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Learning with 'e's: Teaching with Twitter
"Below are my 10 top uses of Twitter for education:"
How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia
"When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation." This works for ALL students, even college students!
25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole
"Here are 25 ways that teachers can use Twitter to ask for help, get lesson plan ideas, book and professional resource recommendations, connect with other professionals, and even host an online book club."
Five Issues To Consider (By Jen Wagner)
presenters could be more aware of 5 issues which might keep those teachers exactly where they were the moment before they entered the conference……
100 Terrific Twitter Feeds for Teaching Advice | Online Universities.com
Twitter has evolved into a great resource for news and current events. Luckily, it’s also a great resource for other important information, such as awesome teaching advice.
Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching |
The Guidelines are a set of 16 statements. These statements outline a basis for the development of activities that are likely to enhance student learning - that is, they are guidelines that could inform our teaching.
Marking work in Google Docs | ICT in my Classroom
What is the best way to give feedback on a piece of work produced in Google Docs? What formatting tools are most appropriate to use when leaving comments? How do you organise 30 to 60 pieces of work handed in to you? How do children hand in work? What new possibilities does this process uncover?
Half an Hour: Whatever
We need to move students being knowledgeable to knowledge-able. This is not simply a technological revolution, this is a cultural revolution.
Guiding Principles for New Teachers : Stager-to-Go
I recently began teaching two new “methods” classes for preservice educators after a teacher-education hiatus of about a decade. While creating my syllabi, I decided to express some of the principles that I believe should guide excellent teaching. Here is that list of guiding principles.
Video: How To Use Twitter In The Classroom | Blogging & Technology | So You Want To Teach?
I recently came across a video on TwiTip about Monica Rankin, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, who was using Twitter in one of her classes this semester.
100 Incredibly Inspiring Blog Posts for Educators - Learn-gasm
Blogs offer an excellent way for communities to come together over a common interest despite physical location. Educators can take advantage of this shared pool of knowledge to find inspiration, enhance their teaching, and help students learn more. The following blog posts come from a variety of bloggers sharing their passion and insight.
Seven skills students desperately need
Teaching to the test is a mistake, Harvard's Tony Wagner reminded the audience of his Nov. 18 keynote address to the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), because it interferes with transmitting the seven "survival skills" every student should acquire before graduating.
50 Tips and Tricks to Create a Learning Space in Second Life
The educational possibilities through Second Life allow teachers and employers to reach out to students beyond their traditional classrooms and school districts, expose young children to global issues and new friends around the world, design their own avatars and environments for highly customized training sessions and interactive discussions, practice real-world skills and manage real-life situations in a safe environment, and most of all keep students engaged in a technologically-driven society
Is College Necessary in a Knowledge-Drenched World?
If we are considering only the learning value of higher education institutions, and not the developmental life-transition value, the list of unique opportunities for learning that higher education offers seems to have shrunk in the past few years.
JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education.
Surprises in Houston | 2¢ Worth
A conclusion drawn by one group was that if we are to teach lifelong learning skills, then teachers and leaders should be willing to model these skills, to present themselves as master learners. If we are to practice lifelong learning skills, then we should be willing to ask our students, “How do you do this on the Internet?” or “How did you get your web site to do that?”
It models learning lifestyle and offers respect for the skills and knowledge of many of our students. One of the higher ed folks described how they wanted their faculty to understand social networks, and, perhaps, to figure out how to use them. He said that they paid a 25 year old student to come in and demonstrate their social networking practices.
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A conclusion drawn by one group was that if we are to teach lifelong learning skills, then teachers and leaders should be willing to model these skills, to present themselves as master learners. If we are to practice lifelong learning skills, then we should be willing to ask our students, “How do you do this on the Internet?” or “How did you get your web site to do that?”
It models learning lifestyle and offers respect for the skills and knowledge of many of our students. One of the higher ed folks described how they wanted their faculty to understand social networks, and, perhaps, to figure out how to use them. He said that they paid a 25 year old student to come in and demonstrate their social networking practices.
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