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Friday, September 25, 2015
Social Media in Action!
Everything was in modern way,
The easiest way of a living day by day,
Analyzing and interpreting informational data,
Is not hard for them to search the answer.
Social medias are used to help people,
Searching the hints using wireless cable,
It helps students to do their work in an easy way,
As well as enjoying it, like they play.
Acer says " explore beyond limits "
Nokia says " connecting people "
Lenovo says " for those who do "
But all of these was made because of me and you.
As we continue the changes in this world,
Let us not forget to use this in a good manner,
It should not be abuse to be better,
Always remember it can make our future happier.
We students could be very helpful,
If we are doing right and being tactful,
Social medias are part of our living,
So please use it to have a good meaning!
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
How
Social Media changed your life?
“Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to
create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures or videos in virtual communities and networks.”
~Wikipedia
The mere fact that we are living in a world full of agonies and hindrances, we are able to enhance the different things that surrounds us. Computers, high-tech gadgets and newly designed instructional materials for school are the objects that we tend to use. We often use it as a main source of our needs in school as well as in our daily necessities. One of its very helpful applications are the social medias in which we are able to communicate and express what we feel to the person we loved far away or in public viewing. It allows us also to manage and manipulate our own distinct files which we are capable of using.
Social
media helps a lot on my daily activities as well as getting opinions to the
other people, resources or references in a task, expressing my stored emotions
and lastly, keeps me happy when I am bored. It allows me to manage my own
privacy settings, and often work with my privacy settings as I am established
as a registered user. In addition, it makes my life more comfortable and easy
to make things work out as I can socialize with the other people.
In
our life as a student, it is a big part on our learning process such as giving
us wider source of information, enables us to watch the preferred video
presentations and creates a documented file for our slide presentations. It is
also a medium of spreading what you have learned and what you have discovered
in the lessons that you have tackled. It
provides us students the opportunity of having a criticism on the current
events and phenomena. Relatively, social media gives us the additional
knowledge and information that enables us to answer the assignments, outputs
and activities that the teacher given to us.
Furthermore,
as a student, a big part of me was being changed as well as my curiosity and
belonging to the other people. Ideas and thoughts are being created in my
mind as I learn to work with social media applications. It makes our
presentations colorful and vibrant as we put design on our designated demonstrations.
Lastly,
Social Medias create a wider world for us, an easier work to do and a closer
look to the incoming future. It gives us hints and clues on the current issues
on our society. Perhaps, we should not abuse these things in order to be a
successful professional someday. We should do the correct procedure and process
to make inspirations and wholesomeness to the other people. We should always
remember that the power to connect people, if used in a wrong way can cause
also destruction of world wide communication.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
TEACHER’S EPITOME LIVING
Since, I was a
child my innocence mind explores a thousand yards of explanations on how to
deal with the other things that surrounds me. As I step through the ladder of
life I encounter stranger things which awakened my curiosity in learning new
living phenomena. All of us in this
world have an ambition such as living to survive and wealthy living, in order
to reach this kind of lifestyle we are able to aim higher. And my imaginations
discovered the goals in life which I was able to be sincere in accomplishing
standard level of living. My journey starts when I was being asked if what
should be my ambition in life. Here I am starting to explore the beauty of
teaching.
“Teaching is an art “simple, yet full of bursting
meanings. As what my favorite teacher said teaching is a passion and full of
lessons in life. We cannot say that our influence as a teacher stops when we
are out of the school but it is a guide to the little children on how to live
with practice. He deeply explains specific and accurate information’s about a
certain topic. Elaborates and give examples based on true to life experiences
as what the objective has denoted.
One of the leaders
of a current district basic education department. A man with honor and advocacy
in developing hierarchy of learning through molding young lives. Started the
curse in me that being a teacher is a lifetime involvement of creation and
enhancing one’s skill. He inspires a lot on what he strongly believes as being
passionate in his works and ideal enrichment activities. Through the effort of
his own belief he was able to reach the top of his profession that gives us a
good example of being a teacher.
Furthermore, this person
imparted a realistic view about handling and techniques in the field of
teaching. He has given a pure verbal and visual skill that he is applying on
his lesson to make more productive citizens of this nation. A second parent to
everyone, one’s they are send in school. Unique and has a power in mind that
can motivate someone’s attention to learn. An eye opener to each and everyone
that gives you hints in the industry of profession you have chosen. This person
has the sincerity and determination on what he is obliged to do.
Lastly, you’ll be
enjoying his repetitious thoughts and reinventing name that is not in the class
records or even in the course outline. It may be sound corny but you will see
yourself smiling perhaps learning with his old jokes. He maybe repetitious but
I think it is just his strategies to make his class not so monochrome as well
as in taking the lesson in to a deeper understanding. He often says very good
and excellent answer on what he heard in the answers of his students. Strictly
gives intonation to the very important words in the discussion such as writing
on the blackboard and repetitive encircling of the word. But take note this
teacher will keep you smiling and learn more information after his class on
what he discussed.
This is the undeniable truth that our
profession builds many excellent professions as what my teacher, my hero rather
says namely “Mr. Efren E. Eneluna Ed. D.", District Supervisor of Tubungan,
Iloilo.
“The architects
build buildings-
“The writers made
poems-
“The doctors save
lives-
“But the teachers
made them all!
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
FIVE TOP TRENDS IN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Pressure continues to increase on education budgets around the globe. Yet despite this fact, the education sector is continuing to increase its investment in technology related to learning. Ed tech funding jumped 55 percent in 2014 with no signs of slowing down, according to CB Insights. A report from Global Industry Analysts (GIA) predicts that the global e-learning market will reach $107 billion in 2015, propelled by technological advancements and demand for additional skills.
With that in mind, here are five top trends in ed tech to keep on your radar screen in 2015 and beyond:
Online corporate learning. The Clayton Christensen Institute predicts growing momentum for online corporate learning initiatives. Just how big will it get? Keeping in mind GIA's $107B estimate for this year, the corporate e-learning market is expected to increase about 13 percent annually until 2017, according to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. This is because an increasing number of companies are realizing that there's great value in furthering their employees' knowledge in ways that are flexible, cost-effective, and tailored to each individual's needs.
In contrast to the academic Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that are still struggling to find the best path to a reliable revenue stream, businesses focused on corporate e-learning have found a business model that works--and works well. Online corporate learning allows employees in every industry and at any level to experience the power of customized training, 24/7, on any device. Unlike with classroom-based training, learners can train on their own time using customized formats. Everyone can move at their own pace, learning what they need to know and exploring their own interests. Though still a relatively young industry, corporate e-learning promises to deliver new models of teaching and a future of exciting breakthroughs.
Skills measurement. In conjunction with the building momentum in online corporate learning, expect to see intensified focus in 2015 on identifying better ways to assess skills and measure individual progress, competency-based learning, and ultimately ROI. The Clayton Christensen Institute notes that when we provide customizable education, it becomes important to ensure that modular learning experiences are blended together in a way that fosters cohesion. To do so requires efficient ways to measure and track student learning to guarantee smooth interchanges between each learning experience.
We've got this as a top priority at Pluralsight via our recent acquisition of Smarterer, which allows us to measure any skill set with as few as 10 questions in under two minutes based on an adaptive algorithm. This allows us to give learners an SAT-like score for any skill, which could provide the foundation for a new industry standard around skills measurement.Other online education companies have started experimenting in this area as well, including Udacity's Nanodegrees program and General Assembly's microcredentials. Any company that offers MOOCs needs to address better skills assessment if they want to survive.
Alternative learning styles. Gone are the days when students have to rely only on text-based--or even video-based--tutorials. While those are still effective, new types of learning styles will continue to emerge in 2015, offering online learners more interactive experiences like writing code directly in the browser, or completing online challenges as part of the learning process. Pluralsight had this trend in sight with our latest acquisition of Code School.
Code School offers a unique approach that relies on an alternative learning style that we believe is more fun, engaging, and effective than just plain videos. With Code School, users watch a short video, then stop and practice what they've learned through a series of interactive coding challenges and assessments--all in the browser--before continuing. As learners progress through the challenges, they earn points and badges, which guide each individual's progress and learning. There's also a mobile app so that users can watch and review videos on-the-go to complement the code challenges and online learning. This is the type of new, interactive learning style that you can expect to see much more of in the education segment.
Online competency-based training. While competency-based training approaches and online learning are nothing new, the blend of the two is creating a revolutionary approach to education. Michelle R. Weise and Clayton M. Christensen write that online competency-based education has "great disruptive potential" because it incorporates not only the right learning model, but the right technologies, customers, and business model. Weise and Christensen go on to explain that providers of online competency-based training "can cost-effectively combine modules of learning into pathways that are agile and adaptable to the changing labor market." They do so by breaking down learning not by courses or even subject matter, but by competencies, thus releasing learning from the constraints of traditional institutions and methods.
How can providers of these technologies create a diversity of stackable programs for a wide range of industries, scale them, and also keep costs down? By fusing modularization with assessments to effectively measure the competencies. Online competency-based learning opportunities--such as those offered by the online degree programs at Western Governors University and Southern New Hampshire University--help students through targeted learning outcomes, customized support, and portable skill sets that employers care about. Expect this trend to highlight the important role of employers to create a value network that helps students connect directly with potential job opportunities.
Flipped-learning tech. Information Week identifies technology for flipped learning as another key ed-tech trend in 2015. A flipped class is a form of blended learning where students watch video lectures outside of class to learn content online, and then do their homework in class with the guidance of teachers in person. This approach helps to engage students outside of the classroom as well as in it.
Harman Singh notes that designers of the online tools and video streaming that are central to this approach must prioritize optimizing them for interactivity. Look for next-generation cloud-based, mobile, and app solutions--with powerful analytics to measure student responses--to replace outdated learning management systems in 2015. Khan Academy is currently leading this type of disruption in the K-12 space.
As the education sector continues to embrace the power and promise of digital learning and the best that ed tech has to offer, I leave you with one caveat: no matter how exciting the new technology, the tool itself must always be secondary to the goal that the student, teacher, or administrator is trying to achieve or the problem they are trying to solve. As Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker point out in their bookBlended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, the most successful designers of education technology will keep the end in mind, rather than pushing tech innovations for technology's own sake.
Reference: http://www.inc.com/aaron-skonnard/5-top-trends-in-education-technology-2015.html
With that in mind, here are five top trends in ed tech to keep on your radar screen in 2015 and beyond:
Online corporate learning. The Clayton Christensen Institute predicts growing momentum for online corporate learning initiatives. Just how big will it get? Keeping in mind GIA's $107B estimate for this year, the corporate e-learning market is expected to increase about 13 percent annually until 2017, according to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. This is because an increasing number of companies are realizing that there's great value in furthering their employees' knowledge in ways that are flexible, cost-effective, and tailored to each individual's needs.
In contrast to the academic Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that are still struggling to find the best path to a reliable revenue stream, businesses focused on corporate e-learning have found a business model that works--and works well. Online corporate learning allows employees in every industry and at any level to experience the power of customized training, 24/7, on any device. Unlike with classroom-based training, learners can train on their own time using customized formats. Everyone can move at their own pace, learning what they need to know and exploring their own interests. Though still a relatively young industry, corporate e-learning promises to deliver new models of teaching and a future of exciting breakthroughs.
Skills measurement. In conjunction with the building momentum in online corporate learning, expect to see intensified focus in 2015 on identifying better ways to assess skills and measure individual progress, competency-based learning, and ultimately ROI. The Clayton Christensen Institute notes that when we provide customizable education, it becomes important to ensure that modular learning experiences are blended together in a way that fosters cohesion. To do so requires efficient ways to measure and track student learning to guarantee smooth interchanges between each learning experience.
We've got this as a top priority at Pluralsight via our recent acquisition of Smarterer, which allows us to measure any skill set with as few as 10 questions in under two minutes based on an adaptive algorithm. This allows us to give learners an SAT-like score for any skill, which could provide the foundation for a new industry standard around skills measurement.Other online education companies have started experimenting in this area as well, including Udacity's Nanodegrees program and General Assembly's microcredentials. Any company that offers MOOCs needs to address better skills assessment if they want to survive.
Alternative learning styles. Gone are the days when students have to rely only on text-based--or even video-based--tutorials. While those are still effective, new types of learning styles will continue to emerge in 2015, offering online learners more interactive experiences like writing code directly in the browser, or completing online challenges as part of the learning process. Pluralsight had this trend in sight with our latest acquisition of Code School.
Code School offers a unique approach that relies on an alternative learning style that we believe is more fun, engaging, and effective than just plain videos. With Code School, users watch a short video, then stop and practice what they've learned through a series of interactive coding challenges and assessments--all in the browser--before continuing. As learners progress through the challenges, they earn points and badges, which guide each individual's progress and learning. There's also a mobile app so that users can watch and review videos on-the-go to complement the code challenges and online learning. This is the type of new, interactive learning style that you can expect to see much more of in the education segment.
Online competency-based training. While competency-based training approaches and online learning are nothing new, the blend of the two is creating a revolutionary approach to education. Michelle R. Weise and Clayton M. Christensen write that online competency-based education has "great disruptive potential" because it incorporates not only the right learning model, but the right technologies, customers, and business model. Weise and Christensen go on to explain that providers of online competency-based training "can cost-effectively combine modules of learning into pathways that are agile and adaptable to the changing labor market." They do so by breaking down learning not by courses or even subject matter, but by competencies, thus releasing learning from the constraints of traditional institutions and methods.
How can providers of these technologies create a diversity of stackable programs for a wide range of industries, scale them, and also keep costs down? By fusing modularization with assessments to effectively measure the competencies. Online competency-based learning opportunities--such as those offered by the online degree programs at Western Governors University and Southern New Hampshire University--help students through targeted learning outcomes, customized support, and portable skill sets that employers care about. Expect this trend to highlight the important role of employers to create a value network that helps students connect directly with potential job opportunities.
Flipped-learning tech. Information Week identifies technology for flipped learning as another key ed-tech trend in 2015. A flipped class is a form of blended learning where students watch video lectures outside of class to learn content online, and then do their homework in class with the guidance of teachers in person. This approach helps to engage students outside of the classroom as well as in it.
Harman Singh notes that designers of the online tools and video streaming that are central to this approach must prioritize optimizing them for interactivity. Look for next-generation cloud-based, mobile, and app solutions--with powerful analytics to measure student responses--to replace outdated learning management systems in 2015. Khan Academy is currently leading this type of disruption in the K-12 space.
As the education sector continues to embrace the power and promise of digital learning and the best that ed tech has to offer, I leave you with one caveat: no matter how exciting the new technology, the tool itself must always be secondary to the goal that the student, teacher, or administrator is trying to achieve or the problem they are trying to solve. As Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker point out in their bookBlended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, the most successful designers of education technology will keep the end in mind, rather than pushing tech innovations for technology's own sake.
Reference: http://www.inc.com/aaron-skonnard/5-top-trends-in-education-technology-2015.html
Thursday, September 3, 2015
50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About
Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved.
Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom.
Social Learning
These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
- Edmodo: Teachers and students can take advantage of this great tech tool, as it offers a Facebook-like environment where classes can connect online.
- Grockit: Get your students connected with each other in study sessions that take place on this great social site.
- EduBlogs: EduBlogs offers a safe and secure place to set up blogs for yourself or your classroom.
- Skype: Skype can be a great tool for keeping in touch with other educators or even attending meetings online. Even cooler, it can help teachers to connect with other classrooms, even those in other countries.
- Wikispaces: Share lessons, media, and other materials online with your students, or let them collaborate to build their own educational wiki on Wikispaces.
- Pinterest: You can pin just about any image you find interesting on this site, but many teachers are using it as a place to collect great lesson plans, projects, and inspirational materials.
- Schoology: Through this social site, teachers can manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators.
- Quora: While Quora is used for a wide range of purposes, it can be a great tool for educators. It can be used to connect with other professionals or to engage students in discussion after class.
- Ning: Ning allows anyone to create a personalized social network, which can be great for both teachers and students alike.
- OpenStudy:Encourage your students to work together to learn class material by using a social study site like OpenStudy.
- ePals: One of the coolest benefits of the Web is being able to connect with anyone, anywhere. ePals does just that, but focuses on students, helping them to learn languages and understand cultures different from their own.
Learning
These educational tools can help you to make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective.
- Khan Academy: Many teachers use this excellent collection of math, science, and finance lectures and quizzes to supplement their classroom materials.
- MangaHigh: MangaHigh offers teachers a wealth of resources for game-based learning in mathematics.
- FunBrain: If you’re looking for a great collection of educational games, look no further than FunBrain. On it, teachers can take advantage of fun tools for math and reading.
- Educreations: Educreations is an amazing online tool for the iPad that lets teachers (or students) create videos that teach a given topic. Perfect for studying or getting students to show off their knowledge.
- Animoto: Animoto makes it simple to create video-based lessons or presentations for the classroom and to share them with students or anyone else.
- Socrative: Available for computers, mobile devices, and tablets, this student response system engages students through games and exercises on any device they have on hand. Even better, teachers can easily assess student progress and track grades.
- Knewton: Adaptive learning has been a hot topic in recent months, and with Knewton it’s something that any teacher can access and use. The site personalizes online learning content for each student according to his or her needs.
- Kerpoof: On Kerpoof, students can get creative with their learning with games, interactive activities, drawing tools, and more that are both fun and educational.
- StudySync: With a digital library, weekly writing practice, online writing and peer reviews, Common Core assignments, and multimedia lessons available, this site is a fully-featured tool for teaching and learning that can be a big help in the classroom.
- CarrotSticks: On this site, teachers can take advantage of a wide range of math learning games, giving students practice while they have fun.
Lesson Planning and Tools
Use these tech tools to pull together great lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects.
- Teachers Pay Teachers: Have great lessons to share? Looking for something to add to your classes? On this site you can do both, selling your own class materials and buying high-quality resources from other teachers.
- Planboard: Make sure your lessons are organized and that your day runs smoothly with the help of this amazing online tool designed just for teachers.
- Timetoast: Timetoast is a pretty cool for student projects, allowing them to build sleek, interactive timelines in minutes.
- Capzles: There are so many different ways that Capzles can be used in the classroom, there’s bound to be an application that fits your needs. What does it do? Capzles makes it simple to gather media like photos, videos, documents, and even blog posts into one place, making it perfect for teaching, learning, or online projects.
- Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers.
- Wordle: Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind.
- QR Codes: QR codes (or quick response codes) are showing up with greater frequency in education. If you’d like to get in on the trend, you’ll need a tool to create and manage the codes like Delivr and one to read codes, like any of those listed on this site.
- Quizlet: Quizlet makes it easy for teachers to create study tools for students, especially flashcards that can make memorizing important information a snap.
- MasteryConnect: How are your students performing with regard to state and common core standards? MasterConnect makes it simple to track and analyze both, as well as other elements of student performance.
- Google Docs: Through Google Docs, teachers can create and share documents, presentations, or spreadsheets with students and colleagues as well as give feedback on student-created projects.
- YouTube: Not all schools allow YouTube, but they are missing out as the site contains a wealth of great learning materials for the classroom. There’s even a special education-focused channel just for teachers and students.
- TED-Ed: TED isn’t just a great place to find inspiration anymore, the site also contains numerous videos that are organized by subject and can help you to teach everything from how pain relievers work to Shakespearean insults.
- Glogster:Glogster is a social site that lets users mash up music, photos, videos, and pretty much anything else you’d like. It’s a great way to create learning materials and a handy tool for creative student projects.
- Creaza: Want to bring your student projects into the 21st century? Creaza can make that possible, offering tools to brainstorm, create cartoons, and edit audio and video.
- Mentor Mob: On Mentor Mob, you or your students can create a learning playlist, which is essentially a collection of high-quality materials that can be used to study a specific concept.
Useful Tools
These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools.
- Evernote: Capture great ideas, photos, recordings, or just about anything else on your Evernote account, access it anywhere, and keep it organized. A must-have tool for lesson planning.
- Twitter: There are so many ways Twitter can be used in education. Teachers can connect with other educators, take part in chats, share their ideas, or even use it in the classroom to reach out to students.
- Google Education: Google offers a number of great edtech resources for teachers, including email and collaborative apps, videos, lesson plan search, professional development, and even educational grants.
- Dropbox: Easily store, share, and access any kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to-use and free Dropbox service.
- Diigo: Diigo lets you treat the web like paper-based reading material, making it simple to highlight, bookmark, take notes, or even add sticky notes.
- Apple iPad: One of the most widely used, though expensive, tech tools being used in today’s classroom is the Apple iPad. With a host of educational apps being developed for the device, it’s become a favorite of teachers and students alike across the nation.
- Aviary: Aviary is a suite of tools that make it easy to edit images, effects, swatches, music, and audio or to create and modify screen captures.
- Jing: If you’re teaching kids about tech or just about anything else, a great screenshot program is essential. Jing is one great option that allows teachers to take screenshots as images, record up to five minutes or videos then edit and share the results.
- Popplet: You and your students can use Popplet to brainstorm ideas, create mindmaps, share, and collaborate.
- Google Earth: From geography projects to learning about geological processes, Google Earth can be an amazing and fast way to show students anywhere in the world.
- DonorsChoose: Need funding for a classroom project? You can get it through this site that hooks up needy teachers with willing donors.
- SlideShare: With SlideShare, you can upload your presentations, documents, and videos and share them with students and colleagues. Even better, you can take advantage of materials that other have uploaded as well.
- LiveBinders: Like a real-life three ring binder, this tech tool allows you to collect and organize resources. Much better than a binder, however, the site also comes with tools to connect and collaborate and a virtual whiteboard.
- AudioBoo: Through this tool, you can record and share audio for your students or anyone else.
This article originally appeared on Edudemic and was written and posted by the Edudemic staff.
Reference: http://globaldigitalcitizen.org/50-education-technology-tools-every-teacher-should-know-about
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