20 Free Tools for Teachers: Videos, Guides, and Printables!
Anytime, anywhere, teachers like to have plenty of resources to pick from to help them create great classroom experiences to engage their students. We’ve got some wonderful content-packed free tools for teachers to explore. They’re online and ready to be discovered! There are slideshows, printables, lesson plans, downloadable content and guides, videos, and much more. The sites listed below offer lots of stuff for all subjects and grades, so dive in and see what you can dig up. Who doesn’t love free tools, especially free tools for teachers? General Sites EdTech Teacher—a professional development resource that offers a wide range of high-quality content and resources for every kind of teacher. Internet4Classrooms—a long comprehensive list of tons of free content—everything from games and flashcards to assessment and planning tools. Teachnology—a website chock full of worksheets, lesson plans, rubrics, printables, and other resources for every teacher’s needs. Special Sites and Resources
Gamifying Education: Do We Know How to Gamify the Classroom?
Gamification in many parts of education is a sham. Listening to the researchers and experts in this area has convinced me of that. If you’re interested in making your classroom more intriguing and powerful, read on. We can do better. Who Is Shaping The Gamifying Education Conversation? In this week’s conversation with Australian Gamer and researcher Lauren Ferro we all went on a bit of a rant about the ridiculous state of badges in education.Teacher Alice Keeler uses games all the time (and doesn’t give grades).Sixth grade teacher Michael Matera reinvented his whole sixth grade classroom as a Games Based classroom and shares how he did it.A Higher Ed Panel had a powerful conversation for why we need games in highered. All of these are YouTube videos that have been recorded over the past week and a half as part of the Open Online Community (called an OOC) focusing on games in education. I have 3 take aways from the learning so far: #1: The Way We’re Doing Many Badges In Education Is A Joke
8 Examples of Transforming Lessons Through the SAMR Cycle
The SAMR Model for integrating technology into teaching, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, has gained a good deal of exposure in recent years. “SAMR” is an acronym that stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. The SAMR model provides a technique for moving through degrees of technology adoption to find more meaningful uses of technology in teaching and move away from simply using “tech for tech’s sake”. We recently discussed the SAMR model during an Academic Technology Work Group meeting at The College of Westchester. We examined the video, SAMR in 120 Seconds. Following are 8 examples of the SAMR process, each taking an example of a typical classroom exercise that does not use technology and walking it through each phase of SAMR. The goal of this exercise was to help me (and readers) better understand the SAMR model, and to really see how lessons and assessments can be transformed while considering the benefits of evolving them through these stages.
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Why I’m Done With SAMR | Mark Samberg
Instead of writing my customary “hey, I’m returning to blogging post” (spoilers: I’m probably not), I want to throw something out there that’s been on my mind. I am SICK TO DEATH of the SAMR Model. There…I said it. I feel better. At this point, some of you are thinking “#teamsnootypants”. However, it soon became clear that things were about to go horribly wrong. More recently, I’ve been seeing more and more schools and districts using SAMR as an evaluative metric, and as a way to make a value judgement about a teacher and their instruction. For many reasons, I think this trend is dangerous. I also think that talking about SAMR in this way perpetuates a disturbing trend in the Ed-Tech community. But probably the biggest thing is that SAMR does not address instructional context. So what does this all mean?
Sju punkter för att få pojkar att läsa!
LitteraturMagazinet Debatt Barn gör som deras föräldrar gör! För att få barn att läsa måste deras föräldrar och andra vuxna börja läsa. "Ställ inte krav på barn och ungdomar och deras läsning som du inte kan leva upp till själv." Det anser Kåkå Olsen som skrivit en masteruppsats om pojkars läsning vid Lunds universitet. – Det är sant att pojkar läser mindre och sämre än flickor, men det är framför allt sant att de läser andra texter, andra genrer och på andra sätt, säger hon. Hon slår ett slag för att omvärdera vad pojkar underförstått "bör" läsa. Här nedan har hon sammaställt ett sju-punktsprogram för att få pojkar att läsa mer. Barn gör som deras föräldrar gör och framför allt gör barn som föräldrar av samma kön gör. Råden är applicerbara oavsett kön, MEN Kåkå Olsen valde att skriva särskilt om pojkar därför att: Pojkar läser, statistiskt, mindre och sämre än flickor. Vill du läsa mer om pojkar och litteratur så finns Kåkå Olsens masteruppsats tillgänglig här.
The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2015 – So Far
As regular readers know, it’s time for me to begin posting my mid-year “The Best….” lists. There are over 1,400 regularly updated lists now. You can see them all here. As usual, in order to make this list, a site had to be: * accessible to English Language Learners and non-tech savvy users. * free-of-charge. * appropriate for classroom use. * completely browser-based with no download required (however, I’ve begun to make exceptions for special mobile apps). Some sites I’m including this year are primarily geared towards teachers creating content for classroom use, but could also easily be used by students. It’s possible that a few of these sites began earlier than this year, but, if so, I’m including them in this list because they were “new to me” in 2015. You might also want to see my recent ASCD Educational Leadership article, Apps, Apps Everywhere: Are Any Good, You Think? The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2014 The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2013 One is Bunkr.
