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Showing posts with label articles. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Beginner's Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips

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The Beginner's Guide to Interactive Virtual Field Trips

Resources Found on this Article
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E-Field Trips
www.efieldtrips.org
This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the Trip Journal, theVirtual Visit (a streaming video), an Ask the Expert tool, and a hosted Web chat.

Access Excellence Resource Center
www.accessexcellence.org/RC/virtual.php
This site lists a collection of mainly scienceand health-related VFTs and online labs.

Gail Lovely’s site
www.gaillovely.com/VirtualFieldTrips.htm
Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, “interactive environments,”
travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Cover Story

This article is the cover story from this month's edition of the .


Rub•ber Room (noun) A confining mindset where thoughts and possibilities bounce around but never turn into action. At whatever level you teach, K-12 or college, the continual cliché to “Have a positive attitude” is intended to keep you inspired and refreshed in the classroom. Drawing from hilarious or serious lessons as a teacher and former student, this article digs down below that cliché with examples of what makes us tick as people, so we can in turn be better teachers. It is an exploration and celebration of our childhood motivations, passion to teach, and the special quality that fires us up to walk into a classroom each day.


Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Go Paperless

This article is from the December2009-January2010 Edition of ISTE'S Learning and Leading

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Book Reports in the 21st Century

This is an article written by Kelly Tenkely, author of the iLearn Technology Blog and writer for the Apple.com website.

I remember as a student how I had to write book reports through all my school year. I wish I had some of the tools and alternatives this article has for me to have more fun with it.



Friday, October 30, 2009

Grounded Tech Integration/ Technologies for Teaching Mathematics

This is a piece from the November's edition of Learning Leading with Technology, ISTES' s member magazine.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Education.com



Resource shared by the incredible Mr. Byrne from the Free Technology 4 Teachers Blog

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Education.com provides parents, teachers and students free access to information and resources. Have free access to thousands of articles. You can print hundreds of activities — sorted by grade level and topic — to help make learning at home more fun.

"Education.com has reproducible worksheets designed for preschool through fifth grade students. The worksheets can be searched by grade level or by topic. Each worksheet is available in pdf format for free" Mr.Byrne.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Article to Read

Create,Calloborate,Communicate: Empowering Students With 21st Century Skills



Chris Riedel, "Create, Collaborate, Communicate: Empowering Students With 21st Century Skills," T.H.E. Journal, 1/27/2009, http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23872

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools

The contents of this 2008/9 Schools Wikipedia has been organised by subject along the lines of subjects in the UK curriculum. There are 5500 articles, some of which have been listed under several subjects. Topics were chosen for interest to children, by relevance to the National Curriculum and including much of the very best of Wikipedia.

This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).


Thursday, October 2, 2008

What is it about?

If “It’s not about the technology,” then What is it about? by David Warlick


This is the headline of David Warlick's September 24th post on his 2Cents Blog. It got me thinking that its all about preparing our students to face the world we are at. It's all about giving them the tools to build a better future.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Nuevas Tecnologías Aplicadas a Educación

Este articulo fue escrito por Ana Maria Sanchez de Argentina. El mismo describe como las nuevas tecnologias estan siendo aplicadas en la educación. Agradesco que me haya permitido copiar y publicar dicho articulo en el blog.
Desde distintas corrientes teóricas, se establece que la función de la escuela debe ser la preparación de las nuevas generaciones para su incorporación en el mundo del trabajo. Ahora en este marco de estas problemáticas, una manera de dar respuesta a las exigencias del mundo productivo y garantizar a toda la población un mínimo de conocimientos de índole tecnológica, consiste en ir incluyendo como contenidos de la educación obligatoria algunos aspectos que refieren al conocimiento y el uso de nuevas tecnologías de la información. A partir de la reforma del sistema educativo se incorpora como contenido básico común el aprendizaje a NTICS de la información, en particular los procedimientos básicos de uso de la computadora, promoviendo su uso como medio de enseñanza y de aprendizaje en cada una de las áreas o asignaturas escolares.
Como bien afirma E. Litwin: la solución no consiste, en disponer de un técnico medianamente capacitado a cargo del área de informática y del dictado de clases de computación, sino en la capacitación de todo el personal escolar.De lo contrario la autora plantea esta hipótesis: ¿cómo se puede enseñar a los alumnos/as a valorar los aportes de las NTICS de la información o promover la utilización de las mismas como medios facilitadores del procesamiento, almacenamiento y la transmisión de la información, si el personal docente y no docente de la escuela continúa ejecutando los registros y archivos técnicos-pedagógicos, administrativos en forma manual??
“Los educadores, en cualquier etapa de su carrera, tienen la responsabilidad de influir en los docentes recién iniciados para que traigan ideas y energías nuevas a la profesión, y para que eviten sucumbir a la tentación de la rutina; para que los docentes en la mitad de su carrera salgan de su depresión; y los experimentados transmitan sabiduría en lugar de descreimiento:” M. Fullan y A. Hargreaves-“La escuela que queremos”-“Los objetivos por los cuales vale la pena luchar”-Edit.Amorrortu Madrid2006
La actividad como unidad de análisis determina una singularidad metodológica que se practica en el aula, un método se caracteriza por las tareas o actividades dominantes que propone a profesores y alumnos. Las tareas mediatizan, expresan el estilo de los profesores y articulan sus competencias profesionales, una serie de tareas apelan a la interacción de los planteamientos didácticos y curriculares con los aspectos organizativos del sistema escolar. Las tareas resultan viables dentro de un modelo de organización escolar y de un tipo de aula determinada, tienen un significado personal y social complejo, por su contenido, por las pautas de comportamiento que exige, por las relaciones sociales que fomenta, por los valores ocultos en la misma, etc. Deduciendo entonces que la estructura de tareas para concretar el currículum sea, al mismo tiempo, una estructura de socialización más amplia de los sujetos, tanto de los alumnos como de los profesores. Modificando las tareas se cambian microambientes de aprendizaje y las experiencias posibles dentro de los mismos, por esto resulta interesante poder analizar la estructura de la práctica, teniendo en cuenta en las condiciones que se desarrolla, fundamentando la posición de que un currículum en la realidad no puede entenderse al margen de las condiciones en las que se desarrolla, por lo que resulta prioritario analizarlo plasmado en actividades prácticas.
En mi opinión, el aspecto más crítico a tener en cuenta en una propuesta didáctica, es la falta de estrategias de enseñanza que contemplen aspectos tecnológicos como recursos educativos y la descontextualización de los contenidos con el entorno socio cultural del momento.Contextualizar contenidos y promover el uso de Nuevas Tecnologías resulta prioritario comenzar a implementarlo en distintas área curriculares. Estas situaciones resultan motivantes en el alumnado, propiciando actividades más innovadoras adecuadas a la era digital y al contexto socio cultural de los jóvenes.El uso de celulares como recurso educativo, la digitalización de producciones realizadas por los alumnos, el ordenador, sofwares informáticos, documentar proyectos realizados por los alumnos y publicarlos en Blogs o páginas Web, jerarquizan sus producciones, motivándolos a ir aumentando el grado de complejidad en sus actividades. Por ello es necesario la capacitación de docentes en informática (como bien afirma E. Lipwin) para que las NTICS puedan ser utilizadas en todas las áreas curriculares, y no tan solo en la sala de informática.Les dejo el acceso directo a la página Web de Ntra. Sra. de Luján (Lomas de Zamora), encontrarán algunas estrategias de enseñanza utilizadas, a fin de ir incorporando gradualmente las NTICS.http://secundarialujan.webs.com/
BibliografíaEdith Litwin- “Tecnología Educativa-Política, historias, propuestas:”-
Edit-Paidós Bs As 1995“Estrategias de Enseñanza” –
Rosa Rottemberg/Rebecca Anijovich- Carpeta de Trabajo UVQ-“La relación entre contenidos y estrategias de enseñanza”
M. Fullan y A. Hargreaves-“La escuela que queremos”-“Los objetivos por los cuales vale la pena luchar”-
Edit.Amorrortu Madrid- 2006Ana M. SánchezProf. Artes VisualesEst. Licenciatura Educación-UVQ

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs!

This is an article review by
Patricia McGee and Veronica Diaz for EDUCASE.
2007 September-October Edition



Monday, April 21, 2008

Becoming a Better Teacher

I follow a long list of educational bloggers that are just wonderful writers and their blogs are very inspiring too me since I am not a writer myself. I am more a seeker than a writer.

Darren Draper a Technology Curriculum Specialist has posted on his blog a page from the Book "Leadership for Learning: How to Help Teachers Succeed" by Carl Glickman.




I think this is what every teacher should ask themselves.




Thursday, January 3, 2008

Teacher New Year's Resolutions

  • Resolve to accept that bad days will happen and that sometimes activities and lessons won't go well. You are not a perfect teacher and never will be, and that's fine.
  • Remember what it was like to be a student. Keep this in mind on days when you feel like ringing their necks.
  • At the same time, resolve to never let your students push you around. Ever. You're in charge. When they try to push the boundaries, let them know the boundaries don't budge.
  • Resolve to say something nice to each of your students at least once a week, if not more.
  • Resolve not to let students fall through the cracks. If someone is having problems, make an effort to do all you can do to help.
  • At the same time, recognize that teaching is a two-way street. Let yourself accept that after a certain point, you've done all you can, and it's the student's' responsibility to get motivated and get it together.
  • Don't compare yourself to other teachers. You can learn from them, but don't beat yourself up if you're not as charismatic or creative or well-liked as that guy down the hall. Just do the best as you can and play upon your own strengths.
  • Make an effort to read up on current events, even though you're busy. Incorporate current events into your classroom.
  • Resolve to grade papers and exams more quickly .
  • Don't forget to take care of yourself. Eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep.
  • Resolve to try new things in your classroom. Be creative, and read up in interesting activities. Look for new ways to present material. If some of these things don't go well, don't worry about it. Keep trying.
  • Stop worrying about whether your students like you. You're not there to be their friend.
  • Put a little time into your own continuing education. Read at least one article every month about teaching methods, and read at least one article a month about your area of study.
  • Resolve to leave the classroom behind at the end of the day. Yeah, you may have papers to grade, but you don't have to go home with the frustrations of a bad day. Let yourself be someone other than the teacher when you go home.
  • Play hookie at least once a semester. Do something nice for yourself, like sleeping late or going to a movie.
  • Get to know your fellow teachers better. Give them an opportunity to vent about their classroom problems with you. Offer help if you can. Be the teacher who brings in birthday cards for all the other teachers to sign. Resolve to invite teachers out for coffee. Don't talk about them behind their backs. You're all in this together.
  • Try to keep your desk neater. Clean up at least once a week. Improve your file system..
  • Stop beating yourself because you think you don't look as good as your students. They're younger than you, and besides, you look great the way you are.
  • Incorporate some kind of service learning into your classroom.
  • Don't let idiotic policies get you down. If you can't change it, live with it and ignore it as much as possible.

© Naomi Rockler-Gladen