Creating Interactive Video Lessons: A New Challenge For My Classroom:
You can select your video from YouTube, Vimeo, SchoolTube, TeacherTube, and Google Drive, and simply paste the URL into your lesson.
You can select your video from YouTube, Vimeo, SchoolTube, TeacherTube, and Google Drive, and simply paste the URL into your lesson.
Maybe apps can do everything a textbook can, but with the agility to enable sustained personalized instruction.
Every great school should not be ‘accountable,’ but rather ‘judged’ by the inclinations, tendencies, habits, and behavior of its students.
Innovative schools connect with the outside world, view students as people, design creative learning spaces & encourage critical thinking.
Periscope is a live, interactive video streaming app that allows users to broadcast media & footage while followers engage in their content.
In this episode I talk to Jennifer Gonzales, from Cult of Pedagogy, about pedagogy and how and why it’s useful to connect with teachers.
A Visual Cheat Sheet For Education Technology by TeachThought Staff Keeping up with technology is impossible, even for blogs like Mashable, Engadget, and Techcrunch that do it for a living. Moore’s Law and all. And lately, education has had its share of innovation, whether it’s showing up in your local public school/K-20 classroom or not. Combine the…
The days of ‘going to school to get a job’ could be slowly replaced by ‘critically learning so that we come to understand what must be done.’
EdTech Doesn’t Hold All The Answers For Struggling Students by Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report In March, technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, representatives from big-name companies and philanthropies and some teachers descended on Austin, TX for a conference meant to highlight new solutions to the biggest dilemmas in education. Educational games, apps, data dashboards and social…
How To Create A Twitter Chat In Your School contributed by Nellie Mitchell A twitter chat is an amazing resource for professional development and gives educators the option to participate in their PJs, from the comfort of their own home! It is essentially a chat room, with everyone sharing and talking and hanging out virtually—discussing…
Teaching Is Harder–And More Rewarding–Than Ever by Nellie Mitchell Nostalgia comes pretty effortlessly as we get older, doesn’t it? It is fun to look back with fondness at the things that used to be so cool in school, like the Oregon Trail game, laser disks, and typewriters. Were they effective instruction tools? Maybe not, but they…
How do we build an engaging curriculum based on the components of critical thinking, while incorporating technology?
What Does “College Ready” Really Mean, Anyway? by Terry Heick Yesterday, I was talking to my 14 year old daughter yesterday about the kinds of skills that translate to academic success. I also actually used the sterile phrase “academic success.” This was an important distinction, as she’s home-schooled (another term I dislike) and learns through…
Measurable student success should result from a learner demonstrating sufficient knowledge of the content. That can come in a variety of ways.