Librarian Approved: 30 Ed-Tech Apps to Inspire Creativity and Creation
Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work. With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don’t have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs. Luckily, several tech-savvy librarians have been curating the apps their colleagues find useful and sharing the all-stars with one another through personal learning communities (PLC) and edWeb webinars. These educators are paying attention to their own working habits, as well as those of students, to figure out which technology products and trends are here to stay.
Digital Literacy and Research Skills
Jump to navigation 1 Hook - The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Ask students what a source is Somewhere you get information from (ex. books, online, news)Ask students how they know a source is reliable Website ends in .org, .edu, .govAuthors are visible, etc.Tell students that they are going to have 30 minutes to research about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
A Critical Review of Frameworks for Digital Literacy: Beyond the Flashy, Flimsy and Faddish – Part 1 – ASCILITE TELall Blog
By Professor Mark Brown, National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University The simple fact is that digital literacy is now essential for successfully living, learning and working in today’s increasingly digitalized society and knowledge economy. This fact is the new reality of life in the 21st Century. As a recent UNSECO report states:
10 Ways to Spot a Fake News Article - EasyBib Blog
For many of us, 2016 is going down as a year to forget. Election upsets, Zika, the Syrian crisis, and unfortunately tons of fake news about all of the above and everything in between. Denzel Washington was recently quoted as saying, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.” So what should you do? You want to be informed, but a good deal of the information out there is incorrect or biased.
An ESL Reading lesson plan template
I Had No Idea, too I’m always surprised when I get reader questions or talk to people preparing for their upcoming ESL job interviews that they don’t know how to make a basic lesson plan. But, it’s not so crazy I guess and I actually had no system of any sort until I took the CELTA course a few years back. The ESL reading lesson plan that I’m going to share with you today is modelled after that and it can provide you with a solid foundation upon which to expand and adjust to suit the needs of your own classes. (If your classes are focused on speaking, check out this ESL Speaking Lesson Plan Template).
The Padagogy Wheel developed by Allan Carrington
It Is Not About the Apps, It Is About The Pedagogy The Padagogy Wheel is designed to help educators think – systematically, coherently and with a view to long-term, big-picture outcomes – about how they use mobile apps in their teaching. The Padagogy Wheel is all about mindsets; it is a way of thinking about digital-age education that meshes together concerns about mobile app features, learning transformation, motivation, cognitive development and long-term learning objectives. The Padagogy Wheel is not rocket science.
Supercharge students' digital literacy skills with content curation - SCIS
While simple collecting is additive, curation is subtractive — what is left out is almost more important than what is included. A great way to think about collection and curation is described by Frank Chimero (2011). Consider collection as a bowl of loose pearls, and curation as a pearl necklace. The individual pearls in the bowl may be of great value, but they are pretty useless when they are just gathered together.
Transversal skills
ATS2020 project has developed a transversal skills framework intended for school experimentation. Drawing on previous work published with regard to 21st century skills (e.g. ISTE STANDARDS, IPTS framework, Key Skills of Junior Cycle (NCCA), DIGCOMP( JRC) ATS2020 Competences and Skills framework identifies four main areas namely: Information Literacy, Collaboration &Communication, Autonomous Learning, Creativity and Innovation.
12 Principles Of Modern Learning
12 Principles Of Modern Learning by TeachThought Staff What are the principles of modern learning? Well, that depends on how you define ‘learning’ and what you’d consider ‘modern.’ Richard Olsen put together this useful visual way, way back in 2013–a chart that lays out three categories of a modern approach to learning–Modern, Self-Directed, and Social.
Nik's QuickShout: Create Vocabulary Activities from Authentic Text in Minutes
Pages Friday, 11 August 2017 Create Vocabulary Activities from Authentic Text in Minutes
The importance of school libraries in the Google Age
Kay Oddone In Australia, access to the internet is almost ubiquitous. In 2014–15, 85% of the Australian population aged 15 years and over were internet users, with 99% of people aged 15–17 using the internet (ABS 2016). With such widespread access to information comes the commonly asked question: now that we have Google, do we still require libraries and librarians? This question is particularly being pressed in schools, where smartphones mean that both teachers and students carry a wealth of information in their pocket, and school budgets are increasingly stretched between a wide range of competing demands.
What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship
In my classroom, I use two essential approaches in the digital citizenship curriculum that I teach: proactive knowledge and experiential knowledge. Proactive Knowledge I want my students to know the “9 Key Ps” of digital citizenship. While I go into these Ps in detail in my book Reinventing Writing, here are the basics: 1.
Amazon’s control over ebook sales data should upset everyone in publishing
It is a heartwarming story: In spite of the endless onslaught of digital content, American readers have collectively put down their screens and decided to embrace once more that beloved tactile rectangular prism that reminds us, with its weight at the bottom of our bags, of its immeasurable heft. Since 2015, major news outlets, including this one, have reported the triumphant return of print: that “real” books are back, and ebooks have lost their gleam. Of course, it’s not entirely true.
