iTeach: Planning, teaching and monitoring with iPads. 10 Techy Icebreakers for The 21st Century Teacher. Here are some great icebreakers you can work on using technology : 1- Self PortraitHave your students draw themselves.
After they have done this, collect the papers and hang them up for the whole class to see. Now have students try to guess who the artists was for each picture. Here are the web tools to do that : 2- Video/ audio introductions Encourage students to record a short video clip in which they introduce themselves to their peers. The teacher generates a list of words related to a topic to be taught. 5- Prior Knowledge check Giving multiple choice tests or true and false quizzes before introducing a topic or reading engages students, activates a student’s prior knowledge, and will encourage the sharing of information and resources. 6 Google+ Hangouts All About Education Technology. (Infographic) iPad as Teacher’s Pet. IPads in the classroom: The right way to use them, demonstrated by a Swiss school.
Photo by Frederick Florin/Getty Images Touch-screen tablets for young students have become all the rage.
Parent’s Voice on Mobile Devices in Classrooms (K-12) In one of the most comprehensive studies of parents’ views on mobile devices in education, more than 50 percent of parents believe that schools should make more use of mobile devices in education and 32 percent agree that schools should require them in the classroom.
These findings are from a new study of how parents perceive mobile learning and devices in and out of the classroom. The Living and Learning with Mobile Devices Study was conducted by Grunwald Associates and the Learning First Alliance and underwritten by AT&T. The study found – Parents recognize the benefits. Seventy-one percent of parents say mobile devices open up learning opportunities while, 62 percent say the devices benefit students’ learning and 59 percent say the devices engage students in the classroom.Parents are ready for change. QR Codes in The Classroom- Awesome Guide for Teachers. Head in the Clouds: The Benefits of Celestial Storage.
I've been thinking about cloud technology over the past few weeks and thought I would share a few great reasons why educators should consider making the move into the cloud.
Back It Up This is the third time I am writing this post. Yes, the third time. SAMR Ladder- A Wonderful Graphic for Teachers. What will I gain by replacing the older technology with the new technology?
Have I added an improvement that could not be accomplished at the fundamental level? Does the modification fundamentally depend on the new technology? Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners, my blogd97cooltools.blogspot.co.uk Research:Students can quickly access flexible search engines to find information. Writing:Students will begin to write more than with handwritten text. Connecting Teachers and Students to the Best Digital Tools. The recent news about ConnectEd, a federal initiative to get Internet connectivity and the technology to use it into America's classrooms, is full of promise for today's students.
But overcoming barriers to access is only part of the challenge of unlocking educational technology's potential to transform teaching and learning. Teachers Want More Edtech A recent national survey of teachers and administrators by Harris Interactive for Common Sense Media reveals that preK-12 educators are passionate about edtech. Eighty-six percent of teachers tell us that using apps, computer games, websites, digital planning tools and digital curricula in the classroom is "important" or "absolutely essential. " Almost all of them (96%) agree that it increases student engagement, enables personalized learning (95%), and improves student outcomes (89%). Teachers Deserve Help Despite their enthusiasm, teachers don't report using edtech very frequently.
Teachers Meet Graphite. How to Build Support for Education Technology. Image credit: iStockphoto Acknowledging that success -- for individual students, communities and the nation as a whole -- in the 21st century is being driven by new technologies, President Obama recently announced ConnectEd.
This initiative aims to connect 99 percent of America's students to high-speed internet within the next five years. It also intends to increase teachers' skills in using education technology tools to improve student learning and encourages the private sector to develop educational devices and digital content. The White House reports growing bipartisan support for the initiative, and many in the education community applaud it as a much-needed effort to upgrade our schools' broadband capability.
Convincing community stakeholders to support education technology can be challenging. Wickstim. Nets-s-2007-student-profiles-en. The Teacher's Guide To Digital Citizenship. How you act online is important. Not just because everything is stored, backed up, and freely available to anyone with a keyboard. But because your online reputation is actually just your reputation. There’s really no difference between online and offline anymore. In an effort to keep everyone behaving, Microsoft has just unveiled a new (free) curriculum that’s all about digital citizenship , intellectual property rights , and creative content .
It offers cross-curricular classroom activities that align with the AASL and ISTE national academic standards. How It Works Four units comprise the curriculum resources. The NMC Horizon Report – 2013 K-12 Edition. I Rate This From NMC Horizon Report > 2013 K-12 Education Edition (full report) The six technologies featured in the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition are placed along three adoption horizons that indicate likely timeframes for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, and creative inquiry. Near-term Horizon. Creative Commons. The Student Guide to iPads and iOS 6. ItWeekly Season 3 - Download free content from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on iTunes. 24 Ed Tech Terms That All Educators Should Know Always Prepped Blog.
1. 1:1 Technology.
Providing every student with a labtop or tablet to make learning more individualized, increase independence, and extend academics beyond the classroom. 2. Five-Minute Film Festival: Best Education Parodies of 2012. The end is near!
The end of 2012, that is -- and the retrospectives are plentiful, from Google's tear-inducing annual Zeitgeist video to lists upon lists of the best books, movies, and music. YouTube went all out for its year-end celebration -- with the YouTube Rewind channel, featuring the most popular videos of 2012, an interactive timeline, and "Rewind YouTube Style," a video with YouTube's most viral stars parodying themselves. Meta-mashup bliss? You got it. 5 Social Media Rules Every Entrepreneur Should Know. Social media can level the playing field between industry leaders and upstarts, between multinational corporation executives and small-business owners, making peers of all participants.
8 Great Twitter Tools That Will Get You Tweeting Like A Pro. The reasons to join Twitter are plentiful. In fact, Jeff recently wrote a wonderful post on why it is often misunderstood and people aren’t jumping onto it earlier. The experiences I have had with Twitter were amazing and it was by far the most valuable Social Network for me to use. What I like best about Twitter is it’s open structure, not only for users, but also for developers.
It has grown to an ecosystem of over 1.5 million Apps and continues to register a new Tool every second. Five-Minute Film Festival: Twitter in Education. Again: Relevance, why Twitter? SmartBlogs. Twitter has been a topic for educational bloggers for several years now. I believe that those educators using Twitter are drawn to those posts, while other educators, not using Twitter, are driven away. Maybe the problem is the emphasis or focus of the blog posts. Use Your iPad as a Document Camera.