55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content. What Is the Biggest Challenge in Education Today? It is an honor to introduce ourselves to you as the 2010-11 Washington Teaching Ambassador Fellows.
We are all excited to be here at the U.S. Department of Education, working to help create the conditions and structures necessary for success in our schools. With five Teaching Ambassador Fellows in Washington and ten in schools across the country, our mission is to do all we can to represent teacher and student voices in the dialogue on how to improve opportunities for our students to succeed in our classrooms and in their lives. As we step through this path of change in education, we ask for your voices, expertise and engagement.
Over the course of the year, we want to know what you need, how we can best serve you and how policy can be guided to both support the work you are doing and change the way we do education. To kick off this discussion, we ask you: What is the biggest challenge facing education today? To learn more about us, please visit the Teaching Ambassador Fellows web pages. Schappea. A Great Wheel of All The Learning Theories Teachers Need to Know about. I really feel like there are no words that can ever give credit to the phenomenal work put into creating the wheel below.
It just amazed me how much time invested in it. "Double Innovation" 7 Tools Students Can Use to Manage Group Projects. 10 Surprising Facts About Students Using E-Textbooks. Tech literacy. Flipped classrooms: Let’s change the discussion SmartBlogs. Since Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk, the Khan Academy has been nearly synonymous with “flipped classrooms.”
This is because since then, Khan Academy has been promoted by the Gates Foundation as well as major media outlets like CNN and CBS. But, what the media and outsiders (non-educators) fail to recognize is that Khan Academy is “just a tool” and not a methodology or pedagogy on its own. Debates have raged simultaneously in educators’ circles, especially in social media and blogs, about the benefits (or lack thereof) of flipping.
Through all of this, the term “flipped classroom” or even “flipping” has been misconstrued and inaccurately represented. Rather than argue about titles or labels, let’s get into the philosophy of flipping. Educational Hash Tags. Are kids really motivated by technology? As a guy who delivers two-day #edtech workshops during my breaks from full-time classroom teaching, I’m often asked the same questions again and again: How can teachers use technology to motivate students?
What digital tools do kids like best? My answer often catches participants by surprise: You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almost always ambivalent toward digital tools. Podcasts in the classroom. Create Infographics. 10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics.
People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That’s been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics ? How To Find Open Education Resources. 10 Ways To Become A Better Online Learner 5.81K Views 0 Likes. QR Code - How To Use QR Codes. You may have seen these recently in various places, you may have heard people talking about them in the realm of mobile and wondered what the heck they are. Quick response codes (known as “QR” codes) are a very convenient way to display a small bit of information that is easily scanned and processed typically by mobile devices. Allowing physical items to almost become interactive, by providing information that is easily scanned like a website URL.
To make a simpler analogy, most people are familiar with Universal Product codes (known as UPC codes). Patty finn's Page. The Flipped Language Arts Classroom. Today I received via Accomplished Teacher an article titled"How YouTube is Changing the Classroom,"which describes the innovative Flipped Classroom.
For those who need a definition, a flipped classroom reverses the traditional teaching model in which a teacher presents a lesson in a whole-class setting, and students complete assignments at home. In the flip students watch short instructional videos at home and return to school for a workshop in which they complete projects and write papers. I watched part of the video about the five-paragraph essay and found myself succumbing to auditorium whiplash, but I did find the podcast interesting.
I've long thought about how instructional videos and podcasting can help alleviate my own frustration from explaining and reteaching concepts to students who don't pay attention, who are chronically absent, who are in the kid clink down the hall, etc. And while I have created a few instructional videos, I'm far from accomplished. How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education. As connection speeds increase and the ubiquity of the Internet pervades, digital content reigns.
And in this era, free education has never been so accessible. The Web gives lifelong learners the tools to become autodidacts, eschewing exorbitant tuition and joining the ranks of other self-taught great thinkers in history such as Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul Allen and Ernest Hemingway. “Learning is not a product of schooling but the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” -Albert Einstein 10 years ago in April 2001, Charles M. He says, “I think there’s a wide array of reasons why faculty should be engaged in recording and publishing lectures online. So. 21st Century PLNs for School Leaders. As many school administrators are enjoying their summer break, we all tend to think of ways that we can make our school better in the upcoming year.
Often, I point school principals and district leaders to a powerful post by Will Richardson that helps us point the finger right at ourselves when we are looking to push our school ahead. Richardson states: "Meaningful change ain't gonna happen for our kids if we're not willing to invest in it for ourselves first. At the heart, it's not about schools . . . it's about us. "
The Educator's PLN. 8 Ideas, 10 Guides, And 17 Tools For A Better Professional Learning Network. Personal learning networks are a great way for educators to get connected with learning opportunities, access professional development resources, and to build camaraderie with other education professionals.
Although PLNs have been around for years, in recent years social media has made it possible for these networks to grow exponentially. Now, it’s possible to expand and connect your network around the world anytime, anywhere. But how exactly do you go about doing that? Check out our guide to growing your personal learning network with social media, full of more than 30 different tips, ideas, useful resources, and social media tools that can make it all possible. Tips & Ideas. What does your PLN look like? You may have heard colleagues talk about their PLNs—their personal learning networks—or you may have one of your own.
But just what is a personal learning network, and why is it so helpful for educators? What is a PLN? A personal learning network consists of the people, places, and things that help you learn. By definition, every lifelong learner has a PLN, whether the person realizes it or not. Also, every person who has a PLN is a lifelong learner. 25 Ways Teachers Can Connect More With Their Colleagues.