TEACHING AND LEARNING ACADEMY - 21ST CENTURY EDUCATORS

What are the 5 skills that educators need in today's instructional world?  What are some key tools that can support transforming your classroom for your 21st century learners?

1. hunting and gathering - how to find resources quickly
2. enhancement and customization - to ensure your teaching resources are valuable pieces
3. distribution - delivering materials for differentiation and/or personalization of resources
4. assessment of learning - running assessments that capture and help refine teaching for student success
5. documenting learning - providing immediate notification, report cards linked to artifacts of learning, student portfolios

Key Tools - the goal is to use a few of the following tools or others you know to create an engaging learning environment

Socrative:  enhancement and customization of information with a feedback look
             Overview Tutorial
Remind: parent and/or student notifications to their phones, updated version of Remind 101
(text 81010 and in the message put wgsdhoppe to get updates on summer PD options)
            Overview Tutorial 
Blendspace: customization of unit information
            Overview Tutorial
Symbaloo: enhancement and customization of student websites, resources
            Overview Tutorial
Weebly for Education: one spot for everything
            Overview Tutorial
Edpuzzle: enhance and customize video (similiar to Zaption)
             Overview Tutorial
Actively Learn: enhance and customize pdf's, docs,
             Overview Tutorial
Thinglink:  customizing a picture with hotspots of knowledge
              Overview Tutorial

Please consider sharing something you have made with me -- as it would really benefit others too.  Kathy

Personality outsmarts intelligence at school: Conscientiousness and openness key to learning

Date:

December 17, 2014

Source:

Griffith University

Summary:

Recent research has found that personality is more important than intelligence when it comes to success in education and this needs to take this into account when guiding students and teachers. Furthermore these personality traits for academic success can be developed.

Fascinating - click here to read more.