Shifting Schools: Conversations for K12 Educators

This week I walk through a science lesson I did to start a unit on states of matter with 7th graders at a school I was working at a few years ago in Germany.

Structure:

The outline goes something like this.

10 minutes to research a topic, where you get your information I don’t care just learn as much as you can about a topic in 10 minutes

3-5 minutes depending on the age of the students to share your new knowledge with others in your class.

10 minutes as a class to bring our new knowledge together to see where we want to go next in the form of what questions do we still have?

5 minutes looking for patterns within our questions to create big ideas or themes that we can dive into.

Each student decided what idea or theme they want to study, which one is most interesting to them and form groups around those interests to study and learn more about to report back to the whole class.

Links:  Connected Educator Micro-Credential (with free PDF) Integrating Digital Citizenship into your Curriculum Course ($15)

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This week Lissa Layman and I talk about the new partnership between our Micro-Credential COETAIL (Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy) and the University of Kentucky Educational Leadership Studies' Certificate of Educational Technology Leadership and how this partnership is bringing together the research-based practices of a University with the practical application of COETAIL to create an amazing stackable certificate program.

Links: 

COETAIL.com

Partnership Announcement (with Free PDF)

Connected Educator Micro-Credential (with free PDF)

Integrating Digital Citizenship into your Curriculum Course ($15)

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Links: 

COETAIL.com

Partnership Announcement (with Free PDF)

Connected Educator Micro-Credential (with free PDF)

Integrating Digital Citizenship into your Curriculum Course ($15)

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This week I catch up with Tanya LeClair in China to talk about her must have iPad apps for the elementary classroom.

Lower Elementary (PreK-3)

• Seesaw
• Book Creator
• Shadow Puppet
• FlipGrid
• Osmo App

Upper Elementary (3-5)

• Seesaw/ Flipgrid
• Padlet
• Nearpod
• Apple Clips
• Adobe Spark
• Hopscotch

Tanya’s Links Twitter: @Tanya LeClair website: http://tanyaleclair.strikingly.com/

Don’t miss out on a year of learning with Tanya and Jeff and the Eduro Learning 1 to 1 Micro-Credential.

This week I catch up with Tanya LeClair in China to talk about her must have iPad apps for the elementary classroom.

Lower Elementary (PreK-3)

• Seesaw
• Book Creator
• Shadow Puppet
• FlipGrid
• Osmo App

Upper Elementary (3-5)

• Seesaw/ Flipgrid
• Padlet
• Nearpod
• Apple Clips
• Adobe Spark
• Hopscotch

Tanya’s Links Twitter: @Tanya LeClair website: http://tanyaleclair.strikingly.com/

Don’t miss out on a year of learning with Tanya and Jeff and the Eduro Learning 1 to 1 Micro-Credential.

As our 1:1 Summer of Fun comes to an end I share with you some of the other resources that we released this summer that you might not know about and you get to hear a Lunch Keynote I delivered this month at a STEM conference here in the State of Washington. Enjoy!

Links: 

Eduro Learning 1:1 Teacher YouTube Playlist

1:1 Micro-Credential Sign-Up Today!

Keynote Slide Deck (PDF)

 

As our 1:1 Summer of Fun comes to an end I share with you some of the other resources that we released this summer that you might not know about and you get to hear a Lunch Keynote I delivered this month at a STEM conference here in the State of Washington. Enjoy!

Links: 

Eduro Learning 1:1 Teacher YouTube Playlist

1:1 Micro-Credential Sign-Up Today!

Keynote Slide Deck (PDF)

 

As our 1:1 Summer of Fun marches on I take time to explain a bit more of why we created the micro-credentials at Eduro Learning and who they were created for while at the same time pushing you to make this year of making learning engaging for all students.

Links:

Gallup Student Poll on Engagement: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/03/23/gallup-student-poll-finds-engagement-in-school.html

1:1 Microcredential with this week’s free download:

10 Hidden Features of Google Docs every student should know about: http://bit.ly/2Mtzxbc 

As our 1:1 Summer of Fun marches on I take time to explain a bit more of why we created the micro-credentials at Eduro Learning and who they were created for while at the same time pushing you to make this year of making learning engaging for all students.

Links:

Gallup Student Poll on Engagement: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/03/23/gallup-student-poll-finds-engagement-in-school.html

1:1 Microcredential with this week’s free download:

10 Hidden Features of Google Docs every student should know about: http://bit.ly/2Mtzxbc 

This week I record a podcast while teaching a one-credit technology in an education course at Whitworth University. To talk about and help demonstrate the power of connections I had Michael and Trina from Auburn School District join me for about a 30-minute conversation. Both Michael and Trina give tips for new teachers entering 1:1 schools as well as share some of their favorite units from this past year that allowed the world to be their curriculum.

Links:

Free Download:

10 Hidden Features of Google Docs  https://edurolearning.com/1to1/

Discounted Course: Fake News and our Responsibility to be tech literate https://edurolearning.com/1to1/