Google 3 Simple Steps to the 4 C’s | Thoughtful Learning: Curriculum for 21st Century Skills, Inquiry, Project-based Learning, and Problem-based Learning So you’ve heard of the 4 C’s—critical thinking, creative thinking, communicating, and collaborating—but how are you supposed to teach your own subject and the 4 C’s? The good news is that the 4 C’s help you teach your subject. They aren’t content. They’re skills for gaining content. Here are 3 simple steps that use the 4 C’s to help students learn your subject: Step 1: Prompt Critical and Creative Thinking After introducing and modeling a new concept, prompt students to think critically and creatively about it. Sentence completion: Ask students to complete a sentence in as many ways as possible. Step 2: Prompt Communication and Collaboration After students have completed their individual, 5-minute activities, have them turn to a classmate or small group to share their ideas. Select a thought: Ask students to share their ideas with a partner or small group and work together to select one specific thought they find most interesting to pursue. Step 3: Present Scheduling the Steps Click to Print
♥ Michel Pépé - L'Etre d'Amour ♥ Technology Combined with Good Teaching Leads to Success Interactive whiteboards are the future of educational strategies, and without proper adoption of these and other technology tools, teachers are doomed to become dinosaurs in their practices. Who says so? Educational research and practice expert Robert Marzano. As he spoke at the CUE (Computer Using Educators) conference earlier this month, he warned educators, however, that although there are "no silver bullets," there are "silver BBs," and a teacher must decide which combination of silver BBs is best for his or her classroom. But, unquestionably, the use of the interactive whiteboard and its voter-response technology is a true breakthrough in education. The Research Marzano recently divided 85 educators into two groups: One taught a lesson to students using interactive whiteboards and the other taught the same lesson using standard, more traditional tools. But he warns that there is such a thing as too much technology. A Balance Is Best
Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students Something sounded familiar last week when I heard U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski make a huge pitch for infusing digital technology into America's classrooms. Every schoolchild should have a laptop, they said. Where had I heard that before? The revolutionary technology being heralded in that statement wasn't the Internet or the laptop, but the motion picture. He was talking through his hat then, every bit as much as Duncan and Genachowski are talking through theirs now. Here's another similarity: The push for advanced technology in the schoolroom then and now was driven by commercial, not pedagogical, considerations. That should tell you that the nirvana sketched out by Duncan and Genachowski at last week's Digital Learning Day town hall was erected upon a sizable foundation of commercially processed claptrap. How much genuine value is there in fancy educational electronics? Does Duncan ever read his own agency's material?
Web 2.0 Websites that use technology beyond the static pages of the early Internet Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory)[1] web and social web)[2] refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users. The term was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999[3] and later popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the first Web 2.0 Conference in 2004.[4][5][6] Although the term mimics the numbering of software versions, it does not denote a formal change in the nature of the World Wide Web;[7] the term merely describes a general change that occurred during this period as interactive websites proliferated and came to overshadow the older, more static websites of the original Web.[2] Some Web 2.0 capabilities were present in the days of Web 1.0, but were implemented differently. Some common design elements of a Web 1.0 site include:[17] Search Tags
The 75 Best iPhone Apps OB Roundup Do you need new iPhone apps? Are you tired of the same old same old? This list of the 100 best iPhone apps is designed to help you find new or new-to-you apps that will make life with your smartphone simply better. Before you start downloading apps willy-nilly, make sure you've updated your operating system to the latest version (iOS 8.1.3 at the time of this writing). If you have an iPhone 6 Plus or iPhone 6, you get to experience a few perks that people with older iPhone models don't have. Here at PCMag, my colleagues and I test hundreds of mobile apps each year, writing reviews and sharing helpful tips when we find great ones. Other apps on this list come from our own personal use as well as the advice of readers, friends, and colleagues. Before you check out the complete list of the 100 best iPhone apps, let me address a few frequently asked questions: 100 slides? Wait. You left out some of the most important apps, like Safari, iTunes, and Siri!
App turns your iPhone, iPad into a 'Dropbox camera' | iPhone Atlas I have mad love for Dropbox, the Web-based storage service that syncs your files across multiple devices and makes them available for sharing with others. QuickShot with Dropbox (99 cents) automatically uploads new snapshots from your iPhone, iPod, or iPad to your Dropbox account. In other words, it effectively turns your iDevice into a "Dropbox camera." After installing the app, you link it to your account. QuickShot also lets you choose photos to upload from your camera roll or library, though you must tick them individually; there's no "select all" option. For taking new photos, the app works almost exactly like the stock Camera app. The beauty of QuickShot is its speed: newly snapped photos are immediately uploaded to Dropbox (unless you've enabled "confirm upload," in which case you choose whether you want each snapshot to go).