Posted in 21st century skills, brain research, cool, digital literacy, learning styles, professional development, social networks, social studies, strategies, technology integration, tagged brain, history, history tech, ning, social network, strategy, students, wiebe on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was told once that in the typical social studies classroom, 85% of the conversation is teacher to student, 10% student to teacher and 5% student to student. (And . . . no, I can’t remember the source so I suppose you can adjust the numbers as you see fit.)
But even if the numbers aren’t [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, digital literacy, online safety, social networks, technology integration, tagged 21st century skills, AUP, history tech, technology, technology integration, wiebe on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I get the chance every month to spend some time with a group of technology integration specialists – you know, those people who find cool tools and things for teachers to use that increase student learning. Of course, much of the coolest and most useful stuff ends up being blocked by local internet filters. So [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, artifacts, history, images, lesson plans, photos, primary sources, professional development, social networks, social studies, strategies, tip of the week, tagged dbq, history, history tech, primary sources, smithsonian, social studies, wiebe on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I ran across a primary sources site the other day and walked away pretty impressed. The Smithsonian has partnered with several Teaching American History grants and gathered together a wide variety of primary sources and lesson plans. Called Smithsonian Source, the site was created by teachers and is moderated by Smithsonian staff. The partnership has [...]
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I spent some time a few weeks ago exploring the new BetterLesson site and basically fell in love. Think of a lesson plan web site designed on top of a Facebook-like structure. You post lessons, materials and units to your account and share them with others.
You find colleagues by area, by content area and by [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, curriculum, lesson plans, professional development, social networks, teaching, tagged curriculum, history tech, lesson plans, professional development, social networks, wiebe, worksheets on September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The beta login to BetterLesson showed up in my inbox last week and I’m a bit torn. The concept is a good great one but am concerned that it’ll end up not much different that other lesson plan dumping grounds like this, this or this.
BetterLesson.org was founded by a group of teachers from Atlanta and [...]
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