WatchKnowLearn - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students. Federation of American Scientists. Immune Attack 2.0 Development Immune Attack 2.0 builds upon our wildly successful Immune Attack.
We learned from player and teacher feedback that Immune Attack is a fun and very engaging game for students, even those who do not play video games. April 27, 2013. Ticket sales are now open.
Please click here to buy your ticket to TEDxNYED. What is TEDxNYED? TEDxNYED is a New York City-based TEDx event focused on education. The theme of this year’s TEDxNYED is Inside-Outside, a discussion about education from both inside and outside schools and classrooms. Resources for Idaho Teachers. We know that students learn best when they are truly engaged in what they are learning, when they have the opportunity to explore, debate, discuss, examine, defend, and experiment with the concepts and skills they are ready to learn.
Students learn best when instruction is: Appropriately Challenging Kids (and adults!) Learn best when they start at their current level of understanding and are challenged - with support (teacher, peers, materials, etc.) - just beyond what they are comfortable doing on their own. (See Zone of Proximal Development) The student's background knowledge and current skill level are more important than their age/grade level in determining what they are ready to learn.
Q & A Collections: Student Motivation - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo. 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning. 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning by Jennifer Rita Nichols The term “21st century” has become an integral part of educational thinking and planning for the future.
Educators and administrators are actively searching for ways to prepare students for the future, and the educational system has been evolving faster than ever before. Various studies have shown us that rote memorization is not an effective learning strategy, and that teacher-centered classrooms may not be the most efficiently structured ones for student engagement. However, despite learning about the skills that students will need to develop to become successful in the 21st century, as well as what beliefs about education may be worth hanging onto or throwing away, schools and teachers are left trying to figure out what their role needs to be in the education of their 21st century students. Home Page — Whole Child Education. Teaching Writing and Learning With Graphic Organizers. For some reason, writing tends to be the task many students dread the most.
As a result, teachers are always on the lookout for ways to make the assignment more enjoyable – or at least less despised! Incorporating graphic organizers into the writing and learning process is a great way to get students to think outside the box and engage more willingly in the process. What Are Graphic Organizers? A graphic organizer is a visual aid that helps depict the correlation between ideas, facts, or concepts. The most common visual learning strategies are concept mapping, webbing, and mind mapping. Concept Mapping A concept map creates a visual representation of the relationship between ideas.
Five Ways to Create Word Clouds. This morning at the Massachusetts School Library Association's conference (a fun conference that I highly recommend) Pam Berger presented some good ideas for working with primary source documents and Web 2.0 tools.
One of the ideas that she shared and others elaborated on was the idea of using word clouds to help students analyze documents. By copying the text of a document into a word cloud generator your students can quickly see the words that appear most frequently in that document. Here are five tools that you and your students can use to create word clouds. ABCya! Offers a beautiful word cloud generator. Tagul is a free word cloud generator that offers the option to link every word in your word cloud to a Google search. Word It Out creates word clouds out of any text that you paste into the word cloud generator.
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997). Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books. PBL Made Easy With Blended Learning. What is Project Based Learning?
“Project-based learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges. With this type of active and engaged learning, students are inspired to obtain a deeper knowledge of the subjects they’re studying.” Common Characteristics of PBL: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. TeacherTube - Teach the World. National Gallery of Art NGAkids Art Zone.
SEA-SAWS SEA-SAWS is fun for kids of all ages.
Select photographs of natural and man-made objects, then arrange the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition. The BUILD tool helps you construct animated characters and set them in motion. (Shockwave, 7.5 MB) FACES & PLACES helps children of all ages create portraits and landscape paintings in the style of American naive artists. By combining visual elements borrowed from more than 100 works in the National Gallery's permanent collection, this two-part interactive activity offers an overview of American folk art of the 18th and 19th centuries.
ARTSEDGE: The Kennedy Center's Arts Education Network. The Learning Network - The Learning Network Blog - NYTimes.com. Five Ways Neuroscience Will Change Education. Neuroscience isn't just for scientists anymore.
The way experts study how children's brains develop over time is influencing classrooms and education overall, and here are the five ways education will begin to change because of it. Neuroeducation will play a key role in the future of education, with curricula based not just on teaching subjects but on preparing brains for learning. ‘D’ Is for Divorce: Big Feelings on Sesame Street. Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free! 500+ Cool Infographics. Teacher Resources. Story Map - An Interactive Story Planner. Story Map is a free interactive story planning tool from Read Write Think. Story Maps provides four templates for outlining stories.
To use the templates students title their stories then choose one of four templates to outline their stories. The four template choices are conflict, setting, character, and resolution. Students can print their completed templates. Applications for EducationStory Map could help students get their stories organized before moving onto doing the actual writing of their creative stories. BBC Quick Fix - Learn the Essentials of 40 Languages. Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students. Eight Ways to Use Video With English Language Learners. Barefoot In the head. A few year ago, I was a bit curious about how well learners can evaluate each other. I designed a small experiment to find out. It goes like this: Take a group of learners, say 15 in number, in a classroom. Give everybody 15 sheets of paper and ask them to write their names on the top right corner of every sheet. Now, ask everyone to write down a question about something they have recently learned, been taught or discussed.
In other words, you have conducted an examination without making a question paper and without having to mark a pile of answer books. 37 Crash Course History Videos. Differentiated Instruction - Videos, Articles, Resources, Experts. The Best Places On The Web To Find Documentaries (Non-YouTube) Strong Readers All:Catching Readers Up Before They Fail. Carol E. Canady and Robert Lynn Canady On the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, one-third of U.S. 4th graders performed at or above the proficient level in reading. A Step-by-Step Guide to the Best Projects. Is It Good to be Gifted? The Social Construction of the Gifted Child - O’Connor - 2010 - Children & Society. What’s the Best Way to Practice Project Based Learning? 10 Things in School That Should Be Obsolete. Wicked Decent Learning » Teaching & Learning in Vacationland & Beyond.
Hip-Hip Hooray for Summer! Three Tips to Spark Your Learning. Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Planning to teach from A to Z. What a 21st-century science classroom should look like. By Tim Magner, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Tim Magner is the executive director of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), a national organization that advocates for 21st-century readiness for every student. News and Information for Teacher Leaders. Big Thinkers on Education. Your Summer PD: Creating a Caring and Positive School Climate. How we will learn. MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions. We examine how learning is being impacted by technology, discoveries about how the brain works, poverty and inequities, social and emotional practices, assessments, digital games, design thinking and music, among many other topics.
We look at how learning is evolving in the classroom and beyond.We also revisit old ideas that have come full circle in the era of the over scheduled child, such as unschooling, tinkering, playing in the woods, mindfulness, inquiry-based learning and student motivation. Terrific Tools for Teaching with Bloom's Taxonomy - Home. Critical Thinking, Textbooks and Primary Sources. This week my grade 6 students have continued to develop their critical thinking skills within the boundaries of our Social Studies curriculum. Research and Innovation.