Today is World Emoji Day and to celebrate I’m sharing 20 emoji activities, my slide presentation, and resources to engage your learners. Emojis are an important part of our students’ digital culture and the way students humanize time spent communicating with others constantly through a machine. Emojis allow students to express themselves, share their personalities, […]
Tag: digital literacy
Let's Hang! Collaborative Learning with Hangouts!
“Videos provide greater engagement than text or images for the simple reason that it combines audio, video and text.”- Amit Garg With Hangouts and Hangouts on Air (known as YouTube Live) you and your students can collaborate through live video learning sessions and chat. Currently, Hangouts allows up to 150 people in a group chat and 25 can video chat! With […]
Equip Students to be Skilled Searchers!
“Television didn’t transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in the classroom.” – John Palfrey One of the most popular ways our students learn is by Googling or YouTubing it! Too many times our students get distracted by the tons […]
Emoji Get to Know You Activity
“Emoji and emoticons have developed to mean much more in language than the faces they represent.”- Lauren Collister (2015) For the past year, I’ve been studying how learners use emoticons, emoji, and text speak to communicate, read and write. Emojis are part of digital literacy and citizenship. When our learners use emojis in their writings, […]
20 Ways to Transform Learning with Technology
Enjoyed these resources? Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. This year try integrating technology to get students researching, exploring, creating and moving. Hover over the infopic below to discover lessons, free apps, and resources! Challenge: Try one of these ideas to transform the learning in your classroom! If you […]
Let's Hang! 10+ Ways to Spark Collaboration with Google Hangouts
“It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.” – Milton Olson Google has many free incredible apps and tools that work on any device to support and promote collaboration. I have found great success integrating Google Drive with […]
Teaching the Emoji Generation: 12+ Activities & Resources
Enjoyed these ideas? Get your copy of Learning to Go and The 30 Goals for Teachers. “Although an emoticon may look like a smile, a frown or any number of facial expressions, it doesn’t represent a face, as many internet users assume. It’s actually intended to convey a feeling (“I’m happy,” or “just joking”).” – […]
Creating Digital Books: 15+ Ideas & Resources
Recently added to the Survival Tips for Teachers! The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. – Vladimir Nabakov During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys […]
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 […]
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 […]