Google understands the importance of finding the right information at the right time. We create tools to let you find the information you need, of the kind you need, when you need it. In most cases, a simple search works really well. But for more specialized questions, a bit of instruction in how to search improves all searcher--from middle school students to trained professionals--and lets you discover and use more, higher quality sources than ever before. Search education content with Google's Education Search 
After selecting the learning objectives and assessments for the course, we need to think about the various instructional activities we will use to engage students with the material and enable them to meet the objectives. Of course, the key is to align instructional strategies with the other two components. Many instructional strategies are flexible, and can be used in service of several learning objectives, but some of them are better suited for a particular set of objectives. In most cases, we will need to use a combination of instructional strategies.
Excellent teaching tools and resources from Discovery Education
Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter 'square' of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.
A site where various resources are shared in order to help facilitate the use of technology in the classroom. This chapter is written for two books. For the Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology (EPLTT) book, this chapter serves as an introduction. For the Foundations of Instructional Technology book, this chapter serves as an overview of learning and instructional theory. Each chapter contains a thorough description of a theory, model, or strategy along with multimedia files that support and illustrate the content. It might be useful to get a sense for today's learner before you read this book, this video discusses todays learner. Before discussing the individual chapters, it is necessary to define some of the primary terms that we are using. It is important to understand learning, cognition, and instruction. It is also useful to distinguish between theory, model and strategy. --- Kristi Leonard, Erin Kyungwon Noh, and Michael Orey 
Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view.
The Power of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: Telling Stories With Technology 
From Scholastic - a complete digital storytelling unit plan. There are four detailed lesson plans to assist you throughout the project-based learning unit. Covers planning, writing, graphics, motion graphics, and narration. Students will learn the technological tools required to record and edit voice narration for presentation purposes ... and more 
More than 1600 federal teaching and learning resources organized by subject: art, history, language arts, math, science, and others -- from FREE, the website that makes federal teaching and learning resources easy to find. 
Access to the Internet brings an almost unlimited amount of content to our fingertips. Effectively collecting, organizing, and making sense of this information is critical to learning. Ubiquitous access to information provides many opportunities and challenges for "formal" education systems. After all, what good is memorizing the atomic number for Iridium when you can just text Cha Cha?
Find easy-to-use Interactive Whiteboard teaching tips and make the most of Language Arts Online Activities on your Interactive Whiteboard. 
Free online whiteboard software that can be easily embedded into your website. Works on any web browser including iPhone, iPad and Android. Use for online tutoring, distance learning, collaborative design sessions or just for fun! |
The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement.
Awareness of common pitfalls and effective strategies can support teachers' efforts to help students "learn to learn" throughout the year, says Cossondra George. 
The concept of the I-Search is a strategy where students select a topic they would like to explore related to a subject matter (teacher directed). The students develop a "web" showing what they know about the topic. Student example of a web is shown here 
A recent report found that educators believe that the secret to effective discipline is proactively building relationships, not reacting punitively to student misbehavior. In surveys with 300 New York City public school teachers that included an open-ended question about the largest threat to school safety, the most common response was a lack of cohesive culture and positive relationships between staff and students. Middle school teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron shares tips for managing all that grading and for providing students with feedback. Via lrougeux 
Typically, rubrics are set up in a table format and can be looked at through five different components. However, rubrics do not have to be tables - they're often the easiest way to capture the various components of quality rubrics. The document is a way for the learner to self-assess without waiting for an adult's feedback, using indicators of quality that make sense (and are often informed by them). What does a good rubric look like?
A good starting point when thinking about what tasks deserves a rubric, is to reflect on the nature of the task. What are your goals for you and your students?
Blogger Rebecca Alber explains why using students' prior knowledge to guide instruction is key to learning. 
Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. 
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."
-- Tagore, Bengali poet As part of Edutopia's summer professional development experiences, we are starting a Web Tools Collective to explore and learn with other teachers from around the world. We plan to "study" a variety of web tools and resources, and identify ways that they can be used in the classroom. The Web Tools Collective is a flexible, open-learning experience. We will provide a learning space (Edutopia blogs and groups) and a loose structure for exploration. You are welcome to jump in and out as your schedule and interest allows. You can post daily, weekly, just once or twice, or you can even just lurk. 
by Eric Brunsell
In Part 3 of the Web Tools Collective, I suggested some tools and resources for helping you and your students collect and organize information. But, what do you do with it? In this post, I will present tools and resources that will help students synthesize information and create new things. When I first started teaching 15 years ago, a teacher was considered tech savvy if he or she was using presentation software instead of a chalkboard. You were on the cutting-edge if you were having your students create digital presentations instead of using chart paper. Of course, anyone who tried this quickly learned that these presentations could be abused |
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