Education Matters - (tech and non-tech)

Have you seen an RSA Animate video? Are you interested in learning how to make one or better yet, have your students make one? This post provides an in-depth look at how to go about have your students create an animated video that provides them with the opportunity to  practice 21st century skills (quoted from post below):

* collaborate with one another

* synthesize ideas

* create content

* communicate ideas clearly

* use technology

This activity is designed to have your students create content, providing you with materials to use in future classes as well as helping your current students understand the materiial.

The author, Jordan Collier, provides a detailed five-day plan. Day 1 would have you dividing students into groups of three, assign them a section of a chapter in a textbook, and determine the key facts that need to be taught. To read about how to assist them with this and the tasks for Day 2 - 5 click through to the post.

Great one

Collaboration is the key for future society development

Psychology incorporates all of these "things": You should be in the classroom when Freud's 5 psychosexual stages are put forward (humour, lively environment and wonder!).

Start the class with pop music which links to the topic (understanding their world). 

At the first lesson when I have asked students to write on the board what they want from the lessons (the only one of the above they have ever written down was humour). When I asked them to give me examples of what they meant, they could not. When I explained that they needed to tell me what they meant by "fun classes", as I was I trained to teach and tutor, not to make jokes, they were unable to tell me.

When I conducted conformity research by having a group of students walking down the corridor dancing to music played over the intercom to see whether other students would conform by joining in, I demonstrated what they meant by fun. 

I have learnt from more enlightened others that a Tutor / Educator guides by pointing out where to find the relevant information plus discussion questions which allows learners to share information, analyse and evaluate during class. After more questions which stimulate arguments, the learners are given a question to answer. 

Some wonderful questions that I look forward to answering.

¿Hay diferencia entre "alumno" y "aprendiz" y entre "profesor" y "educador"?

This infographic provides 11 ideas that you might want to share with other teachers in your building on ways to use technology. It is a diverse list that could be used with students at many grade levels and it may provide you with some inspiration. If you go to the website you may print it out in color or black and white.

Do you have any ideas you would like to share? Feel free to use the comment area to do so.

Great info graph with ideas about how to add technology to up lift  and modernize your teaching and organizational skills.

Fun ideas for getting kids involved in classroom technology....