. After posting about how to create a Google Plus community for your class one of my readers here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning asked about whether there is a way to do the same on Facebook.
Her question got me thinking : how come I have been blogging for all these years and never came into my mind to post a tutorial on how teachers can create a Facebook group for their students. Although it is not on my posting schedule for today, I am not letting the idea go because if if I postpone it I might probably forget about it. Why create a Facebook page for your class ? As a teacher, I would not want to add my students to my friend list on Facebook not because of any considerations other than the fact that their feeds would not be relevant to mine. Believe me I tried it before and I ended up regretting it so I had to go back and unfriend all. How to use your class Facebook page ? From the start, set out clear and strict rules on what to post and share . Teacher Resigns Via YouTube Over Standardized Testing. Standardized testing has long been a hot-button topic among educational circles.
But a veteran teacher is now taking a very open position against the concept by resigning from her job — and telling everyone about it on YouTube. The video, which was posted on Tuesday under the account I Quit You Can't Fire Me, is quickly going viral. Her resignation claims how students and teachers alike can be affected by state-mandated curriculums and tests. The woman, a 4th grade teacher for the past 15 years, says that at one point, she was excited to contribute so powerfully to the lives of children — but over time, she believes the educational system has changed for the worse. “The emphasis in education has shifted from fostering academic and personal growth in both students and teachers to demanding uniformity and conformity," she says.
"I care more about the people my students become than the scores on the tests they take," she says. Image courtesy of YouTube, I Quit You Can't Fire Me. 5 School-Worthy iPad Alternatives. Amplify Tablet The recent decision to split News Corp saw the introduction of a new division tasked with providing digital learning materials to the education market.
That division, named Amplify, has since sprung into life with the 10-inch Android tablet designed specifically for K-12 education. The tablet is manufactured by Asus, offers a quad-core Tegra 3 system-on-chip and the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system, while battery life is quoted at an impressive 8.5 hours. While that in itself isn’t revolutionary, the Amplify tablet impresses with its array of education-friendly features. Eye-tracking technology helps the tablet push out an “eyes on teacher” message asking students to look-up from their devices and pay attention to the teacher, while teachers themselves can also use the Amplify tablet for planning lessons, sending out assignments and managing students’ tablets during lessons.
Dell Latitude 10 essentials configuration LearnPad Quarto Kuno Tablet Amazon Kindle Fire. How To: Use Wikipedia in the Classroom Responsibly. Despite the fact that it’s currently the year 2013, and that our collective EdTech excitement is growing every single day, there’s still one aspect of modern technology and the Internet that is too often ignored in our classrooms.
You know what I’m talking about: the “W” word. Wikipedia. The problem is that Wikipedia in the classroom has gotten a bad reputation in the K-12 world, undeservedly so I think. I would suggest that Wikipedia can be used for a multitude of educational purposes at a wide variety of grade levels. Too many teachers are still afraid to use it in class, so I’m here to right that wrong and show our educators how they can responsibly integrate Wikipedia into their lessons. 1. Even though it has a reputation among teachers for inaccuracy and lawlessness, Wikipedia does have a few guidelines that all editors should abide by. Free content: All content submitted to Wikipedia must be original, since it will become part of the commons. 2. 3. Here are some pointers: 4. 5. Социальная сеть для людей, которых интересует обучение за рубежом. How To: Use Wikipedia in the Classroom Responsibly.