How to Use Padlet in the Classroom: A Fantastic Teaching Tool

How To Use Wiki In The Classroom - eLearning Industry What is Wiki? Wiki is an online application that allows users to contribute to or edit its content. Meaning “quick” in the Hawaiian language, wiki is a creative and open environment where everyone has a voice. The significance of wiki lies in the fact that there is no assigned “leader” or “head writer”. The founder of wiki, Ward Cunningham, described his creation as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”.

20 Effective ways to use Google Apps For Education Creating a connected classroom has gotten far more affordable now that the major tech companies have begun pouring resources into reaching teachers, students, parents, and school leaders. Aside from the Apple iPad, the biggest player in the world of education technology has to be Google. They regularly unleash new productivity and collaboration tools as part of the Google Apps For Education suite. The best part? It’s all free and you probably already know how to immediately start using the software. That’s because Google has essentially packaged up some of the most popular web tools and apps into a manageable suite of products.

Young Adult Novels That Teach a Growth Mindset Heroes in books and movies captivate kids, many of whom could teach a master class on these characters. The fresh perspective teachers can offer is how students themselves can and should be heroes. As advocates of growth mindset, we can teach children that heroism does not require obsession with perfection or product. We should show students that we also value process and progress. Heroic stories can help: They teach students about mitigating mistakes, learning from loss, and overcoming adversity, all of which are key elements of growth mindset.

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Student Blogging Activity 1 (Beginner): Setting Up Your Class Blog Welcome to our second Teacher Challenge! Our “30 days to get your Students Blogging” Challenge is all about guiding you through the process of blogging with your students. This challenge is open to anyone and everyone – and you don’t need to be a user of Edublogs at all or have participated in the first challenge. Wherever you’re at — we’ll step you through the weekly tasks to increase your skills while providing mentors who’ll support your learning. But most importantly ‘don’t stress, have fun’ — work through it at your own pace and remember to ask for help any time you need assistance!

Apps in the Classroom – Showbie I cannot believe it has taken me this long to cover Showbie. We just discovered this app during a PD meeting a few weeks ago. I immediately instituted it in my classroom, trained the students how to use it, and have not looked back since. It allows for incredibly easy document distribution to students and paperless assignment collecting/grading for teachers. It is intuitive, easy, useful, and pretty much free to use. This app is absolutely essential for any 1:1 iPad classroom at any and all grade levels. How to Choose the Right Images When Teaching about Genocide Images are an important entry to stories of genocides and mass violence. They provide evidence and context but they can also shock us, jolting us into the immense amount of human suffering that occurred. This is why we must be careful when we prepare lessons for students that touch on such graphic and often difficult-to-absorb topics. There is no shortage of images to choose from.