Integrating Technology into Teaching
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This post was written by Liz Perman, an editorial project manager for SmartBrief. Hundreds of educators from international schools around the world came to Nice, France, for the European Council of International Schools annual conference from Nov. 17 to 21. Teachers everywhere are grappling with how to integrate social media into their lesson plans, and many seem skeptical of the appeal of Twitter, let alone how it could be used for educational purposes. In her session, “Cure What Ails You: A Dose of Twitter for Every Day of the Year,” Kathy Schrock, director of technology for Nauset Public Schools in Orleans, Mass., walked educators through the basics of Twitter (see her presentation if you could use a tutorial as well) before outlining the specific benefits of Twitter for educators.
How Twitter can help teachers connect with students — and each other
Technology in Education
Education technology
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his "Ethics and Public Policy" class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it? The room began to hum, but no one so much as raised a hand. Still, within 90 seconds, Cheit had roughly 150 student responses displayed on an overhead screen, plotted as a multicolored bar graph — 64 percent said yes, 35 percent, no. Several times each class, Cheit's students answer his questions using handheld wireless devices that resemble television remote controls. The devices, which the students call "clickers," are being used on hundreds of college campuses and are even finding their way into grade schools.
Interactive 'clickers' changing classrooms - US news - Education - msnbc.com
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Assistive Technology-Elementary
By Kimberly Moore Kneas, Ph.D. and Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. Early Childhood Today: Are young children's brains (ages three through six) well suited to the use of technology? (We define technology as children using cameras, computers, tape recorders and video cameras in classroom projects.) If so, how?
Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom
YouTube in the Classroom - Using YouTube Videos in the ESL Classroom
Now that a growing majority of Internet users have broadband, YouTube and other video clip sites ( Google Video , Vimeo , etc.) have become very popular - especially with young adults. These sites also provide English learners and classes with a new tool to improve listening skills. The real advantage to these sites - at least from a language learning point of view - is that they offer authentic examples of everyday English used by everyday people.
Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents
CONSISTENT COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TEACHERS AND PARENTS can be a complicated goal to achieve. Busy teachers find it hard to take time out of their day to make phone calls or write notes to working parents who are difficult to contact. Yet administrators, teachers, and parents continue to strive for regular interaction as a way of involving parents in classroom life and improving student achievement.
Begin by getting an idea of what a classroom or teaching Web site is and how it works by looking at examples. Some outstanding sites created by future teachers at Western Michigan University include those of: Structuring the Classroom Web site |TOP| Before you begin, you should plan the structure of your classroom Web site. You might map out the main pages and secondary pages. A classroom Web site should include at least the following pages:
Teaching with Technology: Creating a Classroom Website
A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems. As part of a pilot program, Roslyn High School on Long Island handed out 47 iPads on Dec. 20 to the students and teachers in two humanities classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students. The iPads cost $750 apiece, and they are to be used in class and at home during the school year to replace , allow students to correspond with teachers and turn in papers and homework assignments, and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios. “It allows us to extend the classroom beyond these four walls,” said Larry Reiff, an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course materials online.
More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com
From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning
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