Posts Tagged ‘ Technology ’

0Still creating ‘word walls’ around your classroom?  Good for you – that’s exactly what needs to be done to create constant and progressive exposure to vocabulary.  Here are some examples of our evolving digital forms of word walls and vocabulary building tools.  Firstly, here’s an animated/spoken word wall that was built on visuals that...
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1I have been getting a lot of questions about the Apps we have on our iPod Touches at school, so here you are: Miss Spell Free Check to see whether the word lists are spelled correctly or not. Super Hangman LE & Global High Scores Free Fairly standard Hangman app, with good graphics Story Kit Free Create an electronic story book by writing...
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0From Clark and Salomon (1986): General media comparisons and studies pertaining to their overall instructional impact have yielded little that warrants optimism. Even in the few cases where dramatic changes in achievement or ability were found to result from the introduction of a medium such as television, . . . it was not the...
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1(Full Disclosure: I believe every high school student should have a laptop) The New York Times wrote an article on May 4th, 2007 that resurfaced via Twitter last night. Titled Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops, It took me less than four paragraphs to start shaking my head in disbelief at the way this...
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0 As the graduate course I teach for Plymouth State University starts up again I’m reminded of the fact that at some point it’s about the tool. Sure I understand that it’s really about the learning, but it is also about the technology. It’s about all the “How To” videos on YouTube. It’s about...
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0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaEczMry_4 You want to make them laugh while they give you their money. This is Andy Dorn’s approach. For IST’s latest Community and Service project, a Movember fundraiser for students in our sister school in Tibet, he created this promo video and shared it with our school community during both the elementary and secondary school...
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0Yesterday, in his keynote address at the EARCOS Administrator’s Conference, Alan November reminded me of a shift that I have been struggling with. He argued that our discussions about teaching and learning need to focus on literacy not technology. And about technology committees, he asked “Do we form paper and pencil committees?” I am a...
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0Found this from John Pederson. A great video that can be used with staff and teachers on what this new web it. Worth a bookmark!
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