TeachThought : 27 Ways To Inspire Innovative ... Get Close to Think Deeply: Creating Primary-Level Close Readings. With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, students are expected to read and comprehend increasingly complex texts, with exemplars of such texts provided in Appendix B of the Common Core.
To promote this critical thinking, teachers can provide students with the opportunity to engage in a close reading of a text deemed complex by quantitative, qualitative, or reader-based/purpose-based measures of difficulty (Fisher & Frey, 2012; Fisher, Frey, & Lapp, 2012). During a close reading, students answer and discuss text-dependent questions, developing metacognition as they notice what is confusing, make inferences about the text, and determine the author’s purpose. As students gain experience with these readings, struggling and succeeding in their interactions with complex texts, the materials they are able to read independently will increase in complexity as reading responsibility is gradually released to them (Fisher, Frey, & Lapp, 2012).
Fisher, D., Frey, N., & Lapp, D. (2012). Useful Teaching Websites. CommonCoreToolkit.pdf?utm_content=buffer19e15&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. 27 Ways To Inspire Innovative Thinking In Students. Teaching Web 2 0 tools Standard 2. Teaching in the 21st Century. How to Integrate Technology. When technology integration in the classroom is seamless and thoughtful, students not only become more engaged, they begin to take more control over their own learning, too.
Effective tech integration changes classroom dynamics, encouraging student-centered project-based learning. Nine Lessons on How to Teach 21st Century Skills and Knowledge. As Thomas Friedman put it in a recent New York Times column, globalization compounds the urgency for students to develop the skills and knowledge they need for economic and civic success in the 21st century.
Yet despite widespread agreement among parents, educators, employers and policymakers worldwide that students need skills like critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and creativity, these skills are stubbornly difficult to teach and learn. The "transmission" model, through which teachers transmit factual knowledge via lectures and textbooks, remains the dominant approach to compulsory education in much of the world.
Students taught through this method typically do not practice applying knowledge to new contexts, communicating it in complex ways, solving problems or developing creativity. In short, as our new paper lays out, it is not the most effective way to teach 21st century skills. Seven Free Online Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students. This afternoon through the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page I received a request for some free whiteboard apps.
All of the following seven tools can be used to draw and type on a whiteboard in your browser. With the exception of PixiClip all of these tools can be used collaboratively for brainstorming sessions. While PixiClip doesn't allow for collaboration it does have a voice-over capability. Sketchlot is a free collaborative whiteboard service that works on any device that has a web browser. I tested it on my MacBook, my iPad, and my Android tablet. Bloom's Pyramid Interactive. New Web 2.0 tools for education. Education Week: Chat: Teaching in a 1-to-1 Laptop Classroom. Chat Teaching in a 1-to-1 Laptop Classroom Thursday, June 19, 2014, 4 to 5 p.m.
ET Click here for more information about this chat. Note: No special equipment other than Internet access is needed to participate in any of our text-based chats. Planbook & Lesson Planner. Free for Teachers. Common Curriculum. LeaderInMeAnne : It starts with the adults in ... Great Educational Web Tools Created by Teachers for Teachers. May 22, 2014 Familiar with the term "teacherpreneur?
" Only a few years old, this term appears to be evolving from a classroom teacher empowered & involved in educational leadership, to a classroom teacher who may also be an entrepreneur. Here are some notable products created by this new class of teacherpreneurs. eduClipper Like a Pinterest for teachers, this digital clipboard lets teachers clip and share all kinds of digital content. BYOD movement hasn't taken hold in your school yet? Don't have or want to bother with a Scantron? Deliver reading assessments sans all the paperwork with this mobile app. Save yourself even more paperwork by digitizing permission slips, parent-teacher conference forms, and more with this web-based service. A collection of tools teachers can use right in the classroom.
A collection of apps to help teachers create digital content. The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You. If you’re not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world.
That’s because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms. The Best of the Best You can view the live stream of #edchat here and see what people are saying at the hashtag #chickenweb2tools here. We scoured hundreds of responses and have come up with the following list. The following tools have not been verified and are simply based on the number of times each was mentioned on Twitter during this hashtag discussion. Cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces. Flipped classroom 2.0. These 12 Awesome Schools Could Change The Way You Think About Public Education.
While public high schools have been called “penitentiaries of boredom” and are believed by some to be failing, there are plenty of public schools that have found innovative ways of delivering education.
Below we have compiled a list of 12 inventive and engaging schools that provide students with more than just a typical education. The list is a mix of charters, magnets and traditional public high schools. These are institutions that prove you don't need to shell out thousands of dollars for a private education. Do you know an interesting public school that we left off the list? Let us know in the comments section. Pathways in Technology Early College High School AP Fiorello H. AP FDNY High School for Fire and Life Safety CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to note that the Florida Virtual School served 206,000 students during the 2012-2013 school year.