Do Your Students Know How To Search? This blog post was first published on Edudemic on October 16th, 2013 The Connected Student Series: There is a new digital divide on the horizon. It is not based around who has devices and who does not, but instead the new digital divide will be based around students who know how to effectively find and curate information and those who do not. Helene Blowers has come up with seven ideas about the new digital divide – four of them, the ones I felt related to searching, are listed below. The New Digital Divide: In an age of information abundance learning to effectively search is one of the most important skills most teachers are NOT teaching. They assume students know how to conduct a search, and set them free on the internet to find information. Teachers – especially in the elementary grades -need to develop a shared vocabulary around the skill of searching. Here are some of the searching skills and vocabulary we should be teaching students : Quotation Marks: Example: “The Great Chicago Fire”
Smarter Chrome: Three Simple Chrome Tricks. URL Shortners: Latest Free URL Shortners Tools to Create Tiny URL. URL shortners are the online applications that shorten the length of a URL. These are very useful tools as you may need to submit the URL to a micro blogging website like twitter where you can’t exceed the defined character limits. URL shortners provide a short URL in place of your permanent URL so that you can use it to navigate the users on your webpage. These URLs don’t affect the page views or web page optimization. These tools are free and used by millions of bloggers and website owners every day. Where to find the best free URL shortners?
This post will prove the answer. There is no limitation of title length although the search engines index only the first 65 characters of a web page URL. To help every one of you out there I am providing the list of best free URL shortners. Ow.ly Haven’t heard about ow.ly? Bit.ly Bitly is the second option in the list and it offcourse deserves this position. Mcaf.ee TinyURL.com TinyURL is surely a common tool among the webmasters. Dft.ba Goo.gl Is.gd.
Utilizing Technology in Grade One to Help With Literacy Learning. I have had access to several iPads and computer technology for almost ten months now and in that time a lot has changed in my classroom. Technology - whether an iPad or a desktop computer - is just a tool my students use to show and share their learning. My planning revolves around learning out comes and not specific websites or iPad apps. Here are some ways my students are using technology for their literacy learning but I want to be very clear that we also have literacy learning with out technology too.
In my room it's about meeting my students individual needs in the best ways I know how. The British Columbia Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLOs) for Language Arts are broken into Oral Language, Reading and Viewing, and Writing and Representing. Oral Language (Speaking and Listening) My students listen and talk a lot in my classroom.
We also use Skype/Google Hangout/Face Time for video conferencing to authentically practice our speaking and listening skills. Writing and Representing. How to Embed Just a Portion of a YouTube Video ... Using iBooks Author to re-purpose face to face class time. Google Drive for iPad. Best Evidence Encyclopedia -- Empowering Educators with Evidence on Proven Programs. How To Know If You're Correctly Integrating Technology. A common question that we hear from teachers about integrating technology into their classrooms is, “how do I know if I’m doing it right?” We love to hear this question because that tells us that the teacher is starting to analyze and evaluate how they are integrating technology and are looking for a way to gauge their effectiveness.
We feel that the Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) best addresses the question of “doing it right.” According to the Arizona K-12 Center at Northern Arizona University , “the TIM is designed to assist schools and districts in evaluating the level of technology integration in classrooms and to provide teachers with models of how technology can be integrated throughout instruction in meaningful ways.” There is more than one version of the TIM but the one that we most commonly refer to with our staff was produced by the Arizona K12 Center at NAU.
What is The Technology Integration Matrix? Download PDF of the Technology Integration Matrix. 5 Resources to Help Students Learn About Income Taxes. Today is the busiest day of the year for the U.S. Post Office. Why? Because tax returns have to be post marked by today. If you're looking for some resources for teaching about taxes, take a look at the items below. This morning's episode of CNN Student News has a short segment on income taxes. And on the topic of the economics, today's episode also explains Bitcoins. For high school students, college students, and adults CNN's Explain It To Me video about the "Buffett Rule" explains why sometimes the super rich don't pay as high a percentage of their income in taxes as the rest of us. From time to time we all wonder where our tax dollars go. Another place to see how tax revenue is distributed is What We Pay For. The IRS website, Understanding Taxes, is a good source of lesson plans and individual learning materials about taxes and budgets.
iGeneration - 21st Century Education. An iPad Workflow for the Classroom Using Google Drive & Pages, Keynote or Numbers. The Google Drive iPad app is not yet all that we might want it to be, but it is definitely moving in the right direction. A recent update included the ability to create and edit spreadsheets, but it also added something equally useful – the ability to upload files from other apps to Google Drive via the “Open in” function. This creates some useful workflow options for teachers who want to assign, receive and grade student work on the iPad.
Here’s how it could work. 1. Using the Drive app, the student creates a folder for assignments and shares it with the teacher (some kind of default naming strategy would be good here: see The Paperless iPad Classroom with the Google Drive app). 2. The teacher takes all the student folders that are shared with them, and puts them in one class folder (e.g. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Easy, right? How could teacher quickly collect all the Google accounts of the students in their class? Like this: Like Loading... Related The Goodreader iPad Workflow Solution In "Google" How to Create Your Own Free iPad Templates for Keynote. The recent update to Keynote, brought the ability to import presentations complete with master slides and preset styles. So, this got me thinking. How could I take advantage of this new feature? Well, here is a simple, but straightforward way to do just that and create some free iPad templates for Keynote to supplement the 12 themes that Apple gives you as a default on the iOS version. If you already have the desktop versions of Keynote, or PowerPoint, this method will cost you nothing at all! Start by opening Keynote, or PowerPoint, on your Mac/PC and choose a template for your presentation. Repeat for as many templates as you would like to bring over to the iPad, and organize them by creating a folder for these new templates, like in the image below.
Now, these aren’t new templates in the strictest sense of the word, because once you start editing one of these, it will automatically save your new content, so here is what you need to do. Like this: Like Loading... Related In "iPad" SoundCloud+QR Codes=A Gallery of Students' Voices - Getting Smart by @JohnHardison1 - Email Share February 15, 2013 - by John Hardison 15 Email Share For a multitude of reasons, teaching in today’s time is nothing short of exciting.
One such reason for so much enthusiasm is the availability of educational technology. It seems every day I discover a new technology tool that offers to enhance, structure, or assess a lesson plan. Furthermore, the technology apps for students’ creative endeavors are only limited by a classroom’s imagination. Whether I gain knowledge from my professional learning network on Twitter , from my tech-savvy students, or from the many talented colleagues in my district , the most appropriate and successful technology gadgets and apps are just a click away.
Not too long ago, a few clicks of the mouse had me calculating how I could improve an already-strong lesson plan. The equation? SoundCloud + QR Codes = A Gallery of Students’ Voices. The Foundational Lesson Plan I try my very best to never put the cart before the horse. The Problem The Solution. 5 Presentation Tools To Captivate Every Student. Creating a presentation that keeps a captive audience engaged is tough. Creating a presentation that keeps distracted students engaged is a much harder task again. Whether your are demonstrating to a class or presenting at a conference, keeping an audience focused on your content is more challenging than it used to be. Children and adult audience members alike, now have glowing distractions in their pockets and are expecting the instant gratification that comes from the Internet generation. Text on slides no longer has the appeal and will easily lose the attention battle to a Facebook update or a new cow on FarmVille.
Here are a few tools that will help you enthrall your audience and keep your presentations on the entertaining side of educational: SlideRocket is a hosted web app designed to take presentations to the next level with graphical prowess and multimedia integration. There are a number of real benefits in using a web based Presentation tool such as SlideRocket. Dtmoviemaker / FrontPage. Badges, Gaming, and Digital Media - David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts. Education Quotes. Annie Dillard:I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. Plutarch: The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited. Aeschylus I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. B.B.King: The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
Heinrich Heine If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. George Iles: Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. Anthony J. Euripides: Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Walt Disney I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Confucius: Learning without thought is a labor lost, thought without learning is perilous. Denis Waitley: All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Greek Proverb: All things good to know are difficult to learn. Ray LeBlond: You learn something every day if you pay attention. H.G. Primary Tech.
- Top 5 most popular technology solutions in 2013. Free Technology for Teachers. Top Web Tools for Teachers in 2012. 7 Tips From Effective Teachers Who Use Technology. The Current State Of Technology In K-12 2.52K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? How many schools have a digital strategy? Find out in the current state of technology in K-12. How Online Education Has Changed In 10 Years 9.73K Views 0 Likes We all know that education, specifically online education, has come a long way in the last few years. The Importance Of The Evolution Of Education 7.30K Views 0 Likes Over the past century, the modes of both imparting and receiving education have undergone a paradigm shift. The Teacher's Quick Guide To Digital Scavenger Hunts. If you’ve got a smartphone or a tablet in your classroom, you’re ready for the adventure to begin! By adventure I mean, of course, the world of active learning through digital scavenger hunts.
In this hunt, students are tasked with finding a particular physical object, person, or place and have to use technology to track it down. Note: an ‘online scavenger hunt’ usually implies that you’re hunting around online and not physically with classmates. For the purpose of this article, I’m focusing on the physical version I’ve dubbed ‘digital scavenger hunts’. The Simple Goal So now that you’re all ready to start your very first scavenger hunt, let’s figure out what the goals are. In my opinion, a high quality hunt should have the goal of inspiring learning, creative thinking, reasoning, and qualitative assessment.
Finding The Technology Like the movie National Treasure, students will need a lot of ingenuity and tools to help them uncover the mysteries you’ve laid out before them. A Quick Note.