Thursday, June 18, 2015

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



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