10 Things Your Kids Can Learn Online Infographic

There is still a lot of discussion about the internet and how useful/wasteful/dangerous it is for our children. Like all things, it is how you use it and whether you have developed the skills to get the best from it.

 This infographic from the Pumpic team makes some suggestions. The team has selected 20 services that they believe will teach your kids 10 skills for life. Starting from essentials, like reading and improving grammar, to cool ones: playing the guitar and programming. All of these is easy to achieve with educational games available online and apps introduced on kids learning sites

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Useful links

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• The 25 Best Tumblr Accounts for Book Nerds A list of some of the Tumbler accounts that would interest most library staff. There are links to authors, publishers, bookshops and more in this post. They offer some great ideas for finding and promoting books.

• Tips and Tools to Help you Better integrate Technology in Your Instrcution ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning A list of 24 digital tools, organised into 5 categories, that would support student learning.

• Share my-lesson-webinar-on-shakespeare There are some great ideas for educating young people about Shakespeare. The different ideas would be easy to adapt to any classroom situation and allow students to explore and develop a deeper understanding of the plays, characterizations and structures.

• school_library_impact.jpg (2508×4029) The infographic presents research highlights from all of Library Research Service’s (LRS) school library impact studies. There are 2 versions available – one for digital viewing and one for printing.

• 6 Channels Of 21st Century Learning ” How do people learn, and how can they do it better in a constantly evolving context? In pursuit of answers, the theme of “21st century learning” is the popular label often surfaces. It still seems to be necessary cliche as we iterate learning models, fold in digital media resources, and incorporate constantly changing technology to an already chaotic event (i.e., learning).” ” In this model, there are 6 distinct channels. Obviously this doesn’t mean that these are the only 6 channels–or pathways–for learning, but rather these 6 are emerging or have always existed as powerful players in how learners make meaning: identifying, decoding, evaluating, and sharing fluid media and information.”

• Coaching | AITSL Newsroom

• AITSL School Leadership Clearinghouse – Research – Coaching environmental scan: summary of selected literature, models and current practices

• AITSL Teacher Toolkit – The Essential Guide to Professional Learning: Innovation

• The Teacher’s Guide To Using Screencasts In The Classroom – Edudemic Some useful ideas for using screencasting to help students learn. “Screencasts can be a great tool for teachers to create presentations for their students to view away from the classroom. But it is even more powerful when it is used as a student creation tool. Screencasts can require higher order thinking skills when the students not only create a presentation, but then have to explain their thinking. “

• Digital Citizenship Poster Now Available in 6 Languages Here is a free digital citizenship poster created for educators. The post offers the posters in languages other then English-Dutch, French, German, Greek and Spanish. They are very “printer-friendly”.

• Teaching Ethics in the Age of Technology | User Generated Education “Ethical decision-making should be included as a 21st century skill (overused term but don’t know of an alternative).  Some would profess that ethical decision-making has always been a needed skill.  But we are living in the most complex era of human history.  Information access and abundance, and emerging technologies are advancing, and being developed and disseminated at rates that the human mind often cannot comprehend.  Now more than ever ethics should be integrated into young people’s educations.”

Useful Links

• A Principal’s Reflections: BYOD Begins With Trust and Respect. An interesting analysis about one school’s experiences of BYOD. “Our BYOD initiative at New Milford High School has succeeded and grown up to this point based on the basic premise of trust and respect. Yes, we have policies in place, the right infrastructure, and support our teachers with professional development and guidance. However, the most important elements stem from the fact that we trust our students to use their devices as tools for learning, enhanced productivity, and to conduct better research. Time is spent working with them on digital citizenship and the creation of positive digital footprints that they can be proud of. We also respect them as learners growing up in the digital age where these tools are playing a greater role in the world we are preparing them to succeed in. When creating a BYOD initiative grounded in these principles the possibilities are endless.” 

• Getting Going with Mobile Devices: Workflow, Organization, and Fundamentals | Connected Learning How do/should you develop the long-term capacity to manage student work and a daily workflow process in a mobile classroom?

• What is Connected Learning | Connected Learning Post with infographic and video that tries to explain what connected learning is and why it offers an important pathway in education

• Discovering Pathways Through Connected Learning | Connected Learning Interesting discussion about learning as a whole. Debates why we should acknowledge learning that occurs outside the classroom/school as well as within and how that might be acknowledged ( and more specifically at having badges to recognise achievements)

• Teaching Skills: What 21st Century Educators Need To Learn To Survive Listing the traits that make an/the ideal 21st teacher. Post tries to answer What does an educational professional need to be or do to tune in and synchronize with the new realities silently emerging inside schools and educational environments?

• The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher Should Have | Fluency21 – Committed Sardine Blog “Med Kharbach compiles an extensive list of 21st century teaching activities and presents resources to assist others in adopting these activities into instruction. This post comes from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning at http://www.educatorstechnology.com, where they offer a host of web resources and educational tools that are definitely worth checking out.”

• Big History Project The Big history project tells the story of the universe. It starts at the very beginning and reaches to the complex societies of today. It illustrates the connections between what are often seen as diverse subjects and weaves together insights and evidence from many disciplines into one single, understandable story. Insights come from astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology, history, economics, and more.

• Atlas of Living Australia “The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities. You can also get facts and figures about the information contained in the Atlas from the Atlas dashboard.”

• Tech Learning : Bloom’s Taxonomy in the Classroom Applying Bloom’s Taxonomy in the Classroom – Infographic with ideas and assessment.

• How To Build Powerful Tech-Infused Lesson Plans – Edudemic – Edudemic The piece offers advice on how to go about creating “21st century lesson plans” that leverage the technologies available to support a lesson without being the lesson.

• Free Technology for Teachers: A Short Guide to Creating and Grading Quizzes Through Google Forms This is another great guide to using Google Docs by Richard Byrne. Here he offers screenshots of those processes he has discussed in some of the workshops and webinars he has run on how to create self-grading quizzes through Google Forms and Spreadsheets. He has put them into one PDF that you can use to guide you through the processes. . You can view the PDF below. (If you are viewing this on an iPad, you might not be able to see the guide.

• The Teacher Report: 7 Tech Tools for Collaboration A short list of tools that offers tools that enable teachers to connect in our own time and in a variety of interesting ways with educators around the world. These tools offer the platforms for learning from one another and sharing best practices.

Useful links

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• URL Droplet This tool allows you to upload links straight to your Dropbox folders. All you need to do is take a link (this especially works well if the link leads to a PDF or similar document) and paste it into the URL Droplet form.

• Teacher’s Guide to Adding Images in Google Forms ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Post describing how you can embed images into the content of your Google form. A useful addition for teachers creating image-based quizzes and surveys.

• 5 Powerful Social Media Tools For Your Classroom | Edudemic Social media tools can help break the barriers set by the walls of schools. Learning and communicating outside the school hours with technology aid is a modern adaptation of education that has shown great results. This post looks at some web tools that provide school-specific tools that are just as powerful in facilitating the communication inside the student-teacher-parent triangle as the more famous popular social networking sites.

• What Teachers Need to Know about Fixed Vs Growth Mindset ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning An infographic which features the major differences between fixed and growth mindsets using teachers as the underlying subject

• Should university students use Wikipedia? | Education | guardian.co.uk Article from TheGuardian ” Students use Wikipedia extensively, probably more than any other social group. Although the website’s founder Jimmy Wales once warned readers not to use the website for academic purposes, American research shows that the majority of students browse its pages when researching essays. Most universities and academics distrust the service, warning us: “Never cite Wikipedia.” Why is the academic world so hostile to this vast information resource? And why do students find it so hard to stay away?”

• TagCrowd: make your own tag cloud from any text The service offers three ways to create word clouds: copying and pasting text into TagCrowd, upload a plain text file or you can copy and paste a web address into TagCrowd. Simple and effective visuals

• Stripe Generator – ajax diagonal stripes background designer A free tool that simple makes stripes. Another way to create a visual for a digital site. Simple and easy to use.

• Photomontage Generator – WriteOnIt Create a photomontage to add interest to a photo. Easy to use tool that offers a fast way to create some fun photos/images.

• 10 Digital Citizenship Tips From Your Mother | Edudemic This infographic takes a look at good digital citizenship tips as well as some common do’s and dont’s for good manners when using the internet.

• A Simple Guide on The Use of Hashtag for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “Here what Twitter said about it : ” The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. Hashtags are a great way to build community around content.” Post with ideas about how teachers can make the most out of hashtags.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Coggle – A Simple Mind-Mapping Tool “Coggle is a new, collaborative mind-mapping service that is very easy to use. To create a Coggle mind map just sign-in with your Google account and click the “+” icon to start your mind map. After entering the main idea of your mind map you can add branches by clicking the “+” icons that appear next to everything you type. To re-arrange elements just click on them and drag them around your screen. “

• 25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools For Visual Learning

• 30+ Mind Mapping Tools 30+ mind mapping tools. Some are free and others have a fee.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Terrific Mind Mapping and Brainstorming Tools A post that looks at some of the tools that could be used for mind mapping. Brainstorming, collaborative brainstorming, free ipad apps, Free Technology For Teachers, mind mapping.

• Memofon Memofon is a new mind mapping tool that makes it possible to create mind maps from typed outlines. It is similar to Text 2 Mind Map. To create a mind map with Memofon you just have to type an outline. It takes some time to figure out the outline formatting tricks. Once you have the formatting down it can also be used to create to-do lists within your mind map.

Useful links – some of the January ones

• How to Make Unique, Inexpensive Book Displays in Your Library | eHow.com The ‘eHow’ website offers a lot of ideas and advice. Here Virginia Allain gives lots of catch phrases and great ideas for creating library displays for every month of the year. It is an American site so the themes are sometimes out of kilter with Australian seasons here.

• Libraries Should Own the Future-Here’s How They Can | Cities on GOOD Libraries Should Own the Future—Here’s How They Can – Goodreads & Meetup, coffeeshops & bookstores and CSAs

• Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: youtube tools There is a whole section to how teachers and educators can best leverage the power of this video platform in education.

• The Best YouTube Tools and Tips for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Tricks and resources for teachers

• Five Custom Searches You Should Enable In Your Browser Right Now Custom search engines are one of the better features of the modern browser. With just a few keystrokes, you can search Wikipedia right from the address bar or do a custom Google search

• Breaking Research: Most Apps Bad – EdTech Researcher – Education Week  Article that evaluates 137 recently published “educational literacy” apps, websites, and e-books. Considers most of them as very basic. Good read for those who might be thinking about creating their own (and help them avoid the pitfalls)

• How to Raise Boys That Read (As Much as Girls Do): Not With Gross-Out Books and Video Game Bribes – WSJ.com Thomas Spence writes on The Wall Street Journal Taste page about the reading gap between boys and girls, but says that the current recipe, which involves giving boys ‘gross-out’ books about bodily functions, will not work, while taking away video games will certainly help.

• Future of Impacts: ‘How to’ guide to social media, podcasting, blogging and writing your REF impact case study | Impact of Social Sciences

• The Innovative Educator: Top 5 most popular technology solutions in 2013 Five solutions that should become reality but probably will be on the 2014 list

• Do We Still Need Libraries? | John Palfrey A post that dicusses one of the New York Times Room for Debate series: The future of libraries. The debaters include Luis Herrera, director of the San Francisco Public Library: Susan Crawford, visiting professor at Harvard Law School; Buffy J. Hamilton, a school librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia; and Berkman fellow Matthew Battles. All four of their essays are excellent. And each of them answers the “debate” question in the affirmative: yes, we do still need libraries.

• How To Know If You’re Correctly Integrating Technology – Edudemic  The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal directed. The TIM also associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells.

• The 17 Best Twitter Hashtags for Education (2012 ) ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories – Edudemic “This helpful infographic does a solid job of breaking down the basics of learning theories in a visual and understandable format.” tag

• Six Traits for Identifying Complex Texts > Eye On Education The Common Core State Standards for Reading call upon students in grades K-12 to read and comprehend complex literary and information texts independently and proficiently. But before students can learn how to tackle complex texts, teachers must be able to identify texts that meet this challenge. In Big Skills for the Common Core: Literary Strategies for the 6-12 Classroom Amy Benjamin and Michael Hugelmeyer outline six traits that can be used to identify complex texts and the difference between informational texts and literary nonfiction.

• Copyright & Schools: photocopy, scan, screen or broadcast copyright resources in classrooms – simple advice for teachers  “One-stop-shop with guidance for teachers copying and using books, magazines, newspapers, music, film & TV in classrooms – from the CLA, ERA, NLA, CCLI, PPL, PRS, MPLC, PVS”

• Now you can download your Twitter archive – Technology on NBCNews.com  If you can’t remember what you tweeted 2 hours or 2 years ago now you can access them. Twitter has introduced a feature that lets you download your Twitter archive.You will get all your tweets — including retweets — going back to whenever you started using Twitter.

• Pitfalls of Using Wikipedia for Academic Research “Wikipedia may be easy and fast, but its not a reliable source for academic research for a multitude of reasonsstarting with the fact that its intended to be used as an encyclopedia, not an academic resource.”

• 6 Great Videos on Teaching Critical Thinking ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning  “Critical thinking is a skill that we can teach to our students through exercise and practice. It is particularly a skill that contains a plethora of other skills inside it. Critical thinking in its basic definition refers”  to a diverse range of intellectual skills and activities concerned with evaluating information as well as evaluating our thought in a disciplined way “. All of our students think in a way or another but the question  is , do they really think critically ? are they able to evaluate the information they come across ? are they capable of going beyond the surface thinking layer ? Can they make connections between what they learn and the outer world? Can they question the status quo of their knowledge ?”

• Free Technology for Teachers: Crash Course – The Great Gatsby  The video (part 1) by John Green who has started a new Crash Course series on English Literature.  “These videos won’t replace actually reading and discussing the works with teachers, but they can provide students with some help in understanding the major plot lines of The Great Gatsby.”

• Educational Technology Buzzwords A interesting interpretation of where we are heading with the current technology available to us.

• The Readventurer – Home A blog by 2 avid readers about reading and encouraging reading

• mind blown by searching google and evernote at the same time | Brad Kozlek

• 10 New Educational Web Tools for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• The “Cheap and Cheerful” Librarian, Melissa Techman, Shares Tips on Pinterest – The Digital Shift libraries

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.