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10 Tips for A Successful One-to-One Classroom | WeAreTeachers By Samantha Cleaver Each morning, when Laura Rahn’s class of fourth grade students entered their classroom at Mountainview Elementary School in Loudoun County, VA, they got their laptops from the charging station, completed their daily math fluency practice, and checked EdModo for the day’s instructions. The laptops “didn’t replace me or become the full instruction for the day,” says Rahn, “they were an additional learning tool.” If your school has yet to implement a laptop program like Rahn’s, it may be on the horizon. “Education is going through a huge transformation,” agrees Verna Lalbeharie, Digital Learning Collaboration Co-lead with The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, “with this huge move towards personalized learning.” Ultimately, one-to-one classrooms provide the opportunity to expand your reach as a teacher.
How Do Tech Tools Affect the Way Students Write? For many current middle and high school students, writing takes shape in all kinds of forms. They send texts, write on social media sites, update their own blogs, and of course, write for school assignments. This fluid use of writing for both personal and school work is being fueled by technology, and a Pew Research report released today showed just how significant an effect technology has on how students write. The 2,462 educators surveyed, who were either Advanced Placement teachers or National Writing Project teachers, largely agreed that technology positively impacts students with their writing, personal expression, and creativity, and facilitates collaboration. “The results definitely indicate mixed impacts on students writing, many positives and many negatives,” said Kristen Purcell, lead author of the Pew study, The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing Is Taught in Schools. [READING: Should Schools Still Teach Cursive?] Related
10 ways the iPhone 6 could give Android a run for its money The iPhone 6 was revealed on September 9, 2014. Find out what features should have Android developers scrambling to pick up the slack. Whether you're a fan of Apple or not, its product announcements are a huge deal -- sort of a block party and rock concert with new gadgets and concepts as the guests of honor -- which echo throughout all walks of life, from hard-boiled technologists to casual users, from businesses to personal consumers. An Apple event is showcased with plenty of hullabaloo and nonstop social media coverage; I've even heard it referred to as the American version of the Royal Baby. True to form (once Apple fixed the embarrassing problems with its live feed), yesterday's unveiling of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus generated a wave of buzz over the size, form, and associated features that will be included. The basics of the new designs Here's some of what's NOT different Here are the possible game changers 1: Form factor 2: Display specs 3: Communication 4: Mobile wallet
Près de 7 milliards d'abonnements mobiles sur Terre Pour le seul 2e trimestre 2014, 80 millions de nouveaux abonnés sont venus grossir les rangs de la mobilité (dont 12 millions rien que pour la Chine), avance Ericsson dans son nouveau rapport datant d’août. Une mise à jour des données de juin de l’équipementier suédois. Ces nouvelles souscriptions amènent à 6,8 milliards le nombre d’abonnements mobiles sur la planète (dont 1,26 milliard pour la Chine). En hausse de 6% sur un an et de 1,1% d’un trimestre à l’autre. 280 millions d’abonnements 4G Ce qui ne signifie pas que près de 7 milliards d’individus disposent d’un terminal mobile, nombre d’entre eux multipliant les abonnements. En moyenne, 94% de la population mondiale dispose d’un accès mobile. +60% du trafic des données Ce qui n’est pas sans conséquence sur la consommation de données. En termes de terminaux, la tendance se traduit par 300 millions de smartphones vendus pour le seul deuxième trimestre 2014. crédit photo © SVLuma – shutterstock
Cloud Servers Below you can see a map of providers offering cloud servers hosted in specific geographic areas. Click on a marker to see providers available in the specific area. Due to the many different definitions of cloud servers, or IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), we have limited the requirements to services that are based on virtualization and automatically provisioned. To set more specific requirements for which clouds you would like to see on the map (such as high availability, scalability, utility based billing, short term commitments and support of specific technologies) please use the filtering function in the bottom of the page. Filter Cloud Providers View only providers that live up to the following requirements: The intention with our database of cloud / IaaS server providers, is the build up a database of providers offering infrastructure as a service with as many relevant details as possible about the various offerings.
5 Research-Based Tips for Providing Students with Meaningful Feedback In recent years, research has confirmed what most teachers already knew: providing students with meaningful feedback can greatly enhance learning and improve student achievement. Professor James Pennebaker from the University of Texas at Austin has been researching the benefits of frequent testing and the feedback it leads to. He explains that in the history of the study of learning, the role of feedback has always been central. When people are trying to learn new skills, they must get some information that tells them whether or not they are doing the right thing. Learning in the classroom is no exception. The downside, of course, is that not all feedback is equally effective, and it can even be counterproductive, especially if it's presented in a solely negative or corrective way. So what exactly are the most effective ways to use feedback in educational settings? 1. For example, feedback like "Great job!" 2. 3. 4. 5.
Two Case Studies: How Connected Educators Can Transform Schools Figuring out which new teaching practices or pieces of technology might work in a classroom can feel like a full-time job. Lots of educators spend their free time researching new ideas and connecting with other educators, but there are plenty more that find the process confusing and overwhelming. How much easier would it be to have a dedicated staff person whose job is to bring new ideas into the district, support teachers and smooth the way with administrators? That’s what Kris Hupp does for Cornell School District, a tiny district in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Our teachers want to learn and try new technologies, but if they try something and it blows up in their faces no one is going to be upset.” The most important thing about his job is to create trust with both teachers and administrators who sometimes find themselves on opposite sides of labor disputes and budget issues, Hupp said. Hupp also runs a Professional Learning Community (PLC) of both teachers and administrators.
Teaching Empathy Through Digital Game Play Digital Tools Quandary The playful approach to learning a new concept that kids usually take when playing a video game can be just the right jumping-off point for diving deeply into a topic. Quandary approaches the broad topic of ethics by helping students understand how to take a different perspective and learn how to empathize. “We see games as an organized space for playful exploration and through the process people encounter and form new ideas and concepts, they begin to construct knowledge.” The game currently has three episodes that follow a similar pattern. “Every time I play a fact, the value of each drops down, so I can only play them a limited number of times,” explained Peter Stidwill, executive producer of the Learning Games Network in an BrainPOP Educators webinar. After the fact-finding stage, the player must make a recommendation to a council back on Earth and justify why he’s urging that course of action. [RELATED: Empathy: They Key to Social and Emotional Learning] Related
Save This List! 21 Top Websites for Social Studies Teachers Every day on our Facebook page, teachers post "Helpline" questions and receive resource recommendations, lesson and classroom management ideas, career advice, and so much more. Recently, a high school teacher asked readers to suggest their favorite sites for teaching social studies. The list was so awesome, we just had to share it! 1. iCivics icivics.org 2. Teaching Tolerance tolerance.org 3.
OSPedagogy | Now you see IT – How technology works best This guest post was written by José Picardo @josepicardoSHS. Last week we handed out just short of 400 iPads to pupils in years 7 and 12 and new staff in the first phase of our staged 1:1 iPad implementation. This initial roll out was preceded by months of research, preparation and multitude of staff training sessions exclusively dedicated to tablets and other digital tools. Pupils have also spent a great deal of the last week immersed in iPad-related vocabulary and syntax: setting up their iCloud accounts, configuring their Exchange email addresses and enrolling on our Mobile Device Management program. Witnessing how words and phrases that were completely foreign to many of us can quickly gain currency and become part of the vernacular is remarkable. However, this is much more easily said than achieved. The key is not to remain at this stage for long. We often refer to the transformative potential of technology with unbridled enthusiasm. About the author