ClassBadges Is A Free Way To Gamify Your Classroom Looking to find a new, simple, and free way to gamify your classroom? There a new web tool out that you should probably know about. It’s called ClassBadges and it’s a free online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Teachers can set up an account and award the badges whenever they wish. Pretty straightforward. Request an invite to create an account (it looks like right now, they’re working on handling a higher capacity of users), and once you do, you’ll be able to create a class list. You’re able to choose what badges are awarded (and they’re customizable!) See Also: The 50 Best Videos For Teachers Interested In Gamification
From Smoke Signals to Tweets: How The Evolution Of Communication Is Changing Your Classroom The following post is written by Beth Holland & Shawn McCusker from EdTechTeacher. Be sure to sign up for one of the last remaining spots at their iPad Summit! From quill and ink, to slate and chalk, to pencil and paper, to typewriter, to computer, to iPad…. each evolution of technology has allowed students to make their thinking visual, articulate their ideas, demonstrate their understanding of concepts and skills, collaborate with their peers, and communicate in complex and modern ways. Each advance has made it possible for those who master them to go a little further and to communicate a little more effectively. Historically, people who have taken the time to learn these technologies, or develop new ones, have reaped great rewards. Andrew Carnegie was “discovered” because of his ability to use the telegraph – the peak of communication at the time – to unravel a rail snarl that paralyzed his company. Bill Gates invented a way for people to visually interact with data on their computers.
Gargalo na sala de aula A precariedade do ensino de ciências desponta como uma incômoda pedra no meio do caminho do Brasil, num momento em que o país ambiciona internacionalizar sua pesquisa científica e é desafiado a formar recursos humanos qualificados em grande quantidade para acelerar seu crescimento. O obstáculo é tangível na série histórica de resultados do Pisa, sigla em inglês para Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Estudantes, exame que testa, a cada três anos, o nível de competência de adolescentes de 15 anos em leitura, matemática e ciências e é aplicado em mais de 60 países. O Brasil participou da prova de 2009 com uma amostra de 20.127 estudantes e obteve uma média de 405 pontos em ciências. O Pisa divide os alunos em seis categorias: do nível 1, no qual os jovens só conseguem apresentar explicações científicas que sejam óbvias, até o nível 6, no qual já conseguem demonstrar capacidade consistente de raciocinar de uma forma cientificamente avançada.
Critical Review of Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age In his 2005 article Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age, Siemens outlined a new way of thinking about learning based on the recent advances in information technology. He argues that this new theory, connectivism, supersedes previous learning theories, including behaviourism, cognitivism, and contructivism. In this post, I am seeking to further my understanding of this new theory, examine its limitations, and consider its relevance to both classroom teaching as well as knowledge management practices within organizations. Defining Connectivism In the article, Siemens outlines the fundamental principles of connectivism: For Siemens, connectivism is a significant departure from previous learning theories because it sees learning occurring outside of the individual, within the network: For connectivists, the starting point is always the individual learner (Siemens, 2005). Applications in the Classroom Applications in Knowledge Management References Couros, A. (2011). Garrison, D.
Will MOOCs Destroy Academia? | November 2012 By Moshe Y. Vardi Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55 No. 11, Page 5 10.1145/2366316.2366317 Comments (33) "Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee," wrote the prophet Isaiah. This phrase has been popping into my mind as I have been following the recent raging discussions over the topic of MOOCs. For those readers who paid no attention to recent developments, a MOOC is massive open online course; it is a tuition-free course taught over the Web to a large number of students. While online education has a long history, the current wave started in the fall of 2011 when about 450,000 students signed up for three computer-science courses offered by Stanford University. Early rhetoric about the educational value of MOOCs was quite lofty, talking about the goal of reaching the quality of individual tutoring, but it is difficult to reconcile such rhetoric with massiveness as an essential feature of MOOCs. Moshe Y. Terence Linkletter October 25, 2012 01:30 Jeff Wahlgren
How To Use Your Smartphone As A Scanner 5 MOOCs Teachers Should Take As Students 8.42K Views 0 Likes MOOCs may or may not save higher education, and if they save it they may further widen the gap between elite and lesser-known schools. They may also reinforce existing achievement gaps for students. As massive open online courses continue to evolve, however, educators need to know what they are and how they are changing the education landscape. 100 Simple Ways To Effectively Use Twitter Twitter is too big to ignore. You see hashtags in commercials, sponsored tweets, posts, news broken on Twitter, etc. It’s quickly become an indispensable tool for teachers, admins, parents, and students too. Right now, there are still many (MANY) in education not using Twitter. But what if they had a categorized list of the top tips to help you use Twitter ? See Also: It’s Official: Using Twitter Makes Students More Engaged From how to follow people to asking for help to the best tools to use , it’s all here. Getting Connected With these tips and tools, you’ll be able to get connected with the people that matter most to you on Twitter. Follow experts : Get useful information from other experts in your field. Search Put Twitter’s massive amounts of information to work by using these search tips and tools. Twitority : This search engine offers results based on Twitter users with authority. Organization With these tips and tools, you can keep all of your information on Twitter well organized.
12+1 vídeos que os professores “devem” ver Hoje descobri um post com quase dois anos com uma lista de vídeos que os pprofessores não “devem” perder. Alguns deles já conhecia, mas é uma bela lista para se ver em doze dias. Descobri esta minivideoteca no site dangerous ! Os outros doze, os antigos: “Sir Ken Robinson, Changing education paradigms (11 minutes) Sugatra Mitra, The child-driven education (17 minutes) Clay Shirky, How cognitive surplus will change the world (13 minutes) Chris Anderson, How web video powers global innovation (19 minutes) Dean Shareski, Sharing: The moral imperative (25 minutes) Henry Jenkins, TEDxNYED (18 minutes) Daniel Pink, Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (11 minutes) Dan Meyer, Math class needs a makeover (12 minutes) Jeff Jarvis, TEDxNYED (17 minutes) Lisa Nielsen, Response to principal who bans social media (4 minutes) New Brunswick Department of Education, 21st century education in New Brunswick (6 minutes) Charles Leadbeter, On innovation (19 minutes)” Bons vídeos!
7 Ways To Become A Better Reader And Writer How To Use Mood Boards For Visual Learning 1.38K Views 0 Likes Mood boards are used for photography, game design, interior design, marketing, fashion, music, advertising and even architecture; but who’s to say they shouldn’t be used in the classroom? (You might be doing this already!)
25 maneiras de tirar o máximo proveito do Twitter Twitter may very well be the single most important tool for teachers right now. Considering many are not even using the service, that says a lot about how effective the platform is for learning, engaging, development, and more. In an effort to make sure you are getting the most out of Twitter, we’ve compiled a very lengthy list of tips and tricks. That long list is coming out tomorrow morning but we thought you’d enjoy our hand-picked choices. See Also: 45 Simple Twitter Tips Everyone Should Know About Katie and I went through our list and narrowed it down to the top 25. Follow folks who are interesting to you. Just tweet!
45 Simple Twitter Tips Everyone Should Know About Are you a tweetin’ teacher? Do you rely on tweets for your extended PLN ? Whether you use the service or not, there’s a whole world of information being shared and you should start taking part. But if you’ve been too nervous or unsure about HOW to actually use Twitter as efficiently as possible… the wait is over. We’ve offered up plenty of tips and tricks for Twitter but never anything like this. It’s an elegantly organized set of infographics detailing the step-by-step process of using Twitter and making it work for you. Key Questions Answered Did you know SEO played a role in your Twitter profile? View Tips As Slideshow
The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You The Wordle of this list! (Click image to enlarge) One of the most popular posts on Edudemic in 2010 was The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You and I felt it might be time for an update to that list for 2011. In order to put together a list of the best Web 2.0 classroom tools, I polled my Twitter followers, Facebook fans (are they still called fans? There were more than 900 submissions but many were duplicates.