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The California Department of Education encourages you to recognize October 15-19, 2018 as Digital Citizenship Week. Here are resources from Ask a Tech Teacher and Structured Learning that will help you learn how to teach digital citizenship to your students. Below, you’ll find everything from a full year-long curriculum to professional development for teachers: Resources: Digital Citizenship: What to Teach When (a video).
Educational institutions are becoming more and more aware of the importance of branding staff and schools in our digital world. However schools and districts often don't consistently have and/or use their logo and slogan in their materials. In fact often staff do not even know their slogan and in many cases if they do, it does not seem meaningful or relevant and/or they are unsure where it even came from.
A lot has been happening with STEM in Utah since our conversation . in 2016. The Utah STEM Action Center, based in Salt Lake City, has created a strategic plan, awarded computing partnership grants and launched a Mobile STEM Museums project — and that’s just a sampling of its accomplishments. In addition, the center will sponsor the Utah STEM Fest on October 23-24 at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy.
How do we make learning more contextual and relevant? How do we increase the stickiness of the content? Teachers have traditionally used alternative formats of teaching to engage students and help them learn the practical aspects of learning. Playing games, taking field trips and working in labs are some of the ways in which students feel engaged. This is enabled with the growth of online learning.
Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape
The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.
October 15th-19th: Digital Citizenship Training. Buy the K-8 curriculum and get online PD for teachers in the 13 top Digital Citizenship topics Free! To celebrate California’s Digital Citizenship Week Oct. 15-19th, 2018. Just add the Code “Free Digcit training through Google Classroom” to the Special Instructions on your purchase.
If you have Facebook on your phone, you may have noticed that videos automatically play. If you are not connected to WiFi this eats up your data. Here's what my data looks like: When talking with some colleagues we were discussing this and found out how to stop that from happening. Here's how: Step 1 - Go to "Settings" Step 2 - Go to "Media and Contacts" Step 3 - "Choose when videos autoplay" I like the videos so I selected "On Wi-Fi connections" but you may want to select "Never autoplay videos
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If you have Facebook on your phone, you may have noticed that videos automatically play. If you are not connected to WiFi this eats up your data. Here's what my data looks like: When talking with some colleagues we were discussing this and found out how to stop that from happening. Here's how: Step 1 - Go to "Settings" Step 2 - Go to "Media and Contacts" Step 3 - "Choose when videos autoplay" I like the videos so I selected "On Wi-Fi connections" but you may want to select "Never autoplay videos
Hi Anne, Please help. My 3rd grade son will be transferring to a new school soon, one of the two options for him is a STEM school. He has been diagnosed with ADHD and mild Dyslexia. He will spend part of his time in the general classroom and part in the resource room (not specifically STEM). The STEM school seems like the obvious and preferred choice to us, for holding his attention in the general class setting and increasing the time he would spend there vs the resource room.
Hippo Video is an excellent web tool for educators or students to use to create stunning digital videos. This is all done via the web w/ a easy-to-use interface. Educators are using Hippo to create explainer videos (screencasts), flip a lesson or classroom, assess student's understanding, and even differentiate instruction. Finally, a finished video can be shared via Google Classroom, YouTube, and more and Hippo Videos can be used to teach any subject for any curriculum.
Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Resources include not only videos but study tools, guides, and more. You can read more detail on my Study.com review here. Today, I want to talk about Study.com’s emphasis on differentiation.
Book Creator is a fantastic (iOS/Chrome) app that educators are everywhere to create and share eBooks. This is done using a very user-friendly interface that makes it easy to creating stunning presentations, digital stories w/ the ability to record audio, projects, and more. Teachers are using Book Creator for project based learning, digital storytelling, and much much more.
Mathematics, a subject steeped in abstract concepts, often poses challenges to students, especially those in grades 5-10. But imagine a bridge that transformed this intricate maze into an interactive adventure.
Unhangout is an interesting new site from MIT for creating events/backchannel chats, that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. This is a great way for educators to host a backchannel that can be used in any number of ways in education, from assessing learning to professional development. There are lots of options to like such as: nice user interface, hosting videos, private invites, breakout sessions, and more.
Elementari is a wonderful new site for digital storytelling and project based learning that I just found out about from Larry Ferlarzzo's excellent blog. Educators are using this easy-to-use tool to have students create interactive digital stories, digital portfolios, presentations, and even choose-your-own-adventures. Stories can contain, custom made illustrations, sound effects, or even have a user record their very own audio.
TypeTastic is an excellent K-12 site for students learning how to Type/Keyboard. TypeTastic's School Edition has an educational portal that allows educators to track, monitor, and assess student progress. This is a fun and great way to integrate technology into a classroom's curriculum. TypeTastic uses over 400 innovative games, activities and drills to help teach and reinforce keyboarding/typing skills.
Be sure to check out STW for all their Halloween ideas such as: educational games, poems, activities, and more!!! Super Teacher Worksheets is one of the best sites around for finding educational resources on a wide range of subjects. Educators can find, worksheets, printables, puzzle generators and more. Also, they are constantly updating their site w/ more resources all the time and recently released new crossword puzzle worksheet generator.
SOLE is a "self organized learning environment" that is a wonderful app for mobile learning and integrating technology into the classroom. The way this works is by a simple process: asking a question or selecting one, investigating/collaborating w/ others, and review. A SOLE session can last up to 45 min or one class period and is a great way to generate brainstorming and creative thinking.
Spin Spell is a fun iOS game for Spelling that reminds me a lot of Marble Madness. This game has users trying to spelling words while controlling a ball to roll over the correct letters. Spin Spell has over 25 levels and over 30 spelling lists for students to play through. Best of all, educators can import their own spelling lists to help students practice their words from class.
GameBuilder is an excellent site for game based learning that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog. Not only can an educator find any number of games on a wide range of subjects they can also select a template and create their own game. Once a game is created it can then be shared w/ others via a unique URL. I highly recommend checking out GameBuilder by clicking here !!!
Forms are popular in schools for all sorts of reasons. Some teachers look no further than Google Forms but for those who require greater simplicity and sophistication in a form builder, as well as agility and rigor, free JotForm (premium edition also available) is an excellent option. It works on PCs, Macs, and mobile devices and offers what seems like an endless supply of professional-looking templates for tasks like performance evaluations, permission slips, volunteer sign-ups, feedback on e
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