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Teachers Easily & Safely Share SchoolTube is approved for access in schools, and all videos are moderated by teachers like you. Spark Student Engagement Spark student engagement and classroom discussions with video. Share Your Lessons & Projects Impact thousands of students & teachers around the world by sharing your lessons, projects, and ideas. Differentiating Instruction: Meeting Students Where They Are, Teaching Today. Jessica Jimenez : Presentation Handout. Why teach inductively? - Students get more practice and are more likely to pay attention. - Students show what they understand, giving you something to assess. - Inductive activities can connect the material to students' lives and increase motivation. - Inductive teaching fosters noticing.
Defining inductive: "In induction, one works from examples to principles, rules, and generalizations. " (Nunan, 1999, p. 8) Broader definition of inductive teaching: Learners do something (answer questions or participate in an activity) that guides them to their own conclusions by allowing them to discover grammar rules, rationale, target features and strategies for themselves. Related terms: experiential learning, discovery learning Inductive Guidelines: We're not playing 20 Questions You don't always have to be inductive (Brown, 2007, p. 29).
What bite-sized questions can build to a more complex conclusion? How will you organize students' answer on the board? Pitfalls Inductive Activities: Pre-project Mingle: A.) Disruptive Innovation: Higher Education. Last week, former Silicon Valley CEO Ben Nelson announced that he has raised $25 million to start an "elite university" which would exist exclusively online.
The Minerva Project launch comes at a time when public and private educational institutions are dramatically expanding their online presence. But can an Internet-only school really compete with Stanford, Berkeley and the Ivy League? We talk to some innovators who are challenging the traditional university model. How Schools Can Teach Innovation.
Empowering the Language Learner | The New School. English Pronunciation - CAN & CAN'T. English Pronunciation - 4 Common Mistakes. Teaching Pronunciation: Seven Essential Concepts | The New School. Play and Affect in Language Learning. Written by: Joel Bacha MATESOL / International Policy Studies candidate Educational Development Monterey Institute of International Studies Teaching English in Japanese elementary schools for four years allowed me to experiment with a number of music, game, and total physical response (TPR) activities. I found that students were more apt to participate in an activity if it incorporated playfulness and physical movement. The resulting intrinsic motivation seemed to stimulate students' affectively and give them the desire to learn.
There was, however, skepticism among a few teachers when using play such as music, games, and TPR in the classroom. I occasionally experienced minor criticisms and heard comments such as, "How can students learn when they are having fun? " According to Cook (2000), trends in cognitive linguistics tend to concentrate on what is going on in the child's mind, following Chomsky; mainly focusing on the existence of some internal program. Intrinsic motivation Emotion. Soviet Psychology: The Vygotsky Internet Archive. Maria Montessori. Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori (Italian pronunciation: [maˈria montesˈsɔri]; August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy.
Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. Life and career[edit] Birth and family[edit] Italian 1000 Lire banknote (approx. 0.52 €) representing Maria Montessori. Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy. 1883–1896: Education[edit] Early education[edit] The Montessori family moved to Florence in 1873 and then to Rome in 1875 because of her father's work. Secondary school[edit] In 1883[6] or 1884,[7] at the age of 13, Montessori entered a secondary, technical school Regia Scuola Tecnica Michelangelo Buonarroti, where she studied Italian, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, accounting, history, geography, and sciences. University of Rome—Medical school[edit] Public advocacy[edit] 9–10.
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul: M.D., Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan. Why Use Games for Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language? Ersoz - Six Games for the EFL/ESL Classroom. The Internet TESL Journal Aydan Ersözaersoz [at] server.gef.gazi.edu.trGazi University (Ankara, Turkey) Well-chosen games are invaluable as they give students a break and at the same time allow students to practice language skills. This paper provides some sample games that can be used in the language classroom.
Why Use Games Language learning is a hard task which can sometimes be frustrating. Some Advice Games should be regarded as supplementary activities. Game 1: Whisper Circles Aim: Speaking (using a whisper), pronunciation, listening, grammar (it takes ...to do ...)Notes:Divide the students into groups of 7 to 10.Choose one leader from each group. Game 2: Match and Catch the Riddle Game 3: Crazy Story Aim: Writing, reading aloud, listening, grammar (simple past tense, reported speech)Notes:Prepare sheets of paper with six columns which bear the following titles at the topWHO? Game 4: Missing Headlines Game 5: Find the Differences Game 6: The Secret Code Conclusion Bibiography BALOTO, F. Encyclopedia of Improv Games. Boudreault - The Benefits of Using Drama in the ESL/EFL Classroom. The Internet TESL Journal Chris Boudreaultsolartrees [-at-] gmail.com(Lac La Biche, Canada) As an English teacher, I have often been amazed at how effective drama is to capture the attention of the students in the ESL/EFL classroom.
Drama activities would sometimes have surprising and unexpected results. ESL/EFL professionals need to use this medium more because the artificial world of the classroom can be transformed into a quasi-real language situation and provides an endless amount of opportunities for student’s personal growth. We cannot only teach grammar and phonetics with drama but also it has the power to transform the actors as well as the audience. We shouldn’t underestimate this powerful teaching tool to reach our students.
Introduction William Shakespeare claimed that All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages.As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143. Play’s Unfortunate Reputation | Playborhood. NOTE: This is the first of a three-part series on the value of play, by Robert Hess. The second article is entitled, Play and Learning, and the third article is entitled, Play Broadens and Deepens the Mind. Where did we get the notion that play and learning are incompatible? Consider the following widely held beliefs: “Play is the opposite of work” and “learning takes hard work.”
If true, these would entail that to maximize learning, we must minimize play: The less we play, the more we will learn, and the more we play, the less we will learn. I will call this the “No-Play Dogma.” The No-Play Dogma, or something akin to it, appears to be at the core of our educational system and philosophy. Though the decline in play admittedly has other causes as well (e.g., more households with single-parents or two working parents, increased street violence, more traffic hazards, digital entertainment), the No-Play Dogma does strike me as the chief culprit.
Capstone. There Is No Such Thing as THE Flipped Class. The term "Flipped Classroom" is being thrown around a lot lately in both positive and negative light. I think the term is a bit ambiguous and does not fully do justice to all that is being done under the guise of the Flipped Classroom. My colleague, Jon Bergmann, and I have a book coming out soon that I hope brings clarity to what most of us mean by "The Flipped Classroom. " In the mean time, I hope to shed some light on some of the confusion, critique, and hype. 1. What's in a name? There is no such thing as THE Flipped Classroom. The Flip has many faces and the word Flip has certain connotations that do not do justice to the amazing educational uses of screencasting and other video production technology.
A few years passed, our model morphed from content delivery via video, to a flex-paced mastery system and the name shifted to Reverse Instruction. Another year passed and we began to include elements of UDL and inquiry in our model. And then the "Flip" word was used. 2007-2008 Flipped. The Flipped Classroom: Answering Obama’s Call For Creativity In Education. As a sophomore and junior at Clintondale High School in suburban Detroit, Dominique Moody was barely squeaking by, getting Ds in geometry and algebra. He was not alone: two years ago, the average failure rate was 61% at the financially disadvantaged school, where three quarters of its 570 students qualify for free lunches. But last fall, everything changed.
The school inversed its teaching model, assigning students short, instructional videos to watch before class and then, at school, helping them practice problems that ordinarily would have been assigned as homework. Dominique’s math teacher, Richard Filbey, captured his short, step-by-step advanced algebra lectures on videos for students to watch at their own pace on computers, mobile phones, or tablets.
The “flipped classroom” at Clintondale might just be a way to implement President Obama’s call in his recent State of the Union Address to “grant schools flexibility to teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test.” Flipped Learning | Turning Learning on Its Head! A Look Inside - Flipped. Posted By Meris Stansbury On February 9, 2012 @ 2:39 pm In Curriculum,eClassroom News,school reform,School Reform News,Top News | Teachers say that even though the pilot is over, they won’t go back to the old way of teaching.
There have been many school reform trends over the past few years: student response systems, video games for math, mobile phones for learning—but none have completely transformed the notion of learning like the flipped classroom. Flipped learning [2], in essence, turns the idea of traditional classroom instruction on its head by asking students to watch videos of teacher lectures for homework, then apply the lesson with the teacher in the classroom.
Using this method, proponents say, teachers have the opportunity to help students learn as individuals, and students can learn concepts more quickly. Watch Lake Elmo Elementary’s experience: One of the open houses took place at Lake Elmo Elementary School in Lake Elmo, Minn. And neither will students. Katie Gimbar's Flipped Classroom - why it has to be me! What About Students With No Access? - FAQ - Katie Gimbar's Flipped Classroom. Katie Gimbar's Flipped Classroom - why it has to be me! Katie Gimbar's Flipped Classroom - why it has to be me! Katie Gimbar's Flipped Classroom - why it has to be me! Friday Institute for Educational Innovation - FIZZ. Khan academy • ESL Techies. Why the blended learning model is a good choice One of the latest trends in the education world is blended learning.
So what is blended learning and how can it help English Language Learners? The term blended learning has been used in education for many years. It involves the integration of traditional classroom instruction and educational technologies and can take different forms. Nowadays, the newest model is the flipped classroom.
In a flipped learning environment, the traditional format of in-class lectures followed by at-home student assignments is turned around or “flipped”. Another objective of this individualized approach is to empower students to direct their own learning by coming to class prepared to ask questions and problem solve with their peers after viewing the subject matter on their own. For English language learners the model has some obvious advantages. This brings me to the next and perhaps the most important advantage of the flipped classroom for ELLs.
Web 2.0 for EFL / ESL Teachers. 2 Weeks In and... - Teacher Vodcasting and Flipped Classroom Network. Web 2.0 for EFL / ESL Teachers - Teacher Vodcasting and Flipped Classroom Network. Capstone. Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011: The Higher Education Bubble. Part 8 of my Top Ed-Tech Trends Series To Uncollege One of the most interesting people I met this year was Dale Stephens. Dale is just 19, but he's an incredibly intelligent and poised young man. Dale is a college dropout. He is also a world traveler, a speaker, a Thiel Foundation scholar, and a soon-to-be Penguin author. Peter Thiel's Higher Education Bubble It was a simple opening sentence to one of the most-read articles in the tech industry this year. "A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed, he says. As part of his critique of higher ed, Thiel formed the "20 Under 20" program, paying 20 students under the age of 20 to drop out of school, giving them $100,000 over the course of 2 years to do so.
The Dropout Success Story Both Thiel's narrative and his fellowship program are a nod to a powerful piece of Silicon Valley mythology: drop out of college, build your own business, be wildly successful. The Other Kids DIY Higher Ed Open Badges.
Let's Hack Education. Sam Harris on the Future of the Book. Bestselling author Sam Harris explains his current solution to the strange new media world—and why he’s publishing short ebooks. Writers, artists, and public intellectuals are nearing some sort of precipice: Their audiences increasingly expect digital content to be free. Jaron Lanier has written and spoken about this issue with great sagacity. You can purchase his book, which most of you will not do, or you can watch him discuss these matters for free. The problem is thus revealed even in the act of stating it. How can a person like Lanier get paid for being brilliant? This has become an increasingly difficult question to answer. Where publishing is concerned, the Internet is both midwife and executioner. When I published The End of Faith in 2004, I created a website as an afterthought. Journalism was the first casualty of this transformation. However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change.
Related difficulties are now looming for books. The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods - Ari LeVaux - Health. New research shows that when we eat we're consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA. Update 1/12: Thanks to science and biology bloggers, Christie Wilcox and Emily Willingham at the Scientific American blog network and The Biology Files, respectively, we've learned of the scientific inconsistencies made in Ari LeVaux's most recent Flash in the Pan column, which is syndicated by a number of newspapers and magazine websites.
This column has been expanded and updated for AlterNet, with LeVaux discussing specific improvements in the comments. Chinese researchers have found small pieces of rice ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team showed that this genetic material will bind to receptors in human liver cells and influence the uptake of cholesterol from the blood. The type of RNA in question is called microRNA (abbreviated to miRNA) due to its small size. And: The CLP » Home.
Hypermedia. System : Hypermedia reading strategies employed by advanced learners of English. Journal - CALICO. A Digital Literacy for Everyone: S. Craig Watkins, Douglas Rushkoff, John Jones and Barbara Fister. Push Pop Press — About Us. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity. Inkling 2.0: When a Textbook Becomes More Than a Textbook. Khan Academy. The CLP » Home. Index. How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC] Closing Digital Divide, Expanding Digital Literacy. Digital Textbooks Slow to Catch On. Inkling - Interactive textbooks for iPad. Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH) AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.