Discovery Education Web2011 : Home. PowerUp What Works - About Powering Up Your School. Living Faster - Digital Natives. 89 percent of 18- to 24-year-old Americans are online Digital Natives aged 12 to 24 spend 4.5 hours a day viewing screen media (TV, Internet, Internet video, mobile video), excluding games [PDF] 82 percent of seventh- to twelfth-graders "media multitask" while doing homework, e.g.
IM, TV, Web surfing, etc. Living Faster - Digital Natives. Interview What's in a Turtle?
Sherry Turkle had a moment of realization with her daughter: kids don't always make a distinction between real life and simulation. Turkle is a clinical psychologist and the director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. PATINS Project: UDL Resources. Preparing New Teachers. References. References Adams, Marilyn Jager.
Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print, A Summary. Center for the Study of Reading, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. Adams, M.J.; Foorman, B.R.; Lundberg, I.; and Beeler, T. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Day1Activities. Introduction: Prior to the lesson, teachers must copy enough Ruby Bridges QAR pages for groups of either 3 or 4 students.
These must be cut into strips as well for both columns and placed in a Ziploc bag. Teachers must also have an overhead copy or something equivalent of the QAR graphic organizer to show to students while teaching. Finally teachers should divide a piece of chart paper into 4 columns or sections. Power to Learn - Gadgets. Technology in the Classroom. High quality images have never been easier to find online and a good image can make your document look better whether you are communicating with parents, students or administrators.
Whether you're publishing on the Web, creating presentations or worksheets, composing a newsletter, or writing to a friend, nothing captures an audience's attention faster, or holds it longer, than an appealing image. Nothing helps people remember what you write more than just the right image does. Included: Tips for finding free clip art and incorporating it into your digital documents! Word processors, desktop publishers, HTML editors, authoring packages, presentation tools -- the number and kinds of applications available for creating documents grows constantly. Everyone has his or her personal favorites. Nothing is more boring -- or more forgettable -- than a page of printed text. Tech-Fueled Differentiated Instruction Engages Elementary School Students. Good morning and welcome to "Forest Lake Today".
Alex, do you have any announcements? Yes, I do… Narrator: Watching the morning TV show at Forest Lake Elementary in Columbia, South Carolina, gives you a good sense of what this school is all about. Speaking of cool, Robert, what's the weather going to be like today? Narrator: It is a place where differentiated instruction sparks every individual's passion for learning.
Right now I want to introduce you to our team, and they're going to tell you about their invention. How to search for Internet resources to use in a lesson. 7 - Digital Citizenship - 21 Things for the 21st Century Educator. Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask. 1.
What can the URL tell you? Techniques for Web Evaluation : 1. Before you leave the list of search results -- before you click and get interested in anything written on the page -- glean all you can from the URLs of each page. 2. 2. 1. INSTRUCTIONS for Truncating back a URL: In the top Location Box, delete the end characters of the URL stopping just before each / (leave the slash). Continue this process, one slash (/) at a time, until you reach the first single / which is preceded by the domain name portion. 3. Check the date on all the pages on the site. 3. My Pop Studio: Digital. Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning. Copyrightconfusion - Scenarios. TSIPs Quiz pdf free ebook download from www.alleghany.k12.va.us. TSIPS. Web Research Guide : Activity: Evaluate a Web Site. Education Schools Project. Report #2 Educating School Teachers September 2006 This report is the second in a series of candid policy papers on the education of educators.
It identifies several model teacher education programs, but also finds that the vast majority of the nation's teachers are prepared in programs that have low admission and graduation standards and cling to an outdated vision of teacher education. Both state requirements and accreditation agencies have failed to assure that America's teachers are ready for the classrooms in which they will teach. The report also includes findings from national surveys revealing how America's principals and teachers feel about the quality of preparation that education schools provide, as well as findings from a study on the relationship between student achievement and teacher preparation. Educating School Teachers closes with a comprehensive action plan to improve teacher education in America. Appomattox Online TSIP Lesson 7 Google. I'm just a teacher who is trying to keep up with my digital native students. Region 4 ESC - Universal Design for Learning - Microsoft tools. Udl4all / Enhancements for Microsoft Word.
Enhancements for Microsoft Word WordTalk free text-to-speech add-on that turns Word into a talking word processor includes a talking spell-checkercreates audio files from text (wav and mp3) (Word 97, Word 2000, Word XP, Word 2003, Word 2007, Word 2010) Voice Comments in Microsoft Word (Avaiable in Word 2003 and earlier versions)
Universal-Design-For-Learning - home. Universal-Design-For-Learning - 8 UDL & Differentiation. Educator Consultant Author. Supporting Universal Access and Universal Design for Learning. Tips, tricks, and help for educators and bloggers using technology. Free clip art, photos, and other media for educational use. This week I was helping my daughter create an ABC book on for her World Studies Class.
She has learned in school how to use Google Images to search for pictures, but doesn’t really understand that many of these pictures are not legally free for her to use in school projects. It is a common misconception made by many individuals, including educators and parents, that if they are using an image off the web for educational use, that it is fine to do so. Internet Terms. Differentiating with Web 2.0 Technologies. Differentiation is a very important tool for educators to use in their classrooms to help students learn and succeed. Differentiation is a teacher’s response to learner’s needs and a recognition that all students learn differently, have differing backgrounds and varying levels of skills and knowledge. To differentiate learning means to create different paths for students to learn and achieve.
To differentiate means to customize learning experiences for each student. Teachers can differentiate the content or process or product that the student receives and is expected to do in class. This is all based on the student’s readiness, interest, and background. They can also use different types of teaching, assignments and assessments in their classroom. Technology is an excellent resource to help teachers support differentiation in their classroom. WebQuest - Websites... Which Ones Should You Trust? - Intro. Websites… Which Ones Should You Trust? Is a WebQuest that can be used as a supplement in ABE classes or in a Family Literacy program. It offers practitioners a resource to use in the direct teaching of information literacy or critical reading/critical thinking and comprehension skills. Using this WebQuest, adult learners working alongside their children in a Family Literacy setting can spend time together reviewing the website evaluation tips and read the legitimate and hoax websites to determine which ones are trustworthy and present accurate information.
- The How's, Why's and Value of Educational Technology. 0 Comments January 18, 2012 By: David Andrade, Jan 18. An Ask AL Answer: 6 Rules for Children and Facebook. - Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler. 0 Comments December 28, 2010 By: Guest Blogger Dec 28 Written by: 12/28/2010 9:15 AM ShareThis. - A Catalog of iPad Apps for Teachers and Students by Vicki Windman. 0 Comments August 31, 2011 By: by Aug 31. Interactive Whiteboard Activities During Reading. Posted by Miss Kelly Jordan on Sunday, June 19th 2011. - Top 25 Web 2.0 Sites for Education by David Kapuler. Eye On Education > Home. - Top 100 Sites of 2011.