Integrating Technology: Lesson Ideas
Ideas for Using Social Media in the Classroom Class Blog. Create a class blog and share it publicly to let others know what your class is learning and doing. Add...
Benefits of Using ePortfolios for Authentic Assessment
Some of my notes on ePortfolios from "Innovate to Educate: System [Re]Design for Personalized Learning." There are 5 Essential Elements of a Personalized Learning System Flexible, Anytime/Everywhere Learning Redefine Teacher Role...
Engaged Learning
Engaged Learning is learning that happens when students collaborate, communicate and cooperate. Web 2.0 applications let students remix and re-purpose content in ways that are meaningful to them, and their...
Inspiring Video: A Vision of 21st Century Teachers
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Use #Technology To Raise Public Awareness
Technology has played an important role in raising public awareness about significant issues. Digital networks have encouraged the creation of social communities. The larger community—the people, the culture, the physical...
More on 21st-Century Learning: Solution Fluency
Chapter 4 of “Literacy is Not Enough” focuses on the concept of problem-solving and solution fluency. The authors; Crockett, Jukes and Churches, have provided a process called “the 6 Ds.”...
The importance of real-world learning
Project-based learning can be defined as learning that occurs within the context of a challenging project. Just as workers encounter complicated tasks in the workplace, students are presented with questions...
Video Explanation: Project Based Learning
I am a big fan of explanatory videos. This is a great one explaining Project-based learning, where instruction and learning occur within the context of a challenging project. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGesRz8&feature=player_embedded] Just...
Digital Storytelling: Connect, Communicate and Collaborate
Digital Storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. Digital stories can...
Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Content, Filtering, Apps, and Millenial Behaviors
In Chapter 5 of his book, The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millenials are Revolutionizing Higher Education, Roger McHaney identifies some of the teaching implications of content sharing....
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