8 Good YouTube Channels for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. March 11, 2015 Popular Culture has this wonderful list featuring a wide collection of some useful YouTube channels that you could probably recommend for your students.
The channels suggested in this list cover various content areas and are arranged into two main categories: general and university collection. Below are some of the channels that stood out to us from the general category. These are channels that provide inspiring videos on different intellectual subjects. We invite you to check them out and as always, share with us what you think of them. Big Think "Big Think is the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content -- with thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, we help you get smarter, faster.
GoogleTalks American Museum of Natural History "The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Edutopia "Welcome to Edutopia's YouTube channel. What’s the Difference Between “Doing Projects” and “Project Based Learning”? Edtech: Mastering the device vs mastering the pedagogy. Can a school be over-reliant on devices to the point of ignoring their teaching instincts?
LearnMaker’s Jay Ashcroft discusses the fine but crucial line between “what” and “how”. What separates the successful mobile learning projects from the unsuccessful? 21 Simple Ideas To Improve Student Motivation. 21 Simple Ideas To Improve Student Motivation.
Blue.png (PNG Image, 499 × 611 pixels) How Personalized Learning Can Benefit Students Infographic - e-Learning Infographics. Student Infographics Teacher Infographics The How Personalized Learning Can Benefit Students Infographic shows how the personalized learning model boosts engagement, achievement, and helps both students and teachers optimize their educational efforts for greater success.
TED TALKS, FREE WORKSHEET TO USE WITH ANY TED TALK, PUBLIC SPEAKING, GRADES 6-12. TED Talks offer a variety of educational opportunities for our students, from serving as virtual guest lectures on specialized topics to showcasing dynamic models of public speaking.
This worksheet was designed to give students a concrete task to guide their viewing of ANY TED Talk. Bringing A Sandbox Approach To Your Classroom - Bringing A Sandbox Approach To Your Classroom by TeachThought Staff The sandbox is a place of creativity, cognitive “ease,” and social interaction.
There may be some room for this type of thinking in a classroom, yes? Syvlia Duckworth’s drawings are becoming a favorite of ours, due to her playful approach to illustration, and the variety of ideas she covers in the drawings. She recently illustrated some of our content —12 Rules of Great Teaching and the Characteristics Of Effective Technology Users In The Classroom. How to Motivate Students to Work Harder. Over the past five years, more than $200 million has gone toward launching the new Common Core standards, with the goal of closing achievement gaps in public schools.
But for all their meticulous detail about math and language curricula, the standards fail to address one important factor: the psychological barriers that stand between many students and deeper learning. Unless students are motivated to take on the new standards, and persuaded that they’re up to the challenge, the Common Core could have the unintended effect of leaving many students even further behind. Researchers like Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck—best known for her 2006 book Mindset—have been gathering insights into student motivation for three decades. Written Text or Audiotext in the ClassroomThe Educator’s Room.
I am passing out Brave New World to the 10th graders.
“Is there an audiobook for this?” A student asks. How Teachers Make Cell Phones Work in the Classroom. 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. Education on Air: Keynote. 30 Techniques to Quiet a Noisy Class. One day, in front 36 riotous sophomores, I clutched my chest and dropped to my knees like Sergeant Elias at the end of Platoon.
Instantly, dead silence and open mouths replaced classroom Armageddon. Standing up like nothing had happened, I said, "Thanks for your attention -- let's talk about love poems. " I never used that stunt again. TECv15n4-11Winter. TECv15n4-11Winter. Nnestevo2011 [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage. (logo insert here) Abstract NNEST-EVO 2011 is a sequel to the NNEST-EVO 2009 session. In the 2009 session we looked at past research and issues facing teachers who are non-native English speakers; experts were invited to speak, discuss, and share their research work and studies. Kathryn Lukey-Coutsocostas. HAVE YOU just landed on foreign shores? Perhaps joining the burgeoning ranks of native-language tutors? Monolingual nationals – especially from Britain, Australasia and North America – are always in demand for lessons. But keep in mind that native English-speaking teachers, or NESTs, provoke comparisons with the local non-native English-speaking teachers, or Non-NEST, and usually not favourably for the latter.
RPLTL - Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning. MOOCs from Great Universities (Many With Certificates) Sounds: The Pronunciation App. Phonetics: The sounds of American English. Adrian Underhill on Successful Pronunciation 1 (Macmillan).flv. Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών elearning - Εξ Αποστάσεως Προγράμματα Εκπαίδευσης. Webinars-technical-instructions.pdf. Global Issues SIG.