Sunday, November 29, 2015

Flipped Learning: Using online video to transform learning :: Nesta


Digital technology is allowing teachers and learners to explore new approaches to traditional school lessons. The growing availability of online instructional videos creates the opportunity to move the learning of new content to outside of the classroom, freeing up class time for teachers to coach, and students to actively work on developing their own understanding.

Nesta and NFER carried out a study to explore how this approach can work in secondary maths classrooms across the UK, and how teachers use it to change the approaches to learning students take. We saw teachers use the approach to encourage students to take active responsibility for their learning, and for some to use it to accelerate their learning.

This project has produced a research report delving into the effects of Flipped Learning and the conditions needed for success. For those focused on classroom practice, we have also created a research-based practitioner guide to the approach, and a specific how-to guide for using resources from the Khan Academy and linking them to the UK curricula

 

Jim Lerman's insight: Three practical guides to implementing the Flipped Classroom model in secondary level math education. The setting is schools in the U.K., with a particular emphasis on Khan Academy videos -- however, much of the material is generalizable. Be sure to look at each of the 3 different guides.



Saturday, November 28, 2015

60 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know


60 Things Students Can Create To Demonstrate What They Know



12 Unexpected Ways to Use LEGO in the Classroom | Edudemic


The idea that students can learn something valuable from play isn't new, or even controversial. A sizeable body of research has been conducted to back up what many teachers already knew to be true.  Fun and learning don't have to be mutually exclusive, and it really works better for everyone involved when they're not.

As such, making LEGO Bricks part of your lesson plan can help you teach concepts that students might otherwise find tedious, in a way that doesn't feel like work to them. Many educators have already been putting this idea to the test with success. Here are a few ideas to get you started.


Friday, November 27, 2015

How to Keep up with all the Constant Changes in Technology


Classroom teachers and technology innovation has been a hot topic for many, many years. It doesn't have to be stressful trying to learn something new. Approaching new technology with a plan in place will help you to become a master at technology in the classroom and will reduce the stress that naturally comes with trying to learn new technology.



Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Snip - Show and Tell (Create Videos in 60 Seconds)




Personalized Learning and SEL: Why Meeting Students Where They Are Matters


Now study after study is showing that social-emotional-learning (SEL) skills, such as empathy, self-regulation, and cooperation, may be even more valuable for students' short- and long-term success than academic content knowledge.



The Future Belongs to the Curious: How Are We Bringing Curiosity Into School?


The only rational answer to the conundrum of curiosity is to disengage our educational system from standardized testing and common curricula. Curiosity does not hold up well under intense expectation. Give agency to teachers, with the explicit message to slow down and provide students time to wonder and be curious.

 



Friday, November 20, 2015

Top 20 Udemy Courses: Amazing Black Friday Deals | Best Online Courses


Whether your interest is in becoming a writer with a bestseller on Kindle, or in getting PMP® certification, or in becoming a startup founder, there's a course for you at Udemy. And the best thing is that they are on offer right now. Black Friday Deals are available from now until November 27!

 


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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Creating illustrations and infographics for ELT tasks


Draw.io is one of my favourite tools and the one I use most for creating graphics and infographics. As someone who doesn't draw very well and has only limited design abilities it has really helped me out a number of times and enabled me to produce professional looking illustrations, product mockups and teaching materials.



Friday, November 13, 2015

What the Heck is a Porous Liquid?


Scientists at the Queen's University Belfast have just invented the world's first "porous liquid," and it's being hailed as a major breakthrough. But what on Earth is it?


Thursday, November 12, 2015

How To Make The Best Of Your Studies At College


College may be a time for many new experiences, but it's also a time for serious learning. In order to pass your college courses, you need to be focused, do your work, and study. The following tips will help you to make the best of your studies at college and lead you to good grades.

 


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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

2015 Inspire Learning - by Stephen Downes


Short (12 minute) presentation on the idea of learning as being based on immersive practice, how this informed the design of our original MOOCs, and how this a…


Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Bitsbox Giving Teachers Free Coding Kits for CSED Week (Edtech Opportunity) via @EdSurge


Bitsbox is donating completely free coding kits to teachers for Computer Science Education Week (December 7th-13th). Each kit is enough for thirty students, and they come with a teacher's guide to help run an Hour of Code.



19 Mind-Blowing Tricks Every iPhone And iPad User Should Know


You spend like half of your life on that thing. Time to figure out what it really does.


Dream Learners Kids Stories - a magical educational story for every child in your family on the App Store


Dream Learners' cross-curricular immersive story experience provides an entertaining and effective learning solution for children and parents to enjoy together. Created by teachers in association with child development expert Professor Robert Winston.

To maximise learning retention, the Dream Leaners app is best used during the 90 minutes before sleep. Try the first story in the series, Raptastic, for free!


Monday, November 2, 2015

Coding for the Common Core: 15 iPad Coding Apps for K-5+ — Emerging Education Technologies


Yesterday we published the article, "Coding for the Common Core – Apps for Integrating Coding With Math and ELA", in which we shared numerous programmable robots and insights and lesson plans that offer ideas for how they can be used on classrooms teaching various subjects.

Today, we share 15 different iPad apps (many of them are free!) that can help teach coding skills while reinforcing related skills like mathematics, logic, reading, and more! These apps are geared toward students of elementary through middle schools ages.



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