QR Codes and Bottle Cap Fun!
Technology is awesome because not only does it keeps students engaged, it's also usually pretty environment-friendly! So, I've decided to combine two fun items I've been incorporating in my classroom - QR codes and labeling bottle caps - to help students practice ordering fractions, multi-digit multiplication, and long division - just a few skills we're going over in fourth grade right now. Let's start with ordering fractions: I made 8 bottle cap groups with six fractions in each group using Avery lables (1" circles 5410).
Realidad virtual y aumentada en el aprendizaje personalizado
The intersection of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) and personalized learning is a pool into which current technology has only begun to dip its toes, but it is a topic that conjures up fantastic (in the literal, J.K. Rowling sense of the word) possibilities. I’m not just talking about pulling competency-appropriate 3D lessons from a repository of ready-made material, or VR training for the operation of heavy machinery. I like to imagine what a learning experience would look like wherein students have access to VR that is both tied to curriculum and automatically tailored to their competency via machine learning–aspects that are sorely missing in many current educational VR experiences (and which, admittedly, can instill a little apprehension when taken to the extreme). A hundred years from now, that could take a million different shapes.
How to Use QR Codes in Student Projects
Scannable bar codes may be just what you need to spark some student interest in your classroom - read on to learn how to use them to showcase your student work and give some life to your classroom's infographics. Last April ago I took a trip to Tokyo, Japan. One thing that really stood out to me there was the abundance of these scannable barcodes. These things were everywhere - flyers, posters, billboards, even in advertisements on the sides of commercial vans.
HOW TO: Make Your QR Codes More Beautiful
Hamilton Chan is CEO and founder of Paperlinks. With the free Paperlinks iPhone app, featured previously by Apple as the #1 New & Noteworthy app, consumers can scan and view QR code content with a native app experience. Paperlinks also provides a powerful platform for generating QR codes, hosting content and tracking their performance. The QR code: A thing of beauty or an eyesore?
Perspectivas internacionales sobre entornos de aprendizaje digital de próxima generación
Key Takeaways An overbuilt learning management system encumbers learning with too many features and options that require too much time to learn, customize, and perhaps disable. The LearningOS is a thin system that gathers information about learning through data that is enhanced by external tools to create an ecosystem for learning. Thought experiments, interactive discussions with colleagues and workshopping ideas at conferences can help shape the manner in which we proceed, the technologies we develop, and the approaches to implementation that we take in achieving the LearningOS. Great learning can happen when the learning management system (LMS) is flexible, is present when you need it, and doesn't get in the way of learning.
K-8 Intro to Computer Science
K-8 Intro to Computer Science is a free course that aims to demystify computer science and show K-8 students that it’s fun, collaborative, and creative. The course is designed to motivate students and educators to continue learning computer science to improve real world relationships, connections, and life. Educators will foster an environment of communal learning that emphasizes risk-taking.
4 ERRORES DE LOS ESTUDIANTES SOBRE EL APRENDIZAJE
Editor’s Note: Today we’re revisiting an old favorite on how students think about learning. “Efficient and effective learning starts with a proper mindset,” Stephen Chew writes in his short, readable, and very useful chapter, “Helping Students to Get the Most Out of Studying.” Chew continues, pointing out what most of us know firsthand, students harbor some fairly serious misconceptions that undermine their efforts to learn.
Code & Conquer
Most Important: Have Fun. And earn some badges. See how your strategy works out in different scenarios, challenge other players, receive points, earn badges and climb your way to the top of the leaderboard. Boost your coding skills.
Education Apps – Eleven Apps for Coding on Tablets
Updated 15/01/2015 - Apps for Coding on Tablets With an increasing focus on programming and coding finding the way onto the curriculum in many different countries across the globe, developers are creating materials which can help educators skill themselves, and also to support pupils in this area. Coding and programming allows for individuals to show their creative side, but also embodies key, logical skills which need to be understood and mastered to create a successful programme. With technology advances racing ahead within societies, the need for programmers is going to be a key concept which individuals need to understand to be able to relate the apps, programmes and any further developments. The skills are not difficult to learn, but the issue in education is likely to be the confidence, understanding and skills of the teachers who will suddenly find coding or programming within their remit. Code Blast (iPad) £0.79
11 apps for coding: From beginners to masters
By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor @eSN_Meris Read more by Meris Stansbury January 17th, 2014 Coding, the hottest skill coming down the education pipeline, is also a mobile app star As students begin to not only use technology, but create it’s functionality, a recent explosion in coding resources have hit the web, providing coding apps ranging from introductions for beginners and middle-schoolers to more technical resources aimed at the tech-savvy. From learning the basics of coding by making a dinosaur dance to more intermediate coding that requires working knowledge of HTML, and from a multiplayer robot combat game to app design, these programming apps provide an array of options for students, teachers and parents to become acquainted with one of the hottest subjects making the education rounds.
Hour of Code: five steps to learn how to code
Next week sees the Hour of Code concept arrive in British schools. Imported from across the Atlantic, the Hour of Code aims to show children “how fun coding is in just one hour”, so that Britain has a future generation capable of programming more than the timer on a microwave oven. Whilst the ukcode.org website claims that more than a million students in the UK have already tried the Hour of Code, some (perhaps, most) schools will inevitably be unprepared, so here’s how parents, teachers or indeed anyone can get started in programming. 1. Take a reality check First, drop this ridiculous notion that you can learn to code in an hour, or even a day.
ntrol, programming, gaming - Ipads in primary
Early skills Some apps to encourage early computing skills. Toca monsters Toca robot lab There is a wide range of Toca apps that support children to learn basic control skills. They are great fun and my children love them!
