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How to think about making especially in terms of a library.
- A Makerspace is not a one-size-fits-all kind of space.
- What are teachers already doing? What is already there, and how can we add to and augment it?
- Makerspaces in schools should connect to student’s authentic interests, or the experiences children have had.
- When students have to spend all their time fulfilling an external agenda, they don’t have a chance to learn how to create their own agenda. Teaching kids only what adults think they need to know can take up all the time kids need to explore what it is that they care about.
- But in the process of following their own interests, they’re going to develop a lot of other skills.
- School does some things well, but what I love about the library is that when I enter, I set the agenda.
- I am excited about Making in schools — it can be really great. But if the agenda for what needs to be Made is coming from outside the Maker, then that could be problematic.
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Lots of great math resources.
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Lots of math resources here.
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- Educators, Perkins says, need to embrace these same insights. They need to start asking themselves what he considers to be one of the most important questions in education: What's worth learning in school?
- These days, he says we teach a lot that isn’t going to matter, in a significant way, in students’ lives. There’s also much we aren’t teaching that would be a better return on investment. As a result, as educators, “we have a somewhat quiet crisis of content,” Perkins writes, “quiet not for utter lack of voices but because other concerns in education tend to muffle them.” These other concerns are what he calls rival learning agendas: information, achievement, and expertise.
- The information in textbooks is not necessarily what you need or would like to have at your fingertips.” Instead, even though most people would say that education should prepare you for life, much of what is offered in schools doesn’t work in that direction, Perkins says. Educators are “fixated” on building up students’ reservoirs of knowledge, often because we default to what has always been done.
- “Conventional curriculum is chained to the bicycle rack,” he says. “It sits solidly in the minds of parents: ‘I learned that. Why aren’t my children learning it?’
- Curriculum suffers from something of a crowded garage effect: It generally seems safer and easier to keep the old bicycle around than to throw it out.”
- Just as educators are pushing students to build a huge reservoir of knowledge, they are also focused on having students master material, sometimes at the expense of relevance.
- Unfortunately, if someone questions whether this expertise serves students well and instead suggests more life-relevant topics, Perkins says the common reaction is: “We’re sacrificing rigor!”
- Instead of building during the first 12 years of schooling toward expertise in an advanced topic like calculus that hardly ever comes up in our lives, Perkins says students can instead become “expert amateurs” in something like statistics — a rigorous topic that is also used in daily life. In fact, expert amateurism works great, he says, in most of what we do in our lives
- There’s no list of 1,000 things we must know or teach. Perkins says there would be no way to create a definitive list because there are lots of things worth learning at any given time or for a specialized career or even simply because we enjoy learning.
- “The fixation on the heap of information in the textbooks is itself part of the problem because the world we are educating learners for is something of a moving target,” he says.
- With high-stakes testing, he says, there’s a fixation on “summative” versus “formative” assessment — evaluating students’ mastery of material with exams and final projects (achievements) versus providing ongoing feedback that can improve learning.
- Perkins says he’s not surprised that so many people have trouble naming things they learned early on that still have meaning today or that disengaged students are raising their hands, asking why they need to know something.
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Teens and Technology 2013 Report
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 01/29/2015
Friday, June 20, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/28/2014
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Use this tool to create a lesson plan in a creative manner than can be easily understood by other teachers.
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This article offers up suggestions on how to use Evernote, Three Ring, Google Sites, and Kidblog to create digital portfolios.
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- Did I refer to the class as our class or my class?
- 8. If our class were a company, would it be out-of-business now?
- 9. Did students create and experience a great class or simply take a class and get credit?
- 15. Did I take advantage of spontaneous learning opportunities when students’ interests had obviously shifted, or did I maintain an inflexible mindset and vow to never deviate from an archaic lesson plan?
- 17. Was our class set up to promote creativity and collaboration or memorization and silence?
- 19. Were 21st Century skills embedded within daily assignments?
- 22. Did I gain professional wisdom by speaking to my collegial mentor?
- 24. Was the technology in my classroom used in an authentic manner? (Shannon Reed)
- 25. Did I avoid professional negativity by declining to gossip at work?
- 26. Did I manage my stress level by enjoying time with my family and friends, by exercising several times a week, by zoning out while engaged in a hobby, and by simply chilling out every once in a while?
- 28. Did I laugh often with students and colleagues?
- 31. Did I allow students to co-write their own project-based, learning contracts?
- 34. How many colleagues did I observe in-action in their classrooms this past school year?
- did I remember the names of all co-workers?
- 39. How balanced were the assignments this year in terms of requiring creativity, practical thinking, and analysis? (Adam Johnson)
- 40. Did I participate in a professional learning community outside of my school via Twitter?
- 46. Did I consistently blog as a form of professional self-reflection?
- 47. Am I a stronger teacher today than when I first stepped into the classroom at the beginning of the school year?
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This article provides three good tech tools for teachers who want to try a back channel chat and nearly a half dozen ideas for incorporating this type of technology into the curriculum. There are even suggestions for how to use it with students as young as 6 years old.
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- Diigo provides a free, efficient, effective and reliable way to save and organize your favorite websites, online articles, blog posts, images and other media found online.
- Diigo provides a lists feature that allows you to share carefully selected bookmarked websites with your students.
- Adding bookmarks to lists is easy. When you save the bookmark, you are able to allocate it to any list you have already created, or create a new list as you go.
- Diigo has tools that encourage students to collaborate with others to analyze, critique, and evaluate websites.
- Diigo provides opportunities for students to apply higher level thinking skills while researching and gathering information.
- Diigo allows you to gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the internet.
- Use Diigo to provide visual access to websites you have collected using the built-in program ‘webslides’.
- Use Diigo’s advanced tools to link its power to blogs and RSS. Lists of similar websites that you have created can easily be posted onto a blog by using the ‘post to blog’ button.
- Use Diigo tools to enhance professional reading and save time creating summaries of online posts.
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- Access your information from any computer, or even your iPhone or iPad!
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/18/2014
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A quick visual on how to read a tweet.
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Type in a URL and see how it relates to other sites.
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Professional development courses that span all subjects and grade levels. Courses range from 1.5 hours to 45 hours.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/17/2014
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Flip teaching that matches with math standards.
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This is a PDF of iPad apps by subject and grade level.
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Good presentation on how 21st Century Learning is reflected in tech tools.
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21 Day Challenge to jumpstart learning of Google.
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Digital portfolio defense
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Interesting tool for creating lesson plans, presentations and projects.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/20/2014
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An approach to organizing research that's an alternative to note cards.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/18/2014
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Math tutorial channels.
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Good for American history and modern world history as well as Western Civ.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/12/2014
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Good language in here for writing rubrics.
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Sparticl is a new web and mobile service for teens, a collection of the very best the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM.
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How to use Kodable in class.
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Using crafts with younger students to inspire them to learn coding.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/15/2014
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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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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/13/2014
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- Created in 1971 by psychologist Elliot Aronson (1) to defuse his volatile fifth grade classroom, the jigsaw method (2) has a long track record of successfully reducing classroom conflict and increasing positive educational outcomes. As an empathy builder, it also opens doors of opportunity.
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This tool has multi templates that can aid you in creating a rubric with minimal effort.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 01/18/2014
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Great way to spark a conversation! Good for advisory.
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Support for teachers who use GeoGebra.
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Able to build interactive worksheets.
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- Angela Duckworth (1), an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, studied (among others) the performance of West Point cadets during basic training. She discovered that the most powerful predictor of success -- acceptance into the academy -- was grit. Duckworth calls grit "the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals."
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/18/2013
- College papers: Students hate writing them. Professors hate grading them. Let’s stop assigning them.
- Hilarious article on why assigning papers might be more of a punishment for teachers than for students.
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Reasons to build a PLN.
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For when you need a laugh.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/14/2013
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Short video lessons in here that explore the modern era as well as history. Good for STEM, language arts and social studies.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/13/2013
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Article from the Gates Foundation.
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A catalog of game based learning resources.
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MakerBot Academy Math Manipulative Challenge
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Op-ed on how workers will need to be complements to computers.
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Learn Google Drive workflow management in my webinar series How to Use Google Drive In School – January 2014 http://t.co/d43mNkOaps
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/12/2013
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Options for teachers looking for relevant classroom YouTube videos.
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Great article on differentiation.
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Top math blogger in US.
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Great math resources for MS math teachers. Coincidentally put together by MS math teacher.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Educational Resources and Tech Tools 12/05/2013
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Great videos for explaining abstract concepts with tangible drawings.
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Free math resources with some decent looking lessons that can be sorted by grade level or concept.
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Create interactive visuals for class projects.
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