100+ Google Tricks for Teachers. It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.
Gmail 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Google Calendar 44. Why I Gave Up Flipped Instruction. A little over a year ago I wrote a post about the flipped classroom, why I loved it, and how I used it. I have to admit, the flip wasn’t the same economic and political entity then that it is now. And in some ways, I think that matters. Here’s the thing. When I recently re-read the post, I didn’t disagree with anything I’d said. Yet my brief love affair with the flip has ended. It simply didn’t produce the tranformative learning experience I knew I wanted for my students . When I wrote that post, I imagined the flip as a stepping stone to a fully realized inquiry/PBL classroom. What is the flip? The flipped classroom essentially reverses traditional teaching. When I first encountered the flip, it seemed like a viable way to help deal with the large and sometimes burdensome amount of content included in my senior Biology & Chemistry curricula.
My flipped experiments I first encountered the flip in a blog post. We began to shift What was my role? The flip faded away The flip is gone for good. Brain Based Learning » Blog Archive » Meet TED-Ed, The newest member of the TED family. 13 March 20121,215 viewsNo Comment Yesterday TED, an organization dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading, announced the launch of a new Youtube channel focused on providing educators with a platform to create high quality, professional animations on almost any topic. TED has a fabulous track record of creating inspiring educational videos. Now they’re reaching out to educators everywhere and offering to help anyone with something to say to create an inspiring video.
Videos will be hosted on Youtube’s education channel, hopefully making it easier for teachers to access content behind school filters and firewalls and without having to display ads. Fabulous news. However, the best part is that they’re really put a lot of thought into creating this to fill a need, to provide something that is currently missing. They’ve also done a lot of research into the best format to deliver content – how long they should be, and what visualization techniques to use. 10 Brain-Based Learning Laws That Trump Traditional Education. If you play cards you know the importance of a trump. No, not the Donald with the bad red hair. A trump is a card which ranks higher than the played cards.
A trump suit outranks all cards of plain suits. Literally, a trump refers to any sort of action, authority or policy that automatically prevails over others. The Brain’s Natural Learning Trumps The fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience study how the brain takes in, stores, retrieves and applies information. A learning trump card is one that reigns over more traditional and established education practices. Hat tips go to author and trainer Sharon Bowman as she originally published six trumps of learning. 10 Brain-Based Learning Laws That Trump Tradition How can speakers expect their audience to remember what they say if they don’t know how people learn? 1. Knowing how the brain naturally operates is similar to knowing the laws of driving. The same applies to presenting to others without knowing how the human brain learns. 2. 3.
Digital Learning Day :: Toolkits | Best Practices in Instructional Design & Use of Learning Technologies. Encouraging Collaboration in an Online Course | I Love Instructional Design. First eTextbook is Free for Computer or iPad - Offer Ends Soon. Flippin’ heck –is the whole of education doing things backwards? The TES has just published an article on ’flipped learning’ with views from myself, Salman Khan and others. My first point was that flipped learning is not new. The Open University has been doing it for over 40 years. “They let you learn in your time through the materials they provide and the tutors are there to help and close the knowledge gaps”.
However, “we have only just started to explore this. Out of the box that is the classroom Additionally I stated that, “we should be taking technology out of classrooms so they can be used for their intended purpose – learning”. Trapped in fossilised pedagogies The problem is that teachers and lecturers have become trapped in fossilised pedagogies – quite simply, huge dollops of talking at people in the classroom and lecture hall. Don’t talk – teach Flip and force them to teach To be honest, ‘flipped learning’ is merely a species of ‘blended learning’, just one of many possible blends. Cursive seems soon to join the typewriter, VCR player and flip-phone as relics of a past age. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com. October 30, 2011|By Cara Fitzpatrick, Sun Sentinel When asked for their John Hancock, future generations might print it in block letters or scrawl some scribbles across the page.
But odds are, they won't sign their name in cursive. They might not even be able to read it. Cursive, with its graceful loops and perfectly joined letters, seems soon to join the typewriter, VCR player and flip-phone as relics of a past age. Keyboarding skills, not cursive, were included in the Common Core, a set of national academic standards adopted last year by more than 40 states, including Florida. "Cursive is kind of a lost art," said George Blews, a Broward father with children in fourth, seventh and ninth grade. His older children learned cursive but "aren't using it," he said. "They're certainly experts in texting," he said. A couple of years ago, Florida considered getting rid of cursive. "Even legal documents are using electronic signatures," he said. Instead there's an increasing focus on technology. Add Audio to Your Courses | The Learning House, Inc. Blog.
In an effort to incorporate more media into online courses, instructors often consider adding audio and video content. Audio content, in particular, presents unique challenges that instructors should be aware of and understand upfront. Below are some common challenges to incorporating audio into your course: Like text, it only addresses one learning style.It can be difficult to address certain topics through solely the spoken word.Students can become easily distracted after listening to 10 minutes of just voice. To combat some of these challenges, careful planning must occur prior to recording and considerations should be made about the recording process.
Here are some tips: Determine what content is best served through audio. Consider using audio as an alternative media option—not the primary. Write a script ahead of time. Record in a professional setting—not a classroom. The Value of Instruction. When I first began teaching, I bristled with the desire to instruct, inspire, coach, and enlighten.
I’d just been through Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh, where my tutors and mentors truly recognised the worth of excellent instruction. Yet for the past 30 years and more, I have felt like a disillusioned school teacher who is old fashioned, out of date and not really understanding what’s happening in education. The other day, a good friend and colleague passed on to me a recent article from Teachers College Record, by James Kauffman. It was written as an introduction to his recently published book, The Tragicomedy of Public Education:Laughing and Crying Thinking and Fixing. As I read through Kauffman's article, I recalled how I felt when I read Shelley Gare’s book, The Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Common Sense. I experienced déjà vu at every page. James Kauffman is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. . . . about the.
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