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Heart will matter more than head as we move forward in the digital age.
- In a world of online distractions, the person who can maintain a long obedience toward a single goal, and who can filter out what is irrelevant to that goal, will obviously have enormous worth.
- Unable to compete when it comes to calculation, the best workers will come with heart in hand
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This site is full of lesson plans, interactives, and professional development for teachers of all grades and disciplines.
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Science resources for IPS.
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When in Time is a timeline web application.
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- "You need to insert four comments on your partner's doc -- two things that are working well and two questions that will help the author to improve the piece."
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- Four things that are working well
- Three specific ideas for improvement
- Two specific questions for the author
- One source that you recommend for the author
- At the elementary level when students are providing feedback with one another, I like to use “Two Stars and a Wish”.
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Friday, February 14, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/15/2014
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/19/2013
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- Consider this if your are a GAFE school.
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For the tech challenged.
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Extensive American history video archive.
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- YouTube is really special because it is a searchable video library where videos are immediately sharable to anyone in the world.
- YouTube is important because it is social.
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Summary of a study on causal relationship between visiting an art museum and having greater appreciation for the human condition.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/07/2013
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Good explanation of Easel.ly with warning that it does not work on Chrome.
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Based on the terms of service and privacy policies of the these five sites, I would recommend Infogr.am and easel.ly for teachers with students under 13.
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How to use Twitter to help build your learning network. This is a great article for helping teachers understand how to use Twitter for PD.
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/06/2013
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- From the students, integration demands creativity, problem-solving, perseverance, collaboration and the ability to work through the rigorous demands of multiple ideas and concepts woven together to create a final product. Integration is not simply combining two or more contents together
- By weaving the arts into and through our content in naturally aligned ways, we are providing relevance to student learning, and giving them an opportunity to connect their world to our classrooms
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- The keys to using Arts Integration successfully are:
- Collaboration between arts and classroom teachers to find naturally-aligned objectives
- Using an arts area in which the classroom teacher is comfortable (for many, this starts with visual arts)
- Creating a lesson that truly teaches to both standards
- Assessing both areas equitably
- Sample Arts Integration Lesson Seeds
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Transforming student learning through tech. Substitution, augmentation, modification, redefinition.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Google Cultural Institute
The Google Cultural Institute is an amazing collection of images and documents curated by leading institutions around the world. The have partnered with Google to help bring these amazing works, some of which never see the light of day in their own facilities, to a global audience. Whether you teach history, art or math, there is something in here for everyone. The two videos below give an introduction to the online institute.
The first video will make you want to use the site.
This second video explains some of the wonderful offerings put forth by the Google Cultural Institute.
The first video will make you want to use the site.
This second video explains some of the wonderful offerings put forth by the Google Cultural Institute.
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