WEBSITES
Educational
Technology and Mobile Learning is a website whose aim is to provide the
education community (both teachers and students) with a platform where they can
have access to the best curated educational technology content. Most
of their posts are reviews of educational web tools and mobile apps, app
suggestions, educational info-graphics, posters, guides, video tutorials, and
tips on integrating technology into education.
It
is connected to many other websites that
greatly
contribute to professional development such
as:
- “Tips on close reading and research paper writing (http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/12/10-important-tips-for-successful-close.html).
- Success features of the 21st Century teachers (http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/12/new-visual-25-success-features.html).
- Integrating technology Vs using technology in class (http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/04/using-technology-vs-technology.html).
Professional
Development is a life-long learning process that involves different activities
including individual progress, continuing education, in-service education, peer
collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring. The importance of
professional development lays in the fact that it is closely related to the
overall quality of education and students achievements.
Edutopia: What works in Education
The website shares evidence- and practitioner-based
learning strategies that empower users to improve K-12 education. It explains
tech integration, why we need to integrate tech in classroom, different types
of integration and how they can be done.
In Edutopia, you find resources to help you
implement project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive
assessment, teacher development, integrated studies, and technology integration.
Edutopia
is dedicated to transforming the learning process by helping educators
implement the strategies below: empowering students to think critically, access
and analyze information, creatively problem solve, work collaboratively, and
communicate with clarity and impact.
Technology Integration for Teachers
The
purpose of this site is to take an extensive list of websites that are
considered high quality, reliable, and valuable and organize them in a
way that even "non-techy" teachers can utilize them. The information
and resources in this site includes lists of apps for various learning
objectives, blogs and wikis created and maintained by experts in using mobile
technology, and lists of tips and tricks.
It’s
connected to many other websites such as:
- What is Successful Technology Integration? Edutopia: (www.edutopia.org/technology-integration-guide-description),
- Technology Integration Ideas that Work - Education World (www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech176.shtml)
- Technology Integration Strategies, Teaching Today… (www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/tech_integration.phtml).
BLOGS
The author, Lisa Nielsen found
school boring and irrelevant. She wrote this blog to share ideas to help change
that for others. She has formed a group that is interested in taking
action to ensure innovative learning options exist in their communities.
This group is a place
for parents, students, and teachers frustrated with traditional schooling to
come together to discuss the more effective options they are pursuing.
Link: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2014/10/6-smart-tips-for-effective-professional.html.
This is a community blog whose mission is to provide high-quality
education system for all students, driven by the bold ideas and expert
practices of teachers. They do this, by connecting, readying and mobilizing teacher
leaders to transform schools.
Link: http://www.teachingquality.org/content/blogs/barnett-berry/scaling-innovative-professional-...
5 myths
about teachers that are distracting policymakers
Teaching in the 21st
century is complex, challenging work and the fiction that “anyone can be a
teacher” threatens our future. We have entered an era of rapid and inexorable
change, where the real “high stakes” must be measured at a global level. Our students
deserve nothing less than result-oriented teachers, and myths cannot be entertained.
Friends!
They say "knowledge is power". I feel confident right now. Content curation and sites evaluation have been extra-ordinarily relevant to me and a worthwhile experience. Thank you all.
They say "knowledge is power". I feel confident right now. Content curation and sites evaluation have been extra-ordinarily relevant to me and a worthwhile experience. Thank you all.
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