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Tpsi21 / TopTechTools. Top Tech Tools | Mobile Resources | Teacher Toolbox | The Inquiry Process TPSI21 Home This section of the TPSI21 wiki will be used to explore various technology tools that can be integrated into teaching and learning with primary sources. All of the tools are Web-based and free for educators to use. Click on the name of the tool in the list below to navigate to a page with: a description of the toolbasic instructions for usesuggested ways to integrate the tool with: inquiry learning21st century skillsliteracy toolsan example of how the tool could be used to teach with primary sourcesa list of similar tools Before exploring the tools listed below, please review the article Technology Integration: Linking the Learner to Learning in the Teaching with Primary Sources Spring 2009 Newletter.

For a quick reference to how tools relate to Blooms Taxonomy which is interactive click on this link! Other helpful tools: Apps for Bloom's Taxonomy. Course-builder - Course Builder. Psychologists Identify the Best Ways to Study. Education generally focuses on what you study, such as algebra, the elements of the periodic table or how to conjugate verbs. But learning how to study can be just as important, with lifelong benefits. It can teach you to pick up knowledge faster and more efficiently and allow you to retain information for years rather than days. Cognitive and educational psychologists have developed and evaluated numerous techniques, ranging from rereading to summarizing to self-testing, for more than 100 years. Some common strategies markedly improve student achievement, whereas others are time-consuming and ineffective.

Yet this information is not making its way into the classroom. Teachers today are not being told which learning techniques are supported by experimental evidence, and students are not being taught how to use the ones that work well. Select an option below: Customer Sign In *You must have purchased this issue or have a qualifying subscription to access this content. Home | Stanford History Education Group. The Teacher's Guide To Flipped Classrooms. Since Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams first experimented with the idea in their Colorado classrooms in 2004, flipped learning has exploded onto the larger educational scene. It’s been one of the hottest topics in education for several years running and doesn’t seem to be losing steam. Basically, it all started when Bergman and Sams first came across a technology that makes it easy to record videos.

They had a lot of students that regularly missed class and saw an opportunity to make sure that missing class didn’t mean missing out on the lessons. Once students had the option of reviewing the lessons at home, the teachers quickly realized the shift opened up additional time in class for more productive, interactive activities than the lectures they’d been giving. And voila: a movement began. A 2014 survey from the Flipped Learning network found that 78% of teachers said they’d flipped a lesson, and 96% of those that tried it said they’d recommend it.

What is a flipped classroom? 1. 2. 3. 1. 13 Free Web Tools Students and Teachers Should Know About — CSCampus Inc. Share Doc with Your Teacher- Teacher Version. Anthony's Copy of Google Apps for Education: Deployment Guide. Web 2.0 Tools For Common Core. New Handy Chart on The Difference Between Projects and Project-based Learning.

We Don't Like "Projects" So I recently quit my job and started my own school with the support of a local media company, the second largest school district in Iowa, and a groundswell of community interest. Our philosophy boils down to a fairly liberal project-based learning environment. As I began the marketing push to enroll students, I uncovered some frankly stunning assumptions that many students have about learning: The word "project" is not a happy word. When I say project-based learning, most students grimace as they imagine prescribed PowerPoints.If a teacher doesn't plan it, it's not learning.If there isn't a test, it wasn't real.Their personal interests cannot inform their learning.

Learning is sterile, and the actual usage of the word "learning," to them, is quite different from what a professional might consider learning. I'm not complaining -- in fact, these assumptions are the reason that I struck out on my own in the first place -- but I was flat-out surprised by their ubiquity. 1. 2. 3. 4. The Techie Teacher. Teachers as Technology Trailblazers. Free Technology for Teachers. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning | K12 educational transformation through technology. Common Core: Reading, Understanding & Analyzing Complex Texts. *ISTE Workshop: Transitioning to the Common Core with Google Apps – Join me! In my previous post “Common Core: What is a ‘complex text’ anyway?” I wrote about the three aspects of a text that the Common Core measures to determine its “complexity,” which include: 1) quantitative, 2) qualitative, 3) reader and task.

Hopefully, that post helped to clarify how we as educators can evaluate the complexity of a text we are using with our students. This blog will focus on ways we can support students in reading, understanding and analyzing those texts. The individual standards for each grade level vary and the standards themselves act like a staircase. . * Reading Literature Standards. Annotations Each year, I have students enter my room who claim to hate reading. Annotations are not a new strategy, but few, if any, of my incoming 9th grade students have ever been taught how to annotate. Highlighting tips: Annotation shorthand: ? Making notes in the margin: Digital Annotations. Deeper Project Based Learning - Vander Ark on Innovation. Infographic: Blended Learning From the Ground Up.

In February, we released the Blended Learning Implementation Guide paper and How to Implement Blended Learning infographic as one of the projects in the DLN Smart Series. This summer we’re working with Digital Learning Now! To bundle the series as a ebook that will include updated versions of all eight papers. Working with Scott Ellis and The Learning Accelerator, we created the first version of the Blended Learning Implementation Guide so schools and districts could kick the tires, put the guide to work in the field, and share their feedback — so we could make version 2.0 an even more useful tool. To whet your appetite for the next iteration of the guide, we created another infographic that organizes the implementation process – “Blended Learning From the Ground Up.”

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the first draft of the guide and our two implementation infographics. Disclosure: Digital Learning Now! Storytelling | Xtranormal. Exploring YouTube's education channels. Teachers are posting their lessons online in fun educational videos that draw-in tech-savvy kids who love multimedia. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports. YouTube is usually associated with the latest viral video, but now growing numbers of people are turning to the video-sharing website for education instead of entertainment. Teachers are broadcasting lessons online, everything from biology to foreign languages -- and for some, this online "classroom" is more inspiring than the confines of brick and mortar.

Below, check out some of the most popular channels on YouTube EDU. Steve SpanglerYouTube was only five months old when this former teacher first taught viewers how to turn a bottle of Diet Coke and a roll of Mentos into an exploding geyser. Now a full-time YouTube teacher, Steve Spangler makes science fun with "The Spangler Effect. " Rob TarrouWhat started off as a way to help students at St. Alex DainisAlex Dainis is "a biology nerd, music lover, film geek.”

The five most powerful ways teachers aren’t using Google Drive (yet) Google Drive—formerly named Google Docs—is Google’s online productivity suite. It’s long been a popular choice for collaborative writing and editing of documents, especially among teachers and students, so I won’t dwell on the excellent collaboration features others have written about at length for years.

More recently, Google added cloud storage space similar to what Dropbox offers. If you use any of Google’s products like Gmail or Calendar, you already have access to at least 15 GB of file storage space on Google Drive. This new addition dramatically changes the ways in which you can interact with Google Drive. Google launches new features and add-ins all the time, so if you’re still interacting with Google Drive exactly the same way you did in 2010 in the early Google Docs days, you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Here are five powerful new ways to make the most of Google Drive. 1. 2. 3. 4. Google Drive is a productivity suite which includes many built-in apps. 5. Project Search. The 12 Must-Have Skills Of Modern Learners. If you consider yourself a modern learner and take advantage of modern technology in order to improve yourself, then you probably have some or most of these characteristics.

If you use technology to bolster your understanding of a particular topic, use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to tackle tough questions, or simply collaborate across networks (online and in-person), then you’ve got some of the skills of modern learners. That’s the idea behind this fabulous visualization from User-Generated Education .

It details the 12 skills of modern learners that, depending on your current skill level, you should aspire to attain, already have, or at least know about. Personally, I like the focus on agility and adaptability. Another critical skill I want to point out is empathy and global stewardship. What’s your favorite skill? Getting Ready for Common Core: A Playbook for K-12 School Districts. Teachinghistory.org. CSMP - California International Studies Project. The California International Studies Project (CISP) is a statewide network that connects universities, schools, and districts in collaborative efforts to increase K-12 teacher competence in history and international studies.

It is the mission of the California International Studies Project to prepare students to work, live and be informed, active citizens in a world where conditions, peoples, and distant events may have a critical impact on their lives and those of others. Through teacher development and K-12 student experience, the project seeks to improve historical and contemporary knowledge of 21st Century realities that are fundamentally altering the international landscape and domestic affairs.

Current CISP Advisory Board Members California State University: Dr. Richard Shek, Sacramento State Professor, Humanities and Religious Studies University of California: Dr. Governor’s Office: Carol Mink, Former Staff Member for Tom Lantos and High School History Teacher (retired) 10 Excellent Resources to Help you Align your Teaching with Common Core Standards. There is now a heated discussion going on in the States about the Common Core Standards. Everything has been reshaped to meet the requirements of Common Core Standards including technology integration at least in the 46 states that have already adopted it. To help you better align your teaching practices with the CCS, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning pooled several resources to curate for you the list below.But before you start exploring these links , let me briefly wrap up what CCS is all about : The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.

The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. 1- Common Core State Standard Information Center 2- Status of Adoption of CCSS 4- Pathways to CCSS 5-Launching Writing Workshop with CCSS. 10 Podcasting Projects Every Teacher Should Try. We Don't Like "Projects" Explain Everything X 4 Ways. When it comes to flexible iPad apps, nothing quite fits the bill like Explain Everything. Developed as a screencasting app (in my opinion, the best in the app store), I have recently found that I am using the app for anything but screencasting. 1. Image / Poster / Graphic / Diagram Creator: The way I find myself using Explain Everything these days is as a platform to create images or posters. 2.

One of the most underutilized features in Explain Everything is the magnifying glass tool in the left hand menu. *Bonus Idea: Students can use the zooming feature when screencasting in Explain Everything as well. 3. With a combination of Explain Everything and Reflector that is running on a MacBook or PC Laptop, Explain Everything becomes a blank canvas that can be manipulated anywhere in the classroom. 4. Explain Everything has the ability to open a number of file types using the iPad “open in” feature. Create Your Free Website | Wix.com. 25 Ways To Use Pinterest With Bloom's Taxonomy ... India's Premier Education Technology Community. The 5 Best tools for checking Plagiarism — CSCampus Inc. There are many tools available on the internet from where you can easily detect Plagiarism and/or duplicate content. In this post we'll see 5 of the best tools, which can help you to easily detect plagiarism or duplicate content. 1.

Copyscape Copyscape is ranked no. 1 in the world and it is the most popular online plagiarism detector. Here, you can check the duplicate content by inserting the URL into the search box. It will then search copies of existing content. 2. CopyGator is another free tool for checking plagiarism. 3. Duplichecker is an another free service where you can check unpublished content by adding an article or by browsing and uploading a text file into the search box. 4.

Plagiarisma allows you to check duplicate content in 3 ways. 5. List of Free Tools to Create Infographics for your Learners. TimeRime.com - Homepage. Edmodo – Where learning happens. | The free and safe social learning platform for education. Edcanvas. Edudemic | Education Technology Tips For Students And Teachers. Integrate iPads Into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy With This 'Padagogy Wheel' You’re going to want to turn on your printer and fire up a PDF viewer. This is just that good. It’s called the Padagogy Wheel and it offers a fantastically useful perspecitve on how to figure out which iPad apps work with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. Created by Allan Carrington, this thing is a monster and deserves some focused attention.

So I’d make a personal plea to save the hi-res image (below) or print out the PDF (available here) and then spend your long weekend closely examining this thing. The Padagogy Wheel takes an expanded approach Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and offers 62 iPad apps that fit into the organized chaos that is Bloom’s. On Allan’s blog (check it out, it’s great!) He explains that not every app is perfect and that there’s always room to improve. See Also: 35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom’s Taxonomy What do you think of some of the apps and where they’re placed on the wheel? Loremipsem. PBS LearningMedia. Teacher's Guide to Using Shared Google Docs with Students. Sharing is caring and one of the powerful features of Google Docs is sharing.As we have seen in 8 Things Every Teacher should be Able to Do with Google Docs , users can easily share documents, presentations, tables, graphs, and spreadsheets by simply changing the visibility options in the sharing settings of Google Docs.

But what if you want to aggregate all your docs in one document and share it with others ( probably your student) ? Shared Google Docs has the answer answer for you. What is Shared Google Docs ? Shared Google Docs ( or Drive, I am not used to call it Google Drive and I Like its old name Google Docs ) is a feature embedded within Google Docs' services that allows users to create folders to share with other users. These shared folders can contain any type of media ( text, images, docs, files, PDFs, spreadsheets....etc ) How can I use Shared Google Docs with my students ?

Here are some of the ways to use this feature with your students : Create a shared folder for your class. Resources for Schools. Eye-Catching Views of Population. Free Technology for Teachers. Home. How Has The Internet Changed Education? School. Technology in Education. 'common core history' By CCCOE. Social Studies Resources. Edmodo. Flipped Classrooom Resources. Free History Learning Materials. Web Resources. Ed tech.

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