10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship 10 Interactive Lessons By Google On Digital Citizenship Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-07-22 YouTube has a firm place in the current classroom. From Khan Academy’s videos to YouTube EDU and beyond, there’s a reason all these videos are finding a home in schools. In an effort to help keep the ball rolling, Google just launched a set of 10 interactive lessons designed to support teachers in educating students on digital citizenship. Google (which owns YouTube) built the lessons to educate students about YouTube’s policies, how to flag content, how to be a safer online citizen, and protect their identities. Below is a list of lessons, and the recommended flow for delivery. Or you can download the Full Teacher’s Guide or the Full Set of Slides in PDF . The killer feature for this curriculum is the extra features that come with each video. Category: Videos Tags: digital citizenship , guide , How To , presentations , Videos You may also like Second Grader Shows How She Uses Evernote For Fluency 4 Comments
How To Cite A Tweet The MLA has acknowledged Twitter’s existence. In case you missed this back in March, twitter, the plucky social media network with much of Facebook’s reach but none of its self-adoration, received a vote of confidence from an unlikely source: the Modern Language Association. Long an indirect but potent tool of torture in English classrooms and University campuses everywhere, the MLA (and other cohorts, including APA and Chicago) released a format for quoting tweets in formal writing. While one may not consider twitter as the most natural primary source of information, if you consider a constant stream of humanity’s chatter as relevant, twitter is then relevant indeed. Could there be more coming? Due to its slow, gloomy gait, formal academia has yet to fully arrive on the social media scene, and when they’ve gotten close, it’s often been with a get off my lawn tone.
The Flipped Classroom: What are the Pros and Cons? A guest post by Anne Wujcik You’ve probably heard at least a little bit about flipped learning. Flipping a classroom (or a lesson) typically involves reversing the way instructional time is used, delivering instruction outside of classroom time and moving “homework” into the classroom. Have you tried flipping some lessons or an entire class? Art & Truth Art and Truth Though not traditionally a major topic within aesthetics, the relationship between truth and works of art is of considerable interest in the context of Theory of Knowledge. There are those who argue that artists (and we are still using the word “art” in a wide sense to include literature, music, and other art-forms) have a special responsibility to convey the truth. Few would deny the power of language to convey a feeling or an idea. Nevertheless, the claim that art can ‘convey the truth’ needs some examining. The claim that art ‘tells the truth’ surely means more than that true statements are made in literature or that simple factual statements can be correctly deduced from observing a paintrng? What about a photograph or a film? Even if the greatest of care were to be taken in painting a fair, unbiased picture, is it possible to do so? Why, in any case, is there a need to find truth in art?
What Does Critical Thinking Mean in Education ? Critical thinking is an important skill in the 21st century learning. Education's overall goal is to produce students that will be able to think critically and not just take in things like a parrot. Of course thereis a bunch of other important skills out there but this particular one stands out from the crowd. Sometimes the lines between some technical temrs are blurred as is the case in the educational jargon when refering to critical thinking as synonymous with creative thinking, a blunder that is though seemingly unimportant yet it can make all the difference for experts. Critical thinking as described in the video below refers to a diverse range of intelectual skills and activities concerned with evaluating information as well as evaluating our thought in a disciplined way. Critical thinking has a multitude of benefits for us in education, here are some of them : I would also recommend that you watch this video, it is one of the best videos I have ever watched on critical thinking.
S.O.S. for Information Literacy Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally 4/1/2008 By: Andrew Churches from Educators' eZine Introduction and Background: Bloom's Taxonomy In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of cognitive objectives, Bloom's Taxonomy. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy In the 1990's, a former student of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs rather than nouns for each of the categories and a rearrangement of the sequence within the taxonomy. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Sub Categories Each of the categories or taxonomic elements has a number of key verbs associated with it Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) The elements cover many of the activities and objectives but they do not address the new objectives presented by the emergence and integration of Information and Communication Technologies into the classroom and the lives of our students. Bloom's digital taxonomy map Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing Evaluating
This is Why Critical Reading is Important Reading is one of the basic and old literacy skills in education. Its primacy in any educational system is still intact even amidst this huge encroachment of technology into every aspect of our life. The Generation X, for instance, tend to favor audio visual text over written text ( by the way text refers to any medium of communication be it a word, picture, clip. movie, play ...ect ) and you can see now how YouTube and other reputable video platforms are creating new modes of communications based primarily on audio visual data. I am not really sure whether it is true that people now read less than they used to do before this technology boom, but one thing is obvious, reading will always be the key to ones intellectual blossoming. However, the importance of reading is not in the reading act itself but in how critically we read. I am talking here about critical reading and to bring you close to what this is all about , I will let you watch this great video realized by John Green.
The Big Chandra Picture The Big Chandra Picture In more than a decade of operation, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed our view of the high-energy Universe with its ability to make exquisite X-ray images of star clusters, supernova remnants, galactic eruptions, and collisions between clusters of galaxies. As Chandra expands the realm of the known, it continues to raise new questions and point the way for future exploration. This photo blog presents some of Chandra's most spectacular images in a large and shareable format. Follow Chandra on Twitter 03 Apr 2014 El Gordo: This is a composite image of X-rays from Chandra and optical data from Hubble of the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102-4915, located about 7 billion light years from Earth. 20 Mar 2014 DEM L241: When a massive star runs out fuel, it collapses and explodes as a supernova. 05 Mar 2014 RX J1131-1231: A quasar located about 6 billion light years from Earth. 04 Mar 2014 18 Feb 2014 06 Feb 2014 23 Jan 2014 08 Jan 2014 04 Dec 2013 20 Nov 2013 28 Oct 2013
Web 2.0 for the Under 13s crowd Jul 05 As I lamented in my last post, many of the fabulous Web tools out there are restricted to users 13 and over. This limits what Elementary/Primary schools students can access online to create content to collaborate. The difficulty with some sites’ policies is that they don’t all state emphatically that Under 13s are not allowed. Even though I complained in my last post about restrictions, you can see from this chart that there are still plenty of tools available for the Under 13s. Contact sites if you are unclear what their policies are saying. Would love to hear from others about other tools I have not listed above that are accessible to the under 13s.
Ten Terrific Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools Today, I am running a workshop about using mind mapping and brainstorming tools to help students meet some of the Common Core standards in English Language Arts. Below are some of the tools that we will be using today. On a related note, if you're interested in having me come to your school or facilitate a virtual workshop, please click here for more information. Popplet is a great service that combines the best of online sticky note services like Wallwisher with collaborative mind mapping functions. Text 2 Mind Map offers a great way to turn your typed outlines into mind maps. Realtime Board is a new online tool for hosting online, collaborative brainstorming sessions. Inkflow is an iPad app for visual thinkers who like to sketch to process what they're hearing, seeing, and learning. iBrainstorm is a free brainstorming application for the iPad and the iPhone. SyncSpace is a collaborative whiteboard app available for iPad here and for Android here.
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