10 Teacher Resources For Motivating Students This week’s Featured Learnist Top 10 selection is about motivating students. Sometimes motivating students can be challenging, and we often have to remember to check in with their basic needs and take time to develop those key relationships. Motivation is the key to establishing a lifelong love of learning–the type of learning on which Edudemic and Learnist were both designed to inspire. Students with Exceptionalities Lisa Grady Tenreiro’s board gives resources on motivating and teaching students with exceptionalities, including how to best work with students, and paraprofessionals. Extras for Students Rachel Pierson is probably the best teacher in the world–wouldn’t you love to be a student in her class after seeing her Learnist board on treats and surprises to keep students motivated? Strong Parent-Teacher Communication Strong home-school relationships are critical to student success. Cultivating the Students of Tomorrow Students Today Digital Literacy Skills for Students Engaging Students
Itsen muotoilu Keskustelu Tällä sivulla lähestytään oppimisen ja koulun tulevaisuutta itsen muotoilun näkökulmasta. "In Wondertree, we assist learners in supporting their unique designs for learning and living. Working specifically to develop self-observation skills, we help learners optimize their strengths and act as their own self-authorities. Our mission addresses wellness, balance, congruence, integrity, and fulfillment. The rights of the learner are held sacred, as is the experience of life as joyful and full of wonders. Tästä kuvauksesta nousee hakematta mieleen Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ajatus autotelisesta oppijasta. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Author: Ehirsh public domain "Every human being can be thought of as a unique event in the universe. Miksi oppimisen pitää edetä ikäluokittain jaotelluissa ryhmissä? "Many people appreciate the idea that every child has infinite potential. "Children are born totally present, and healthy relationships are based on full engagement in the present. Lähteet:
Top 70 Best Websites to Download Free 3D Models EmailShare 51EmailShare 3D models represent a 3D object using a collection of points in 3D space, connected by various geometric entities. Being a collection of data, 3D models can be created by hand, algorithmically or scanned. 3D models are useful and widely used in a variety of industries. They can be used as characters and objects in movie or video game industries, building and landscape in architecture industry, as well as detailed models of organs in medical industry. In today’s roundup, we’ve crawled deep into the net and gathered up to 70 websites that provide high quality of 3D models for free download. (SEE ALSO: 32 Best Free 3D Modeling Applications You Must Try Out) Google 3D Warehouse The Google 3D Warehouse is a collection of 3D models of buildings, bridges, cars, spaceships, futons, dinosaurs and everything else in the universe. 3D Total 3D Total is a great source for downloading free 3D models. 3DModelFree 3DModelFree provides free collection of 3D models download. share
What Are The Habits Of Mind? What Are The Habits Of Mind? by TeachThought Staff Editor’s Note: This post has been updated from a 2012 post. Problem-based learning and project-based learning provide a rich opportunity for students to deepen their knowledge, expand their repertoire of technical skills, and enhance their appreciation of thinking tools, processes and strategies. It is not enough, however, to understand concepts and principles and to solve that one problem, as challenging as it might be. While we are interested in how many answers individuals know, we are even more interested in how they behave when they don’t know—when they are confronted with life’s problems the answers to which are not immediately known. Achieving this vision requires the internalization of certain dispositions, propensities or Habits of Mind. What Are Habits of Mind? Employing Habits of Mind requires a composite of many skills, attitudes cues, past experiences, and proclivities. The list of Habits of Mind appears below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
5 Apps and Sites for Creating Animations This afternoon on Twitter I was asked for some recommendations for tools that students can use to create animations. The first one that came to mind was the one that was freshest in my mind, that was Sketch Star. After sharing that link I went back into my archives for some other tools that students can use to create animations and came up with four others. Here are five tools that students can use to create animations. Sketch Star from Miniclip is a fun and free tool for creating animated comics. Stop Frame Animator from Culture Street is a neat tool for creating animated stop motion movies. Animation Desk is an iPad app (free and premium versions available) for creating short, animated videos. Draw Island is a free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. Wideo is a service that allows anyone to create animated videos and Common Craft-style videos online.
Touch typing Typing zones on a QWERTY keyboard for each finger. The keys on the home row are circled. There exists an alternate method for the top row as described in the section Other methods; usually split keyboards support this alternate method. Touch typing (also called touch type or touch method or touch and type method) is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Frank Edward McGurrin, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City, Utah who taught typing classes, reportedly invented touch typing in 1888. History[edit] Learning to touch type "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little tiring to do so much typewriting?" Original layouts for the first few mechanical typewriters were in alphabetical order (ABCDE etc.) but the frequent jams suffered by experienced typists forced the manufacturers to change the layout of the letters, placing keys that are often pressed in a sequence as far as possible from each other. Start position with fingers on the home row
Padlet Streams - A Simple Way to Create a Group Blog Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher) is one of my favorite tools to use to have students quickly share ideas, questions, and multimedia notes on one page. Until today all of the notes that were added to a Padlet page appeared wherever a visitor double clicked. You can still use that free form format, but now you can also use a chronological format that Padlet is calling "streams." Applications for Education Creating a Padlet page in the stream format could be a good way to create a simple, collaborative blog for students. TypingTest.com - Free Typing Test & Keyboarding Games Online Create Animation - Sketch Star 21 Literacy Resources For The Digital Teacher by Kimberly Tyson, Ph.D., learningunlimitedllc.com Update: This post was originally published in February, 2013 If you follow this blog, you know that I believe effective vocabulary instruction is just about the most important instructional activity for teachers to get right. For lots of reasons. Vocabulary influences fluency, comprehension, and student achievement. In addition, a broad vocabulary is important for effective speaking, listening, reading and writing.Vocabulary is a foundational component of an effective K-12 comprehensive literacy framework. I’ve posted previously about the importance of effective vocabulary instruction and developed a popular Infographic featuring the “Top 10 Characteristics of Effective Vocabulary Instruction.” In today’s 21st century classrooms, digital tools should coexist alongside more traditional tools. The following digital tools show promise to support word learning, review, and play with language. 21 Literacy Resources For The Digital Teacher 1.
Overview A survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers finds that digital technologies have helped them in teaching their middle school and high school students in many ways. At the same time, the internet, mobile phones, and social media have brought new challenges to teachers. In addition, they report that there are striking differences in the role of technology in wealthier school districts compared with poorer school districts and that there are clear generational differences among teachers when it comes to their comfort with technology and its use in their classrooms. Asked about the impact of the internet and digital tools in their role as middle and high school educators, these teachers say the following about the overall impact on their teaching and their classroom work: AP and NWP teachers bring a wide variety of digital tools into the learning process, including mobile phones, tablets, and e-book readers About this Study The basics of the survey
How To Prepare Students For 21st Century Survival 7 Skills Students Will Always Need by Jennifer Rita Nichols Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post. As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that exists around them. We teach them how to read, write, and calculate. Then, of course, there are the less tangible skills we teach; such as how to work in a team, think critically, and be curious about the things they encounter each day. We want to prepare them to lead productive and successful lives once they leave us and enter into the realm of adulthood. Tony Wagner of Harvard University worked to uncover the 7 survival skills required for the 21st century. We may not know exactly what lies ahead for our students in the future, but we have the advantage of knowing what skills they will need once they get there. Skills #1: Critical Thinking and Problem SolvingPreparation: Students will need to develop their skills at seeing problems from different angles and formulating their own solutions.
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