Tech2Learn: Success Stories of Technology Integration in the Classroom

Teachers' Comprehensive Guide to The Use of Social Networking in Education Part One Update : Part Two has been posted. Click here to read it It is a fact universally ackowledged that Internet has radically changed the way we percieve of the world. Education has exponentially developed over the past two decades to engulf new forms and methods that no one would have ever anticipated before. "When Tim Berners-Lee developed the original software for World Wide Web in 1990, his aim was simply to help academics research each other's documents. Yes it is true that social media has already made a huge impact on education in just less than five years of its existence. Created in the mid 19th century, the potential of the internal combustion engine was initially under-estimated. The second example is of television.When the first black and white telivision appeared in 1929, an article in New York Times stated that " Television will never be a serious competitor for radio " ( Page 38 Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative Benefits of social networking on students :

Estudios de caso: ¿Cómo los profesores utilizan la tecnología para apoyar el aprendizaje | mentalidad más Erin Scott Starting the year off with ideas on the best ways to use technology to support learning, Larry Ferlazzo collected an invaluable list of criteria last year from educators, to which he added more resources in his recent blog post for EdWeek.Other posts in the series include Using Ed Tech to Create Deep and Meaningful Experiences and Effective Ways of Using Tech in the Classroom. Here is MindShift’s contribution to the collection of ideas. For those wondering what a game-based classroom looks like in a traditional school, take a peek into Ananth Pai’s third-grade class in Parkview/Center Point Elementary school in Maplewood, Minnesota. Teacher Kevin Ballestrini turned his introductory Latin class at Connecticut’s Norwich Free Academy into an alternate reality with an online video game. In Ramsey Musallam’s A.P. “Sure, that’s kind of cute,” he says, admitting that it can be seen as gimmicky. Related

La Fundación GSD reconoce los mejores trabajos de innovación educativa La institución promovida por el grupo de enseñanza Gredos San Diego Sociedad Cooperativa Madrileña ha premiado las iniciativas más innovadoras en el ámbito de la docencia al organizar el I Premio Nacional Fundación GDS de Innovación Educativa. Este galardón reconoce la labor y el trabajo de los profesionales que mejoran los procesos de enseñanza y de aprendizaje. Con un total de 20.000 euros en premios, este certamen se ha desarrollado en dos modalidades. En la primera de ellas, han participado proyectos educativos desarrollados por docentes que trabajan directamente en el aula, siendo galardonados los siguientes trabajos: -Primer premio: ha recaído en el proyecto ‘Doña Emilia en Femenino plural’ del centro IES de Sabón en Arteixo (A Coruña). -Segundo premio: para el trabajo ‘Educar Actuando’ del IES Joaquín Romero Murube en Sevilla. -Tercer Premio: ‘Barxas Emprende: Productora audiovisual’ del IES As Barxas en Moaña (Pontevedra).

Cómo mi entorno de aprendizaje ha evolucionado ~ Blog de la señora Wideen Over the course of the last 4 years I have transformed as an educator. I previously was a kindergarten teacher, who taught routines and was fearful of change and what it meant to our routines. I then began teaching grade 1 and wanted to change the way I delivered my message more over I wanted learning to be enriched. There have been 4 contributing factors to the change of the environment in my classroom. My mindset, my students’ mindset, the social space and the physical space. It is my goal as an educator to foster discovery and reflection through the dialogue and sharing of ideas. The iPad cart is open for students to freely use to update their blogs and select the application that serves their learning need. In order to have a positive social environment, I honor student voice and model positive interpersonal relationships. Students are given problems that are relevant and important to them. My students come to me as technology consumers. I have not done this alone.

Construcción del Conocimiento Contenido: Colaborar y Curate cross posted to Langwitches Blog by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano Mark Engstrom. 8th grade Geography teacher and Assistant Principal at Graded- The American School of São Paulo, has redesigned his entire course. Students move through the modules of this blended learning course on Geography at their own pace. They build out content knowledge using a Personalized Map (through google maps) and the content delivered through this Digital Learning Farm method will be curated so that they can build out multiple pins on their map. This content is then used as content knowledge to increase their understanding of the region. He wanted to experiment with a different type of note taking to add to students’ documentation of gaining subject specific content knowledge. The class was divided into 3 groups. Take look at the following video summarizing the class. It is incredibly insightful to be going through and analyzing the backchannel chat after the class is over. Digital curation