4Teachers : Main Page Making reading logs fun! | Reading-Rewards.com Blog Making reading logs fun! Share it now! Many teachers use reading logs in the classroom and as homework assignments to encourage reading and comprehension among their students. Here a few tips on how to make reading logs fun: Use an online reading log program like Reading Rewards. Share your students’ book lists and reviews with the class. Suggest or choose books for your students that are appropriate for their age-level and interest. What about you? Happy Reading, Michelle Michelle Skamene is the Founder of Reading Rewards, and one of its Managing Partners.
What's on the horizon for K-12 ed tech in 2017? To say the least, 2017 promises to be an interesting year for K-12 education. The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and impending implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act alone promise to keep educators' hands full, to say nothing of ongoing tech challenges. As educators and students gear up to finish out the latter half of the 2016-17 school year, we reached out to four district tech chiefs and thought leaders for their thoughts on ed tech predictions, concerns and trends facing administrators in the new year. Next year, I think CIOs, CTOs and tech directors will continue the trend to focus less on devices, programs and apps and more on instruction. It's been great to have conversations about student learning and goals over whether we should purchase this device or that. I also hope to see the conversation around decentralizing the MakerSpace open up. Among concerns, any possible impact to E-Rate from the new Presidential Administration.
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Developing Fluency in Math-Delayed Children The acquisition of math facts generally progresses from a deliberate, procedural, and error-prone calculation to one that is fast, efficient, and accurate (Ashcraft, 1992; Fuson, 1982, 1988; Siegler, 1988). For many children, at any point in time from preschool through at least the fourth grade, they will have some facts that can be retrieved from memory with little effort and some that need to be calculated using some counting strategy. From the fourth grade through adulthood, answers to basic math facts are recalled from memory with a continued strengthening of relationships between problems and answers that results in further increases in fluency (Ashcraft, 1985). In a typical developmental path in addition, for instance, students begin adding using a strategy called “counting all” that gives way to a “counting on” strategy, which in turn gives way to linking new facts to known facts (Garnett, 1992). Following this initial placement quiz, FASTT Math constructs a fact grid.
6 Higher Education Hashtags to Follow on Twitter Based on our interviews with our must-read IT bloggers, Twitter is the social network of choice for the higher education community. According to Karine Joly of collegewebeditor.com, Twitter offers more value to the technology community than other platforms: The game changer for me was Twitter. It’s the way I keep in touch with the higher ed web community, ask questions and even sometimes take a break to exchange a few jokes. I love the immediacy Twitter enables. I was an early adopter in the higher ed web community, so it has really been a part of my work life for the past four years. Speaker, consultant and thought leader Eric Stoller agrees: Twitter is the most versatile social network in my life. If you are new to Twitter or are just looking to find like minds in the higher education space, you’ll want to get acquainted with these hashtags. #highered This has become a catch-all for higher education, but it’s worth saving this search. #onlinelearning #edtech #mobilelearning #sachat #edu
50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About via Edudemic Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools
More evidence corroborating Professor Krashen and exposing the contrived skills and STEM crises "...the impending shortage of scientists and engineers is one of the longest running hoaxes in the country" — Gerald W. Bracey Schools Matter's Professor Stephen Krashen has been a long time critic of the media promulgated mythology that there's a shortage of qualified workers, particularly those in the Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) fields. Whenever I see more evidence proving these skills/STEM myths wrong, I'm quick to forward them to Dr. "numbers released by the National Science Foundation show that people with doctoral degrees in those technical fields are struggling to find work in their industries." and "Worse yet, as of 2011, approximately one-third of people graduating with a doctoral degree in science, technology, math or engineering had no job or post-doctoral offer of any kind." Krashen posted the above piece on his facebook page, and several of us commented. The manufactured STEM crisis.
EdTech K–12 Magazine (@EdTech_K12) | Twitter 12 Easy Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom, Even for Technophobic Teachers Everyone wants teachers to use technology in the classroom. But you're busy -- meeting standards, prepping students for tests -- and maybe you’re not too fond of computers, anyway. Never fear – there are easy ways to bring your classroom up-to-date, technologically. Do you have a iPad in your classroom for your use? How about iPads for students to use? What kind of Internet access is available at your school? What do you have to do to get Ipads for your students? Also try to find a technology “mentor” on campus – the computer teacher or just another teacher who uses technology more than you do. Perfect Ed Tech Activities for Beginners Do a PowerPoint “Game Show Review” Many tech-savvy teachers have used Microsoft PowerPoint to create review games based on famous game shows, including “Jeopardy! Have students complete a written classroom activity as if it was online. Ever have your students write a diary from the perspective of a character or famous person? Try a Webquest Do an email exchange
The myth of learning styles | thInk Three children doing group work together. Credit: Anthea Sieveking/ Wellcome Images Before becoming a writer, I spent a year-and-a-half training as a science teacher and then working at a secondary school in Croydon. This second idea was drilled into us over and over again. The idea of learning styles is based on the theory of multiple of intelligences, developed in the early 1980s by psychologist Howard Gardner of Harvard University. Gardner has been expounding his theory, and pushing for educational reforms, ever since. It is, however, a myth. There is no scientific evidence that children do indeed acquire information more effectively if it is presented to them in their preferred learning style. Last year, Howard-Jones and his colleagues set out to investigate teachers’ general knowledge about neuroscience, and to determine the prevalence of myths and misconceptions about the brain in education. Like this: Like Loading...
Use and Importance of Technology in Education | EdtechReview About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century. EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.
Office of Educational Technology California holds out against Obama's education vision Education Secretary Arne Duncan visits a Louisville, Ky., school last… (Angela Shoemaker / Courier-Journal ) WASHINGTON — California is almost always there to boost President Obama's policy agenda as he fights fierce headwinds in Congress, working with the executive branch to carry out the administration's vision on healthcare, renewable energy and clean air. But when the topic shifts to overhauling education, the state has become one of the administration's biggest headaches. California has defiantly refused to follow the administration's lead in grading the performance of teachers and using those measurements to reward the best teachers and punish the worst. As a result, the administration has not given California a waiver from the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law, leaving thousands of local schools exposed to expensive federal sanctions. The union's position has been embraced by Gov. "Why is California standing out there alone?"