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Use Humor to Inspire Learning
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss Often, you will see me include pictures of my pug in my webinars, keynotes, or profile pictures. I had few people question if this is professional. When I conduct classes- online and offline- Read full article »
Teach Them Kindness
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. - Bob Kerrey Teaching citizenship isn't an additional part of the curriculum. A good lesson plan or project will get students to learn how to be kind, generous, problem-solving, caring, compassionate, imaginative, creative, emphatic, and/or helpful Read full article »
Spice Up That Lecture! 20+ Ideas & Resources
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Undergraduate students taught by lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than those involved in active learning. - Bajak, A. (2014) In my new book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers, I talk about how even the best lectures aren't fair for the majority of students in our classes. They Read full article »
Newsworthy! Learning as Reporters & Journalists
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. - Joseph Pulitzer The best kind of learning motivates you to question, explore, make it your own, Read full article »
Digital Ways to Celebrate December Holidays
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. - Hamilton Wright Mabie Students are excited about the holidays and celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or their school break. Get them learning and celebrating with digital devices, web tools and apps. Students can write digital stories with Read full article »
Student Reflection with Digital Portfolios
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. - Peter Drucker A year ago, I created a technology course on Moodle for Spanish teachers as part of the Ministry of Education of Spain. The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Read full article »
Making an Impact with Problem / Project Based Learning
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. - Einstein Our learners are creating, inventing, and problem-solving with digital devices in order to change the world. Unfortunately, too many students who transform the world often do it outside of school, on their Read full article »
Ways to Get Technology into Your Classrooms
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! I've been quite blessed to travel to over 20 countries and help teachers integrate technology even in places with very little funding. You can watch a video of me helping students in Ogulin, Croatia to get an idea of what this looks like in action. Often, we are not fortunate Read full article »
Creating Digital Books to Help Others: 20+ Apps, Tools & Ideas
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys and Girls Club. I still have my construction paper book with my poor drawings. My artistic abilities didn't matter to the kids who were just excited to have someone spend time Read full article »
31 Days of Digital Goodies
Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar One way to engage students is to create interactive digital calendars. December is the month for advent calendars, so I've created the Digital Ideas 2014 Advent Calendar to give you a hands-on example of how this works. Throughout December, you will discover free web tools, apps, and resources by clicking on each day in the Read full article »
This Year be an EduHero!
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Our world is full of hero potential waiting to be motivated, supported, and skilled. Teachers hold the key to unleashing that potential, yet many are wounded heroes themselves. According to Teachers Count, the average teacher impacts Read full article »
The Conversation We Need To Have With Leadership
This post is part of Scott McLeod's Leadership Day 2014 PD should give your Ts a GEM: it should "Grow You", "Engage You", and "Mean something to you" — GNichols (@Think_teach) August 6, 2014 Mission: Value Your Time This year, many of us will spend hours in school meetings feeling demotivated, bored, unappreciated, and stressed. We will spend a lot of time resenting our colleagues Read full article »
Pump Students Up with Digital Icebreakers
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” by PlatoIncluded in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! Throughout my teaching years, I’ve struggled with getting my students or trainees to readily participate. Learners are shy about exposing themselves to peers, especially if they do not know them well. Read full article »
6 Second Learning with Vine: 22+ Ideas & Resources
Part of the Byte-sized Potential and Mobile Learning categories The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. - Yousuf Karsh Most of our students love learning and creating even if they do not express this in our classes. Millions around the world read, create, produce, direct, summarize, translate, edit, and share outside of learning institutions everyday on their mobile devices or through Read full article »
Byte-sized Potential: Can Compassion & Citizenship Go Viral?
Part of the category, Byte-sized Potential The number one benefit of educational technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. - Steve Ballmer A thousand Read full article »
Digital Poets! Web Tools, Apps, & Lesson Ideas
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” by Robert Frost April is National Poetry month. I invite you to consider the possibilities of teaching with poetry. Poetry makes content come alive, because the poet has a deep connection with the subject matter. Poems can help students see what they consider a boring or Read full article »
Gamify Learning: 20+ Resources
“Games are an extraordinary way to tap into your most heroic qualities.” - Jane McGonigal, Author of Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World People enjoy playing video games. People worldwide spend about 3 billion hours a week playing them (McGonigal, 2011). When we play video games we learn, build, collaborate, problem-solve, explore, discover, Read full article »
Be Inspired! Free! Online! #RSCON5, Sun. Apr. 6
Join us this Sunday, April 6th! Professional Development in your PJs. Only 4 hours. You can even join our Technology Smackdown and present your favorite web tools or apps. Find all the web room links here. Just click on the green links on this page and a Blackboard Collaborate room will popup. Check your time zone here, Bit.ly/rscontz46. If you enjoyed Read full article »
Passion, Potential, & Heroes That Fail Us
“The number one benefit of educational technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” – Steve Ballmer Passion Some of you have heard my story. Read full article »
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