Google Aims To Make Teaching & Studying Easier As It Launches Classroom. Google recently did its bit to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day by launching a new free organizational tool for teachers.
Google Classroom will be available as a part of the Google Apps for Education suite. It seamlessly integrates Google Drive, Google Docs, and Gmail to help teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback, and communicate easily with their students. Teachers can apply for a preview of Classroom and the selected teachers will be invited to try the tool before Google opens it up for the world by September – i.e. for schools and teachers who use Google Apps for Education. Google says that Classroom will definitely make a teacher’s life a lot easier. Teachers can create assignments and send out announcements. Classroom Project Manager Zach Yeskel said: Summer Professional Development with MOOCs. What is a MOOC, you ask?
Well, essentially, it's an open, and often free, university course available online to virtually anyone. And some of the largest and most respected universities in the country have gotten on the "Massive Open Online Course" bandwagon. For teachers, MOOCs can be a fun and engaging way to expand expertise and gain new skills. And summer is a great time to enroll in one of these courses. We've collected some interesting upcoming classes for the summer, as well as some sources for finding other classes that meet your needs. In the meantime, if you aren't familiar with MOOCs, check out The New York Times video below, which explains the ins and outs of this relatively new educational concept.
Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self. To Teach Effective Writing, Model Effective Writing. I strive to teach my high school students the value of criticism, especially when it comes to improving their writing.
Above and Beyond: The Story of the 4C’s. FableVision in collaboration with Partnership for 21st Century Skills has produced a short, animated film called Above & Beyond.
Help your students go “above & beyond”, by embracing the 4Cs – communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. Project Based Learning - An Explanation and Model Rubrics. Last week I had the privilege to work with Tony Vincent to lead a workshop about project based learning.
Two of the resources that we shared during the workshop were a video explanation of PBL and set of rubrics from the Buck Institute for Education. This is Why I Teach: Inspiring Jake. Posted by Bill Ferriter on Wednesday, 05/07/2014 Did you get a chance to read my Teaching is a Grind post?
In it, I shared the ugly truth that a career in education ain't all sunshine and candycorn. The bit clearly resonated with readers, racking up more comments -- both here and on the Center for Teaching Quality site -- than any post I've written in a long, long time. Most commenters were grateful that I was willing to express feelings that most educators rarely share in public forums. What Selfies Can Teach us About Education. But first, let me make a personal reflection.
A selfie is an image that serves as a form of external self-expression. This trend may seem jovial to many of an older generation; however, to educators it should verify that students are bursting at the seams to communicate. If many students are excited to express themselves through pictures, then why limit their opportunities for expression when in school? While a selfie communicates information about our exterior, there are ways for students to express their internal individualities through other mediums.
Personal reflections speak about our interior and express our truest emotions. Tools for Professional Learning: Curate, Share, Connect. For six years, I taught in a basement classroom with no windows, and yet I could see what was happening around the world thanks to the Internet.
Though I tried learning something new each day, until I put systems in place, I spent more time searching for materials than actually learning. I realized that to effectively engage in professional learning, I needed tools in place to curate content, save what I found, and connect to other educators.
TeachMeet International 2012. Post Professional Development Infusion Plan. MoodleMooc. Home - JWT.com. JustTheWord. MOOC. Future of Storytelling Course. About this course Are you interested in the mechanics of current fiction formats?
#TMIntl 4th edition. Graphic/ Writing Organizers. Teaching, Learning, and Technology. The ancients stole all our good ideas. CREAX Creativity Self-Assessment. TACONF2013. #etmooc. 21st Century Leaders for 21st Century Learners. The future of training is not training. It's not about training, it's about capability management, says Paul Matthews.
It’s that time of year when people think about what the future will bring. They wonder if what they are doing is going to have to change. They wonder if what they are doing is going to remain relevant in this new and rapidly changing world. Wouldn't it be nice if the world would just stop for long enough so we can get clarity on what is happening? Beyond computer assisted language learning. Recent language education-based studies (Jarvis and Szymczyk, 2010; Jarvis and Pastuszka, 2008; Figura and Jarvis, 2007; Jarvis, 2008a; 2008b; 2005), including most recently (Jarvis, forthcoming), a British Council supported project with Thai and Arabic speakers, questions whether the traditional CALL paradigm is still the most appropriate.
Huw argues that conscious learning using one C-bM is no longer suitable for looking at how today’s web generation students use technology. Our students multi-task and in doing so many things unconscious acquisition is as important as conscious learning, particularly when students are accessing and transmitting information in both their first language and in the English language. Recent studies suggest a shift from Computer Assisted (language) Learning to Mobile Assisted (language) Use. The presentation discusses all of these issues in relation to implications for classroom practice. Home - TESOLacademic.org. Many JSTOR Journal Archives Now Free to Public. For more on this development, see Gary Price’s post on INFOdocket.com. The archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced today. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks.
This is a major expansion of the Register & Read program, following a 10-month test, during which more than 150,000 people registered for access to an initial set of 76 journals. The new additions bring more than 4.5 million articles from nearly 800 scholarly societies, university presses, and academic publishers into the Register & Read offerings.
LMS Training. Guest Post: PD For the Teachers By the Teachers. Random #MOOC related things.