Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Top 10 Videos on 21st Century Learning 1- Expanded Learning Opportunities 2- What is 21st Century Education 3- Educate The Heart 4- Learn to Change, Change to Learn 5- Teachers Inspire Us ( this is really an amazing video I love it ) 6- The Art of Teaching ( Sir Ken Robinson ) 7- Make your Voice Heard: Discover Democratic Education 8- An Introduction to Technology Integration 9- Project Based Learning Explained 10- The Future Starts Now
Flipmyclassroom - Resources Try Wikispaces Classroom now. Brand new from Wikispaces. guest Join | Help | Sign In Flipmyclassroom Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... The 5 Minute Lesson Plan *Updated* 28th October 2014 The 5 Minute Lesson Plan is now available in digital format! This means you can now create quick lesson plans online. Read my blog announcement here or go straight to test the software out here now! The 5 Minute Lesson Plan: Welcome to the original place to find context for The 5 Minute Lesson Plan; including history and evidence of how it’s being used by thousands of teachers and in hundreds of schools worldwide! If you would like to see other variations, please visit The #5MinPlan Series. which also has (FAQs) Frequently Asked Questions. Licence: The 5 Minute Lesson Plan is developed by @TeacherToolkit ( Ross Morrison McGill ) and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on all work published at www.teachertoolkit.me. Digital Plan: Just announced! Listen: Listen to me talk about The 5 Minute Lesson Plan on @ChalkTalkPod. “Do outstanding lessons really require meticulous planning? The original: In video:
Little Story Maker App: Listening, Reading, Customizing, Personalizing I am completely impressed with the “Little Story Maker” App by Grasshopper Apps. (Thank you to Karen Lirenman, a first Grade teacher from Surrey, BC, Canada) I happen to visit my little niece in Canada this past week. In the app, we added a story. Then added the title of the story, added a cover image from the photo album and chose the template with the biggest image layout (I hope that a future update will bring more template layouts with multiple images as choices.) We kept adding pages with images and text for each page. The app allows you to have the book read to you, read it by yourself of set it to AutoPlay, which is really nothing new and most children’s book apps have the same feature. Where the customization comes in, is the fact, that you not only can enter you own text, then record your own voice (in any language of course) AND have individual words highlighted as it is being read! You an also tap individual words to hear them individually pronounced in your recorded voice.
Mishmashlearning goes blogging | Ideas in a mixed up world of tradition and tech. Leading 21st C learning : getting my bearings for the journey ahead… I’ve been on a fantastic professional learning journey in recent weeks: listening and talking on the conference circuit (#lfe2012 #SSATNC12, #elconf); burying my head in my tweetdeck and the library of blogs and youtube clips that follow; hosting a TeachMeet (#TMEssex); reading a couple of books and having the privilege of visiting some amazing schools. All of this has brought me into contact with the ideas of some great educational thinkers (John Hattie, Dylan Wiliam, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas, Eric Mazur, Carol Dweck, Tim Brighouse), the thoughts of some great practitioners (John Tomsett, Alex Quigley, David Didau, Vic Goddard, Tom Bennett, Christopher Waugh, Mark Anderson, Zoe Elder..) and the ethos of some amazing schools: Saffron Walden, Passmores and Wellington. Of course… there has also been the joy of working at my own school where magic happens every day. (I would say that wouldn’t I… but it’s true!!!) From all of this, I am now looking ahead. What works? Curriculum: Technology
York Science — Embedding formative assessment Leadership and wisdom: Why us and them? I'm in serious mood today. None of the usual frivolities. OK, you might get a cartoon at the end, but until then, I'm talking business... I don't know about you, but I often have decent ideas which I'm developing at some bizarrely insane time of the day, when suddenly I will read someone else's blog which just, mortifyingly, turns out to be the perfect expression of what I've been struggling to articulate for so long. Today was such a day, when I read Kev Bartle's blog on line management, and the need to build a relationship of trust between manager and line managee (he made that word up by the way, not me). This line caught my eye: "And I trust that they (the people he line manages) are in this job for all the right reasons, as I hope they trust that I am in the job of senior leadership for all the right reasons." However, this line highlighted a problem I have perceived, which has puzzled me throughout my career as a teacher and middle leader: The divide between SLT and "staff".
No longer Bullet Proof « stilllearing This was the week I discovered I wasn’t bullet proof. My NQT year has had its highs and lows during the last twelve months, but nothing that has laid me low or given me too much that I couldn’t resolve it. Yet this week has been by far one of the most challenging. Lets set the scene I have a the bottom set year 9′s, there are sixteen in the class who are all school action, school action plus with one statement child. Their issues are mainly related to the BESD spectrum. The behavior and emotional ‘issues ‘I am not sure of as I am not privy to know all the details as there are various agencies involved. I have been having class management issues with this class from the beginning. I started the term with us deciding on the rules of the class and our expectations of each other, which although a lively lesson I felt was quite successful, little did I realise that no matter what is said one day the next they have forgotten. So I walked away little battle weary but nothing that left any scars.
365 days in my shoes Day 6 Personalised learning prompts for children. What types of learning prompt do you use to support children in their learning? These two are found in every classroom in my school – they vary from year group to year group to meet differing needs and abilities. Perhaps I shall blog on that one on a future date. The last class I taught before headship was a Year 4 class with another teacher. That particular cohort we taught together in 2 ability sets were incredibly challenging. Some wanted to be able to have horse riding lessons. others to swim a mile. Reading, writing and basic maths were a major push for this cohort as there seemed to be so many gaps in their learning based on our initial teaching and assessments. (Yes, there were questions to be asked about why there were so many gaps in the fundamentals. And, that is where the idea stemmed for our keys to learning. We gave all children a key ring fob and we took it from there. Every child’s key ring fob had their photograph and name on.
how-we-met-julia-donaldson--axel-scheffler-8444842 Scheffler has illustrated 15 books for children's author Julia Donaldson over the course of 20 years of collaboration, including 'The Snail and the Whale' and the award-winning 'The Gruffalo'. He lives in south London with his partner. I'd only done one or two picture books when I was approached by a publisher to illustrate Julia's first story [A Squash and a Squeeze], in 1992. With that first book, I remember drawing the main character, an old lady with a pointy nose and chin and looking wrinkly, as it was how I imagined her. We didn't actually meet until the book-launch party; it was a good first encounter and there was a great connection. I think when we first started working together Julia quite often thought, "That's not what I had in mind for the character!" We've been [creative] partners for 20 years now. Julia Donaldson MBE, 64 The current Children's Laureate is a publishing sensation, penning more than 150 works since her debut in 1993.
Cultural ties… This has been a hard week for the children in the support group. One of them, who had been doing well back in class, has been very disruptive again lately. He poked his head round my door one morning at breakfast club, looked at me with a wry smile, and asked if he could return to the group as he wasn’t managing and didn’t want to disrupt the other pupils. However, his return to the group has caused ripples in the order of things and there has been a battle for the position of ‘top dog’. When this spills into school it can be very hard to manage as tempers flare and the staff and other members of the group try to mediate. The rhythms of the term are re-establishing themselves and the Senior Leadership Team are back on track with their monitoring timetable. I also had the first part of my own performance management this week. There are some very inspirational Head Teachers out there and I was fortunate enough to spend Friday with three of them. Like this: Like Loading...