Explore endangered wonders of the world and learn about how modern day archaeologists are using cutting edge technology to preserve iconic pieces of our history.
In this edWeb.net webinar hosted by the Digital Classroom: Teaching with Tech community and presented by Steven Anderson and Tom Whitby, we learned how to be a relevant educator. Participants interacted with questions, polls, and discussion around the eight tenets of being a relevant connected educator with examples of how to best leverage social media like Twitter, Hangouts, and more.
What can toothpaste teach you about digital citizenship? Learn how Craig Badura, K-12 Integration Specialist at Aurora Public Schools in Nebraska, used the digital citizenship survival kit with students and get ideas on how you – or your students – can create your own “digital citizenship survival kit,” connecting everyday items to safe and responsible behavior in the digital world.
In this article, the author uses the metaphor of using a tube of toothpaste as a way to teach students about digital citizenship. This metaphor is a great way to explain to students that the paste inside the tube represents the information they share on social media. Once it's out on the web you cannot retract their information. I believe this is a good example of how to teach digital citizenship. The information students and adults share online can be manipulated to use in a way that it was not intended to be used.
According to Hattie (2009), who did a meta-analysis of hundreds of studies, formative assessment is in the Top 10 of effective teacher practices. So, the question becomes “How and when do I do formative assessments to maximize their effectiveness?”
Dr. Robert Dillon shared a variety of ideas and action steps that schools are taking to grow the connectedness of their classrooms. Connected classrooms amplify learning through the use of technology tools, while helping provide students with choice, voice, and an authentic audience, as they showcase their new learning about the interconnectivity of people, place, and planet.
You're probably familiar with Facebook and how it looks. You know Apple, eBay and Yahoo and the way their websites work, but do you remember what these websites looked like years ago? Looking at the changes these websites have gone through gives us an interesting look at how the trends in web design have changed…
Though the Web became publicly available in 1990, the first web search engine didn't arrive until 1993. Up until then, all websites were manually tracked and indexed by people. And while we now recognize Google as the king of web search, Google wasn't even in the game until 1998. During that five-year gap, twenty other…
It's intriguing how easily certain sounds can invoke deep nostalgia. Whether these old tech sounds bring back a longing for the past, or give rise to pent up frustrations and impatience, they're certainly the sounds of a bye-gone era. Over the past few decades, technology has invaded every facet of our lives. This invasion has inevitably…
With digital resources such as eBooks, databases, and lots of amazing online tools, teachers have the opportunity to engage students both inside and outside the classroom like never before. In this edWeb.net webinar, Shannon McClintock Miller showed attendees how to use digital resources to keep young people excited about learning all throughout the year.
Google has updated it's services and what was formally known as Google Take out is now called creating an archive through the "Control Your Content" link in ...
Curious about the flipped movement? Want to explore different Open Educational Resources (OER) to expand your instruction and student learning? In this webinar, presented by the Open Educational Resources in the K-12 Classroom community on edWeb.net, Aubrey Harrison, Instructional Technology Specialist from Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, investigated why everyone is talking about flipping their classrooms.
History is everywhere! It is part of our past, present and future. Attendees learned about a wide variety of web tools and apps that spark excitement in the classroom, and help kids better understand the world around us. Say “goodbye” to mindless worksheets and “hello” to engaged students who cannot wait to get to class.
In 2013, Panama-Buena Vista Unified School District's new superintendent made a bold declaration: "We're going 1-to-1. And we're going big with 6,000 laptops to be distributed to students." Once the laptops were purchased
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