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Create Jeopardy-style Games in Google Sheets. The Connected Classrooms Challenge. How might we develop young people’s obsession and engagement with social media and texting into a deep desire to learn and create together? My first thought is to ask why people become so obsessed. In my digital citizenship programme, we cover social media addiction and why it effects people of all ages. One key issue is that when a post or message is sent into the system to people who can’t be physically seen, the unknown amount of time it might take for a reply keeps people watching. We all want to be appreciated and of course “Liked!” People get locked into a “have I had a reply or a like yet?” My observation of teamwork in many classrooms, including my own is the lack of space and time for each member to contemplate what another has said or done. One idea to combine the positives of remote connection in social media and productivity at school is to physically separate team members and organise projects over 2 or more classrooms.

I can highly recommend it for some projects. Like this: 3D printing forum | African Fossils. 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Flipping Your Class. About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century. EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.

Digital Learning Day Is Coming! #DLDay. Digital Learning Day is coming Feb 5. Here is what you need to know. What: Digital Learning Day is a nationwide celebration of innovative teachers and common-sense, effective applications of digital learning in America’s schools that support teachers, improve learning, and provide options for students to achieve at their highest potential. Digital Learning Day materials and resources support educators at all levels as they navigate the shift to more robust digital learning environments to achieve higher standards for students. Who: Anyone is encouraged to participate. Where: While all the activities are digitally-based, there is opportunities for face-to-face conversations on what digital learning is and what it means for students.What Else?

What are you planning on doing for Digital Learning Day? Most liked presentations of all time. Scripts. MsRaroa. Creating a WebQuest | It's Easier Than You Think. Always wanted to make a WebQuest but not sure where to start? Education World has all the answers and can make the process easy for you. WebQuests are probably the most talked-about and widely used Web-based activities in today's classrooms. What are WebQuests? What accounts for their popularity? And how can you use—and create—WebQuests in your own classroom? "I hear and I forget. "A WebQuest," according to Bernie Dodge, the originator of the WebQuest concept, "is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.

Education World asked two educators who have created their own WebQuests to share with us the benefits they bring to their classroom. WebQuests, which use the constructivist approach to learning, are a super learning tool, said Kenton Letkeman, creator of a number of excellent WebQuests. "WebQuests allow students to explore issues and find their own answers," he added. Looking for WebQuests to check out? The Topic. [Teacher's Insight] Best Ways to Use Blogging in the Classroom. TogetherTube - Index. Watch2gether.com - Watch videos. Together. 9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning. The label of “21st Century learning” is vague, and is an idea that we here at TeachThought like to take a swing at as often as possible, including: –weighing the magic of technology with its incredible cost and complexity –underscoring the potential for well thought-out instructional design –considering the considerable potential of social media platforms against its apparent divergence from academic learning Some educators seek out the ideal of a 21st century learning environment constantly, while others prefer that we lose the phrase altogether, insisting that learning hasn’t changed, and good learning looks the same whether it’s the 12th or 21st century.

At TeachThought, we tend towards the tech-infused model, but do spend time exploring the limits and challenges of technology, the impact of rapid technology change, and carefully considering important questions before diving in head-first. The size of the circles on the map are intended to convey priority. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. How To Give Students Individual Attention In A Busy Classroom. 10 Ways To Give Students Individual Attention In A Busy Classroom (Carousel Day) by Zach Grubb, Carousel Day School No matter the outward appearance, a classroom is a complex place, something Carousel Day School well understands.

Their focus, since 1956, has been on each child’s unique character and experience. Which is why they reached out to us to sponsor a post about that idea: ways to offer students individual attention in a busy classroom. There is significant research that supports the impact of individual attention on both academic performance and the child’s natural curiosity and comfort level in the classroom. John Hattie’s review of 50,000 individual studies and subsequently ranks 136 strategies in their order of effectiveness. 3 of the top 5 (feedback, instructional quality, and direct instruction) all depend in large part on the ability of a teacher to individually acknowledge, address, and otherwise honor individual students. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Conclusion. Connecting, Curating and Changing. At Rose High School, located in eastern North Carolina and populated by students on extreme ends of the socioeconomic spectrum, we have students who are passionate and active about everything from establishing a witty presence on social media to saving orphans in Darfur, but these are often extracurricular activities that don't show up in the actual classroom.

Students might spend hours posting selfies on Facebook or hours planning a benefit concert, but when they feel like they have to put on their academic persona, they tend to forget those parts of themselves. I wanted students to be able to funnel their interests into a more authentic academic experience so that they could learn about what they want to learn about and become empowered as researchers, both casually and formally. To do that, I needed to remix their idea of what research is, transform it from something boring and arbitrary into something rich and useful. When I don't know something, I look it up. Biotechnology Learning Hub: Login. Biotech and taonga. New Zealand’s traditional knowledge Māori culture and traditional knowledge, taonga, is passed from generation to generation.

Several hundred years of experience make this a great source of knowledge about the properties and use of New Zealand’s natural resources. Combining traditional knowledge with science has the potential to develop new biotechnologies. For instance, harakeke (flax) has a long history of use by Māori as a strong fibre for weaving and as rongoā (remedies) to treat wounds or stomach upsets. Get video conference: The Harakeke Project New Zealand’s natural resources New Zealand has been isolated from other countries for most of its geological life. Get video conference: Karen Farley’s cosmetics Biotechnology and sustainability While science is finding new uses for New Zealand’s natural resources, we are also finding ways to look after them in a responsible and sustainable way. Get focus story: Honey to heal Metadata Published: 16 November 2007 Format: text/html Return to top.

10 Simple Tips For Better Teaching With Tablets. By Ravi Bhatt, iAnnotate Software Developer Teachers can’t escape the growing trend of technology in the classroom. It’s more than just hype. More schools are buying tablets for use in the classroom, with Apple’s tablet sales to the education sector doubling last year. As a mobile software company whose product is used extensively in education, we dream big about the future of technology in the classroom. We have worked with numerous great teachers who have successfully leveraged tablets to improve the learning experience for students. Are you tempted to join the trend? 1. Ensure curriculum is tablet-friendly. 2. Practice before you deploy. 3. Nexus 7s and 10s are not iPads are not Windows Surface Tablets.

Accordingly, you’ll need to test-drive the selection of the tablets students will use. 4. 5. Consider limiting access to the internet. 6. Teach students to organize their digital work and school materials. 7. 8. Don’t print! Grade electronically. 9. 10. Build in tech time-outs. HHMI Resources. Digital Scavenger Hunts. If you’ve got a smartphone or a tablet in your classroom, you’re ready for the adventure to begin! By adventure I mean, of course, the world of active learning through digital scavenger hunts. In this hunt, students are tasked with finding a particular physical object, person, or place and have to use technology to track it down.

Note: an ‘online scavenger hunt’ usually implies that you’re hunting around online and not physically with classmates. For the purpose of this article, I’m focusing on the physical version I’ve dubbed ‘digital scavenger hunts’. The Simple Goal So now that you’re all ready to start your very first scavenger hunt, let’s figure out what the goals are. Finding The Technology Like the movie National Treasure, students will need a lot of ingenuity and tools to help them uncover the mysteries you’ve laid out before them. In an effort to get your scavenger hunt jump-started, here are a few useful tech tools that might be of use. Finding An Objective A Quick Note. Technology Integration Matrix. Apple's iPad Officially Passes the Higher Education Test [Exclusive]

Apple’s iPad received glowing marks for its performance in college classrooms from the eagerly anticipated Reed College evaluation, according to a new report shared with Fast Company. The iPad’s smooth interface kept up with the lighting-quick pace of college lectures, helping it to overcome the very same gauntlet that killed the Kindle’s hope of education dominance a year earlier. Most importantly, the report predicts an explosion of opportunity for both Apple software developers and tablet competitors. After extensive student interviews throughout the Fall 2010 semester, "The bottom line feeling was that the Amazon Kindle DX was not adequate for use in a higher education curricular setting," Chief Technology Officer Martin Ringle tells Fast Company. "The bottom line for the iPad was exactly the opposite. " The most impressive iPad feature was also the simplest: a smooth scrolling touchscreen.

Apple’s new favorite child is not without its flaws. Video Uses Student Voices to Explore New Directions in Education - Wired Campus. Michael Wesch, an associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, began “The Visions of Students Tomorrow” on January 18. It is a new video-collaboration project that he hopes will help generate a conversation about the “media-ated life” of many students.

He wants not only to gain insights into how students interact with their dense and ever-changing media environment, but also to tackle the question of whether instructors have kept pace with it. Mr. Wesch has been responsible for such popular video projects as “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” which has more than 11 million views on YouTube, and “A Vision of Students Today,” with more than four million views. He wants “to hear from probably the most important voice in the question of where to go next with education, and that voice, of course, is the students themselves.”

To gather those voices, Mr. Return to Top. SOLO taxonomy. I am pleased to say that John Biggs himself has endorsed this representation of his ideas; "I've just found your website on SOLO et al. via google. I'm delighted! Your diagrams of prestructural-extended abstract are very elegant... " (Unsolicited email, 29 May 2005) The SOLO taxonomy stands for: Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes It describes level of increasing complexity in a student's understanding of a subject, through five stages, and it is claimed to be applicable to any subject area.

I confess to a slight distrust of this kind of "progressive" model, which aspires inexorably to a final state. However, the emerging field of work on Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge links in very effectively with the SOLO taxonomy and offers some points about how the above issues might be addressed. There is a small but enthusiastic group of teachers using the SOLO taxonomy to structure their teaching in schools, and blogging about it.

@NoelineW #TEPS735. Bloom’s Activity Analysis Tool. I have been working on a simple method of analysing teaching and learning technologies against Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. I have taken the verbs associated with each of the taxonomic levels and arranged them across a sheets and then added a column for the activity components. The idea is that you take your activity and break it down into the component elements and match these against the different taxonomic levels and the learning actions. For example if you looked at students constructing a wiki Editing the wiki is applyingSearching for the information – rememberingTagging the pages with suitable and detailed keywords and notes is understandingValidating the information is evaluatingUploading the resources to the wiki is applyingCollaborating and networking is a higher order skill and so on Here is the PDF version of this tool – blooms-activity-analysis This is a first draft and I would appreciate comments and suggestions.

Waikato Journal of Education 16(1) 2011. Waikato Journal of Education 16(1) 2011. Multiple Perspectives: Building Critical Thinking Skills. December 2011, Volume 4, Issue 1 | Educational Journal of Living Theories. Parents Debate the Ban on Cell Phones in Class. TEPS735-13C (NET)(NTG) (Pedagogy + ICT): Podcasting. 10 Sites To Send Free Text Messages To Cell Phones (SMS) TEPS735-13C (NET)(NTG) (Pedagogy + ICT): Top 10 Twitter hashtags for educators. TEPS735-13C (NET)(NTG) (Pedagogy + ICT): mobile resources and information. Questioning Authority: Evaluating Wikipedia Articles. Teaching kids to be ‘digital citizens’ (not just ‘digital natives’) - The Answer Sheet. TEPS735-13C (NET)(NTG) (Pedagogy + ICT): using myportfolio. TEPS735-13C (NET)(NTG) (Pedagogy + ICT): Introduction PREZI. Classroom Management & Rewards. Learningcenter.nsta.org/files/PB217X-4.pdf. Schools That Inspire Learning. Technology. 70+ Web Tools Organized For Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.

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