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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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In the spirit of “Festivus” and the tradition of “The Airing of Grievances” (sorry for the reference if you are not a Seinfeld fan), I wanted to share a couple of ideas that...
Beth Dichter's insight:
An interesting article that looks at three ideas that are popular today and discusses why they will not transform schools and provides some alternatives. The three ideas are: * Flipping the classroom * Bring your own device (BYOD) * How we use student surveys Each of these topics has received significan press over the past year and this post brings up isues that also need to be explored. 
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Are you thinking of flipping your classroom? Do you see a flipped classroom as watching videos? Think again. Peter Pappas suggests that a flipped classroom is "really about creating more time for in-class student collaboration, inquiry, and interaction. It's also is a powerful catalyst for transforming the teacher from content transmission to instructional designer and changing students from passive consumers of information into active learners taking a more collaborative and self-directed role in their learning." He provides a "slide deck" that has strategies, resources, lesson and more to help you make this transition.
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"Numbers don't lie, but a bad chart decision makes it extremely difficult to understand what those numbers mean." So think before you select your your chart type...what message are you presenting? What will be the best arrangement to display the information? How should the chart be formatted? This article provides many tips and ideas on how to go about creating a chart that will allow your information to be presented clearly.
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About Dr. Marzano - Marzano Research Lab - Teaching Teachers how to Teach. We synthesize educational research into products and services that teachers and principals can put to use for immediate gains in student learning...a wide variety of free resources are available.
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Are you wondering how you might use Google Forms in your classroom or school? This presentation will give you many ideas.
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"Over the years, many of us have personally experienced the growth of technology in today’s classrooms. Instead of taking notes, students are now occupied by surfing the Internet, scrolling through Facebook, and messaging their friends on their smart phones, tablets, and laptops. Instead of focusing on the instruction, teachers are constantly required to interrupt class in order to remind those students again and again, that class time is for learning, not texting. However, as today’s students are using more technological devices, it is imperative that teachers have access to the resources to keep pace with the growing tech culture."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post provides 25 teaching tools which are split into five categories: * Organization * Project Based Learning * Classroom Management * Presentations * Assessments This wide assortment of tools may include a few that are new to you. Each is described in the post.
Heather MacDonald's curator insight,
December 19, 2013 2:32 PM
Teaching tools in a "tech culture" - even in the classroom...maybe especially in the classroom our teaching tools adapt in order to teach children best practices in organization and learning skills. 
Erica Strain's curator insight,
August 24, 2018 8:55 PM
Technology tools to help you get organized in the classroom
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"Looking for a fresh way to create rich educational presentations? Meograph helps users create and share uniquely dynamic interactive projects, incorporating Google Maps and Google Earth to generate a story time line, which can be enhanced with images, video clips, text, audio narration, and links for more in-depth information." This is in Beta release, but you may sign up for an account. Currently it only works in Chrome but they say that versions for Firefox and Safari will be available.
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This webinar explored four key elements of DBQ instruction using images, video and web-based audience responders. Download my slidedeck. DBQ stands for document based questions. If you teach history, or any course that uses documents (which may be visuals) then there are an amazing number of resources included in the SlideShare embedded in the post. You will walk in your students' shoes as you learn "four key components" to document-based instruction: 1. The right documents. 2. Knowing how to look at them. 3. Letting students disover their own patterns, then ask students to describe, compare and defend what they found. 4. Basing the task on enduring questions, the kind that students might actually want to answer.
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Dropmark offers super simple drag-and-drop file sharing, like a number of web apps before it, but if you want to use it for more you can create presentations, slideshows, and collaborate with others just as easily.
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Check out this slide show to learn new ways to incorporate images into your classroom!
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Google Digital Literacy Tour iKeepSafe is dedicated to the education of families on how to stay safe online. That’s why we’ve teamed up with Google to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible digital citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. Each workshop contains a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation.
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Do you like trying new tools, specifically ones designed for presentations and publishing? This post, by Joyce Valenza, explores five tools that will provide a range of options for you to consider.
* Canva allows you to create slides, posters, flyers, presentations, business cards and more. With hundreds of fonts, one million images, photo editing, the ability to collaborate and more you may want to head over to Canva and create an account...and it is free!
* LucidPress comes from the same folks that created LucidChart, and it is free for educators (and your school can also get accounts for students). This is a robust a robust publishing tool that has been getting rave reviews...definitely worth checking out. If you have questions, check out their tutorials.
* emaze is a new tool out in beta. The website states that you can choose a template and quickly create a presentation. Feature include the ability to translate text, HTML5 (so it should run on any browser), and multi-device accessible.
*Haiku Deck was originally designed for the iPad but is now has a web based version. The folks who designed this were looking for an application that would allow them to create a "killer pitch deck" and when they could not find one they chose to create one...thus Haiku Deck.
* Powtoon Slides is due out later this week. Based on a sneak peek you will find lots of slide templates, infographic style that includes animated icons that you can use on graphs and charts, a photoshow style (with over 3 million royalty free photos available), and an animated style. This list does not include all features but it may make you want to head over to Powtoon and check it out!
More information on these tools is available in the post.