The 25 Best Pinterest Boards in Educational Technology. Thanks to OnlineUniversities for this list of the Best Pinterest Boards in Educational Technology. Blogs and Twitter aren’t the only social tools out there that can help you keep up with the latest and greatest developments in educational technology. Pinterest is rapidly becoming a favorite tool of educators all over the nation, and many have amassed some pretty great collections of edtech-related pins that teachers and students alike can use to explore new ways to learn, share, teach, and grow. While it would be nearly impossible to highlight every edtech pinboard out there, we’ve shared some of the boards we think stand out among the crowd here. Many are maintained by major educational websites, key figures in edtech, and well-known bloggers, but others were created by teachers just like you who simply want to share resources and tips with others in education.
Kids Like Blues: Using Music and Video to Rock Your Classroom. When I started playing blues songs for my first grade students, I never imagined I was introducing a fantastic launching point for thematic, standards-based teaching. We soon formed The Kids Like Blues Band, and since last March we've used blues songs as a springboard for teaching academic content standards in reading, writing, listening, speech, social studies, technology, and the visual and performing arts.
So far we've played at a street fair, for staff and students at the Cal State San Marcos College of Education, and even live on local TV news and KPBS TV. We're a real band, and the students are fully engaged, learning and rocking! Happy to Sing the Blues How does this method work? Lyrics are practiced daily in large and small groups to get the correct pitch, modulation, tone, syllabication, meter and phrasing.
Last spring, Professor of Education Dr. Our blues band has provided my students with a creative outlet to apply, question, evaluate and utilize their knowledge. Learn to code. Visible Thinking. Is a project out of Harvard University. The essence of this project is a series of routines or perhaps “mantras” for thinking. They are simple and to the point. While more suited to Middle school students they are good, apt and appropriate. Some of the truth and understanding routines will definitely have a place in senior classes. Purpose and Goals Here is their introduction and Purpose from the visible thinking website: “Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters.
Structure The routines are structured well and only take a single page for each. If you go to the Visible thinking web site you can download these in zipped packages of PDF files. Core Routines Creativity Routines Fairness routines Truth Routines TRUE FOR WHO? Understanding Routines. Coursera.org.
Presentation: The need for engagement in education (redux) Below is a ustream version of a short talk I did in the spring at TEDxOsaka. This repeats a lot of the stuff I (and many others) am always hammering on regarding school and the lecture approach to teaching. What's the use of lectures? I mention Dr. Bligh's book in my presentation; I recommend the book. Bligh shares his vast experience as a college professor and supports his ideas and suggestions with good evidence. I wish we could all but get rid of the college lecture hall, but that is not going to happen soon. Related links• Lecture Fail (Chronicle of Higher Education)• Article: 60% find lectures boring (only 60%?) Digg this • Add to del.icio.us. The need for connection & engagement in education. Anyone who wants to make better presentations should be interested in how people learn.
If you are interested in how people learn, you are obviously interested in education. And if you are interested in education, you surely have strong opinions about schools and other institutions of formal instruction and learning. As Sir Ken Robinson said in his first TED talk a few years ago, education is one of those things like religion and money that people have very strong opinions about. Few people think that the formal education systems around the world are perfect. "School sucks" Please set aside 30 minutes sometime to watch this talk by American Physicist Dr. Dr. Do they just sit there? Dr.
Get them doing somethingIn the presentation Dr. Above: Although I am speaking in front of nearly 300 students in a large hall in Japan, I still have them get up and *do* something relevant from time to time. Above: These photos are from yesterday's 4-hour seminar at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. Blog Archive » Social School Design. New learning spaces for a new generation During my recent stateside mini-tour I delivered a couple of sessions at the CEFPI World Conference for leading school design, in San Jose (got the highest feedback rating for all speakers—whoop whoop) plus an internal masterclass in Santa Monica for DLR Group, a school design architectural firm. Been thinking about this sector from a social media perspective ever since and wanted to offer a mind-dump of thoughts and insights plus some curated content to extend the conversation (note : for the purpose of this post school design means the physical buildings plus the pedagogical approaches in those spaces as well) : Social Media.
So What? Social media augments and embellishes your current operations. It’s a tool (or a set of) to not only save time and money but also to enable practitioners build better learning spaces. How? Conversational design Conversations drive social media spaces. Conversations drive design processes. All online. Into itself. Watch :
14 Open Resources For High School - Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff - DigLN, flipped classroom, OER. Co-written by Tom Vander Ark and Sarah Cargill Last week Secretary Duncan said it was time to dump the heavy, expensive books students lug around in their backpacks. We agree, it’s time to shift to digital. High-quality open educational resources (OER) help make the case. Digital learning advocate and board member of two online high schools, Robyn Bagley, recently asked, “What are some good open high school courses?” We compiled 14 open resources. Science and Mathematics CK12.org is a pioneer in open resources providing secondary math and science Flexbooks includingFlexmath content originally developed at Leadership Public Schools.National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) provides an online library of OER high school and AP courses at HippoCampus.org.
Comprehensive Modular Resources Grade-Level Collections History Big History Project is a Gates-funded thematic interdisciplinary project.Muzzylane transforms history into a game. Mostly Higher Education Additional Free Resources. CFY's PowerMyLearning.com | Educational Games | Videos | Activities for Elementary, Middle-School and High School Students. Teaching and Learning Together - Home. K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work | Edutopia.
Learning with 'e's. L'application Web de la ligne du temps. An Educators Guide To Twitter. Edutopia (edutopia) sur Pinterest. Getting Smart | Innovations in Learning, Edreform, Education Reform, Edtech, Educational Technology, Education Policy, EdPolicy, Blended Learning, Online Learning, Elearning. With over 300 posting, I think I‘m getting closer to figuring out what this blog is about.
Here’s a summary of the logic chain (or as my friends at Bridgespan would say, my theory of change):