Old Maid The Digital Citizenship Survival Kit | Comfortably 2.0 It's a simple little prop I use when teaching Digital Citizenship to our K-8 #aurorahuskies students. I love utilizing props to try to get my point across to students. To me, it helps a student retain the lesson better. Let me introduce you to Mr. Here are the items I have in my "Digital Citizenship Survival Kit" and what each item represents: Padlock The padlock is to remind students to set strong passwords and to set up passcode locks on all of their digital devices. Toothbrush I tell students to think that passwords and toothbrushes are very similar in the fact that you NEVER want to share passwords. Permanent Marker Everything that you put online is permanent....even if you hit the delete button after posting. Toothpaste Imagine the information that you are putting online is like the toothpaste coming out of the tube. The survival kit is very simple. I would love to hear suggestions you might have to make my Digital Citizenship Survival Kit even better.
Getting from Here to There Getting from Here to ThereUDL, Global Positioning Systems, andLessons for Improving Education David H. Rose, Ed. D., and Jenna W. Gravel, Ed. Sadly for education, the commonly-available GPS exemplifies the principles and guidelines of Universal Design for Learning better than most educational curricula. Published in: Gordon, D.T., Gravel, J.W., & Schifter, L.A. (2009). More on this article An analogy for education: How the GPS Addresses UDL Principles Below is a brief summary exploring the features of the GPS through the lens of the UDL guidelines. Principle I. Guideline 1: Provide options for perception The GPS recognizes the diversity among travelers and provides many of the perceptual options recommended in the UDL guidelines. All key information is presented by both visual and auditory means.Options to customize the display of information are built in: you can make the screen brighter, adjust contrast, increase or decrease the size of images, increase or decrease the volume, etc.
Traffic light slider, sticky bars Thousands of teachers, professional developers, and teacher educators throughout the United States and internationally are using the assessment probes and FACTs. If you have a strategy or tip for using these resources that you would be willing to share on this web site, please contact Page Keeley by clicking on the Contact button at the top of this page. Please check back regularly as new ideas are shared and added. Robert Miller, a fifth grade teacher in Florida, has created a set of video probes, based on the Uncovering Student Ideas series, that students respond to using Edmodo. Cl-Ev-R Poster for Probe Explanations- Thanks to William Rewitz, Puyallup, WA, who teaches at the Bethel School District. Traffic Light Slider- Thanks to my colleague, Cheryl Rose-Tobey, for sharing this idea. The Tricycle Demo- This demonstration was used to elicit students' ideas about motion in the direction of a net force. Is It a Model?
Success » Chain notes as a pre-learning activity in AP Stats Today I tried something I have never done before. I used a “chain note” activity as a pre-learning exercise. In case you don’t know what a chain note is, I will explain. A chain note is a note started by one person, and continued by another. In this case, I had an envelope with an essential learning on the outside. By the last rotation, they were answering, then examining 5 other answers and seeing what they could contribute to each of the other answers. The best part is that I get to read their answers, so now I know what they really understand and what they are still struggling with. Very useful stuff! I recommend this strongly, and I will be doing it again. Define “Null Hypothesis, H0” in your own words, and give an example. Define “Alternative Hypothesis, HA” in your own words, and give an example. What is the difference between Standard Deviation and Standard Error? What does “p-value” mean? What does the “p-value” represent? What conditions do you need to check EVERY time?
Nancy Willard: Cyber Savvy: A Web 2.0 Approach to Internet Safety Cyber Savvy: Supporting Safe and Responsible Internet Use Issues related to youth risk online and Internet use management are high on the “radar” in many schools. Following the lead of Virginia, many states also are beginning to require that students be instructed in Internet safety. Student use of Web 2.0 technologies is expanding, along with incredible opportunities for interactive educational activities -- and a host of risk and management concerns. Even the most die-hard techies now recognize that filtering systems are not the solution they were promised to be. In many schools, students regularly bypass the filter -- not to get to porn sites, but to access their favorite social networking sites. We also are seeing signs of an emerging recognition that the Web 1.0 Internet safety approach -- based on simplistic, fear-based rules -- is ineffective. The understanding also is emerging that youth risk online must be viewed from the perspective of adolescent risk.
UDL Examples and Resources Disclaimer: The examples and resources highlighted on these pages have been gathered for educational purposes. CAST does not necessarily endorse the products listed, nor does their inclusion here mean that these products are complete expressions of the UDL principles and guidelines. They may illustrate certain principles and not others. Below, you will find teacher-friendly examples and resources that illustrate each of the UDL checkpoints. Exploring these examples and resources not only helps to clarify what is meant by each of the checkpoints but also gives teachers ideas of ways to implement UDL in their classrooms. These lists are meant to be a sampling of the different examples and resources that are available. We're on Diigo! Want to search our examples and resources? Never used Diigo before? Principle I. Principle II. Principle III.
33 Digital Tools for Advancing Formative Assessment in the Classroom I came across a great blog post the other day – Formative Assessments Are Easier Than You Think – that told the firsthand account of a teacher, Steven Anderson, who implemented formative assessment in his classroom. He used a sticky-note version of an exit ticket to elicit evidence of student learning and in his words, “what a difference that made.” Formative assessment is ‘easier than you think’ and with all the digital tools and apps now available for mobile devices it’s even easier. We’ve shared some digital tools before and with the five tools that Steven shared combined with our earlier suggestions there are now 33 digital tools that we’ve uncovered that are free or inexpensive and help teachers implement formative assessment in their classrooms. Here they are: A few of Steven’s discoveries: Lino – A virtual corkboard of sticky-notes so students can provide questions or comments on their learning. Poll Everywhere – Teachers can create a feedback poll or ask questions. Pick Me!
Concept Cartoons | Assessment | The Inquiry Project Grade 5 Concept Cartoon About Condensation Concept Cartoons® were created by Brenda Keogh and Stuart Naylor in 1991. Each cartoon is designed to probe students' ideas about a science concept they have been exploring or investigating. Cartoon style assessment items benefit from information presented visually with minimal text or language load. Each curriculum unit includes a set of concept cartoons. Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats (AP) -- Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids' online activities may be unwittingly allowing the developer to gather marketing data from children as young as 7 - and to sell that information. Software sold under the Sentry and FamilySafe brands can read private chats conducted through Yahoo, MSN, AOL and other services, and send that data back to the company. The information is then offered to businesses seeking ways to tailor their marketing messages to kids. "This scares me more than anything I have seen using monitoring technology," said Parry Aftab, a child-safety advocate. The software does not record children's names, addresses or other identifiable information, but it knows how old they are because parents customize the programs to be more or less permissive, depending on age. Five other makers of parental-control software contacted by The Associated Press, including McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp., said they do not sell chat data to advertisers.