The 20 Best Pinterest Boards About Education Technology Pinterest is quickly becoming one of the biggest sources inspiration and innovation when it comes to cooking, design, and education. That’s right, education is a prominent fixture on Pinterest now and that, of course, means that education technology plays a starring role. In an effort to help curate the massive amount of Pinterest boards about education technology, you can use the following list as a jumping off point to start your Pinterest journey. The following boards are curated by teachers, admins, and other education enthusiasts. You’ll likely find some new blogs, tools, and ideas among them. After all, that’s what Pinterest is all about! Don’t forget to check out the Edudemic Pinterest board where you can keep track of all the stuff we’re up to. Patricia Brown : Patricia showcases a myriad of videos, articles, tutorials, and lots of other resources all about education technology. We want to see what YOU are pinning!
Digital Literacy Toolkit: This looks really promising! This Digital Literacy Toolkit began with the premise that multimedia authoring, which is happening with the extensive use of PowerPoint in classrooms, must be taught as a skill, just as traditional text-based writing is taught. While teachers and students have become familiar with the technical skills required to use images in multimedia productions, they lack a critical language to determine whether an image or a sound is used appropriately. Images, sounds and animations — like words — are building blocks whose meanings can be changed to suit the communicative purpose of the author.
Lab Rat: Quest for Cheese | Maze Games Help the rat find all forty two cheeses in various maze levels.Your goal is to find the cheese, very easy if you are good at the mazes, but see if you have what it takes below. directions:Use the arrow keys to move The quest for cheese is a heart warming story about a lab rate trying to find his way through the maze to find the cheese. One thing that really helps with your progress through the maze is that your rat leaves a trail wherever it has been in the maze. You use the arrow keys to navigate the maze. Each of the various maze games come with a different reward. Back to Maze Games homepage. HTML Embed Code: (Copy/Paste this game into your website or blog) Page URL if you would like to link to this game:
Connexions - Sharing Knowledge & Building Communities Some Very Good Tools and Apps to Create Educational Flashcards to Use in Class September 28, 2015 Flashcards are an important component in the teaching toolkit of teachers and more specifically primary teachers. They are an amazingly practical resource for teaching numeracy, literacy, vocabulary and many more. For those of you interested in learning more about how to use flashcards in vocabulary teaching, check out this excellent video from Macmillan ELT. Looking for some resources where you can access tons of already made flashcards to use in your class? The apps below have you covered. Some of these apps will also enable you to create your own flashcards. 1- Cram ‘Cram is your number one online educational resource. 2- Study Stack ‘Since 2002 millions of students have used StudyStack to memorize information. ‘Quizlet makes studying fun, easy, and effective. 4- Evernote Flashcards ‘This is a revolutionary flashcard app fully synchronized with your Evernote database account enabling you to memorize important information (such as words, phases or figures).
An Introduction to Technology Integration Edutopia have just released the video above to illustrate how effective technology integration is achieved when its use supports curricular goals. I'm always on the lookout for clips like this that may be helpful in my work with teachers, and like so many I've watched, this reminds me of how difficult it is for us as educators to constructively and effectively find the words to explain and describe what's being acheived with technology for a broad audience. All too often, however, our thinking about transformation is limited by the existing practices, structures and expectations of our schooling system, so that what actually occurs is more of a 'veneer' over what we currently do. This is reinforced for me by the next quote in the video which labels technology as 'just a tool' – and that it's what we do with it that we need to focus on. In and of themselves, these things aren't transformational – they're substitutional. and the second… So – a useful video?
Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies. The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise — beginner, intermediate and advanced– as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google maps. The lessons cover the following topics: Picking the right search termsUnderstanding search resultsSearching for evidence for research tasksNarrowing a search to get the best resultsEvaluating the credibility of sources For each topic, lessons for every level of searcher goes into deep detail, offering background explanations of how search works the way it does, specific examples of search words and their results, and numerous tips. The lessons are aligned with the Common Core Curriculum Standards and refer to the K-12 College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards. Related
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