10 Tips for Getting Started With Edmodo This is a guest post from Vance Kite, a science teacher at City of Medicine Academy in Durham, North Carolina. If you are interested in contributing to the Edmodo Blog, please complete this form. Introduce yourself to Vance or follow him on Twitter at @Lab_207 In the summer of 2011, I was sitting in a professional development institute in preparation for starting a new position. Edmodo quickly became the central hub for everything in my classroom. Here are my top 10 tips for getting started with Edmodo: 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Edmodo was created to relieve the amount of administrative stress placed on a teacher, while helping the teacher to run more engaging classroom sessions.
Ways of thinking – embedding the digital technologies curriculum ‘Teachers do need to become very familiar with the content, and also to understand that for this curriculum, Digi Tech, at least probably 50 per cent of the curriculum focuses on developing types of thinking skills which support problem solving and the use of digital systems,’ – Paula Christophersen. What challenges are teachers likely to face when implementing the new digital technologies curriculum? At a recent workshop hosted by the Digital Education Research Network (DERN), Teacher caught up with Paula Christophersen, Digital Technologies Curriculum Manager at the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). Here, she discusses what teachers need to know to develop programs that cover the curriculum, the types of thinking addressed in the curriculum and the resources that are needed to implement it successfully. What activities do you use to help students develop abstract thinking and algorithmic thinking?
critical thinking Skapa ljudböcker med iPad | gunillaalmgrenback Skapa ljudböcker med apparna Pages / Keynote och Explain Everything och dela dem på YouTube eller dropbox. Varför ? Här är några exempel : Pedagog kan utifrån barns erfarenheter och språk skapa gemensamma texter som sen läses in. Ljudböcker kan användas i språkundervisningen och elever kan samarbeta och berätta muntligt eller skriftligt till bilder för att utveckla ordförråd, fantasi och kommunikation på olika språk. Pedagoger kan skapa sk. sociala berättelser som ljudböcker. Övergripande mål i LGR 11, s 13: Skolan ska ansvara för att varje elev efter genomgången grundskola: -kan använda det svenska språket i tal och skrift på ett rikt och nyanserat sätt. -kan kommunicera på engelska i tal och skrift…. -kan använda modern teknik som ett verktyg för kunskapssökande, kommunikation, skapande och lärande Instruktionsfilm:
The Padagogy Wheel Creativity on the Run: 18 Apps that Support the Creative Process "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein We do not need to teach creativity, but rather inspire its daily practice. Somewhere along the way, we simply forgot to honor this innate gift and how to access its power. Our role as educators is to encourage learning experiences that increase the ability to recognize and listen to our inner voice. Let us begin by shifting emphasis from finding the right answer to creating school cultures that encourage risk-taking and embrace ambiguity. The Idea Catcher We can start by using note-taking apps to encourage observation and reflection. Useful apps are those that encourage the recording of our thought flow and merge text with features such as voice recording, video, sketching and photography. Recommended apps: Tricking the Muse A strategy often used to help generate ideas is brainstorming. Brainstorming Let's Get Visual
Teach with digital technologies Page Content Digital technologies are electronic tools, systems, devices and resources that generate, store or process data. Well known examples include social media, online games, multimedia and mobile phones. Digital learning is any type of learning that uses technology. For a list of common tools available, see: Digital learning tools Explore ideas for using digital technologies in your classroom with these examples: Royal Children’s Hospital: Enhancing early years learning and teaching Doncaster Gardens Primary School: Developing deeper cultural understandings through ICT Warringa Park School: Teaching the SAMR Model John Monash Science School: Challenge based learning with multiple devices Wimmera Virtual School: Delivering VCE via video conferencing Mount Waverley Secondary College: Independent, personalised and collaborative learning 1-to-1 learning is where schools provide each student with a laptop or digital device. For general support contact: digital.learning@edumail.vic.gov.au
Bloomin' Apps This page gathers all of the Bloomin' Apps projects in one place.Each image has clickable hotspots and includes suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and online tools and applications to support each of the levels of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.I have created a page to allow you to share your favorite online tool, iOS, or Android app with others. Cogs of the Cognitive Processes I began to think about the triangular shape of Bloom's Taxonomy and realized I thought of it a bit differently.Since the cognitive processes are meant to be used when necessary, and any learner goes in and out of the each level as they acquire new content and turn it into knowledge, I created a different type of image that showcased my thoughts about Bloom's more meaningfully.Here is my visual which showcases the interlocking nature of the cognitive processes or, simply, the "Cogs of the Cognitive Processes". IPAD APPS TO SUPPORT BLOOM'S REVISED TAXONOMYassembled by Kathy Schrock Bloom's and SAMR: My thoughts
Puentedura – förändrad undervisning, en-till-en och SAMR-modellen – Det går inte att sätta ny teknik i lärares händer och tänka ”that’s it”. Teknik i sig ger inte några förbättrade resultat, säger skolforskaren Dr. Ruben R. Puentedura. Han har precis börjat föreläsa i en fullpackad föreläsningssal. Platsen är Stockholm och SETT-dagarna. – Varför använder vi teknik? – Dessutom behöver vi modeller som hjälper lärare att forma sitt tänkande kring teknik och användandet av teknik, baserat på potentialen som tekniken har. Puenteduras presentation från föreläsningen Teknik var som helst, när som helst Puentedura förtydligar att han pratar ur aspektet där varje elev har en dator eller datorplatta (en-till-en). – Men vad kan vi kan åstadkomma och vad vi ska sträva efter att åstadkomma. Fortsättningsvis går Puentedura igenom forskning som bedrivits från 60-talet och framåt om barn och teknik. Dramatiska resultat – Om tekniken används på passande sätt kommer barnet inte att lära sig multiplikationstabellen bättre, snabbare eller mer korrekt. SAMR- modellen Geografi
How Gagne Impacted the World of Education Common Core requires publishing. Technology makes that happen There are a variety of overarching themes in Common Core–’integrate technology into classroom inquiry’, ‘encourage collaboration and sharing in student work’, ‘use technology to prepare students for college and career’. Each of these could take weeks to wrap into classwork, but there’s one organic tool that accomplishes all three of these while fulfilling a fourth recurring Common Core standard required at all grade levels: Publish student work. Look at this (credit: NGA Center and CCSSO: This vertical planning is typical of Common Core where grade-level standards are built from core constructs and scaffolded off prior years. What may not be obvious is that accomplishing these goals often requires little beyond what is already being done, just tweaked in a slightly different way. Here are exemplars of ‘publishing’ that can be used across grade levels. Create a story in an online storymaker like Storybird. I’ve only touched the tip of the publishing iceberg. Follow me. Like this:
Technology in the Classroom in 2019: 6 Pros & Cons | Top Hat Technology in education is the biggest change in teaching we will ever see. For years, policy makers, teachers, parents and students alike have been weighing the potential benefits of technology in education against its risks and consequences. But now the debate is more pressing than ever, as curricula increasingly incorporate technology and professors experiment with new teaching methods. On one hand, technology allows you to experiment in pedagogy, democratize the classroom and better engage students. On the other hand, some argue technology in the classroom can be distracting and even foster cheating. What does it mean to use technology in the classroom? Students are digital natives. Make Your Online Course Feel Like a Real Classroom With Top Hat you can host synchronous and asynchronous online classes that help students feel connected and engaged in learning. Show Me How The pros: 1. 2. 3. 4. The canonical example of this? 5. 6. The cons 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Related story Related pages
6 Thinking Hats For Kids - Free-Guided-Reading.com - Read a book today Absolutely fantastic!!!! I can’t reiterate how this has helped me with my lesson tomorrow during World Book Day! Thank you so very much. (Nicola – about Room on the broom worksheets) There are 6 Thinking Hats For Kids. By using these resources, the children will develop their higher reading skills and every book will be looked at a lot longer, and in greater depth than by using any other method. Every book I work on will appear both as a link such as the Magic Train link at the top of each page and also as daily posts. Please leave a message at the bottom of this (or any other page) to tell me what you think of these resources. How many times have you heard of a parent spending a fortune on books from a book club and admitting that they were only ever read once. White:- What information in the book can I find? Yellow:- Looking only at the positives in the book. Black:- What are the negatives and problems we need to be aware of. Red:- Feelings. Green:- Creativity.