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Talking Photos
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- Listen to the Photo Talk Make online learning and instruction exciting by adding voice to your photos in a very simple way. Just upload the photos and record through Talking Photos. What a great way to communicate with others...
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The WebQuest
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- Computers and the Internet are valuable teaching and learning tools. Find out how to engage your students in experiential (hands on) learning activities that promote social skills via teamwork, higher order critical thinking via inquiry ...
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- “Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults’ inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education for children, with or without computers, is the completely imp...
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The Great Forgetting
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- READ THIS!The dawning of the Bad Memory Century will have vast consequences for the social fabric and the international balance of power.David Brooks often irritates me, but this piece in the NY Times today absolutely hits the nail on th...
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- How Do We Promote Higher Level Thinking Today?It’s one thing for educators to teach to tests that offer learners certification that proves they’ve mastered key facts and concepts that panels of experts deem necessary for an &...
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- Some people are just crazy enough to think they can change things. And then do something.Harman Singh, the 30-year old CEO of WiZiQ, is one of those people. Harman believes the most important thing he can do to support education reform a...
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- The Perfect Society: A WebQuest Literature Lesson by Nellie Deutsch Materials Required: Internet access Activity Time: 4-5 hours Concepts Taught: Utopia, WebQuest,The Giver,a perfect community Pre-lesson activities The Perfect S...
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- ARTICLE I—What Education Is %{font-family:verdana}I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race. This process begins unconsciously almost at birth, and is co...
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- ARTICLE II—What the School Is I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will...
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- ARTICLE III—The Subject-Matter of Education I believe that the social life of the child is the basis of concentration, or correlation, in all his training or growth. The social life gives the unconscious unity and the background...
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- ARTICLE V-The School and Social Progress I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform. I believe that all reforms which rest simply upon the enactment of law, or the threatening of certain penalt...
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- ARTICLE IV—The Nature of Method I believe that the question of method is ultimately reducible to the question of the order of development of the child’s powers and interests. The law for presenting and treating material is...
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Education 2.0 Trends
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- Earlier this year, the New Media Consortium and the Educase Learning Initiative released The New Horizon Report, outlining which current and burgeoning technologies they feel will “impact education over the next five years.“The report in...
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- The ManyVoices project, started by Washington D.C. Middle School teacher Mr. Mayo (http://mrmayo.org), is a collaborative story being written by 140 different middle school students across the globe using Twitter. This...
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Digital Geography
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- Digital Geography is an UK-based website for teachers focused on using ICT and social software resources in the geography curriculum. Noel Jenkins, the brains behind Digital Geography, uses Google Earth and Flickr, along with his own ...
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- Here are some of the latest and greatest Flickr hacks created by members of the Flickr community for you to try in your classroom Delivr: “Digital postcards for the people by the people…just select an image from the mos...
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- If the whole idea of intellectual property and fair use makes your head hurt, join the club.It makes my head hurt, too. I want to get credit for the ideas I contribute to the global conversation and I know my friends want the same. I als...
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- FIND, USE, SHARE, and EXPANDIt’s been awhile since Steve Johnson described the FUSE process but I’m noticing that some people haven’t heard the term… or thought as carefully about it as might be useful.It seems to...
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- photo credit: e-magicOkay… You asked. I listened. I’ve setup another LIVE Session for this course on Wednesday, July 9, at 1:00 pm PDT. Many of the people participating in this course and others here at LearnHub are te...
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- KindergartenGeneralBecome accustomed to playing with others Have funFollow play without being with the ball (advancing beyond the “swarm”)Only rule: ball out of bounds – ball goes over any of the field’s boundaries (end ...
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- What is Pixton?Simply stated, Pixton is a social community where anyone can easily create, share, remix and publish their comic strip stories with people around the globe. If you find a great comic in French, you can instantly translate ...
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Flickr in the K-12 Classroom
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- In the past, students would cut pictures out of National Geographic, Life and other magazines to illustrate reports. Now thanks to Flickr, students and teachers have the ability to search a vast and growing photo archive, using tags, or ...
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What is a WebQuest?
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- A WebQuest is an inquiry-based activity in which the information comes from resources on the Internet (Dodge, 1995). The WebQuest consists of at least 6 major parts; introduction, task, process, resources, evaluation, and conclusion. Stu...
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SchülerInnen als KünstlerInnen / Students as artists
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- ... makes a difference to artlessons. Anzunehmen SchülerInnen seien KünstlerInnen, macht einen Unterschied, der einen Unterschied für den Kunstunterricht macht.
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Wikis in Plain English
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- Ingenious video, that definitly explains Wikis! Made by CC Common Craft (“Our product is explanation”). My favorite at the moment …
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Circus!
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- Diashow des Zirkusprojektes der Gesamtschule Espenstraße (mit Musik) Jedes Jahr kommt für eine Woche der Zirkus in unsere Schule. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der 5. und 6. Klassen trainieren in dieser Woche mit ihren LehrerInnen und den...
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Yahoo! Tools for Teachers
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- Yahoo! has a suite of services educators can use to support teaching and learning in the 21st century classroom.
