The term persistent transfer gives us a vocabulary that moves away from the language of assessment. It creates space for talking about mastery v. performance.
A visual description of how one iPad in a classroom can provide whole class access to shared videos and notes.
In a 1:1 environment, every student has their own device–which opens things up considerably. Second screen learning environments can also see every student having their own device–or even one per group. The difference is a matter of syncing. In second screen learning classrooms, the teachers and students are “sync’d” content-wise with one another, while still having the tools, strategies, freedom, and space to clarify, extend, create, or connect the learning.
Terry Heick provides a framework for understanding how a 1:1 environment can best be leveraged. How can today’s potentially ubiquitous technology support the variety of interactions and structures that is all in a day’s work of even a single class? What should we think about when we think about the sorts of interaction between the teacher’s device and the students’ that may best support and extend a classroom’s effectiveness?
Think about the tools that you had available when you were the same age as your students, and now imagine what may be possible when they are our age! How will we prepare our students for what has yet to even be imagined? What if, instead of focusing on the current tools of the mobile classroom, we hone in on skills -- the same ones that we've actually been teaching all along?
By using a flipped model, teachers provide content through a variety of modalities, giving students not only the ability to learn at their own pace but also in the way that best suits their learning needs.
Whether you are looking to reorganize one corner or redesign the entire room, here are eight tips that may help you throughout the process.
"The noted educational futurist describes his "holodeck" classroom -- an environment that supports project-based learning -- and makes the case for why the role of the teacher must change from lecturer to exploration guide.
Many teachers have turned to digital portfolios -- or "e-portfolios" -- for their students. These digital portfolios have caused a huge shift in how teachers assign, collect and assess student classwork and projects.
Dan Callahan's nominations for the three apps a school should buy first for your school. Total cost: $13 total (half that with volume purchase!)
This post delineates four distinct areas of instruction and instructional design that can help frame the concept of iPad integration. Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Integration.
The term persistent transfer gives us a vocabulary that moves away from the language of assessment. It creates space for talking about mastery v. performance.
This post offers 23 ways that the iPad can be used in your classroom laid out in terms of the kind of workflow a learner might encounter in a 21st century, K-20, project-based learning environment.
By allowing students to bring in their own devices for learning-rather than insisting that they learn both content and device in school-there is an important opportunity to connect with not just their personal lives, but their natural way of doing things.
A short collection of strategies to employ, and pitfalls to look out for when using digital media in the 21st Century classroom.
Tracy Pirkle, OHLSD's director of curriculum and e-learning, created a pilot program last year called eKIDS (eLearning Kids in Demand) that turned a handful of seventh-graders at each of the district's middle schools into "e-learning consultants".
This is a list of authors who offer free 20-minute Q and A sessions with classes and book clubs that have finished reading one of their books.
Justin Reich describes the ability of online learning environments to record and retain real-time learning interactions between teachers, students and peers, and to open up possibilities for new forms of K-12 assessment.
Edutopia's Schools That Work series profiles K-12 schools, districts, and programs that are dramatically improving the way students learn.
So what is the current state of the 21st century classroom? How many teachers have computers in their classroom? What are the 3 biggest reasons to use technology in your classroom? A new infographic from Open Colleges spells it out.
Teachers who are interested in shifting their classrooms often don't know where to start. It can be overwhelming, frightening, and even discouraging, especially when no one else around you seems to think the system is broken. I think small strategic steps are the key.
Shelley Wright is a teacher/education blogger living in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in Canada. In this post she explains how she engages her students with learning in her English classroom