Host: Amy Erin Borovoy, coordinating producer, Edutopia video.
Presenters: Nichole Pinkard, Founder, Digital Youth Network and director of Innovation, University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute and Vicki Davis, Teacher, blogger, and IT director at Westwood Schools
Today's students use digital media in ways hardly imaginable just a few years ago, revolutionizing how kids create, collaborate, and teach one another. Join us for a stimulating discussion with innovative educators, parents, and students from the Digital Generation Project as they share practical tools and strategies for engaging the digital learner.
New Media Consortium 2016 conference: my keynoteBryan Alexander
Slides for my NMC 2016 conference closing keynote.
I wanted to do two things here:
1) Really go presentation Zen
2) Focus on technology and its possibilities over the next two generations
New Media Consortium 2016 conference: my keynoteBryan Alexander
Slides for my NMC 2016 conference closing keynote.
I wanted to do two things here:
1) Really go presentation Zen
2) Focus on technology and its possibilities over the next two generations
These are the slides from a session on finding the best, online, free professional development opportunities. The session was presented at FETC in January of 2014.
Tasos Pagkakis
Learning and Education in the Networked society
1st European Summit
“Education on the Cloud”
22-03-2014
http://schoolonthecloud.eu/
LLP Project:
School on the Cloud
Presentee for graduate Foundations of Reading course at Hamline University, March 11, 2009. This presentation is a remix of Kim Cofino's "The 21st Century Learner" [http://www.slideshare.net/mscofino/the-21st-century-learner] with other bits and pieces thrown in. Thanks to Kim for such stunning source material. Also visit her accompanying resource wiki at http://the21stcenturylearner.wikispaces.com/,
These are the slides from a session on finding the best, online, free professional development opportunities. The session was presented at FETC in January of 2014.
Tasos Pagkakis
Learning and Education in the Networked society
1st European Summit
“Education on the Cloud”
22-03-2014
http://schoolonthecloud.eu/
LLP Project:
School on the Cloud
Presentee for graduate Foundations of Reading course at Hamline University, March 11, 2009. This presentation is a remix of Kim Cofino's "The 21st Century Learner" [http://www.slideshare.net/mscofino/the-21st-century-learner] with other bits and pieces thrown in. Thanks to Kim for such stunning source material. Also visit her accompanying resource wiki at http://the21stcenturylearner.wikispaces.com/,
Leadership for Engaging Students Digitally: It's not about the Angry Birds!ewilliams65
How can leaders effectively leverage technology for learning? If we have pockets of best practices, how do we scale up? What specific action steps can leaders take to build a shared vision, facilitate professional learning, provide access 24/7/365, and create polices that support rather than undercut technology use? This file includes numerous links to useful resources.
WOW Presentation-K12 Online ConferencePeggy George
Presentation for WOW AzTEA Conference by Peggy George and Ann Lumm. Slideshow created originally by April Chamberlain, Darren Kuropatwa, Shawn Nutting, Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach, and Wesley Fryer--"Lessons Learned from K-12 Online 2006" and modified slightly for our hands-on workshop. April 28, 2007.
Webinar: How to Build a Global Community OnlineFalcon.io
Alexa, help me build a community, not a following. Since social media usage is up, now is the time to start building that social media empire you've been dreaming of. Online communities build brand awareness, increase leads, and drive conversions. With a clear purpose and the right moderation, these communities can become one of your most powerful marketing channels. In a matter of weeks, COVID-19 forced the last few reluctant marketers to embrace digital transformation. Online and higher education institutions mobilized real quick to foster even stronger online relationships that businesses in almost any industry can learn from. Their ability to adapt to this uncertain and unfamiliar time is why they are now winning the social media community game.
Watch full webinar here: https://www.falcon.io/webinars/global-community/
Gifted Education Advocacy, Networking, & PD... 21st Century Style acoleman
Presented by Dr. April Coleman, Assistant Professor of Education, at Mississippi University for Women's 20th Annual Teachers of the Gifted Instructional Forum (T.G.I.F.) 2014
Similar to June 4, 2009 Edutopia webinar: "Engaging the Digital Generation: Insights from Kids, Teachers, and Parents" (20)
How to Create a Twitter-Driven School CultureEdutopia
Many educators use Twitter for professional development but can it also be used to create a strong school culture? In this interactive session, you'll hear from schools that have successfully used Twitter to increase collaboration and transparency. We'll show you how to get started.
20 Inspiring Reasons Why You Love to TeachEdutopia
We were so inspired by our audience's responses to a quote on Edutopia's Facebook page, we collected twenty of our favorites as a reminder for why teaching is such an amazing and worthwhile profession.
Dos and Don'ts of Classroom Management: Your 25 Best TipsEdutopia
Classroom management is a delicate balancing act often learned through experience and trial-and-error experimentation. Whether you're a new or experienced teacher, having strategies for effective classroom management is essential for creating positive, successful learning spaces (and staying sane!). In this guide you’ll find 25 tips for managing your classroom.
37 Ways to Help Kids Learn to Love ReadingEdutopia
A love of reading doesn't happen automatically. It needs to be nurtured and guided until it flourishes into a well-read, well-rounded human being.
That's why we put together a presentation of some of our favorite ways to help kids learn to love reading, gathered from the contributions of Edutopia's educators and parents.
25 Attention Grabbing Tips for the ClassroomEdutopia
Whether you're a new or experienced teacher, strategies for getting student attention are an important part of your classroom-management toolkit. In this presentation you’ll find 25 tips for quieting a noisy class.
19 Proven Tips for Getting Parents Involved at SchoolEdutopia
Experts agree that parent involvement in their children's education is one of the biggest predictors of student success. This guide offers 19 proven strategies for increasing family engagement and strengthening the home-to-school connection. These recommendations were contributed by the educators and parents of the two great communities at Edutopia.org and GreatSchools.org.
32 Strategies for Building a Positive Learning EnvironmentEdutopia
These tips were contributed by the educators and parents of Edutopia’s community in response to our Start the Year Strong Sweepstakes. There were many amazing entries, and it was a challenge narrowing them down to these 32.
Teacher Tested Strategies for Differentiated InstructionEdutopia
Most educators agree that differentiated instruction can dramatically help students to succeed, but good differentiation needs careful planning to make sure students of all abilities are engaged and it can be a challenge when teachers are already so pressed for time.
That's why we searched the Edutopia community for tips and strategies that can help with differentiating instruction.
Edutopia Webinar: Social and Emotional Learning: Making a Case in an NCLB WorldEdutopia
Reading, writing, and arithmetic are important -- there's no doubt of that. But it takes more than those basic academic skills for students to grow into happy, successful adults.
As educators know well, children also need to learn self-esteem, self-discipline, and strong communication skills in order to succeed in school and life. But it's easy for those essential lessons to get lost in the race to raise standardized test scores.
In this session, two pioneering educators and a national education leader explain why social and emotional skills deserve time and attention -- SEL has been shown to raise test scores -- and how they provide it effectively in their schools.
Host: Grace Rubenstein, senior producer, Edutopia
Presenters: Tim Shriver, Chairman of the CASEL Board of Directors, Sheldon Berman, superintendent, Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky, and Kati Delahanty, English teacher, Charlestown High School, Boston
For more information, including an archive to the webinar, please visit: http://www.edutopia.org/social-and-emotional-learning-webinar-february-2010
December 10, 2009:"Creating a Strong School Culture: Inspiration from Houston...Edutopia
Presenters: Chris Barbic, founder of the YES Prep Public Schools, Mark DiBella, school director at YES Prep North Central, and Mayra Valle, a senior at YES Prep North Central
Target audience: Ideal for teachers and administrators interested in strengthening the culture at their schools
Anyone who has worked in public education knows that school culture can make or break the experience. Great teachers, programs, and practices succeed best only with a culture that supports them. In Houston's YES Prep Public Schools, educators put culture front and center, and it's a major force behind their success. Teachers support each other and constantly seek to help their colleagues improve. They build relationships with students to help them thrive even under the schools' rigorous demands.
The end result: happy teachers, and hundreds of low-income students becoming the first in their families to attend college. There's no magic involved -- just good ideas, dedicated people, and deft execution. In this session, YES Prep leaders explain what they do, how they do it, and how you can put some of these ideas in action at your school, too.
November 17, 2009: "Lessons from Abroad: International Standards and Assessme...Edutopia
Presenter: Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education, Stanford University
Host: Kathryn Baron, features producer and research editor, Edutopia
The world's top-performing school systems are said to be the model for new Common Core standards. Learn about the assessment systems in these countries, and how the results challenge the status quo in the United States.
February 12, 2009 Edutopia webinar: "A New Day for Learning: How to Cultivate...Edutopia
Host: Milton Chen, executive director, The George Lucas Educational Foundation
Presenters: Hillary Salmons, executive director, Providence After School Alliance (PASA), and Karen Dvornich, continuing education coordinator, NatureMapping
Discussion and exploration of A New Day for Learning, which showcases model programs that engage students in the array of learning opportunities inside, and outside of, the classroom. You'll walk away from the webinar with lesson plans, best practices, and tips you can implement in your school, your school district, or your community.
April 9, 2009 Edutopia webinar: "How the Brain Learns Best: Strategies to Mak...Edutopia
Host: Grace Rubenstein, staff writer and multimedia producer, Edutopia
Presenter: Judy Willis, middle school teacher and neurologist and authority on learning-centered brain research and classroom strategies derived from this research
Neuroscience is a complex field that educators don't often turn to for inspiration, but knowing a few basic concepts can help you plan teaching strategies that will prompt your students to be more receptive to learning. Find out how introducing a few simple techniques to your craft -- and increasing some of those you may already employ -- can encourage productive learning and actually change brain chemistry, increasing children's ability to learn (and retain) new skills and information.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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We argue that this moment in time is causing us to rethink literacy in the 21st century as extending beyond reading and writing to include new media literacies. Such a redefinition of literacy will have profound impact on how schools, families and community organizations work together and use the technological tools available to prepare youth for the world of today and tomorrow.
We argue that this moment in time is causing us to rethink literacy in the 21st century as extending beyond reading and writing to include new media literacies. Such a redefinition of literacy will have profound impact on how schools, families and community organizations work together and use the technological tools available to prepare youth for the world of today and tomorrow.
If we look at arguably the best education system in the world, the Finnish teachers pick books and customize lessons as they shape students to national standards. "In most countries, education feels like a car factory. In Finland, the teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of the Paris-based OECD, which began the international student test in 2000. Today we’re going to talk about how to teach today’s students. If you read books like Don Tapscott’s research Grown Up Digital, you’ll see that students like to customize their learning. There are many teachers who are connecting themselves to one another to create unique projects customized to the learning needs of their particular classroom.
I like to call this customization process “teacherpreneurship.” Let’s look at how this happened with the Flat Classroom project, the first project that truly launched my classroom into effective, global project based learning.
the technology misconception. Some people think that if they get an interactive white board and access to amazing tools that somehow that will transform their classroom. This thinking is wrong.
It is not about the technology!! We don’t teach blogging, wikis, podcasting for their sake, but for what they let us do. It is about what Technology lets you DO.
The Power of Technology is that it lets us unlock the potential of our students and create a rich environment where they can all be taught and reached.
My students were studying Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat, and I blogged about what they were saying on their private blogs. Julie Lindsay at the International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh, read the post and emailed me about having our students join together to study the trends like outsourcing and ubiquitous computing AND experience it. What emerged as one global collaboration has turned into
But once they learn the tools, I do not teach these tools again, but use them to instruct students on the CONTENT that I am teaching including computer science and advanced technological trend analysis, which requires higher order thinking. It is so, not about the tools. This leads us to..
Now, as I share what we’re doing, let’s make this a rich, collaborative learning experience – please share what you’re doing as I share about my classroom. In 8 th grade, the students start blogging in a private educational network using the Ning platform. This is a space for my students only and they learn how to be safe, how to embed items in their blog post and copyright as well as proper online behaviorAdditionally, they learn very rudimentary video production skills using their LogiTech Quickcams and Windows Movie maker as well as some about storyboarding.
***This is an istock photo – please replace it with another of your choosing.*** Students always make mistakes when first learning about online behavior, because most of them are self-taught. It is vital to take them in a safe place where they can make mistakes and to know that mistakes WILL Happen. Every single here has a policy equivalent in our student handbook, so when we have problems, we can deal with them properly. If you address the problems early and promptly, then you will not have many problems later. The vital practice here is that every student has their own unique id and password so they can be held accountable!
Now, Ning is only appropriate for upper middle and high school, so for younger students, I like to use think.com which is recommended by my friend Cheryl Oakes in Maine. Elementary schools use private tools (free) tools like think.com to create private spaces for students to network all over the world. Cheryl Oakes from Maine works with this school and tells me she has enjoyed think.com for some time.
In ninth grade, the students add to their abilities and learn to use the wiki – I have a wiki centric classroom and every course has a launch page on the wiki – the Google cal is embedded there. Also, if you paste hyperlinks into the description, the hyperlinks are live as well, but it has many more features as well. Additionally the students become very comfortable with google docs, etc. – but the wiki is essential because it unlocks the door to global collaboration and also the wikipedia model of editorship which is important for them to understand.
In ninth grade they build their personal learning network using an igoogle page and interacting with their cell phone. There is an article on edutopia called Building Your Digital Locker that you can view about how this PLN is constructed and evolves. For me and my students, my RSS reader includes so much more than just learning but life management – most of the things I use on the igoogle page sync with my iTouch (the non-telephone version of the iPhone) to make it easy to manage life!
In eighth grade the students are introduced to rudimentary movie making using the LogiTech Quickcams, Windows Movie Maker, and basic storyboards. Then, in ninth grade, students learn how to create audio files using audacity and more advanced video creation, scripting, and storyboarding using Pinnacle Studio. We use the curriculum from the American Film Institute which is available for free from their website.
So, the phases of flattening your classroom – or connecting your students to other students around the others is a simple progression. First, connect the students within your classroom. Then, connect students between classes within your school or district. This can easily be done at the elementary level in many of the safe sites. Then, you can progress to a managed global connection through a site like iEarn, ePals, or taking IT Global – the teacher is still managing the connection. But eventually, students need to connect and work WITH one another, and this is where most schools stop short. In Phase Four, which is like the Flat Classroom project – students work together but still have their teachers as the leaders. Finally, the highest level of global collaboration can be seen in the Horizon Project and NetGenEd projects where the students are on teams that are led by student project managers! Students literally graduate from high school saying they have managed a multi-national collaborative team!
This year, it was my goal to follow the leadership of educator Peggy Sheehy at Suffern Middle School who now has 6 islands in Second Life. My students and I used a much lower cost alternative called OpenSim and have islands through ReactionGrid – OpenSim can create a virtual world and be installed on a server AT your school – plus, it is FREE. It is still in the beginning phases, but is a great way to build rich learning environments. In the fall, our newest project, Eracism will have students reconstructing the apartment from the Diary of Anne Frank on ReactionGrid. Very exciting.
Several other Projects that now run 3 times a year – Digiteen, studying Digital Citizenshp with middle schoolers and ninth graders and Flat Classroom. IN the spring we run the Horizon Project, which we renamed NetGenEd to work with Don Tapscott and the students study emerging trends in education along with the research on their generation and learning. As a result of these projects,
**This is an istock photo! Because every student learns differently. They are unique and multifaceted and want to customize their learning environment!
In Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, we learn that there are a variety of learning styles. Remember that the more learning styles that you harness, the better students learn – because none of us are all of these styles at once! Now, we’re not going to have time to go through in detail about the various tools we’ve mentioned, but let’s just scroll through two examples I’ve given you today.
The Ning can be used to address all types of learners by allowing multiple modes of expression including: writing, audio files, photography, video, the use of forums, and links to reading assignments, as well as the potential to debate. By giving students assignments and allowing them to complete it in the format that they feel comfortable, you can see what the student truly understands, versus being limited by a student’s ability to express themselves in that medium. Let’s look at another example on an elementary level.
Voicethread is a popular site for elementary students and allows you to post photographs and have students either post a recording or type text as to their responses. Students who do not yet have the ability to express themselves in written format can easily use this site to record their thoughts, or even make an efolio online! When working with technology – focus on what it let’s you do – make sure you’re reaching all of the student learning styles.