EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY I have become even more intrigued with Instructional Design and Technology as I read more about the increased demand for online learning. The convenience of getting a quali...

December, 2014 A few days ago we shared with you a set of useful tips to help you integrate Twitter in your instruction. Today, we have come across this wonderful rubric created by University of Wisconsin that can be a very good addition to the resources we have been featuring here on the educational use of Twitter. This rubric is designed specifically to help teachers assess students' Twitter use in instructional assignments. It focuses on five key areas: 1- Content This one evaluates the content of students' tweets and whether these tweets add value to the classroom discussion or not. 2- Frequency This one assesses the frequency of students' tweets: whether it exceeds the required number of tweets per week or not. 3-Hyperlinks This category is about the quality of the links embedded in students' tweets: are they relevant to the topic, do they enhance it..etc 4-Mechanics Tweeting is also a form of writing and as such this category assesses the mechanics of writing in students' tweets. It covers things such as grammatical errors, use of capitalization, punctuation and spelling. 5-Comments and Contributions This one assesses how students communicate, interact and respond to each other's tweets. This rubric is available for free download in PDF format from this link. Follow us on : Twitter, Facebook , Google plus, Pinterest . This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

Explore some uses of Wakelet via this edition of Twitter Takeaways. Learn more about how to use Wakelet, as well as embedding in OneNote and more.

Are you confused with terms relating to eLearning? Expand your vocabulary by learning these 8 commonly used eLearning terms.

Full time work and doctoral studies are keeping me super busy, but finally I get a few minutes to post something on the good ol’ blog :) Here’s a little infographic I made for one of my…

How Technology Transforms Learning and Teaching Infographic shows how ed tech is revolutionizing learning and instruction!

Improve your instructional design with adult learning theories. Discover the key theories and their application on the Shift E-Learning blog!

Blooms Taxonomy A SMORE of Resources

by Med Kharbach "Learning is all about asking questions and finding answers to them. An inquisitive mind is one that goes beyond the status quo and probes deep below surface meanings. To foster such kind of thinking inside our classroom requires some hard work and a serious investment in time and efforts. We, as teachers and educators, need to prepare the right environment where inquisitive minds can nourish and grow. We need to water this environment with a culture of asking questions."

Incorporating technology has always been a part of our teaching, but now with distance learning and teaching digitally, we have to incorporate more than ever! Learn about the SAMR model and how it affects online learning and the technology you use in the online classroom!

This is a great instructional design infographic produced by Arizona State Univeristy (ASU). Several professionals are involved in the instructional design field. However, the full range of what an instructional designer do may be unknown. A large group of ASU Instructional Designers and Technologists were asked to tell about the work they do and the ASU Instructional Designers […]

The Differentiated Instruction and Adaptive Learning Infographic provides an overview of what differentiated instruction is all about and shows ways new adaptive learning technology can help teachers differentiate their instruction.

Disclaimer: there is no proven adult learning theory and the information in the infographic I created below is subject to much debate and differing opinions.

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The Padagogy Wheel brings together in one chart several different domains of thinking with education apps for learning.

I just read Scott McLeod’s post “The Unholy Trinities of Classroom Technology Usage” which prompted me to share my thoughts on the need to take the next step –beyond an emphasis on integratin…

There are a number of eLearning frameworks and roadmaps gaining in use and popularity. This one from The National Centre for Technology in Education (@ncteireland) offers a good example, although i…

Explore our comprehensive collection of classroom resources, including classroom posters, engaging activities, classroom management techniques, and more. Enhance your teaching and inspire your students with these valuable insights.

“Technology is encoded with the characteristics of the culture that developed it” (Dunbar, 1991 as cited in Adeoye & Wentling, 2007). “E-learning neither eliminates cultural d…

The Instructional Design Models Infographic presents the most widely used models that eLearning designers use to structure and plan their training.

This site is designed to be an informational site that tracks how Barnesville Public Schools has implemented the use of iPads with their "MOVE 21" initiative in grades K-12.

Explore our comprehensive collection of classroom resources, including classroom posters, engaging activities, classroom management techniques, and more. Enhance your teaching and inspire your students with these valuable insights.

Event # 8 Now your students have performed something to demonstrate understand. But how do you assess that performance? Was the assessment of the performance reliable and valid? Try these 27 tips t…

Explore our comprehensive collection of classroom resources, including classroom posters, engaging activities, classroom management techniques, and more. Enhance your teaching and inspire your students with these valuable insights.

Interpersonal learning , personalized learning, second life learning , 3d learning, collaborative learning and virtual learning , these are just some of the few buzz words you would be hearing so often in today’s educational literature.

“The characteristics of a modern educator”

Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge The Technology, Pedagogy and Content Knowledge model or TPACK for short has been around for some time. It builds upon the work of Lee Shulman and extends his idea of Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra expand upon this in much more detail on their site http://tpack.org and

There are many practical ways educators can move their students through the SAMR model (Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition) through technology integration, to extend learning, to meet the common core standards and develop lifelong learners. Examples will be shown for the K-5 classroom although this can be adapted for all grade levels. Are you ready to adjust your teaching for this new learning revolution? Why do we need the SAMR model? Why do we need to change the way we teach our kids? Check out this video below... The Voice of An Active Learner Why do we need to use technology with our students? Our World of Work is very tech infused Our students have access to technology all the time Creates a deeper level of learning It changes what we can do, and when and where we can do it! What have we really been preparing our kids for? Although that video is pretty funny, it is a reality of what are preparing our students for. This is why we need COMMON CORE: It Highlights the importance of using technology as a tool for learning! Common Core has many places for tech tools to be used to meet objectives! Great uses of Technology With Students: (based on the ISTE standards for students) (Make it) Use technology to show creativity (Say it) Use technology to communicate (Share it) Use technology to collaborate (Find it) Use technology to research to show information literacy (Solve it) Use technology to think critically, solve problems, or be decision makers (Use it) Use technology devices to improve learning (Protect it) Follow rules of digital citizenship Technology usage should be directly related to content in the classroom Students and the Teacher are actively engaged The Basics WHAT IS THIS SAMR model? More examples of how you can move up the SAMR model INTERACTIVE WEBSITES FOR ALL SUBJECT AREAS: http://interactivesites.weebly.com Now let's focus on some math tools... INTERACTIVE WEBSITES FOR MATH http://interactivesites.weebly.com/math.html MATH LIVE http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html is an awesome site that has animated math lessons for kids. The lessons are divided into four categories: Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, and Statistics and Probability. These lessons come with assessments, teacher AR FLASHCARDS http://drewminock.sharedby.co/3d16e7198a934005/?web=282116&dst=http%3A//www.arflashcards.com/ MATH PLAYGROUND http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html BRAINPOP http://www.brainpop.com/ KG Counting and Cardinality : Think Math , AAA Math , Mr. Nussbaum , Fun School , Sea Horse Counting , Eduplace Operations & Algebraic Thinking : Think Math , Mr. Nussbaum , PBS kids, Eduplace, Math Pickle Numbers & Operations in Base Ten: Think Math , AAA Math , Eduplace, Virtual Manipulatives Measurement & Data: Think Math , Cool Math , Eduplace , Virtual Manipulatives Geometry : Think Math , Cool Math, Shapes, Eduplace 1st Operations & Algebraic Thinking : AAA Math, Addition Flashcards, Subtraction Flashcards , Addition & Subtraction, Math Monster, Think Math, Houghton Mifflin Math , PBS Kids Numbers & Operations in Base Ten: Fun School, Think Math, Interactive Math, PBS Kids Measurement & Data: Adapted Minds , Math Pickle, Bedtime Bandit, Stop the Clock, Telling Time, Think Math, Interactive Math, PBS Kids Geometry : Virtual Manipulative , Khan Academy , Think Math, Interactive Math, PBS Kids 2nd Operations & Algebraic Thinking : Go Go Go Karts, Math Monster, AAA Math, Cool Math, A Plus Math, Bitesize Math , Thinks Math Numbers & Operations in Base Ten: Math Monster, AAA Math, Interactive Math Games , Houghton Mifflin Math , Bitesize Math, Math Games Measurement & Data: Numbers & Operations Manipulatives, Bedtime Bandit, Houghton Mifflin Math , Math Games, PBS Kids, Math Pickle, Thinks Math Geometry : Numbers & Operations Manipulatives, Shape 3rd Operations & Algebraic Thinking : Houghton Mifflin Math, Think Math, Number Cop, Kham Academy, Prongo Multiplication , multiplication.com, Times Table, A Plus Math, Free Rice Numbers & Operations in Base Ten: Mr. Nussbuam, Number Cop, Math Zone, Free Rice Numbers & Operations - Fractions: Think Math, Fun School, AAA Math, Beacon Learning Center, Equivalent Fractions, Fraction Models, Decifractiontator, Visual Fractions, emathematics, Math Zone Measurement & Data: Think Math, Math Pickle, Making Arrays, Math Zone Geometry : Virtual Manipulatives, Mr. Nussbuam, Math Zone 4th Operations & Algebraic Thinking : Houghton Mifflin Math, Mr. Nussbuam, Making Arrays, Prongo Multiplication, multiplication.com, Think Math, A Plus Math, Purple Math , Free Rice Numbers & Operations in Base Ten: Making Arrays, Number Cop, Times Table, Think Math Numbers & Operations - Fractions: Fun School, AAA Math, Beacon Learning Center, Equivalent Fractions, Fraction Models, Decifractiontator, Visual Fractions, Think Math Measurement & Data: Mr. Nussbuam, Math Pickle, Think Math Geometry : Virtual Manipulatives, Geometric Terms, Math is Fun, Think Math, Khan Academy Links to other Common Core Resources http://www.corestandards.org/Math http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/ http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/ https://www.khanacademy.org/commoncore http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHuntInstitute http://ndcurriculuminitiative.org/common_core/ http://mathlanding.org/ http://braingenie.ck12.org/ http://letsreadmath.com/math-and-childrens-literature/ THE QUESTIONS TO ASK SAMR MODEL VISUAL by MSEDTECHIE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 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