Social annotation is becoming increasingly popular as it is an effective tool that achieves great results. As we know, traditional classroom practices emphasized student's individual learning, but social annotation encourages our students’ participation in a more supportive community of learners.
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Personalized Learning is more than a buzz phrase in education. It’s a powerhouse type of instructional and learning model that designs and delivers with each student in your classroom mind.
Furthermore, to give personalized learning even more power per ounce, we, teachers, found after virtual learning, that personalized learning really does set students up for higher achievement in their education.
Read about different strategies and approaches to planning, designing, and creating personalized learning pathways along with how you can group students and then personalize even more inside of each personalized learning path.
One of the clever ways teachers are getting their students’ attention is by integrating the Alexa™ Artificial Intelligence (AI) inside of their instruction, student learning, assessment, and even classroom management and classroom routines. Teachers have become experts overnight using Alexa™ AI in ways that make it feel like they have a virtual teaching assistant inside the classroom right along with them, helping with instructions, lesson parts, classroom management, motivation, and incentives. Read to find 10 BEST Quick Tips to begin integrating the Alexa AI in your classroom to engage students!
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If you were teaching BEFORE March 2020, you can easily compare what you knew about and did with EdTech with what you know about EdTech now. Whew! What a tailspin!
With all these changes, teachers should make EdTech professional development part of their career plan. EdTech PD is so important for teachers to participate and succeed in since, I do believe, our delivery, design, media, and scope of our instruction, student learning, and assessment HAS changed forever moving forward.
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At the beginning of the year, it never fails. The first question teachers ask me or email me is how to get around the school district’s content filter to access YouTube instructional videos for instruction and student learning. Having access to all websites without a school district’s content filter in place is one of the things we miss as teachers.
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Whether you are a teacher who uses a lot of technology in the classroom, or one who uses a small amount of technology in the classroom, I believe we can all agree, technology in our classrooms is here to stay, especially since the situation we all found ourselves in March 2020 when everything we did in our classroom had to turn digital to reach our students. Let's go over today five of the main reasons why media has the power to empower our students’ learning and their education in ways no other elements give it any competition.
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So, how do teachers get students to turn on their cameras? I have put together 30 ways teachers can encourage students to turn on their cameras during live virtual classes. Some of these ways are going to make students feel good, like that handshake at the door. Other ways will be linked to our content. And the ways that are left are going to create fun in the classroom, which is an important influencer to getting students to engage.
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On April 14, 2021, India Today, published a validating post for most teachers today, Challenges for teachers which never existed before (1). The article discusses the challenges teachers are experiencing as they provide education during Pandemic times and transitions.
With little notice back in the first quarter of 2020, teachers felt the weight of getting instruction and learning to move seamlessly inside a digital environment. Most teachers did not feel the confidence or have the competence in technology to respond with few trials and errors in the process and sometimes, in the midst of high expectations, from administrators, parents, and students.
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