Personal Learning Network (PLN) Benefits, Tools, and Tactics
A personal learning network (PLN) is a group of colleagues, mentors, and professionals that you connect with to enhance your learning and take charge of your own professional development. It's a global, online community that allows you tap into a broad wealth of knowledge and focus on what you consider most important to your learning. PLNs are especially valuable, as new information and ideas are changing the world at a much faster pace than ever before.
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Commentary Mourners attend a candlelight vigil in downtown Orlando, Fla., on Monday, the day after an attack on a gay nightclub left 49 people dead. —Loren Elliott/The Tampa Bay Times/AP By Peter DeWitt Another mass shooting in America. This one was at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., which left 49 people dead in what many are calling the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
11 Ways to Teach Savvy Search Skills - We Are Teachers
Sure, your students know their way around a keyboard and certainly a mobile phone, but are they actually Internet search–savvy? If your students default to Wikipedia every time they need to do online research, here’s a list of our favorite search skills tips and ideas to teach them how to sift through search results and find credible sources. 1. Show them “Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus” A great place to start your discussion about smart searching is to take your students to the Pacific Tree Octopus website.
3 Ways to Be a Future Ready Leader
The recent release of Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDoE) 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP), provides educators across the United States with an opportunity to identify where the USDoE feels we need to go with the implementation and use of educational technology, and evaluate our own abilities and role in this technological evolution. One thing is obvious in the NETP, for education to be Future Ready, we need leaders at all levels of our field, of all different titles, who are formal and informal leaders, if we are to truly become Future Ready. Here are 3 ways to be a Future Ready leader:
Lesson Plans – Search Education – Google
Picking the right search terms Beginner Pick the best words to use in academic searching, whether students are beginning with a full question or a topic of just a few words. View lesson Advanced
Metacognition: The Gift That Keeps Giving
Editor's note: This post is co-authored by Marcus Conyers who, with Donna Wilson, is co-developer of the M.S. and Ed.S. Brain-Based Teaching degree programs at Nova Southeastern University. They have written several books, including Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice.
25 practical ways to use Google Forms in class, school
Learning and creating 17. Logs (for exercise, nutrition, reading, etc.) — If students need to submit information in logs to track progress over time, Google Forms can capture that information easily. Create a form with the student’s name and all the information he/she needs to submit.
Fresh Starts for Hard-to-Like Students
Even though your toughest students are just kids at the mercy of emotions they don't understand or can't control, it can be hard for a teacher to stay calm and not take these ongoing behavioral problems personally. My advice: it's time to hit the reset button! Tough kids are usually covering a ton of hurt.
12 Fun, Challenging, and Interesting Geography Games for Students
Last year I published a list of geography games for students. Since then I've come across a few more interesting geography games and one that I used for years has disappeared. Here's my updated list of fun, challenging, and interesting geography games for students.
