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25 Teaching Tools To Organize, Innovate, & Manage Your Classroom

25 Teaching Tools To Organize, Innovate, & Manage Your Classroom
25 Teaching Tools For The Digital Classroom: Tools To Organize, Innovate, & Manage What You Do by Mike Acedo Over the years, many of us have personally experienced the growth of technology in today’s classrooms. Instead of taking notes, students are now occupied by surfing the Internet, scrolling through Facebook, and messaging their friends on their smart phones, tablets, and laptops. Instead of focusing on the instruction, teachers are constantly required to interrupt class in order to remind those students again and again, that class time is for learning, not texting. The use of smart phones, tablets, and other tech items in the classroom do not necessarily have to have a negative impact on student achievement. Organization Engrade This innovative platform provides teachers with an all-in-one grade book that offers attendance charts, grade books, calendars, seating charts, behavior tracking, and more. TheTogetherTeacher MyBigCampus MySchoolBinder LearnBoost Project-Based Learning Mindmeister Related:  Technology in the Classroom

Three ways social studies teachers use tech Increased access to devices and digital tools makes it easier for social studies teachers to integrate technology into their teaching Social studies lessons are becoming more engaging and interactive, thanks to a variety of classroom technology tools and resources. Here are a few examples. OER in the classroom Shannon Blake, an eighth grade social studies teacher at the Charleston Catholic School in Charleston, S.C., uses Net Texts, a free open educational resources (OER) content management and delivery platform, to access and create information, organize it by chapter or subject, and make it available to her students. Teachers can select existing courses or combine items from the OER library with their own resources to create new courses. Students access courses via an iPad, Android device, or web app. “Having resources on a tablet, as opposed to in a book, is great,” Blake said. QR codes boost engagement Deeper interaction with content “The teachers love it,” he said.

4Teachers : Main Page Digital Tools for Teachers The 10 Most Popular Teacher Tools Being Used This Year This image shows absolutely no teacher tools. Aside from that pencil maybe. But seriously, that says a lot about how far we’ve come! The school year is upon us. It’s quite literally the time for teachers, students, parents, school administrators, and everyone else to begin spending the vast majority of their day at a school. Whether it’s college, high school, middle school, or elementary levels, it’s school time. ‘Battle-tested’ might be a more appropriate term. In any case, these teacher tools are useful for a variety of reasons. 1.Google Apps Okay, this one is more than a single tool. 2. The king of PLNing (is that a word?) 3. I’ve been using Skype in education for years now and it’s proven to be an effective way to collaborate and communicate with others around the world. 4. What can’t you find on YouTube? 5. Evernote is valued to be worth more than the New York Times. 6. Like Evernote, Dropbox lets you keep your digital life in sync. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Tech in the Classroom Tech in the Classroom is a recurring feature that examines widely available technology, software and gadgets and how they might be used in a school setting. What favorite gadget or tool are you using in the classroom? As this new content area grows, let us know what products you’d like to read about. Tech in the Classroom: Google Chromebook These inexpensive laptops run the Chrome browser and offer more laptop functionality than a tablet. Tech in the Classroom: 6-Word Memoir This teacher-developed interactive workbook series for students prompts them to express themselves and discover their world in only six words. Tech in the Classroom: EduCreations This online tool works with the iPad, letting teachers and students create videos that provide instruction on a given topic. Tech in the Classroom: Plotogon Plotagon lets anyone create an animated movie directly from a written screenplay. Tech in the Classroom: LeapPad2 Here’s a tablet designed specifically for early elementary-aged students.

Fonds de cartes - Histoire-géographie et éducation civique - Éduscol Les fleuves : version PNG (Environ 980 ko) ou version PDF (Environ 710 ko) Les villes et les fleuves : version PNG (0,97 Mo) ou version PDF (Environ 730 ko) Les villes, le relief et les fleuves : version PNG (1,16 Mo) ou version PDF (Environ 880 ko) Les régions métropolitaines et DROM : version PNG (1,47 Mo) ou version PDF (1,13 Mo) Les DROM : version PNG (1,21 Mo) ou version PDF (Environ 940 ko) How to create a student-centered digital classroom - eClassroom News | eClassroom News | 2 Creating this student-centered workshop setting, in which students often choose what to do and how to demonstrate mastery skills, takes patience and perseverance. The key to success is teaching students many web tools, which they can place in their “technology toolkit,” an online world of applications and programs that can be used in many ways to discover concepts and to curate information. From the beginning of the year, we learn new websites and applications. In our Reading All Year project (RAY), for example, students learn book structure, genre, and figurative language. While one student writes a novel reflection letter on KidBlog, another may be saving and annotating articles with Diigo on our class social bookmarking site, connecting a nonfiction topic to the fiction title she is reading at that time. Most of the previously mentioned web tools have comment sections for feedback from both the teacher and the student. So, what made that one particular day great?

EdTech: It isn't optional, it's essential | graphite Jump to navigation © Common Sense Media Inc. 2014 All rights reserved. The Common Sense, Common Sense Education and Common Sense Media names, associated trademarks, and logos, including the Graphite trademark, are trademarks of Common Sense Media, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization (FEIN 41-2024986). The best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning

8 digital learning myths dispelled Digital learning’s popularity is skyrocketing, but many myths go undisputed As digital learning in the classroom gains more support from educators, parents, and students, a national education group has released a toolkit that defines digital and blended learning, offering tips to help promote the benefits of a more digital-centric education. The Center for Education Reform’s 2014 Digital Learning Toolkit defines blended learning as “an approach that involves a myriad of delivery mechanisms via online tools for students, no matter where they live or attend school.” The toolkit offers tips on how to debunk myths about online learning, ways to change public discourse, and how to clearly promote and express blended learning’s benefits to community leaders, the media, and policymakers. According to the toolkit, one key tip involves using data to back up arguments in favor of digital and blended learning, because data showing real results can have a powerful impact.

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