Sunday, 7 July 2013
Herbert Puchta - Playway Teacher training films: Working with DVD stories
How Can I use Wikis in the classroom?
Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They’re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction.
How Can I use Edmodo in the classroom?
Edmodo is one of the promising web technologies that is making a strong foothold in the field of education. It has been embraced by several school districts and is being widely used to host online classes and connect students with their teachers. I personally see edmodo as a very robust alternative to the traditional Moodle.
Edmodo is a web-based platform that provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. It is like Facebook but in a safe and controlled environment appropriate for school.
Edmodo provides you with a secure environment where you can create a classroom group for your students. In this virtual group you can :
- Place digital resources on edmodo for students to access or download,
- Create polls for students to vote online.
- Write short summaries of lessons for students who were absent from class (better yet: get your students to write the summary).
- Post homework information.
How to use Edmodo in the classroom.
How Can I use Voki in the classroom?
What is Voki?
Voki is a FREE service that lets you:
- Create customized avatars.
- Add voice to your Voki avatars.
- Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile.
- Take advantage of Voki's learning resources.
Voki has become a household name among teachers and students the world over. Almost a million teachers and students worldwide use Voki to create and share speaking avatars for education. Voki is a creative, easy to use tool, that helps motivate students and improve lesson comprehension and student participation. In short, Voki makes learning, and teaching, fun. Now, you can do even more with Voki.
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Project-Based Learning
When project-based learning is infused with technology, it may look and feel like a 21st-century idea, but it's built on a venerable foundation.
When the project approach takes hold in the classroom, students gain opportunities to engage in real-world problem solving too. Instead of learning about nutrition in the abstract, students act as consultants to develop a healthier school cafeteria menu. Rather than learning about the past from a textbook, students become historians as they make a documentary about an event that changed their community.
Especially when it's infused with technology, project-based learning may look and feel like a 21st-century idea.
Against this theoretical background, problem-based learning emerged more than half a century ago as a practical teaching strategy in medicine, engineering, economics, and other disciplines. With this approach, students are challenged to solve problems or do simulations that mimic real life. Although problems are defined in advance by the instructor, they tend to be complex, even messy, and cannot be solved by one "right" or easy-to-find answer.
In K-12 education, project-based learning has evolved as a method of instruction that addresses core content through rigorous, relevant, hands-on learning. Projects tend to be more open-ended than problem-based learning, giving students more choice when it comes to demonstrating what they know.
Students use technology tools much as professionals do -- to communicate, collaborate, conduct research, analyze, create, and publish their own work for authentic audiences. Instead of writing book reports, for instance, students in a literature project might produce audio reviews of books, post them on a blog, and invite responses from a partner class in another city or country.
Howard Gardner on Digital Youth
Howard Gardner, the founder of multiple-intelligences theory discusses the challenges ethics and education face as digital media become more prevalent.
Teaching with technology
Formal learning is being questioned. Teaching in 21st Century is becoming a challenge both for educators and students.
Our students today are all "native speakers" of the digital language of computers , video games and the Internet.
There are advantages and disadvantages to technology. There are no absolute solutions to be applied worldwide. All decisions should be taken considering the general situation, the context and the resources.
This space has been designed for sharing useful information, activities, videos, etc. If you really want our education systems to prepare students` for tomorrow` s digital world we should worry less about formats and instead focus on what to teach- or what not to teach.
This space has been designed for sharing useful information, activities, videos, etc. If you really want our education systems to prepare students` for tomorrow` s digital world we should worry less about formats and instead focus on what to teach- or what not to teach.
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