Mobile phones managed to mostly kick their classroom stigma once the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and other PDA-cellular hybrids (also known as "smartphones," but you knew that already) popped onto the scene. Thanks to the veritable Library of Alexandria of apps available on the respective markets, life can run that much smoother for professionals of all types.
As one of the fastest-growing social networks, Pinterest's popularity can be attributed to its ease of use and vibrant Pinboards. Recently, a number of similar social curation sites developed specifically for students and teachers have popped up, emulating Pinterest in key ways while focusing on learning. In some cases, they have even made improvements.
By Cherrye Moore It is a common-known fact that teaching is a labor of love for most educators. They are overworked and under-appreciated and many of them spend their own money, time and energy to improve their students’ education.
Today while I was lounging in Victoria Park, I took my iPad and started thumbing around through the apps I have. I was really surprised to find out that I have many apps installed but only some are being used on a regular basis.
Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Over 20,000 relevant links personally selected by an educator/author with over 30 years of experience.
In today's connected world, students are increasingly comfortable using video to communicate in their personal lives. From using Facetime to keep in contact with families at home to connecting via Google Hangout with friends studying abroad, students are coming into the classroom with a rich skill set of video collaboration methods, often without knowing it.
Please help me in welcoming Susanna from Whimsy Workshop! She's got some great ideas for motivating reluctant writers through technology that will work at a variety of grade levels! She's also been gracious enough to offer a freebie!! Read on to check it all out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi everyone!
What are the keys designing a project-based learning classroom? It starts with the teacher.
What are the keys designing a project-based learning classroom? It starts with the teacher.
This morning I received an email from someone looking for suggestions for digital portfolio creation tools. The type of materials required for a digital portfolio varies quite a bit from school to school and sometimes it varies from teacher to teacher. Therefore, I look for flexibility in a digital portfolio platform.
Outline Your Classroom Floor Plan For students, the classroom environment is very important. The size of the classroom and interior areas, the colors of the walls, the type of furniture and flooring, the amount of light, and the room arrangement all influence how students learn.
Adobe recently released the handy infographic below that looks at some statistics on perceived barriers to creativity in education. They've come to the conclusion - rather unsurprisingly, at least to me- that the current education system is stifling creativity.
Clear communication with students and their parents is one of the primary goals of every teacher. Start this year with just that by using a variety of tools to share your plans and expectations for the coming academic year.
Editor's Note: Author David Bill is a designer and educator who consulted with The Third Teacher+ on the Remake Your Class project highlighted in the videos below. The tips in this post go along with the companion video. We are excited by the simplicity (and low price tag!) of this great redesign.
Yesterday, we looked at an overview of the old and revised versions of Bloom's taxonomy. We talked a little bit about categorizing current classroom activities to see which of Bloom's objectives you're addressing (whether intentionally or unintentionally). Today, we're looking at some apps and web tools that address the Bloom's taxonomy objectives - helping bring Mr. Bloom into the 21st century.
"Effective search strategies are an essential part of information fluency. There's a lot of data out there in the infosphere, and it's getting added to all the time. HackCollege offers up a great infographic called Get More Out of Google, featured on Marketing Tech Blog.
Image credits: CC Flickr by Opensource.com] So often, when correcting papers, you wish that you could call your student to your side and have a little chat with him about comma splices or using examples to support his ideas. You can explain an idea in a few spoken words, but it often takes much more writing to convey the same idea.
When it comes to browsers, most people fall into one of two camps: Those who have no idea what the 'thing' they use to browse the web is called, and those who Feel Very Strongly About It.
Evernote's Trunk Apps - Getting started: Evernote, Skitch, Penultimate, Peak, WebClipper, Food, Hello, Clearly
In my first year of teaching English, I had to teach prepositions to sixth graders. I fumbled around for an entry point and reached out to a more seasoned colleague, who suggested that I employ the analogy of the rabbit and the log.
"Mike Gorman has done an amazing job putting together this comprehensive list of 21st-century educational resources for us to explore and discover. Which ones are you using or have you used? What were your experiences with them? What else would you like to try?"
"Kathy Gill presents 8 different apps for creativity and organization in this article for MindShift. There are some old favourites here like GoodReader, plus some more you may have not heard of. Nevertheless, they're all worth checking out."
Today, I am adding an extra resource to this section. This is a repository of educational apps for teachers and students. Below is a document created using Google Docs and in which is featured a variety of platforms and web resources where teachers and educators can find educational apps.
This work has been created by Rosen Lauren and is only a suggested but not exhaustive list of possible applications that may help foster 21st century skills in today's language learners. The good thing about this graphic is that all the tools mentioned in it are hyperlinked which saves you the trouble of looking them up in Google.
We know that you've got a lot of cool tools in your digital arsenal that help to make your life as a teacher easier. Things like Google Drive and Dropbox make for paper free classrooms and never losing assignments that your students hand in.
