5 Online Tools to Help Combat Plagiarism All K-12 educators know how students are complaining about the piles of homework they get. If you ask for their opinion, teachers will tell you that they don't assign more homework than students can handle, but they do have trouble convincing them to pay attention to even the simplest assignments. All students complain when they need to write an essay. Some will fail to deliver it, and others will deliver what educators hate the most -- a plagiarized paper. You can never be sure whether or not a student has worked on an assignment all by him- or herself, but at least you can be sure that the content is unique. Verifying Your Suspicions There are many plagiarism trackers online, but some of them are too expensive and others are ineffective. First Step: Google It Cost: free As an educator, you already know how your students think and write, so any extraordinary sentence should seem suspicious. The first thing you can do when checking a paper is a quick Google search. PlagTracker DOC Cop
ABC (Arena Blended Connected) curriculum design By Natasa Perovic, on 9 April 2015 The ABC curriculum design method is a ninety-minute hands-on workshop for module (and programme) teams. This rapid-design method starts with your normal module (programme) documentation and will help you create a visual ‘storyboard’. A storyboard lays out the type and sequence learning activities required to meet the module’s learning outcomes and how these will be assessed. ABC is particularly useful for new programmes or those changing to an online or a more blended format. The method uses an effective and engaging paper card-based approach based on research from the JISC* and UCL IoE**. The team starts by writing a very short ‘catalogue’ description of the module to highlight its unique aspects. Next the team plan the distribution of each learning type by arranging the postcard-sized cards along the timeline of the module. The type and range of learner activities soon becomes clear and the cards often suggest new approaches. Refererences:
Ten Popular Ed Tech Tools That Were Updated This Summer During the summer the IT department at your school may have been working to update the technology infrastructure in your school. At the same time, the developers of many of your favorite apps and services were working hard to update what you can do with technology in your classroom. Here are ten popular services that were updated over the summer. Remind 101, the popular service for sending text messages to students and parents, changed its name to simply Remind. The service itself has not changed and the your Remind 101 account was not affected by the name change. Padlet, one of my favorite tools for sharing notes, introduced a couple of slick new offerings. TodaysMeet, a long-time favorite tool of mine for backchanneling in the classroom, this month introduced two long-requested features. Storyboard That, a tool for creating cartoons, introduced new teacher guides. Classtools.net, a site that offers dozens of free tools for teachers, introduced a slick new classroom timer.
WoWinSchool / FrontPage This is a collaborative workspace for the development of instructional items for the use of MMORPGs, like World of Warcraft, GuildWars2 and others, in a school setting. Please take a moment to explore the various sections of the site and if you would like to contribute, please email Lucas Gillispie at lucas AT edurealms.com. The original focus of this project was to develop a curriculum for an after school program or "club" for at-risk students at the middle and/or high school level. This program would use the game, World of Warcraft, as a focal point for exploring Writing/Literacy, Mathematics, Digital Citizenship, Online Safety, and would have numerous projects/lessons intended to develop 21st-Century skills. All project materials, including a fully-developed language arts course, aligned to middle grades standards, is now available under a creative commons license here. PLEASE NOTE - All portions of this wiki are open and visible. -Lucas Gillispie, Project Founder and Lead Developer
CELT | Manchester Metropolitan University What are they? These cards were produced to support course planning activity in workshops or meetings. The format makes them portable and easy to use in a variety of contexts. The cards cover teaching activities (things organised by the course team – orange cards), learning activities (things students do outside timetabled sessions – blue cards), assessment types (A4 cards) and the MMU employability and sustainability outcomes (green cards). The basic idea is to lay out the teaching activities in the intended sequence and then to add in the intended learning activities around them, to get a visual overview of how the course works and what students need to do to prepare for the different parts and whether they have enough time for this, and to check that the teaching activities lead up logically to assessment points. How can the cards be used? They can be used in a variety of ways; some suggestions might be:
The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Education What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. See also 50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter Who can use hashtags? Anyone. What else do I need to know? Don’t hashtag spam–if your tweet doesn’t add to that hashtag’s topic, discussion, or user base, don’t add the hashtag.Use more than one hashtag if it applies to more than one topic, but choose wisely. Meeting Times Many of the hashtags have “meeting times” where educators agree to “meet and tweet”–that is, send out messages on a topic at a certain time on a certain day. If you do participate at the agreed upon time, you’ll see the tweets stream in live and participate in said conversation (via twitter) in what is nearly real-time. Note, this list of hashtags will be updated periodically, including reorganization, and functional linking on all hashtags. Trends iPad
Three Working Models to Integrate Technology in Your Teaching May 6, 2014 Technology is obviously an essential element in our instructional toolkit. Knowing how and when and for what purposes to use this technology is much more important than the technology itself. Technology integration in instruction requires much more than just digital literacy and technical knowledge, it requires foresight, clear intentions, and well planned goals. The purpose is to meet students learning needs and as such technology is only a means to an end and not the end itself. An important step in the process of effective integration of technology in education is having a pedagogical approach supported by a theoretical framework to ground your technology practices inside the classroom. 1- SAMR model SAMR is a framework through which you can assess and evaluate the technology you use in your classroom. Augmentation Though it is a different level, but we are still in the substitution mentality but this time with added functionalities. 2- TPACK model
The Design Studio / Viewpoints project Viewpoints was a Jisc-funded project supported by the Institutional Approaches to Curriculum Design programme (2008-2012). The project was led by the University of Ulster and outputs were disseminated by the follow-on Panorama project (2012-2013) The following is a summary and background to the Viewpoints project as it developed. Our Project The Viewpoints project will provide practitioners with a series of simple, user-friendly reflective tools that promote a creative and effective approach to the curriculum design process. See our Curriculum Design Institutional Story Our Dissemination Project blog/website Viewpoints Project NING community (by invite) Information Skills NING community (by invite) Slideshare (copies of presentations, documents, printable files) YouTube channel - Viewpoints YouTube videos/digital stories with closed captions for accessibility Twitter - links about current Viewpoints activity Webinar recordings: Other project outputs tagged with 'Viewpoints' A1Poster.pdf Our Cluster
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ACOT2 ACOT2 has identified six design principles for the 21st century high school: Understanding of 21st Century Skills and Outcomes Establishes as a baseline that educators, students and parents must be well versed in the 21st century skills that students need to acquire to be successful. Teachers should be able to make relevant and useful choices about when and how to teach them, and whether or not students are making progress toward their personal demonstration of accomplishment. Relevant and Applied Curriculum Offers an innovative vision of what the learning environment should become by applying what we know about how people learn and adapting the best pedagogy to meet the needs of this generation of learners. Informative Assessment Identifies the types and systems of assessments schools need to develop to fully capture the varied dimensions of 21st century learning as well as the independent role students need to take on in monitoring and adjusting their own learning.
Connected Curriculum Connected Curriculum A distinctive approach to research-based education Connected Curriculum is an institution-wide initiative which aims to ensure that all UCL students are able to learn through participating in research and enquiry at all levels of their programme of study. Educating through dialogue and active, critical enquiryCreating an inclusive research and learning communityMaking connections across modules, programmes and beyond the classroomCreating assessments that mirror ‘public engagement’ in researchEquipping students to address interdisciplinary challengesExploring critically the values and practices of global citizenship Engaging students as partners in their education, and as co-producers of knowledge Improving the experiences of both students and staff A word from UCL’s President and Provost, Professor Michael Arthur “At University College London, our top strategic priority for the next 20 years is to close the divide between teaching and research.
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