Month: July 2011
Weekend Website #53: 41 Websites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom
This list has a little bit of everything, and will kick-start your effort to put technology into your lesson plans:
- 10 Tech Alternatives to Book Reports
- Analyze, read, write literature
- Animations, assessments, charts, more
- Biomes/Habitats—for teachers
- Create a magazine cover
- Create free activities and diagrams in a Flash! (more…)
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Weekend Website #52: 7 Sites About Coin Counting
Second graders (sometimes first graders) learn about money. The only way to really ‘get it’ is by repetition, so I came up with a list of websites to provide redundancy for each type of learner. Thought I’d share them with you (check here for link updates):
Do you have any to add to this list? These are mostly for youngers–I’d love some for older age groups. (more…)
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ISTE Debrief: Don’t Hide the Internet from Today’s Kids
If you didn’t make it to ISTE 2011, you missed a great time. There was more going on than any sane person could absorb in a month and all 30,000+ of us attendees tried to do it in four days. The seminars cover every topic from tech integration to how to use specific programs to general trends. I tried to attend a few of each to not only learn new material but to make sure what I’m teaching is as relevant this year as when I first taught it to my classes.
Here are some of my thoughts:
- Teachers are not lecturers. We are guides, even fellow-learners
- Students learn by doing more than being taught. Encourage this
- There are a lot of ‘right’ ways to learn
- Students are problem-solvers. Let this happen
- Technology is about offering options in learning styles
- Technology offers different ways to teach different learners. Use it that way.
- Work beyond the classroom because class is too short, kids aren’t engaged the entire five hours
- Paperless classroom is possible. Figure it out.
- Virtual presentations so kids hear from the experts in real time (more…)