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Job and Career Information for Teens | Grades 6-8 | Kids.gov | USAGov. A-Z List Features jobs in different fields Art Actor, Dancer, Fashion Designer, Photographer Building Things Architect, Civil Engineer, City Planner, Surveyor Environment and Nature Oceanographer, Environmental Scientist, Plant Specialist, Weather Scientist Government Contracting Officer, Working for the CIA, Judge, Politician Health Doctor, Nurse, Pharmacist, Psychologist Helping People Childcare Worker, Firefighter, Police Officer, Teacher Math Accountant, Bookkeeper, Mathematician, Statistician, Engineer Money Accountant, Economist, Financial Analyst, Loan Officer Reading and Writing Librarian, Reporter, Secretary, Writer Science Engineer, Pharmacist, Astronaut, Food Scientist Working With Animals Animal Keeper, Marine Biologist, Bird Specialist, Veterinarian. Cool Websites - 21st Century School Teacher. 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning | K12 educational transformation through technology.

Education Technology: Is It All Hype With No Return? While some may regard the recent buzz around education technology as hype, it’s important to realize it is based on an element of hopefulness. The hope is that technology can offer personalized and adaptive delivery of curricula, improve outcomes, and better prepare students for tech-driven workplaces.

At a time of significant national concern with the price of higher education, there is also hope that innovative technology could reduce these costs. Too often, focus is placed on technology as a panacea or replacement for human interaction. This, perhaps, explains why higher education has been slower to adopt technology than other professions. However, weighing the benefits of technology against the value of human interaction is not an either/or scenario—the solution to our higher education challenges lies in both: technology in concert with people and process. Technology can enable education professionals and students to amplify the impact they make. Encouraging Student Engagement. Educational Technology Publications. Badrul Khan interviews visionary leaders from various countries who successfully implemented innovative technology-based educational programs.

Book Reviews section: reviews both printed books and books published on the Web. Books on all aspects of the field of educational technology are reviewed. Conference Reports: consisting of articles from important conferences and seminars in the field. The magazine now includes periodical columns by Marc Prensky, Denis Hlynka, Alexander Romiszowski, Michael Bush Susan Patrick and Ellen Rose. In addition, most issues include a biographical study of a significant figure in the history of the field of educational technology, edited by Tom Reeves. Rounding out the new directions for the magazine, its Editors have commissioned numerous special-issue treatments on important developing trends in the field.

Teacher's Comprehensive List of Great Educational Technology Resources. Coming to you from the Canadian Maritimes ( Halifax), Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is an educational blog dedicated to curating, reviewing and sharing EdTech tools and mobile apps. The purpose is to help teachers and educators effectively integrate digital technologies into their day-to-day teaching, learning and professional development. For any questions regarding our website or the content we publish, please contact EdTech admin, editor and blog owner, Med Kharbach at: info@educatorstechnology.com. Med Kharbach is a doctoral researcher and a former teacher with 10 years of classroom teaching experience. Med's research interests include: language learning, linguistics, Internet linguistics, critical linguistics, discourse analysis, new (emerging) literacies, and educational technology.

Here is how to cite any of our blog posts in APA style : Kharbach, M. Example: Kharbach, M. (2016, December 30). 9 Fundamental digital skills for 21st century teachers [Blog post]. The 10 Best Web Tools For Flipped Classrooms. While flipping the classroom is still one of the hottest trends in education, it’s got nothing on time-saving and downright useful apps and web tools. In an effort to provide a quick look at some of the best web tools for flipped classrooms, I thought it would be useful to poll the @Edudemic Twitter followers. Including the tweets, I also got at least 40 emails from friends, colleagues, and administrators from around the world. One thing stood out to me: there were a lot of repeats! Many folks who have tried the flipped classroom model or are currently deploying it have leveraged a lot of the same web tools.

Below is a simple list designed to help get any educator, administrator, student, or parent a bit more familiar with some of the most popular web tools for flipped classrooms. Wikispaces Using In Flipped Classrooms: Many teachers who wrote into the ol’ Edudemic account say they use Wikispaces to power their classroom blog. Poll Everywhere Edmodo Screencast Celly Dropbox YouTube Twitter. The Best Interactive Web Tools for Educators.

Most of us are working at full capacity, and keeping up with technology can feel like one more chore on the to-do list. Still, learning your way around a few of the best Web tools is worth your time. Innovative teachers are frequently using intuitive programs and websites that are easy to learn. These web tool can save you a lot of daily hassles that you might not even realize you have been tolerating. Whether you want to move the class newsletter online or try out a flipped classroom, we’re sharing the best sites to do it.

Sharing and Collaborating The Internet was invented to foster communication. Google Docs First of all, you never have to hit “save” in Google Docs. Google Forms Whether you want to send a quiz to your students or organize a field trip, Google forms can help you distribute and gather information. WordPress Create a class website or blog on this free, easy-to-use site. EduBlogs Set up blogs here for yourself or your students, and you can control the safety settings. EdX. A List of 16 Websites Every Teacher should Know about. 1- Teachers Network Teachers Network provides lesson plans, classroom specials, teacher designed activities for different subjects and many other resources. 2- Smithsonian Education Smithsonian Education offers a wide variety of free resources for teachers, students and parents. 3- Education World This is another great website for teachers. 4- Discovery Education Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell 5- The Gateway This is one of the oldest publicly accessible U.S repositories of education resources on the web. 6- EdHelper EdHelper provides teachers with free printables, graphic organizers, worksheets, lesson plans, games and many other activities. 7- Thinkfinity Thinkfinity is a free online professional learning community that provides access to over 50.000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for k-12 8- PBS Teachers 9- Teachers.net 10- 42explore.

50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. Via Edudemic Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom.

Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools. Resources - Summer PD And Fun. Whether summer brings you time to relax, an opportunity to bolster your credentials, or some extra work to help balance your checkbook, you’ll likely want to keep at least one toe in the education pool. We have suggestions to spur your cogitation and avoid any professional “summer slide.” Plus have some fun along the way. Here’s a quick preview: ►Find a nearby edcamp. Summer camp isn’t just for kids, anymore!

►Get Heather Wolpert-Gawron’s take on summer spent thinking like a teacher. Books to Savor Anticipating some deep relaxation? Want to be a MiddleWeb reviewer yourself? You may want to take on this year’s version of the Book Whisperer’s summer reading Book-a-Day Challenge for educators. Edutopia blogger and MiddleWeb contributor Elena Aguilar has some summer book suggestions at her Edutopia blog —for 2012 it’s a mix of professional and personal reading ideas with lots of added ideas from readers. Also at Edutopia, Mark Phillips describes his favorite summer reads for educators. Four Scary Good Ed Tech Sites.

I spent some time trying to come up with a really scary post for Halloween, but I decided I would stay positive instead and share some scary good sites on educational technology. Get it? Scary? Anyway, here are four tried and true sites I always turn to when I need help with a tech tool or when I'm looking for something new. Warning: the puns you are about to read are also terrifying. iLearn Technology This site by Kelly Tenkely is filled with terrifyingly wonderful new sites for K-12 and suggestions for how best to integrate them into the classroom. Blogging About the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom Steven Anderson (@Web20Classroom on Twitter) is the ghoul behind this amazing site. Free Technology For Teachers This bone-rattling good site is run by Richard Byrne. EduClipper This website comes from the mad scientist himself, Adam Below.

Failure to check out any of these amazing sites is a surefire way to bring down the wrath of the educational gods of yore.