How To Bounce Back From Failure. Rejection is rough, no matter how you slice it.
To Game or Not to Game? The Best Ways to Use Games for Learning. So, you think you want to use a game to help people learn.
Sorry, Games and Gamification are Not Magic. It seems that if I am not confronted with a person who is convinced that learning games and gamification are evil re-incarnated and will corrupt the minds of all learners and destroy Western Civilization as we know it, I am thus besieged by a person who believes that learning games and gamification are a magic elixir that will wonderfully transform any and all boring, meaningless training into an “edge-of-your-seat-unforgettable learning experience.”
I secretly believe the latter is more dangerous than the former. 6 Emerging Technologies in Education. It certainly is an exciting time to be involved with learning and technology.
Because of the great advances we are making in educational technology, new doors of opportunity are opening in classrooms. The Horizon Report has identified six technology disciplines that are emerging within classrooms across the United States. Some of these will take some time to implement, but others you can start using today if you want. 1. Cloud Computing - If you are using some form of web-based tools, then you are enabling further student-educator collaboration. 2. 12 Inspirational Movies With Important Life Lessons To Learn. By Celes on Jul 23, 2010 | ShareThis Email This Post “Celes, I was reading one of your articles and noticed a reader mentioning the movie ‘Yes Man’ in his comment.
After reading the comment, I watched the movie and really felt a positive change in me. I will be really grateful if you could suggest similar inspirational movies that can help me in self-improvement.” – Fahad, Pakistan Today’s post is different from usual. To be honest, I don’t watch a lot of movies. 'Da biste prezentacijom došli do novca, imate samo 15 sekundi, igrajte na emocije' Sjećate li se filma Top Gun?
U njemu Tom Cruise kao Maverick vozi motor. I toga se svi sjećaju. A ključno je da je Tom Cruise na motoru samo 30 sekundi. 35 Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom - Google disk. How laughing leads to learning. As a self-described "math phobic," the last thing Johns Hopkins University nursing student Erin Wright wanted to do last spring was enroll in biostatistics, a required course in her bachelor's program.
Yet by the end of the semester not only did her anxiety subside, but she felt confident applying the basic tenets of statistics to analyze medical research. What sparked the metamorphosis? She says it was her professor, Ron Berk, PhD, who interjected levity into the class and made number crunching fun. In his course, Berk stages lavish, over-the-top musical skits--starring himself and students--that draw from pop culture. 3 powerful ideas you should steal from marketing - dinkaju - Gmail. Tin Can: My First Impressions From mLearnCon 2012. 50 Best eLearning Posts Of 2012. Using Bloom’s to Target the Objectives. During my recent webinar “Hitting The Target With Technology Enhanced Learning Objects“ I discussed a number of key elements required to design effective learning objectives.
One of these elements, and the one I consider the most important, is objectivity. Having learners achieve the objectives of a course is critical for their ongoing training and development. The course design, including the learning interactions, can have a significant impact on the success of the learning objectives being achieved. How To YouTube Your Classroom. How To YouTube Your Classroom by Terry Heick Ed note: This post has been updated from a crazy old post we forgot we published and nobody read anyway because we were only weeks old and had zero traffic so yeah.
100+ Must-See Video Sites For Educators. Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning.
Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool. In 2010, we covered our favorite 100 video sites for educators, and we’ve now updated our list for 2012 with more than 100 resources and more than 25 brand new entries. 10 Macro Strategies To Promote Deeper Learning.
10 Macro Strategies to Promote Deeper Learning by Tom Vander Ark first appeared on gettingsmart.com Author Bernie Trilling asked, “What would it take for more students to benefit from deeper learning?” Trilling was referring to education that pushes beyond the basics, is engaging and challenging, and prepares young people for college and careers. The Hewlett Foundation says deeper learning prepares students to: Master core academic contentThink critically and solve complex problemsWork collaborativelyCommunicate effectivelyLearn how to learn (e.g., self-directed learning). That means that students will be researching, writing, problem solving and presenting. Are Apps the New Textbook?
Apple’s recent entry into the textbook market was a bit anticlimactic after news of a “major announcement” rippled through the internet. The news that Apple would soon enable teachers to create personalized and interactive textbooks was interesting if you’re merging old ed-thinking with modern tech-thinking. Textbooks have long been used as centralized information stores, allowing users to all be on the same page (literally), with the same content, and take the same tests. Of course, after Carol Ann Tomlinson (among others) spent the last decade and a half trying to convince education to differentiate instruction—creating access to content, process, and product based on interest, readiness, and learning profile—we’ve seemingly skipped full integration of that step altogether in pursuit of modern ideas of individualized instruction and personalized learning.
Like the textbook. 1. How To Kill A Learner's Curiosity In 10 Easy Steps. How To Kill Learner Curiosity In 12 Easy Steps by Terry Heick Ed note: This has been updated from a 2012 post that you may or may not have already read. So, there’s that. Killing a learner’s natural curiosity doesn’t happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in some rare cases even that isn’t long enough. 10 Strategies To Promote Curiosity In Learning. Curiosity is crucial to learning. For years, education has responded by admonishing teachers to “enagage” students with “engaging content,” but engagement and curiosity are decidedly different.
An engaged student may very well be curious, but such curiosity isn’t necessary for engagement. Engagement is more than paying attention, but doesn’t demand an empowered thinker forging into new ideas with an open-mind and relevant questions. That’s curiosity. More importantly, authentic curiosity comes from the learner outward, not by dangling flashing, singing and dancing carrots in front of students. 25 Tricks To Improve A Boring Lesson For Improved Student Engagement. 27 Ways To Increase Student Engagement In Learning. Student engagement in learning is kind of important. No matter the best practices of your curriculum mapping, instructional strategies, use of data for learning, formative assessment, or expert use of project-based learning, mobile learning, and a flipped classroom, if students aren’t engaged, most is for naught. Historically, student engagement has been thought of in terms of students “paying attention”: raising hands, asking questions, and making eye contact.
27 Ways to Increase Family Involvement In The Classroom. Increasing family involvement in your classroom has probably been a goal of yours for years–especially if you teach anywhere beyond 7th grade. While “literacy nights,” and related student showcases are great, improving the strength–and authenticity–of the connection between school and home could yield a staggering improvement in both academic and “whole child” progress. By now you’ve seen the following block-style infographics from Mia MacMeekin that offer quick tips on a variety of teaching topics. The one below offers 27 ways to increase family involvement in the classroom. Are Traditional Teaching Methods Still Effective? 10 talks from inspiring teachers. Memorization As A Tool To Support Cognitive Independence. Paolo Freire coined the term “banking education” in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1983). As I recall, this term refers to the type of education that those of lower socioeconomic status typically receive–teacher-centered content, lecture, and rote memorization.
Each time a teacher meets with students, the teacher makes a deposit in their minds (the bank). Getting Started Using Learnist In The Classroom. A tool we’ve been playing around with recently at TeachThought is called Learnist. Everything You Need To Know About Social Media In One Picture. Is Social Media Hurting Productivity In Learning? So, you’ve just finished a task or an assignment and figure you deserve a little mental break. Why not check Facebook or Twitter? It will only take you five minutes, right? Wrong. 3 Tips To Communicate More Effectively Via Social Media.
3 Tips To Communicate More Effectively Via Social Media by Bena Kallick, Institute for Habits of Mind. 10 Reasons BYOD Is Impossible To Ignore. Your 60-Second Guide To Changing The World Through Social Media - Social media has taken on a life of its own in 2012. Once an interesting distraction, any progressive digital platform worth its salt is now fully social and omni-aware. A Visual Intro To Teaching With Tablets. Tablets–iPads, Nexus 7s, Kindles, and even Intel’s Studybook–can be powerful learning tools, offering: 1.
50 Incredibly Useful Links For Learning & Teaching The English Language - Teaching a new language to non-native speakers may be one of the most challenging educational jobs out there, so ELL teachers can use all of the help they can get! Thankfully, many excellent resources for ELL and ESL exist online, from full-service websites to reference tools and communities, all designed to make the task of educating ELL students just a little bit easier and more effective. We’ve scoured the Internet to share 50 of the best of these resources, and we hope you’ll find lots of valuable content and tools through these incredibly useful links for ELL educators.
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