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A Teacher's Guide To Web 2.0 at School
A quick guide to help teachers get started with Web 2.0. Stick figures included!
I love the focus on moving beyond the 'Yeah but's. Great design as well.
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All of the tools in this list are freely available online and useful for working with primary age students.
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1-Setting Objectives
2-Providing Feedback
3-Providing Recognition
4-Cues, Questions, Advance Organizers
5-Nonlinguistic Representation
6-Summarizing, Note Taking
7-Cooperative Learning
8-Reinforcing Effort
9-Identifying Similarities & Differences
10-Homework and Practice
11-Generating and Testing Hypotheses
Strategies for Differentiating
Teachers new to differentiating instruction may initially choose to use individual strategies and begin by differentiating either content, process or product .
It is also important to recognize that there is a considerable overlap between the strategies listed below. As teachers become comfortable with these strategies several may be very effectively employed simultaneously.
The WebFooted Booklady: Ways to View Videos in the Classroom
What's a good way to make video more meaningful & engaging besides notetaking? Here are some good suggestions.
» Intruding. In Public. Bud the Teacher
She was hesitant to invade the students’ “personal” spaces, space that they were sharing in public. She didn’t want to intrude.
Intrude.
I don’t believe that we have the luxury of ignoring our students when they share in public. I don’t believe that we should duck away from engaging them for fear of finding ourselves in awkward situations.
» Intruding. In Public. Bud the Teacher
She was hesitant to invade the students’ “personal” spaces, space that they were sharing in public. She didn’t want to intrude.
Intrude.
I don’t believe that we have the luxury of ignoring our students when they share in public. I don’t believe that we should duck away from engaging them for fear of finding ourselves in awkward situations.
Teaching Students to Dialogue « changED
One of the most important lessons I learned this year was that I cannot rely on my students to come into my classroom knowing how to interact with one another. Instead, it is my job to teach them. Below is the handout I use in my classroom to do just that. It is based on a technique called Accountable Talk, and it has changed the way my students interact with one another.
The Power of Educational Technology: 10 Tips for Teaching Technology to Teachers
A brilliant post by Liz.
My favourite on the list:
6. Remember there is great teaching without technology: There are many ways to teach and many great lessons that do not use technology. Respect the expertise of your colleagues.
Langwitches » Changing- Shifting a School Culture- Train of Thought
What if we are dealings with the issue of learning that is two levels deep? Each level, of course, bringing their own sublevels and issues?
What if there are two levels?
1. Teachers need to shift to teach, so students are actually learning
1. not to the test
2. not to get a grade
3. not to recite facts
4. learning to learn
5. higher level thinking skills
2. Teachers need to shift and recognize that learning has changed
1. changed from the way they have learned in the past
2. the brain is wired differently for students of today
3. the skills and demands of a future we don’t know how it will look like.
Google Docs, Wikis, and Tracked changes in Word: Looking at Collaborative Writing :: Ahhhhs and Ahas
***Tech integration -see comment 3 of this post
...writing is moving into the public sphere. Most writing that is published electronically is, by nature, works in progress. We post, we receive feedback (solicited or not) and we often rewrite or reconceptualize. In this way, teaching collaborative writing explicitely is crucial.
For me, the value of collaborative writing does not lie in the product but in the process; students are challenged to think critically, negotiate tactfully and engage meaningfully in a real life skill. The learning is layered and seamless.
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writing is moving into the public sphere. Most writing that is published electronically is, by nature, works in progress. We post, we receive feedback (solicited or not) and we often rewrite or reconceptualize. In this way, teaching collaborative writing explicitely is crucial.
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For me, the value of collaborative writing does not lie in the product but in the process; students are challenged to think critically, negotiate tactfully and engage meaningfully in a real life skill. The learning is layered and seamless.
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Remote Access: Growing Student Networks
a vital part of our role needs to be helping our students to make new connections and expand their own network. A classroom that is connected, even loosely, with other nodes around the globe has a much greater opportunity to gain new ideas and perspectives than one which is focused inwards.
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"The shape of a social network helps determine a network's usefulness to its individuals. Smaller, tighter networks can be less useful to their members than networks with lots of loose connections (weak ties) to individuals outside the main network. More open networks, with many weak ties and social connections, are more likely to introduce new ideas and opportunities to their members than closed networks with many redundant ties. In other words, a group of friends who only do things with each other already share the same knowledge and opportunities. A group of individuals with connections to other social worlds is likely to have access to a wider range of information. It is better for individual success to have connections to a variety of networks rather than many connections within a single network."
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a vital part of our role needs to be helping our students to make new connections and expand their own network. A classroom that is connected, even loosely, with other nodes around the globe has a much greater opportunity to gain new ideas and perspectives than one which is focused inwards.
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suewaters » home
The aim of this site is to help you gain the skills to build your own personal learning network (PLN)!
creatingaPLN » home
Welcome to our resource wiki for: Personal Learning Networks: The Power of the Human Network
Judith Epcke (@jepcke) and Scott Meech (@smeech)
The Rant, I Can’t, The Elephant and the Ant | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Ants are individually insignificant, but networked in a collaborative way, they literally move mountains! Networked teachers and educators like these I’ve mentioned are moving mountains too, and it is my hope that Student Teachers will see the value of becoming networked and having their students be networked too!
Baptism by Fire: 100 Essential Tips and Resources for Student Teachers | Smart Teaching
Here are some tips, shared experiences of other teachers, advice from the pros, and helpful information that can help make your student teaching experience the best it can be.
The Power of Educational Technology: Advice for Web 2.0 Newbies
Angela Maiers, in her latest blog post, asked for some suggestions for people starting their Web 2.0 journeys.
Here are a just a few:
1. Start with the pedagogy -
Advice for New Teachers « Ed Tech Journeys
You are an exemplar of what it is to be a learner. It takes courage to learn alongside your students. You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to know everything.
Think Different at Students 2.0
Think of the wealth of talent that is being and has been squandered due to this system. How many people would have become the next great composer if they had been given just that little bit more leeway?
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