Why and How to Use YouTube Video Essays in Your Classroom. Like many of you, I've been thinking a lot lately about how we can better prepare students to be thoughtful, responsible, and critical consumers and creators. While I don't have all the answers, I've come to one conclusion: Media-literacy education must deal with YouTube. Ninety-one percent of teens use YouTube. That's 30 percent more than use Snapchat (61 percent), the next closest social media competitor, and even more than use tech we think of as ubiquitous, like Gmail (79 percent).
I've come to one conclusion: Media-literacy education must deal with YouTube. What's more, YouTube is a unique beast and can't just be tacked on. What Are YouTube Video Essays? YouTube video essays are long-form (relative to many other internet videos) critical videos that make arguments about media and culture. Why Are They Great for Learning? It's easy to dismiss a lot of what circulates on YouTube as frivolous, silly, or even obnoxious, but video essays are the opposite.
Channels and Videos to Check Out. Ten Things You Can Do With Google Forms. Google Forms and Google Sheets is the part of G Suite for Education that I get most excited about teaching to others. That is largely because once a person understands the basics of how Google Forms and Google Sheets work, the potential applications for school use are almost limitless. Here are ten ways that I often use Google Forms. 1. Manage classroom lending libraries.
In other words, keep track of the stuff students and colleagues borrow from me. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Register for Google Forms & Sheets for Beginners to get started on using Google Forms for any or all of these purposes. Lucy's Recommended Ed Tech Resources. The Tech Trumps® browser help teachers find digital technologies to support their teaching. The Schoology Tools Shelf. Best of Education. 12 Tools That Made The Biggest Difference In My Teaching | TeachThought. 12 Tools That Made The Biggest Difference In My Teaching This Year Rachelle Dene Poth There are so many digital tools available today to promote student learning in the classroom. The task is in figuring out what you need for your classroom. What could benefit your students the most? Over the past year, I took as many opportunities to learn as I could, spending time gathering information from reading books and blogs, staying active through social media in Twitter chats, Voxer groups, and by attending many conferences, both physically and virtually.
I am still a learner, and even though I rely on my PLN and these other professional development experiences, sometimes I find it more beneficial to take a risk and just try something new in class, and see what happens. Here are twelve of the tools that made a difference in our classroom this year, in no specific order, and certainly not an all inclusive list. Communication, Collaboration 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Nearpod Formative Quizizz Buncee BloomzApp. #ETCoaches Blogs and Website - Google Sheets. Parapara Animation. 4C's Tool Library - Google Sheets.
Flippity.net: Easily Turn Google Spreadsheets into Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff. Top Tools for Remix | Common Sense Education. Two Contrasting Views of Educational Technology by @nikpeachey. I’d like to share a couple of videos with you that I have used recently in the courses I teach.
I find these videos particularly interesting because they show such contrasting approaches to learning and in particular – for want of a better word – e-learning. This is a re-blog post originally posted by Nik Peachey and published with kind permission. The original post can be found here. Do you have a blog post which you are proud of? This first one is from the early 1950’s and is about something called a ‘teaching machine’ which was created by behavioural psychologist B F Skinner. As you see Skinner’s teaching machines, though not exactly iPads do look remarkably like what we would recognise as computers. However, despite the extremely logical reasoning that Skinner expounds I’m sure if you were invited to sit down and use one of these machines for a period of time it wouldn’t hold your interest for very long and like me you probably watch those hard working children with a sense of pity.
Try the Tool |Intel Engage. Learning the Tool The Visual Ranking Tool has several features you'll want to explore before creating your own projects. There are two ways to learn about the tool and its features: a demonstration workspace for practicing with the tool and a tutorial that takes you through the main features. Visual Ranking Demo For a first-time experience with the tool and its features, start with the Demo. Tutorial A five step introduction to the Visual Ranking Tool is outlined in the following illustrated tutorial. You'll also learn more about the Visual Ranking App for mobile devices. 1. Developing a Project Let's explore how a middle school social studies classroom might use the Visual Ranking Tool to consider the impact of invention on improving human lives. The teacher wants students to engage in thinking about the meaning of progress and improvement in human endeavor.
What is progress? Following the discussion, students brainstorm a large list of inventions. Back to Top 2. Visualizing Concepts 3. 4. Peerceptiv - Pricing Plans. Peerceptiv offers a number of convenient pricing plans for schools, students, instructors and departments. Campus-wide License Peerceptiv improves learning across the curriculum.
Peerceptiv develops writing, critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills in the English language arts, the social sciences, the hard sciences, history & civics, engineering, business, and a wide variety of other subjects. Peerceptiv isn’t just about learning to write, it’s about writing to learn. A site-wide license allows all instructors on campus to use Peerceptiv across the curriculum, and improve outcomes no matter how many students they have. Student Purchase Plan Peerceptiv offers a Student Purchase option for applications requiring scalable learning and writing improvement, but without having to secure funding approval. Faculty & Department Pack Licenses Individual instructors can purchase Faculty Pack licenses online.
Peerceptiv™ Cancellation/Refund Policy. ISTE 2016 Digital Tote Archives. Digital Promise Research Map. Digital Promise Puts Education Research All In One Place. As technology becomes an accepted tool in many classrooms, teachers and administrators are looking for the best ed-tech tools to advance their goals around student learning. Unfortunately, there are so many tools on the market claiming to be the best option, it can be hard to sort through the noise and make an informed decision.
Digital Promise, the congressionally authorized nonprofit charged with “accelerating innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn,” has developed a tool to help educators and ed-tech developers sort through relevant research. “There is more and more pressure for people to use research in their work,” said Sarita Bhargava, chief communications officer for Digital Promise. “We hope this tool will provide the first step.”
The Digital Promise research team used Web of Science, a tool that allows users to cite by citation, to put together a network of peer-reviewed research articles related to education. Katrina Schwartz. Recharge Learning. Great Free Websites for Learning. Jump to navigation Donate Check out what's new in: Save Page Math Science Social Studies Arts Related Top Picks Showing 9 Related Top Picks Best Apps for Kids with Autism Find tools to help kids build important social and communication skills. Grade Pre-K - 12 English Language Arts Communication & Collaboration, Character & SEL Best Student Collaboration Tools Great collaboration apps, games, and websites that help students help each other.
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Wordpress tutorials. Fun with images. NowComment. Communities. Screencasting. Object moved. The 2015 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K–12 IT Blogs. The world of educational technology can be intimidating. Bloggers help make sense of this ever-changing industry with wit, insight and tactical advice.
EdTech is proud to recognize this latest crop of the top K–12 IT bloggers. This year's 50 entries are a mix of veterans from years past, fresh picks by our editorial staff and nominations from readers. One of our goals for this year's list was to highlight blogs from a wide range of educators and experts. If you'd like to check out the Must-Read IT Blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2014, 2013 and 2012. Did your blog make our list? This year, educational technology guru and speaker Michael Gorman led a prolific eight-part series covering more than 70 STEM classroom resources. Follow: @mjgormans | Read the blog: Thousands of educators look to Eric Sheninger and his blog for leadership in technology. Follow: @e_sheninger | Read the blog: Welcome to Forbes. BDBCDWGSpring2015. ClassTools.net. Educational Leadership:Professional Learning: Reimagined:Planning Professional Learning.
Thomas R. Guskey The same is true of professional learning for educators. What it accomplishes and the significance of its contribution depend largely on how it begins. This holds true not only for traditional forms of professional learning—seminars, study groups, workshops, conferences, mentoring, coaching, and so on—but also for "new" forms that include face-to-face or online professional learning communities, teacher exchanges, bug-in-the-ear coaching, data teams, individualized improvement plans, and unconferences. The effectiveness of any professional learning activity, regardless of its content, structure, or format, depends mainly on how well it is planned. A Mixed History Unlike many fields that have a history of steady improvement built on a continually expanding knowledge base, professional learning for educators has a mixed history at best.
Others counter that education researchers are at least partially to blame. The Activity Trap A Better Approach: Planning Backward 1. 2. 3. VIA. How to Embed Google Presentations into Schoology Assessments and Make Any Test More Engaging. O.K. I'm just going to say it: we have an incredible educator community! And if you're not tapping into this global Schoology PLN, then you may be missing out on some really great insight. Case in point: the following blog post will transform how you build assessments, and it was written by Amber Paynter, a District Technology and Learning Coach at Cherry Creek Schools in Denver, CO. Kellie Ady, the Instructional Technology Coordinator at the same district, also contributed to this version.
When Amber originally posted it, she promoted it in the Schoology Groups, so some of you have already read this. For anyone who hasn't yet dived into the Groups, this blog should motivate you to do so, because you'll have access to wonderful resources like the blog below and the people who made them. Enjoy! Written by Amber PaynterEdited by Kellie AdyOriginally posted on the blog CCSD Tech Tips For us, that meant embedding external content into a question to mimic the structure seen below.
Click around. Presentain - Engage Your Audience. ResearchReady | Home. Exploring Resources for the Digital Classroom! Tech Blogs. Screen-Shot-2013-06-05-at-2.06.33-PM1.png (1363×744) Wp-content/uploads/2012/09/TechIntFrame.pdf. Google. EdWeb's collaborative Games For Learning Database - launched Jan 2012. What's Your Motivation? | Powerful Voices. Quiz.powerfulvoicesforkids.com. Using Tech Tools for Learning with Standards.
School Library Monthly/Volume XXX, Number 4/January 2014 Using Tech Tools for Learning with Standards by Kristina A. Holzweiss As a school librarian and an educator, I am excited about the future of education and opportunities to creatively use technology in conjunction with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). As educators, we can design opportunities for students to communicate, question, investigate, evaluate, collaborate, test, and create. Addressing Multiple Standards There are numerous Web tools that we can integrate into the curriculum to motivate student learning. The appropriate technology tools should be used when planning lessons to not only maximize student learning time but to align to various standards.
A Guide to Web Tools While the following list is not exhaustive, it includes many tools referenced in Figure 1. Featured Tool: PowToon 4 EDU PowToon 4 EDU is a tool for creating animated video explainers. Your Turn References: American Association of School Librarians. Great Graphic on 20 Ways to Use Twitter with Your Students.
Guide to Using Twitter in Your Teaching Practice : KQED Education | KQED Public Media for Northern CA. Are you interested in using Twitter or other social media as a teaching tool? Our culture has transformed significantly where online distribution of ideas has become commonplace. Our students’ needs have shifted and they require digital citizenship skills. We’ve seen all sorts of creative use cases, but here are the most common forms: Teachers and students use Twitter for communication and conversation so they can keep the in-class discussion going after class! Twitter is a great way to add context to content especially when students need to study a topic and find experts in the field and ask them questions on Twitter! Below, you will find some great resources for your school community to help jump into using social media, specifically Twitter, as a learning tool.
Click on a link below to access a resource: As you know, being a teacher means you’re uniquely positioned to provide valuable guidance and insight to your students around areas related to online safety and digital citizenship. Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2013. What ThingLink can do for education. Project Tomorrow | About. Speak Up is funded by a combination of corporate sponsorships/donations and Project Tomorrow’s own discretionary, unrestricted funds, with approximately a 50/50 split between corporate and Project Tomorrow funds. All funds targeted for Speak Up are restricted funds and used accordingly to underwrite the operational expenses of the project. Corporate sponsors are specifically identified and invited to support Speak Up by Project Tomorrow’s CEO, Julie Evans.
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