The 6 Hottest Teaching Trends (And How Teachers Are Adopting Them) The Current State Of Technology In K-12 6.95K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? How many schools have a digital strategy? Find out in the current state of technology in K-12. How Online Education Has Changed In 10 Years 11.09K Views 0 Likes We all know that education, specifically online education, has come a long way in the last few years. Science Department – Best Practice | Just another Oakbank School site Science Mimes I was introducing the idea about enzymes to year 10. I decided to mime the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide using catalase from liver and got the students to film me miming ( with a few props and prompt cards!) their task was then to go off and write the script for the voice over. Working in groups of three made the task manageable and also meant they were all involved with the task. Lindsay Black demonstrating progression Here is a simple idea using the same format as Mr Hafeez put together for investigations and using the idea of blooms/SOLO to ramp up and show progression. The IDEAL concept is not new, but it provides a straightforward way to demonstrate progress and obviously the format can be altered.IDEAL IDEA before and after: differentiated questions Here is an idea I borrowed. LaserExperimentPhrases This works well for top groups in year 9 or beyond – until Gove scraps it all. laser diffreaction experiment phrases.docx KA CAU Student Workbook.docx Setting Objectives
Two Wonderful Tools Integrating Twitter in Google Maps I am just doing the last touches on an academic paper I have been working on for the last couple of weeks and which I will submit for publication in an academic journal very shortly. The topic of this paper is Educational Social Networking and once published I will share with you the download link However while working on this paper and because Twitter has taken the lion shaper in it , I have been sifting through a lot of resources on Twitter and accidently cam across these two wonderful Twitter tools from Google Maps Mania . Check them out below 1- Twaps Twaps is a combination of Twitter and Google Maps. This tool allows you to keep track of what people are talking about in a specific area or location.
Teachers – The 10 Stages of Twitter Stage 1 Sign up to twitter following persuasion/pestering by colleagues. Follow Stephen Fry, a famous sportsman/popstar and a news channel. Stage 2 Overhear colleagues chatting about twitter and a great article they found. Stage 3 Think about posting first tweet. Stage 4 Upon realising you have no followers ask colleagues how to get them? Stage 5 Have a mini twitter conversation with colleague, even retweet a couple of statements. Stage 6 Practise a couple of tweets that include @names and hashtags. Stage 7 Retweet any link you find interesting as people might read them. Stage 8 Thank colleagues for introducing you to twitter, impressed with the knowledge you have gleaned and your growing number of followers. Stage 9 Reflect that twitter is an incredibly positive place and everyone is full of praise. Stage 10 (the reason for this post) When seeking opinion from a range of people, ask PLN to respond. Stage 10 happened recently with a question: I look forward to the next 10 stages. Like this:
Online Community Launched for Canadian Educators If you follow education happenings on Twitter, you know that teachers and administrators in Canada play an integral role in shaping the future of education for the entire world. Lucky for them, there’s a new online community now available to educators in Canada. (To be clear, it’s available to everyone but has a focus on Canada.) It’s called We Inspire Futures and it’s the first national site to offer a place for teachers to share tips, best practices, guides, and build up their PLN. “Social media has been an exciting tool for various communities, and it seemed like a natural fit for Nelson Education, as Canada’s leading educational publisher, to step up to the opportunity by contributing to teachers’ classroom success in a non-traditional way,” explained Greg Nordal, President & CEO, Nelson Education Ltd. “ We Inspire Futures will facilitate far-reaching and community generated online conversations among Canadian educators as they share best practices on a national basis.” 3 Key Features
FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools WARNING: From March 5th, 2013, Twitter will progressively drop support for RSS feeds, breaking the tools below (except the AutoTweet plugin, which I have updated to the new API). I will try to find a solution, but no guarantees, I’m afraid… Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience? The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. There are currently eight tools – you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks: PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides PowerPoint AutoTweet, PowerPoint Twitter voting — bar charts and pie chart PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar PowerPoint Mood meter PowerPoint Crowd meter PowerPoint Zoom text PowerPoint Twitter update bar Download the PowerPoint presentation with embedded PowerPoint Twitter Tools as a .zip file (Office 2007) Download the PowerPoint presentation with embedded PowerPoint Twitter Tools as .ppt file (Office 2003) NOTE: Windows Only . Display a feedback slide with questions and comments from Twitter
» “Tweaching” with Twitter Yes. That’s right. It’s not a misspelling. “Tweaching” is on the rise. Twitter , a free microblogging service that allows for text-based messages of 140 characters or less, can be categorized as both an asynchronous and synchronous communication tool. opinions or reactions posing a question sharing a resource polling real time news developments conference back channeling networking safety alerts Tom Barrett, 2008 As educators, we all strive to create teachable moments for our student population. Back Channeling to Equalize the Discussion Platform Monica Rankin, History Professor at the University of Texas-Dallas conducted The Twitter Experiment in her on ground history course during class time. Improving Student to Instructor Communication David Parry, Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas-Dallas, utilizes Twitter outside the classroom with his graduate students.
Why Teachers Want Technology (And Why They Can’t Have It) How Teachers Can Best Use Education Technology 1.69K Views 0 Likes Edtech isn't the final solution for education's problems. It's a powerful addition to classrooms though, so it's time to ask: what is the point of education technology? The Current State Of Technology In K-12 6.98K Views 0 Likes What is the next device most students will soon purchase? Learnist Trending Boards: 5 Resources For Teaching with Twitter Every week, TeachThought will bring you relevant and trending learning boards from one of our favorite digital platforms, Learnist. In this week’s post, you’ll find resources for teaching with Twitter. 1. Better Learning with Twitter: Courtesy of TeachThought’s own, Terry Heick, this board is dedicated to better learning strategies, tools, and thinking with the social media giant twitter. 2. How to Create a Twitter Account: This board will teach you how to create a Twitter account. 3.
Twitter in Education – Barriers and possible solutions? After a wry commentary on the ‘10 Stages of Twitter‘ many educators have commented on the barriers that exist to twitter use. As a proposed channel of communication for iPad use in school, it is important to investigate these barriers and address them for staff. ACCESS – It is all very well popping onto twitter if you have a smartphone that allows you access with one tap of an icon. It is a very different experience if you are logging in via the website just to scroll through a timeline you don’t engage withUNDERSTANDING – Twitter fans have countless tales to tell about colleagues who ‘don’t get twitter’. It is a difficult medium to explain sometimes, even though its simplicity is its strength. A number of solutions have been suggested to remove these barriers and are proving fruitful alongside our iPad trial:
25 EdTech Startups Worth Knowing The education technology industry is seeing a massive influx of investment, interest, and resources. From tools to help you track grades to apps that help you find your next school, there’s a litany of resources being created on a daily basis. About The List I know the endless stream of stuff on Edudemic can be a bit overwhelming (the homepage alone is hard to track, I know) so I thought you might benefit from having a quick list of the education technology startups we’re watching, learning about, and chatting with. Below is by no means an exhaustive list and it’s in absolutely no particular order. Each startup is doing something cool (we think, at least) and is worth knowing about. Add Your Favorites! Want to add your startup to the list? Chalkable The Chalkable app store lists the best education apps from across the web. Understoodit Understoodit is a web-application that helps teachers measure classroom confusion. noodle.org Education Elements Interested in blended learning solutions? myEdu
How is Social Media Transforming Human Rights Monitoring? Syrian youths, inside a vehicle, film a protest against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with their phones in the northern city of Aleppo on October 12, 2012. (Photo: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images) Social media is increasingly helpful to not only monitor emerging human rights emergencies, but also to uncover incorrect information. A recent example is when Twitter helped me to spot incorrect contextual information on a newly uploaded execution video from Syria. This is just one instance in which crowdsourced expertise from social media can open up new opportunities for human rights organizations. Having that said, the challenges and pitfalls are numerous. Of course, citizen journalism is not a new phenomenon―think of the Rodney King case in the early 1990s, to name just one well known example. The crime scene at your fingertips Similar to journalists, human rights researchers cannot cover all places at once and may be denied access to a potential crime scene altogether.