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Flipped Classroom. Conférences TED. Dictionaries and Reference Tools. Web 2.0 Tools. Teaching FL with 21st Century Skills. Project Based Learning and 21st Century Math. 21st Century Skills. 21st century skills materials for teachers and more. E-Learning in the 21st Century. 21st century learning. What the 21st century teachers should be able to do. Teaching respect for intellectual property. Free Online Fun & Interactive Language (ESL/EFL) Games For Children. Language is the basis of a child's being. It determines their future and how well they understand other subjects.

General knowledge of letter recognition, phonics and rhyming words are essential to preschoolers and school-aged kids to be successful in other subjects. Providing children with a fun, interactive way to learn the basics will help them have a successful future in reading and writing, which form the basis for all other subjects in the future of all children. Our interactive English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) games for kids provide engaging activities that are also educational, giving children the basic knowledge they need to learn future subjects.

Learning Phonics can be Fun With creative games that are fun to play, preschoolers and kindergartners will learn phonics is fun. Language Arts games and Activities for Children English as a second language is much easier for children to learn than it is for adults. Games for the Brain. Cool Math 4 Kids Lessons, Games, Activities - free online cool math lessons, cool math games, fun math activities, math flash cards to print, calculators and more!

Kids Games - Educational Computer Games Online | TurtleDiary. Free games and Flash games. KabeyokeRun between moving walls to save the girl. BOXINGA simple punching-based boxing game.Controlled with the keyboard. DICEWARSDice-based strategy game. How quickly can you conquer your foes? COCKROACH DREAMCan you swat away 100 roaches before the sleeping man goes crazy? THE HAUNTED RUINSAn awesomely Eighties-style RPG. Explore the haunted ruins and defeat the witch! Synopsis QuestRelive key moments from retro role playing games in this parody of the genre! FairuneFind the four fairies and defeat the Dark Lord. SKATING HEAVENDodge incoming skaters by mouse clicking to the left or right of your skater. DismantlementCan you dismantle the radio with just a virtual screwdriver?

ALPHABET DROPPush two alphabet blocks on the same line or column to knock them out. TENNIS GAMEMove using the arrow keys and swing the racket with the spacebar. Chat NoirCan you keep the kitty from running off the game field? School WarsBecome a schoolyard gangster in this realtime strategy game! SpeedCard game. Mastermind type game on-line: Code Breaker. Math Filler. Inquiry-Based Learning. Cooking/Recipes. Copyright. Classroom Google. Ed Tech Tips. STEM. Copyright in Education. Teaching Copyright. Copyrights for Teachers. Copyright and Ethical Issues. Creative Commons and Copyright. Engineering, Robotics, Coding & Makerspace Resources. Apple TV. Learn to Code! Coding and Programming. Coding Websites.

Google Classroom. 21st Century Learning. iPads in the Classroom. TED Talks, Leadership. Educational Technology. Ken Robinson. 200+ Practical Ed Tech Tutorial Videos. 10 Favorite Educational YouTube Channels. YouTube is a powerful resource for teaching and learning – if you know where to look. This list of must-watch educational YouTube channels are perfect for finding video clips to share with students in class or in a flipped learning environment. As opposed to an individual video, channels are created by individuals and organizations and are full of related content. You’ll also find resources for educators to help boost content knowledge and introduce teaching strategies.

TED-Ed What I love most about TED-Ed videos are how they address questions from our everyday lives. Topics include “Does grammar matter?” And “What are those floaty things in your eyes?” This is a great place to find resources that connect to the real world. Smithsonian Education With videos for teachers and students this channel has lots to choose from.

Crash Course This YouTube channel includes videos that provide an introduction to different topics. A couple more to check out: Join the ClassTechTips.com newsletter! 3 ways to involve students in your ed-tech PD. If you’re not including your students in teachers’ PD, you’re missing a key opportunity Whenever I’m invited to a school or district to talk with teachers about using technology, I’ll ask the principal or superintendent if I can meet with a group of students to prepare first. Often, my request is met with a puzzled reply: “You realize that we want you to come talk to our teachers, right? Why do you want to talk to the kids?” My experience is that involving students in both staff development planning and during workshops can lead to a much more successful implementation.

Showing teachers how to use the technology itself—what buttons to push, what features to use—isn’t the real challenge in ed-tech professional development. Involving your students in ed-tech PD can be very powerful. Have teachers observe others as they teach with technology One of the techniques I like to use is to have teachers watch as I teach a class. Sometimes, what I don’t do is just as important as what I do. The Future of Education Isn’t Free. It’s Open. Listening to the political debates about education in the United States, you might get the mistaken impression that nothing is changing other than costs going up and performance going down. Things are better than you may realize, especially in one area: instructional resources. We are on the threshold of sweeping change that will make it easier for teachers to teach and students to learn faster and more effectively.

Advances in learning science are powering a new generation of technologies that, when used by dedicated teachers, improve student performance and extend learning beyond the confines of the classroom. Digital adaptive learning coupled with an explosion of relatively low-cost learning applications has the potential to dramatically lift the performance of all of our students. The bad news, the thing that frustrates so many students, parents and teachers, is that many of these technologies simply do not work well together. The need to support technology standards. 7 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2014. Technology trends in both higher ed and K-12 classrooms continue to evolve and transform traditional learning environments. New learning analytics, mobile devices, open online learning, and 3D printers are some of the many Educational technology trends to be on the lookout for in 2014.

Here’s a detailed discussion. 1) 3D Printing 3D Printers which enable makers to create whatever they can imagine and design have exploded into mainstream culture over the past year. Libraries are creating DIY makerspaces and providing these new tools of production to their communities along with opportunities for skill-building in math and engineering which are required to design 3D objects. The Poland and Hong Kong based GADGETS3D has launched an initiative called the “3D Printer in Every School” project in which they have designed a low cost, small 3D printer specifically created for the classroom. Click for full infographic 2) MOOCs Click for full infographic 3) Big Data Click for full infographic. Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Illustration by Guy Billout "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. I can feel it, too. I think I know what’s going on. For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. I’m not the only one. Bruce Friedman, who blogs regularly about the use of computers in medicine, also has described how the Internet has altered his mental habits.

Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. Also see: Where does it end? 9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning. The label of “21st Century learning” is vague, and is an idea that we here at TeachThought like to take a swing at as often as possible, including: –weighing the magic of technology with its incredible cost and complexity –underscoring the potential for well thought-out instructional design –considering the considerable potential of social media platforms against its apparent divergence from academic learning Some educators seek out the ideal of a 21st century learning environment constantly, while others prefer that we lose the phrase altogether, insisting that learning hasn’t changed, and good learning looks the same whether it’s the 12th or 21st century.

At TeachThought, we tend towards the tech-infused model, but do spend time exploring the limits and challenges of technology, the impact of rapid technology change, and carefully considering important questions before diving in head-first. The size of the circles on the map are intended to convey priority. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.