Free Technology for Teachers. For Educators. 4Teachers : Main Page. 100 Excellent Online Lectures for Educators | Best Colleges Online. Posted on Monday July 5, 2010 by Staff Writers By Lauren Bailey As an educator, you know how important it is to continue to learn throughout your life. With this collection of videos, you can learn all about teaching, learning, and the policies of schools. Check out our list to find the best online lectures for teachers and other educators. General Get a general look into education with these lectures.
Does College Really Matter? Learning & Teaching Styles These lectures study and share learning and teaching styles. Gever Tulley Teaches Life Lessons Through Tinkering: Gever Tulley’s lecture is all about teaching through tinkering. Improvement Watch these lectures to find out how education can be improved. Focus on Educational Innovation: Watch this panel for a discussion on educational innovation. Open & Shared Education These lectures focus on sharing education openly. Learning Through Remixing: See how remixing can be used for education.
Creativity These lectures support creativity. School Systems. Free Technology for Teachers. 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment Framework. Updated February 2013 Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee November 19, 2008 Context for NCTE’s 21st Century Literacies Framework In the 1990s, the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association established national standards for English language arts learners that anticipated the more sophisticated literacy skills and abilities required for full participation in a global, 21st century community.
The selected standards, listed in the appendix, served as a clarion call for changes underway today in literacy education. The NCTE definition of 21st century literacies makes it clear that the continued evolution of curriculum, assessment, and teaching practice itself is necessary: Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. Elements of the Framework Implications of the Framework for Assessments Appendix: 1. 2. 3. 6. 7. 8. 10. 12. 21st Century Learning: Will Richardson: Connective Teaching: How the Read/Write Web Challenges Traditional Practice. Voice for the VoicelessIn keeping with my context filter (Homeless Children and Children of Poverty) for the Connectivism conference I re-listened to Will's presentation. Will says that networks are crucial and the best way to stay current is to network with other passionate learners who want to learn the things you do.
As educators we must have a willingness to share and be transparent. He tells us that recognizing patterns is huge. As educators we should look at the distributed conversations that are out there -- which are not linear-- and synthesize ideas, pick out patterns of ideas and connect them. Why should we be doing this? This is so true for students of poverty or even for students whose parents (regardless of socio-economic status) are not connected at home. Ask YourselfAsk yourself- are the current methods and curriculum being used at your school going to equip a high poverty student to climb out of the circumstance that has been forced upon them? The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Communication and Collaboration. Communicate Clearly Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively using oral, written and nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions Use communication for a range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade) Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness a priori as well as assess their impact Communicate effectively in diverse environments (including multi-lingual)Collaborate with Others Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member Additional resources are listed below: 1.
Web Index for Communication Resources 2. Engauge overview of communication skills 3. 4. 5. 26 Interesting Ways* to use Google+ to Support ... - "Google Docs" Curriculum21. Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students. Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century: Resources. Game-Based Learning Units for the Everyday Teacher.
Game-based learning (GBL) is getting a lot press. It is an innovative practice that is working to engage kids in learning important 21st century skills and content. Dr. Judy Willis in a previous post wrote about the neurological benefits and rationale around using games for learning. She also gives tips about using the game model in the classroom. James Paul Gee has long been a champion for game-based learning in speeches, blogs, and books. Quest to Learn, located in New York City, infuses technology with game-based learning, where entire units utilize missions, boss levels, and the like for learning important standards.
Myths About Game-Based Learning First, let's clarify a couple things. Gee refers to teachers as "learning designers," and I couldn't agree more. Inspired by the work I've seen, here is an overview of components and structure for the everyday teacher to implement game-based learning Overall Structure: Individual Quests and Boss Levels Overall Theme Need to Know Incentives. 100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques. With so many good teachers out there, it’s fortunate they can share their knowledge via video on the Internet. From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well. Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh perspective, you are sure to find something helpful among these videos.
The Basics Reading, storytelling, math, and science all get coverage with these videos that show how some Teaching Storytelling in the Classroom. Watch children tell stories as a backdrop to educators talking about the storytelling experience. Myst ‘Exile’ in the Classroom. The Arts From visual arts to music to drama, these videos will offer suggestions and stimulate creativity when teaching art to your students. Footprint dancing at the Nest. Getting Physical Movement doesn’t have to be reserved just for PE class. Education and Technology. 21centuryedtech - home. Getting to Know a Digital Textbook. By Terence W. Cavanaugh When I switched to open source digital textbooks, I created a series of activities to help students better learn how to use the textbook in digital form.
I added a textbook item to the course menu. Then I adapted the textbook to be available in a few formats, providing access to the book not only online, but also so that it would be available to them in downloadable versions in ePub and AZW so that they could be read offline and on ebook readers and smart phones. The students learn more about digital textbooks through an activity I call, "getting to know your textbook" (see lesson below). As an online option for text-to-speech, students are shown how to use University of Washington’s WebAnywhere ( Students are shown how they can use note-taking software as an option to collect information from a book. Lesson/Activity: Getting To Know Your Digital Textbook OBJECTIVE(s): 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4.
A. B. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Online video lessons flipping classrooms left and right. In soothing tones, he explains everything from chemistry to credit default swaps, from algebra to economics, to about 2 million students a month, imparting roughly 200,000 lessons a day. And Salman Khan never loses his voice. As an educator, he's just now finding it, as the improbable creator of a free, Web-based video library whose pitch-perfect approach to bedeviling concepts has vaulted him into the education reform conversation — in Colorado and worldwide.
"It's weird for me," says the 34-year-old Khan. "You don't expect people to recognize you, especially when you make math videos on YouTube. " That task has expanded a bit since he first lashed together an online algebra lesson to help a cousin. Today's goal: "A free world-class education to anyone anywhere. " Khan continues to refine and expand the video library, whose offerings range from basic addition to college-level math, adding more and more subjects that eventually will appear in multiple languages.
Start of a legend? 5 Myths about mobile learning. [and how to overcome them] Photo by stefg74 Here are some common mLearning myths I regularly come across in English language teacher training – and some myth-busting lesson plans. Myth 1: Mobile learning means learning via texting with mobile phones Mobile phones (or cell phones) are just one of the myriad devices that can be used for learning. Myth 2: Mobile learning means ‘learning on the move’ This is one of the most common definitions of mobile learning I hear. *Thanks to Neil Ballantyne for alerting me to this theory, which states that all learners will have a long bus ride to work/school in which they will want to look at flashcards or similar Myth 3: Mobile learning means learning with apps Another common misconception. Access video rich content reviewing mobile phones, and thenproduce their own audio reviews via mobile devices,which peers and teacher can then comment on.
Myth 4: Mobile learning means content delivered in ‘bite-sized’ chunks This relates to Myth 3 above. What about you? Product Tour - SoapBox. GoSoapBox is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive student response system for educators to use in their classrooms. Leveraging web-enabled devices, teachers digitally engage students to conduct formative assessment and gain insight into student comprehension that was never before possible. Know Who's Confused GoSoapBox's intuitive Confusion Barometer lets students indicate whether or not they are getting it.
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The PQ4R strategy is a good study skill that can be adapted for students of all ages. This strategy will improve the student's reading comprehension. It also may improve recall of facts by as much as 70%. Preview: Look through the pages of your reading passage and read the headings of the chapter and any sections dividing the chapter. Use the PQ4R strategy with new reading material to improve comprehension and retention, which can lead to better grades and improved achievement in all school subject areas. 26 Interesting Ways* to use Google+ to Support ... - "Google Docs" Easy Notecards. Digital Literacy: Skills for the 21st Century: Resources.