TeachThought on Twitter: Quick thought: If A Child Is Off-Task… #teaching... If a child is off task, perhaps the problem is not the child, but the task. Web 2.0 for the Under 13s crowd. Jul 05 As I lamented in my last post, many of the fabulous Web tools out there are restricted to users 13 and over.
This limits what Elementary/Primary schools students can access online to create content to collaborate. Strengthening Student Engagement:Punished by Rewards? A Conversation with Alfie Kohn. September 1995 | Volume 53 | Number 1 Strengthening Student Engagement Pages 13-16.
Digital Teaching &Learning. How 3 Different Generations Use The Internet. The web is filled with videos, social media chatter, and more resources than your brain can handle.
Who is putting all that stuff online? According to a new study on internet usage by different generations, all the content on the web may be coming from some unexpected places. Digital Worksheets - Fiscally Irresponsible. I did a survey with my students on the first day of class.
In this, I asked students if they had used specific programs or apps in school before. I excluded the six students I had from last year. Here were my results:Four percent had used Google documentsThree percent had used presentation softwareTwo percent had recorded audio, though none of them had edited it or posted the audio to a podcast or a blog. The Research Behind 20% Time. Since experimenting with “20% Time” in my class a few years ago, I’ve been fascinated by the research and history of this practice in education and the business world.
This has led me down a long road to finally writing a book (to be published by Routledge) on inquiry-driven education and 20% time. During that time I’ve had hundreds of conversations with fellow teachers practicing 20% time in some way shape or form (Genius Hour, Passion Projects, Choose2Matter etc). Flipped Classroom. Creating interactive video on the iPad. Minecraft game adds Ordnance Survey GB terrain data. 23 September 2013Last updated at 18:25 ET By Matthew Wall Technology reporter, BBC News Minecraft players can now build on this geographically accurate map of Snowdonia Minecraft, the highly popular building and monsters video game, can now incorporate accurate Ordnance Survey terrain data of Great Britain in its blockwork virtual world.
The game's 33 million players can build worlds atop of geographically accurate landscapes representing 224,000 sq km (86,000 sq miles) of Britain. The GB Minecraft world was created in two weeks by intern Joseph Braybrook working with OS's Innovation Labs team. It uses free OS OpenData products. On YouTube You Can Now Find Free Music to Legally Download and Re-use. For the last couple of years Vimeo has offered free music to download and re-use in your video projects.
Now YouTube is offering the same thing through the YouTube Audio Library. This library is slightly different than the free music available when you use the YouTube slideshow creation tool. Public Pedagogy through Video Games: - Game Based Learning. It has been common for some time to see the formal learning in school compared unfavorably to informal learning out of school (Cross, 2006).
Humans seem to learn more deeply, and more equitably, without gaps between rich and poor, when they learn outside of school in areas they choose and for which they are motivated (Gee, 2003; 2004). Even three-year-olds can become experts on dinosaurs or trains, as Kevin Crowley has shown in his work on “islands of expertise” (Crowley & Jacobs, 2002). Today, however, informal learning has become more and more complex, demanding, and sophisticated at a time when much learning in school has become skill-and-drill test preparation. Texting Improving Literacy? Cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by uberculture Reading through some random tweets leading to a blog post, I found a fantastic video interviewing David Crystal, an expert on the English Language.
Here is a little information on this expert on the English language from Wikipedia: Obviously, the guy has some knowledge in the area of language and literacy. As I watched and wrote notes on his talk in this video, there were some amazing, yet seemingly common sense ideas that he shared.
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The supercontinent of Pangaea with modern day borders. How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive. Google Docs has made its home on Google Drive. So after one year, it’s high time to get used to calling it by the new account name. Some digital habits die hard, and in my case I find it’s still kicking as I continue to call it by its former name. I Teach English to Great Kids...A Blog: Plagiarism and the Google Tools to Reduce It. I find plagiarism to be rare among my students. By rare I mean it occurs less than once or twice per major assignment. Some times it is intentional and some times unintentional. Sometimes it is almost the whole paper and other times just a few sentences borrowed and not cited. So… You Want (Have) To Create Something? Image licensed under Creative Commons by Nancy Sims – No doubt, the issue of copyright in the age of CREATING is of utmost importance.
Where can you get the images, audio and video you need in order to create and remix for projects, homework and your own interests and passions? Step1: Become aware and understand different copyright licenses. Staff T&D. Thoughts on whole school T&D. This is an old model, but I feel that it's useful when looking at the uptake of effective technology based pedagogy in the classroom. The real question for me, is "How to we make best use of our 'Whole School' PD time to support innovation". I can't help but think that the current dominant model of putting an expert (School Leader, Faculty Leader, "expert / innovative" teacher) out the front of a massed group to "share" their ideas / expectations / practice is only going to resonate with a small proportion of the audience. Eight Alternatives to Boring Staff Development. What Changed in Ten Years?
I hit a moment this weekend where I wanted out of the urban public school environment. It wasn't the kids. It wasn't the teachers. It wasn't the principal. It was the policies. Just another COETAIL site. Image by flickr user MorBCN, via Creative Commons. California School District Monitors Students’ Social Media Activity. District-Wide Social Media Eavesdropping Program Begins. A Southern California school district is starting the new academic year paying close attention to what its students are saying online. The social media "eavesdropping" program started last year as a pilot project in three schools in the Glendale Unified School District. District Superintendent Dr. Richard Sheehan said it worked so well, it’s now expanding to all middle and high schools in the district. “With modern technology, unfortunately we have to try and stay a step ahead of the kids,” Dr. The Ultimate Guide to the Perfect Social Media Post [Infographic] Challenging 'Internet safety' as a subject to be taught.
Welcome to Forbes. Marcus Geduld's answer to Why do we get frustrated when learning something. A Must Have Google Hangout Tip Sheet for Teachers. Google Docs: Grading Tips & Tricks. How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents. How Google+ Has Brought Meaning Back to My PLN Experience. Changing Our Classroom Stuff Is Not Enough. If you’re an educator and you’re even remotely connected through social media to your professional world, you know that there is a tremendous amount of dialogue back and forth about educational change. It’s happening on Twitter, via blog posts, through online community discussions and even on Facebook.
Particularly during the summer we blog and talk and write and tweet, and even pin. 20 Substantive Questions Parents Should Ask Teachers. 20 Questions Parents Should Ask Teachers.