20 Top Pinterest Tips Are you Pinteresting? Well, lots of educators are. The PEW Research Center has found that 28 percent of online users are using Pinterest (compared to only 23 percent using Twitter). Women dominate Pinterest with 42 percent of women online using the site. Pinterest is different from other sites. Tip 1: Follow Boards or People Pinterest has a useful feature that lets you just follow just one board. Tip 2: Find Your Friends One of the fastest ways to build your PLN on a site is to find the friends you already email or follow. Tip 3: Make a Board When You Need It Make boards as you find a reason to use them. Tip 4: Make a Group Board Curate with others when you go to a conference or when you're brainstorming about a topic. Tip 5: Make Private Boards When planning for prom several years ago, my students and I had a private Pinterest board where we shared ideas. You can find a spot for up to three private boards if you scroll down below your other boards. Tip 6: Bulk Move or Copy Pins
How The Best Web Tools Fit Into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy There are some very popular tools and apps out there. We showcase a boatload of them here on Edudemic. But there’s been a growing trend of figuring out how to actually integrate all these together and how to effectively use the best web tools to enhance learning in the classroom. One of the most powerful visualizations to date has been the fabulous Padagogical Wheel (with an ‘a’ instead of an ‘e’) that shows how to integrate iPads into just about everything like SAMR and beyond. Now there’s a new visual guide that you should check out. It’s a pyramid that I spotted on Pinterest here . Creation I really like how you can easily tell which tools and apps work best on each level. Evaluating Next level down is evaluating which showcases one of my favorite learning resources: YouTube. Analyzing In the analyzing level, we see the Google Earth icon. Applying In the applying level, you can’t go wrong trying out Evernote in the classroom . Understanding Remembering
18 Ways iPads Are Being Used In Classrooms Right Now iPads are quickly becoming a popular and powerful educational tool for classrooms. Beyond the immediate benefit of engaging students, iPads can improve education efficiency and standards. However, many teachers are unsure of how to use them effectively. Coupled with concerns over the costs involved, iPad implementation in schools is seen as an unnecessary and expensive risk. As the case studies below demonstrate, iPads are being used in education environments around the world with great success. Teachers can have paperless classrooms, take attendance, share interactive presentations and test their students—all on their iPad. So just what are they doing? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Similarly, First Words Animals aids with letter and word identification. 18.
The 5 Emerging Educational Technologies You Should Know about January31, 2014 The educational landscape is witnessing a drastic change due to the use and integration of emerging technologies. However, though these changes are revolutionary but they are still far from being transformative because the gap between the technologies our students are using out of school and the ones they have access to inside the walls of school is widening. With the emergence and massive uptake of these new emerging technologies, there appeared a new learning culture one which is catalyst of the culture schools should encourage and cultivate. And until we get past the CIPA act and other inhibiting practices and policies, this gap will keep on widening. Today, I want to share with you this handy infographic that features 5 examples of emerging technologies which have been or are expected to be used in the classroom. These are : Cloud ComputingMobile TechnologyGame Based LearningMOOCsLearning Analytics
Free Technology for Teachers home What is Visual Literacy? | Picture This! Visual Literacy in the Classroom Research shows that Visual Literacy, “a person’s ability to interpret and create visual information—to understand images of all kinds and use them to communicate more effectively,” is a successful strategy for all learners (Burmark, 2002, p. v). But what does this really involve? In the preface to Burmark’s book Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn (2002), Tad Simons defines visual literacy as “a learned skill, not an intuitive one. It doesn’t just happen. Today the IVLA defines visual literacy as “the ability to discriminate and interpret visual actions, objects, and other images, while gaining meaning from them” (Brear, 2005, Visual Literacy section, para. 1). Another description has been supplied by literacy professor Claudia Cornett (2003) in her book Creating Meaning Through Literature and the Arts. So what does this look like in the classroom? One way I have found to specifically incorporate visual literacy practice each day is with the Daily Visual Challenges I created.
Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation I was recently in a third grade classroom and was struck by the presence of rules that were posted for how to have a conversation. The poster said, "Each person must contribute to the discussion but take turns talking. Ask each other, 'Would you like to add to my idea?' Having visited many middle and high schools, I think these same rules could -- and probably should -- be posted there as well. Maybe you have also observed how common it is nowadays for students to not know how to have a conversation. 8 Tips for Speaking and Listening While it is impossible to know all of the reasons, there is no doubt that learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community. 1. Make a point of having one-to-two minute interactions, one-on-one, at least a few times each week with students who struggle conversationally. "Really?"" If these students don't or won't share easily at first, don't give up. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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