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Related: Videos • generalSTEAM YouTube Channels for Elementary Kids A homeschool reader wrote to ask me my recommendations for educational YouTube channels. Which is a really fantastic question — and deserves a few blog posts, don’t you think? Let’s start with the best S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) YouTube channels. You know that it’s hard to sift through the massive amount of channels, and find what’s best and age-appropriate for your kids. You want clean entertainment that won’t surprise you with a bad word or innuendo. 9 TEDTalks by impressive kids Few scientific papers are written in crayon and begin with the words, “Once upon a time.” But then again, few scientific papers are written by a group of 8 to 10-year-olds. In this adorable talk from TEDGlobal, neuroscientist, artist and educator Beau Lotto shares why he thinks children have an edge when it comes to scientific inquiry — they are able to celebrate uncertainty and ask wonderful questions. An experiment is actually a form of play, says Lotto, who invited a group of 25 students from a small school in the UK to make a useful contribution to science by asking a question of their choice. The question the students came up with: can bees think like human beings?
- 8 Apps to Prepare You for Your Next Presentation or Webmeeting 0 Comments February 20, 2011 By: Guest Blogger Feb 20 Written by: 2/20/2011 12:36 PM ShareThis 100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques With so many good teachers out there, it’s fortunate they can share their knowledge via video on the Internet. From the funny to the poignant, these glimpses into the lives of teachers and their students will keep you entertained while learning a little something as well. Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh perspective, you are sure to find something helpful among these videos. 197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About 197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About If you don’t have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there’s a good chance you’re behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware. Just as many individuals have their own channel, curating their expertise in a series of broadcasted lessons.
9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning The label of “21st Century learning” is vague, and is an idea that we here at TeachThought like to take a swing at as often as possible, including: –weighing the magic of technology with its incredible cost and complexity –underscoring the potential for well thought-out instructional design –considering the considerable potential of social media platforms against its apparent divergence from academic learning Some educators seek out the ideal of a 21st century learning environment constantly, while others prefer that we lose the phrase altogether, insisting that learning hasn’t changed, and good learning looks the same whether it’s the 12th or 21st century. At TeachThought, we tend towards the tech-infused model, but do spend time exploring the limits and challenges of technology, the impact of rapid technology change, and carefully considering important questions before diving in head-first.
Videos About Plants Spring time means plants in kindergarten and so here is your teacher approved Videos About Plants list from Simply Kinder! From a Seed to a Flower (2:12) This short video shows the basic parts and needs of a flowering plant using playdough. It provides a wonderful visual and discussed the most basic facts of a plant. I couldn’t help but imagine doing something very similar in a sensory or science center during my plant unit! 60 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know 60 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know by Ryan Schaaf, Notre Dame of Maryland University When I was a high school student, I had the privilege of having a wonderful English teacher.
How to Make a Timeline: Discover how to quickly and easily create any kind of timeline Try the following tools to make a timeline The internet is filled with useful web sites, and among them are timeline generators that can help you easily create a timeline. While poking around on the internet I have come up with a list of timeline generators that may help you out in creating a timeline. Web-based timeline generators Whether you are making one of your own life, a historical timeline, for a class, for a meeting, or even for a presentation, the timeline generators listed below should help make quick work of it.
About – Annotum Despite significant advances in most forms of publishing, from blogs to news sites and other user-generated web content, the process of authoring scholarly articles remains an expensive, time-consuming process that can require significant up-front investment and technical expertise. While a number of electronic publishing and workflow management systems exist, those intended for the scientific publishing (SP) community provide at best only rudimentary authoring tools – and in many cases simply provide a repository for document files created in other formats. It is as if the entire revolution in online, web-based content authoring tools has passed by the SP community. And despite the development of advanced document formats such as the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) journal article publishing tag set, virtually no current system allows scientific authors to easily create structured XML documents using simple web-based tools.
Tips for Single Women, 1938 Taylor I completely agree with you. And I’m 23, so I’m not archaic. I think the problem is that people are reading these tips with the preconceived notion that they are outdated because of the way it is written and the 50′s pictures, and because they feel that it’s not fair for women to have to be like this but men don’t. In reality, men were very courteous back then, and treated women with respect and romance. 10 Very Good Educational Websites That Are Now Integrated with Google Classroom December 18, 2015 With the increasing adoption of Google Classroom in instruction, Google opened up Classroom API and made it possible for developers to seamlessly integrate Classroom with a wide variety of websites and platforms. As a result, several educational websites are now integrated with classroom . This means that teachers and students can now share, assign, or turn in links, videos and images from any webpage that is part of this integration.
Free and Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning As an e-Learning consultant I was always a fan of open source software. Why? The answer is simple. Dendrite Welcome to Dendrite Dendrite delivers learners, teachers, leaders and parents’ outstanding learning and development solutions from around the world. Brought to you by The Learning Partnership.com, an organisation dedicated to improving the birth to nineteen learning journey, the platform is designed to optimise this learning journey. Free diagnostic solutions in learning, teaching, leading and parenting help you to access the specific video learning from all of our partners that will help you develop your specific capabilities. The community structure and in-built screen, video and audio capture device allows you to share your great practice and new ideas with other users, and edit this into structured learning content for your community of users. Registration and access to Bloodhound’s STEM learning program is free, as are the diagnostic and evaluation tools to help you on your journey to becoming an outstanding learner, teacher, leader and parent.