Using Skype in the Classroom #skype #edtech #elearning. A recent headline cross-posted on Tech&Learning caught my attention. It's amazing how technology--when used effectively--can create so much opportunity for collaboration in the classroom. WI educator Pernille Ripp sums up how she is effectively using Skype in her classroom with this statement: Skype simply makes what we are doing better. It gives us audiences, authors, experts. It connects us with places around the world and gives my students a way to change the world. Students speak to author Adam Gidwitz. Check out Ripp's blog, specifically the A Few Ideas for Using Skype in the Classroom article to spark this same collaboration in your classroom. <div class="disqus-noscript"><a href="
5 Tips to Effectively Tell your Story with Video. Our counterparts at Atomic Training recently posted a great blog post, we thought our education readers would find it helpful, too. Here are some tips on how to effect change in your organization and beyond with video. These 5 tips can help you get on your way to producing effective videos. 1) Plan ahead: Coming up with an engaging video from being to end might be a bit overwhelming - planning ahead can save you a lot of time in the end. Start with drawing up a simple storyboard. It doesn't have to be fancy, just start scribbling some ideas of how your story will get from start to finish. 2) Don't talk above their head: One way to lose the attention of your audience is to speak over their head. 3) Keep it short and to the point: You want to make sure your video has only the vital information it needs to get your story across. 4) Make it visually interesting: Try using multiple scenes and/or different camera angles to make your video more visually interesting.
Cyberbullying Stats: Did You Know? | Atomic Learning Blogs. October marks National Bullying Prevention Month, make sure your teachers, staff, and students are aware of the signs of cyberbullying and have the skills they need to stay safe online with Atomic Learning's online Internet Safety workshop. Quick Tools for Helping Teachers Who Hesitate with Tech | Atomic Learning Blogs.
Teachers are considered the experts in their classroom, so sometimes they're a little hesitant to try new technologies, if they feel like they don't know them very well. Atomic Learning allows them to be able to walk into their classroom, prepared and knowing all the technologies that they will be using.Debra Atchison, Director of Technology Professional Development Richardson, Texas We couldn't have said it better ourselves! The staff here at Atomic Learning regularly work with some amazing educators, so we understand the hesitations that can come along with trying new technology in the classroom. That's why we provide staff development resources relevant to each classroom—from segmented training on how-to-use and how-to apply technology to classroom projects focused on walking teachers and students through technology in a meaningful way. How do we do this? Check out the below list to try one for yourself! Don't have access to Atomic Learning? Al.atomiclearning.
New to Atomic Learning: Office 2013 What's New Training, and more! | Atomic Learning Blogs. Take a look at many of the new changes that have been made to Microsoft® Office® Suite 2013, specifically Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint®. Not only has the user interface changed, but Office 2013 also includes many new features and commands that will allow you to customize your environment and help you become more productive.
This online training series will give you a jump start on getting acquainted with the new look and features in Office Suite 2013. Also added to the Atomic Integrate training library: Photoshop Elements 11 Training Learn about the tools to help you create and share a photo or project within Photoshop® Elements 11. You will learn how to import photos into the Organizer and create an album and photo book with effects. We will also cover how to use tools for enhancing and editing photos. PowerPoint 2013 – Intro Training PowerPoint® 2013 is one of the most used programs in the Microsoft® Office® Suite.
TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition Graphing Calculator Tutorials. 10 reasons it's a great time to be in #education. As many of us start up or get ready to start up another school year, we have much to look forward to and much to be excited about. Here are 10 reasons why I believe it's a great time to be in education: 1) - Global competition is increasing and the pool for career opportunities is becoming more fierce. As the world seems to get smaller, students are being forced to compete with an even larger pool of applicants for colleges, for jobs, and for life in general. It's my belief that through this increase in competition, both schools and students will rise to the occasion to ensure all kids are prepared to be successful regardless of what path they choose in life. 2) - Everyone thinks they know what is best for education.
Now, some would argue this is a bad thing, but the reality is, everyone and their mom (I love you mom) seem to think they are an expert in education. 3) - Technology is changing the way the world does business. 5) - College education programs are getting better and better. Matthew Lynch sur Twitter : "10 More Educational Technology Concepts Every Teacher #edtech #educationtechnol #teachers.
10 More Educational Technology Concepts Every Teacher Should Know About. In a previous article, I showcased seven must-see educational technology concepts that teachers must stay abreast of to become more effective educators in the digital age. Those are important, but they are certainly not the only ones that are emerging in recent years. Here are some more exciting technologies to keep track of: Alternative input devices. These tools are designed to allow students with disabilities to use computers and related technology easily.
Research has also found that teaching outside, even for short stints, improves student attitudes, attendance, and overall health. As you can tell, many of these technologies have the power to change dramatically the learning experiences of students with learning disabilities, impairments, and other challenges that traditional learning methods have been less able to address. Paul McGuire sur Twitter : "Life of an Educator: 10 myths undermining #education... Life of an Educator: 10 myths undermining #educ... Paul McGuire sur Twitter : "Life of an Educator: 10 myths undermining #education... #ocsb #rigor... Life of an Educator: 10 myths undermining #educ... Ignite Your Passion for Discovery: Ottawa- Eventbrite. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more.
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The purpose of this time limit is to ensure that registration is available to as many people as possible. This option is not available anymore. Please read and accept the waiver. All fields marked with * are required. Click OK to confirm your order. Teach For Canada: A recipe for making education in Canada more (un)equal? | Tobey Steeves. Teach For Canada: A recipe for making education in Canada more (un)equal? Tobey Steeves Few would argue with the belief that federal and provincial education policies should ensure that vulnerable communities have access to well-resourced and well-trained teachers. By and large, I think it is fair to say that most readers of Our Schools/Our Selves understand that Insofar as opportunity is not distributed fairly there will be an underutilization of talent; some people will not develop their skills and abilities with consequent loss not only to them but to the society generally.
We cannot know how many outstanding scientists, writers, artists, or teachers are lost because a significant number of people are not able to obtain the necessary learning. Steeves It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The state of education innovation in 2015 and where we go from here. — The Future of School. The Atlantic’s Adrienne LaFrance was right about how the real 2015 compares to the one in Back to the Future II.
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale got a lot right given they were guessing 26 years out. LaFrance concludes that in many ways, reality is actually further along than the predictions. That’s not the case in education. Reality’s way behind the dream. I want to feel the way Adrienne did. A year ago, I threw out Four Frighteningly Ambitious Education Experiments I thought we’d see in 2014. Maybe looking back at what did and didn’t happen can help us understand where we go from here. Proposed Experiment 1: Set up skunkworks in “No Excuses” charter schools. Most “No excuses” schools are public charter schools that focus on accepting no excuses for getting every kid into college. So why aren’t we asking successful schools like these to do more aggressive research on what’s next?
The state of applied R&D in education today: Bright spots: Where we go from here: But what about a parent? Three Ways We Can All Become Better Teachers. When we think of a teacher, we often think of our childhoods and desks, and the person at the head of the classroom. But in many ways all of us are teachers in so many aspects of everyday life. Whenever we want to educate someone about something, or help them understand our perspective or point of view, drawing from the craft of teaching can be helpful. Teaching, after all, is about communication. In Building a Better Teacher, Elizabeth Green draws upon years of interviews and research as an education writer and CEO of Chalkbeat to make the case for why teaching is a craft and that it can be taught to anyone.
Her excellent book should be read for a detailed account of the history of teacher education, an international context, and an entertaining narrative. Here, I have distilled a few core insights from Elizabeth that each of us can use in learning to become a better teacher both inside and outside the classroom. First, recognize there are no “natural born” teachers Elizabeth Green.
Presentation tools. Youtube 4 Teachers. VIDEO IS THE NEW PEN! (…and it’s mightier too!) The thought makes many people think the world has ended but for 21st Century kids, videoing their thoughts and creations and experiences and then publishing it to the world is as easy as picking up a pen. In fact, most are more likely to have a device ready to film, edit, add subtitles and music than a pen or pencil. I like to think we only ever used pens because we didn’t have a video camera in our pocket, sorry if that upsets anyone. MANAGING THE NEW PEN’S SCRIBBLINGS (How to manage all the video) The new issue that everyone in education is how to manage and share all this video content. Recorded by their iPadsRecorded by Student iPads (Teacher Logs-in, uploads, logs-out)Explain Everything (App) whiteboard lessonsVideo tutorials for practical tasksYoutube videos discovered on Youtube itself and added to course “Playlists” This allows the teachers to manage all the videos from one place.
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21st Century Learning. Feedback. Compadres y Comadres - Home. Good reading for principals. Resources for blogging. Inquiry based learning. Eqao. Classroom observation. Social media. Technology in education. Critical Literacy. Assessment. 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning. Welcome to this first in a series of PBL Mania Posts. For the next few weeks I am celebrating Project Based Learning by hosting a webinar at Edtech Leaders Online, and by presenting a PBL session at the NICE Conference in Chicago. In this post I will introduce you to some awesome places on the web containing some of the very best PBL resources. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe to this 21centuryedtech Blog by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans.
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10 Important Skills Students need for the Future. The future. What do our students really need to know and be able to do to succeed in future education and careers? Content is a part of what they need to know. Standardized tests test content knowledge and some skills. There are huge debates raging over standardized testing, curriculum, and the like.
But what it is that students really need to know for the future. Content is important to a point. I learned many of these skills in college because even 20 years ago, my school, WPI, understood these ideas. Research by the Institute for the Future released in a report entitled “Future Work Skills 2020″ shows that preparing for a specific career area based on content is difficult and, instead, people should be developing certain broad skills. Here are the skills: Sense-making. Social intelligence. Novel and adaptive thinking. Cross-cultural competency. Computational thinking. New-media literacy. Transdisciplinarity. Cognitive load management. Virtual collaboration.
Khan Academy. Khan Academy: Out of the Screen, Into the Physical World. The upcoming summer camp will be similar to We Teach Science. “It lets you rethink what the physical experience should be like, what I’d call deeper, higher order type of stuff that most schools don’t touch on right now,” he said. “The videos are great for learning things at an academic level. You can learn intuition for what a derivative is and about Newtonian mechanics through the online exercises, but this is another level of learning.” Kids will learn a little about probability, modeling, negotiating skills, game theory, and once they go through it, “maybe they’ll look at the stock market or the housing market differently,” he said. At this early stage, it’ll be a bit of an experiment, too. But the details are still fuzzy about logistics. Khan can confirm that it will take place somewhere between Portola Valley and Sunnyvale in Silicon Valley and will not be organized by grade level.
Right now, Khan is focusing on building a full curriculum online first. Without grading. The Learning Lab.
The Flipped Classroom: an Infographic. Project Based Learning | BIE. Born to Learn ~ You are Born to Learn. Next steps: getting ready for inquiry. Teacher Evaluation – Let’s Just Forget It! Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! Sugata Mitra. Google Zeitgeist. Barefoot In the head. Framework_english. Allthingslearning. Literacy and Numeracy Strategy. LearningBlocks. LSA Web Network - A web network for participants in the LSA project. New York schools enter the iZone. 22 Mind-Blowing Infographics on Education | Socrato Learning Analytics Blog.
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