Free Digital Citizenship Posters. Thanks to a post by Doug Peterson I learned that Edmodo has a nice poster outlining digital citizenship guidelines for students. Yes, the poster has a clear promotion for Edmodo at the bottom, but it is still a nice poster containing reminders for students to follow. The poster is available as a PDF in two sizes, two color schemes, and six languages. Common Sense Media also has a good poster on digital citizenship that you should check out. Their poster is a flow chart of decisions and actions for students.Applications for Education The Edmodo digital citizenship poster is a good one to print and post in computer labs, school libraries, and anywhere else that you want put it to remind students of their responsibilities as digital citizens.
Going From One-Size-Fits-All Education, To One-Size-Fits-One. In June of 2009, after Michael Jackson died, I decided it was time to learn how to moonwalk. I went to YouTube and found the “How to Moonwalk” video with the most hits, a simple 2:15 minute homemade job by Montreal DJ AngeDeLumiere. The video proved to be a lesson not only in a dance step but in transformative pedagogy. Ange begins by showing us what we think is the way to do the moonwalk. He’s right. Alvin Toffler calls this method of instruction “unlearning.”
Ange’s video is a great model of teaching and a great metaphor for the kind of educational change we need to embrace right now. But if learning is the issue--and especially learning in an age of information abundance--then we have to unlearn that old model. Take the example of learning a new sport. Whenever I speak before large gatherings of corporate trainers, they tell me they can recruit anyone now, in this economy; the very best students from the very best universities. Home Page. 8 weeks, 8 pencils . . . I've tried a variety of responses to students who show up to class pencil-less: 1. Refusing to give them a pencil, so they can learn to be responsible. (Doesn't work, and I feel like a jerk.) 2. Providing them with a pencil. (Pencil is usually gone for good.) 3.
Trading them for something valuable. This year, I just put out a cup of pencils for students to use as needed. 8 weeks later, I still have all the pencils I put out at the beginning of the year. It turns out, a plastic spoon is a very affective anti-theft device. Then I came up with a use for the forks. (Green pens for checking bell work.) We figured out right away that the spoon-pencil has a major design flaw: You can't use the eraser. So, then I really got carried away . . . I would recommend attaching the eraser to the handle part instead . . . How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom. A.P. Chemistry students use their cell phones to answer their teacher's question. When we talk about using cell phones in class, we’re not just talking about using cell phones in class.
The idea of mobile learning touches on just about every subject that any technology addresses: social media, digital citizenship, content-knowledge versus skill-building, Internet filtering and safety laws, teaching techniques, bring-your-own-device policies, school budgets. At its core, the issues associated with mobile learning get to the very fundamentals of what happens in class everyday. At their best, cell phones and mobile devices seamlessly facilitate what students and teachers already do in thriving, inspiring classrooms.
Students communicate and collaborate with each other and the teacher. In Ramsey Musallam’s A.P. As soon as kids walk in, Musallam sends out a text blast through Remind101, asking them a challenge question that’s related to the day’s lesson. Related. Creating a Purposeful Classroom | InService Blog. I’m a fan of Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey. I attended their session “Responding When Students Don’t Get It” at ASCD’s 2011 Annual Conference, so naturally I was curious about their 2012 session titled ”The Purposeful Classroom,” based on the book of the same name. The session starts with a clip of a 2nd grade ELD (English Language Development) lesson, after which Frey commented that communicating the purpose of a lesson isn’t something that should only be done at the beginning of the period. I’m guilty of this. Over the years I’ve come around to posting learning goals on the board and starting a class by going over them.
After that, students don’t usually hear about our learning goals again unless I’m lucky enough to have left myself enough time for closure. One area where I’m fairly good at keeping students focused on the purpose of an activity is during labs. Making sure that students understand the purpose of a lesson seems like a straightforward goal. Remind 101. txt msg to Ss.