50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools
Change the Subject: Making the Case for Project-Based Learning What should students learn in the 21st century? At first glance, this question divides into two: what should students know, and what should they be able to do? But there's more at issue than knowledge and skills. For the innovation economy, dispositions come into play: readiness to collaborate, attention to multiple perspectives, initiative, persistence, and curiosity. This is no small matter. Expanding the "Big Four" Why not study anthropology, zoology, or environmental science? It has long been axiomatic in the United States to separate students according to perceived academic ability, to separate academic from technical teaching and learning, and to isolate adolescents from the adult world they are about to enter. What might students do in such schools, in the absence of prescribed subjects? The Value of Changing the Subject In executing such projects, students develop deep understandings by making something new of their subject matter. Unleashing the Future of Education
Web 2.0 List Here is a list of web 2.0 tools and other educational technology tools that I have previewed and many of them used in the classroom. Eventually I will do a tutorial and highlight most of these but in the meantime for those who are up to just exploring and figuring them out yourselves, then have at it and enjoy. Bibliography Makers/Generators Online Books/Online Publishing Presentation Makers Charts and Graph Makers and Calculators Cartoon/Comic Makers Online Movie Makers Debaters Educational Movie Sites Flash Card Makers Form Generator Game Makers Resource Finding Tools Photo Sites Drawing Sites KerpoofOwned by Walt Disney, this site is a fun place for students to create drawings.TwiddlaCreate an online collaborative drawing board. Diagramming/Concept Mapping/Flow Charts Plagiarizer Detectors Word Cloud Generators Map Makers Interactive Math Sites Mind Bender Game Sites Creative Commons Music and Sound Sites Photo Sites (Edit, design, draw, share) Bulletin/Cork Boards/Sticky Notes Blogging Quiz makers
Education 3.0 50 Education Technology Tools Steve is in the back, uploading your file We're sorry, but we could not find what you are looking for. Global Digital Citizen Foundation © 2015|terms & conditions|privacy policy Wish List: Piecing Together an Ideal School From the Ground Up It started as an effort to shine a spotlight on creative schools and teaching practices all over the country and became the inspiration for a new school. Three teachers, Michelle Healy, Brooke Peters and Todd Sutler, started out on a year-long journey they called The Odyssey Initiative to visit a list of schools they’d put together based on recommendations from education professors, journalists, and other teachers. “It stemmed from the idea of giving the public a window into what the daily life of a teacher was like — and that our schools aren’t necessarily failing,” said Michelle Healy, co-founder of Compass Charter School. The trip inspired the three teachers to launch Compass in Brooklyn, New York, set to open with two kindergarten classrooms and two first grades in the fall of 2014. Here’s what they learned. Brooke Peters taught kindergarten before embarking on this project, and has experience using the interests and passions of the youngest learners to drive learning. Related
TeacherTube International School and Community Links Get Started… Did You Know…? Executive Vice President David Cope's career has taken him to Europe, Africa, North and Central America, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. function KeepSessionAlive() { ourDate = new Date(); document.getElementById('imgKeepAlive').src = '/editor/KeepAlive.aspx?r=' + ourDate.valueOf(); setTimeout('KeepSessionAlive()', 60 * 10 * 1000); } window.onload = function () { setTimeout('KeepSessionAlive()', 60 * 10 * 1000); } Why Finland's schools are top-notch (Opinion) Education in the United States is too much defined by testing and data, says Pasi Sahlberg. Many American parents worry about their kids getting good grades and doing well in school Pasi Sahlberg: Finland has one of the leading education systems in the worldHe says U.S. can learn from Finland in building an education system that enhances equity Sahlberg: U.S. education focuses on testing and data, which skews teaching priorities Editor's note: Pasi Sahlberg is visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and former director general in the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. Follow him on Twitter: @pasi_sahlberg. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. (CNN) -- Millions of American parents spend countless hours trying to figure out how to help their children get better grades, better teachers or better schools. Pasi Sahlberg Opinion: Should schools ban homework? Spurlock visits Finnish classroom Opinion: Let kids sleep late