All Discussions Tagged 'ICT' - Classroom 2.02024-03-28T18:21:47Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=ICT&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe Five Habits of Highly Effective Teacherstag:www.classroom20.com,2014-03-18:649749:Topic:10010982014-03-18T11:29:53.611ZAbdelouahed OULGOUThttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/AbdelouahedOULGOUT
<p>Growing professionally as a highly effective teacher is not that easy. It is a matter of struggle, patience, and commitment to improve one’s potentials and capacities. When young teachers embark on teaching, they usually feel excited and internally motivated.Yet, as time passes, those boiling feelings of passion and fondness start getting colder and colder, dragging down a large community of teachers and educators to the lowest level. Such degradation is often embodied in the feelings of…</p>
<p>Growing professionally as a highly effective teacher is not that easy. It is a matter of struggle, patience, and commitment to improve one’s potentials and capacities. When young teachers embark on teaching, they usually feel excited and internally motivated.Yet, as time passes, those boiling feelings of passion and fondness start getting colder and colder, dragging down a large community of teachers and educators to the lowest level. Such degradation is often embodied in the feelings of boredom, passivity, and laziness; and it reflects negatively on the educational process in particular, and on the educational system as a whole. On the other hand, a few teachers keep their motivational signals twinkling, trying all the best to grow personally and professionally. Throwing a quick glance at the reality of both communities helps you dispel the fog over the secret habits which can make you so effective. This op-ed article comes to accentuate five habits effective teachers apply in their life-long career.</p>
<p><strong>1- Think reflectively:</strong></p>
<p>Reflective thinking is the process of thinking critically by making use of your cognitive skills and strategies to reach the desired outcomes of your plans and prospects. Some refer to it as directed thinking because it is an outcome-oriented process through which you meet some specific aims or work out certain issues and challenges. That is, to teach effectively, you must think reflectively. Reflection also means thinking back over your past experiences for better performance and achievement in the future. This is not to say that reflective thinking is a mere processing of thoughts and past memories. On the contrary, it is an actual demonstration of your impressions, feelings, and thoughts, embodied in the form of reports, polls, or surveys to address a critical teaching or learning situation. In short, reflective thinking is the mental processing of your experiences for the purpose of refining and perfecting your future choices, plans and behavior.</p>
<p><strong>2- Go beyond the norms</strong></p>
<p>It is a shame on a teacher today to go on one boring recipe or diet in such a free and runaway world. The curse of white stones and black boards is as much primitive as the way of life during the Stone Age when people used stones as implements by which to solve a variety of problems and realize a number of achievements. Today, a large number of teachers still live under such a dusty world, unwilling to get rid of textbook slavery and dark dungeons. It is true that teachers in Morocco are compelled to try such primitive tools and cope with the restless but stagnant reality of our education, yet they have numerous and renewing opportunities for freedom and change.</p>
<p>Going beyond the norms of the primitive traditions of education calls for the effective use of the new technologies. The latter, if used appropriately, empowers teachers to vary their tools, overcome their problems, and increase their students’ desire for learning. A computer, be it a laptop or a desktop, is a must-have machine for every teacher. Thanks to it, one can devise his own ELT materials: handouts, visuals, learning apps, interactive lessons and quizzes…etc. Besides, the new educational technologies enable teachers to create their personalized or professional interactive environments, such as virtual classrooms, where they can share all that stuff with their students and fellow teachers. Going beyond the old-fashioned borders (ways and tools) of teaching is a must for every teacher willing to keep apace of the new trends in modern education.</p>
<p><strong>3- Plan creatively</strong></p>
<p>Planning is the process of connecting theory to practice. It is also the process during which a lesson success or failure is planned. For that reason, a teacher must consider five crucial qualities while planning a lesson: theoretical awareness, intelligence, creativity, imagination and expectation. These, I believe, are the key elements of effective lesson planning, because they are all about envisioning your lesson/session, from opening to closing, before it is done. Such a process allows you to predict any potential situation and devise the necessary ways and means to treat it. A plan also embodies a particular learning model. Be it a PPP model (Presentation, Practice, and Production), an OHE model (Observation, Hypothesis, and Experimentation) or a 5 Es learning cycle model (Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation), your creative touches must stamp your plans and elevate your performance.</p>
<p><strong>4- Stay online</strong></p>
<p>Keep abreast of the new events and innovations in the field of education, and put into practice anything you think is interesting to update yourself and better your job. Never rely on anyone to break to you the news or keep you updated with the global changes in education. Take the initiative by yourself and surf frequently in the net for news related to the branches of teaching and learning (methods and approaches, classroom management, Information and Communication Technology, assessment and evaluation, values education…etc). To stay online does not mean to set your Facebook status online so that your colleagues will acquaint you with the news, nor does it mean to wait for the Ministry of Education to issue new circulars or notices; it rather means navigating over numerous official webs specializing in the field of education and exploring the latest reports, surveys, polls, studies, and experiments. Be it by searching in the net or by attending pedagogical meetings, updating one’s knowledge and practices is of paramount importance to catch up with the latest developments in your job.</p>
<p><strong>5- Be productive</strong></p>
<p>Don’t just consume what others produce. This is why a computer is a must-have machine for every teacher. Learn to develop and adapt your own materials using a variety of computer applications. Learn to use Microsoft applications such as Office Word, Office PowerPoint, and Office Publisher to devise your teaching materials (handouts, lesson summaries, graphics, tasks, web pages, brochures, booklets, flyers…etc). Try Hot Potatoes, Wondershare quiz creator, ispring quiz maker, or Ispring Presenter to create lively interactive quizzes and courses. Learn to use Adobe Flash Professional to build communicative animations/situations for your students. Organize and integrate all that content into an auto-run compact disk (CD) application, and put it at your students’ disposal. Do all you can, but don’t just consume what others produce.</p>
<p>These are enough habits to make you so productive, updated, creative, open, and reflective; so take the initiative and develop more good habits to make the best of teaching. All the best!</p> Easy ICT tools to use in your blog.tag:www.classroom20.com,2012-11-24:649749:Topic:8939252012-11-24T12:15:38.154ZYOLANDA EGEAhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/YOLANDAEGEA
<p>Most every teacher carries a collaborative project from time to time. I leave you here some ICT tools that contributes to have a beautiful blog. This is focus on Comenius and eTwinning projects, but they are useful for everybody because the steps are quite simple and easy. Just for beginners. :-)</p>
<p><a href="http://grupoticdeyolandaegea.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/ict-tools-to-use-in-twispace-working-on-etwinning-and-comenius-projects/" target="_blank">ICT TOOLS IN MY BLOG OR WIKI, OH…</a></p>
<p>Most every teacher carries a collaborative project from time to time. I leave you here some ICT tools that contributes to have a beautiful blog. This is focus on Comenius and eTwinning projects, but they are useful for everybody because the steps are quite simple and easy. Just for beginners. :-)</p>
<p><a href="http://grupoticdeyolandaegea.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/ict-tools-to-use-in-twispace-working-on-etwinning-and-comenius-projects/" target="_blank">ICT TOOLS IN MY BLOG OR WIKI, OH YES!</a></p> Social Learning Theory, DigitalCitizenship & ICT Integration Married Through Project Based Learningtag:www.classroom20.com,2012-09-10:649749:Topic:8731212012-09-10T23:17:53.726ZSean Thompsonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/SeanThompson
<p class="p1">This <i>Classroom </i><span class="s1"><i>2</i></span><i>.0: The Book</i> chapter can be downloaded <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/102754377/Sean-Thompson-Project-Based-Learning" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p class="p1">Please give this a read and help me get published. It has been a wonderful opportunity being part of Classroom 2.0's Book Project.</p>
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<p class="p1"><b>Summary</b></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">By considering the responsibilities we…</span></p>
<p class="p1">This <i>Classroom </i><span class="s1"><i>2</i></span><i>.0: The Book</i> chapter can be downloaded <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/102754377/Sean-Thompson-Project-Based-Learning" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
<p class="p1">Please give this a read and help me get published. It has been a wonderful opportunity being part of Classroom 2.0's Book Project.</p>
<p class="p1"></p>
<p class="p1"><b>Summary</b></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">By considering the responsibilities we share online and in the creation, remixing and sharing of our </span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">work and in all aspects of our use of online media we can lay the foundations and understandings</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">for our students and communities for greater safety and more advanced learning outcomes. I will</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">offer a discussion of these concepts, with real world examples and references to the work of others</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">before sharing an example of how social learning and integration has been managed in one of my</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">classrooms through the execution of project based learning before finally offering a free, online</span></p>
<p class="p2">Responsible Usage Agreement Teacher Assistant for you to use or adapt for your own use. This</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">will highlight the issues relevant to embarking on a platform for any school interested in embarking</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">on an integration program geared towards engendering 21st century skills and responsible digital</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">citizenship.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><b> </b></p>
<p class="p3"><b>Grade level(s):</b></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">1-12</span></p>
<p class="p3"><b>Specifc learning objectives:</b></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">International Society for Technology in Education’s National Education</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Technology Standards:</span></p>
<p class="p2">• Digital Citizenship</p>
<p class="p2">• Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">and ethical behavior.</span></p>
<p class="p2">• Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology</p>
<p class="p2">• Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and</p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">productivity</span></p>
<p class="p2">• Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning</p>
<p class="p2">• Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship</p> Information Technology Web 2.0 Tools for Evaluationtag:www.classroom20.com,2012-07-17:649749:Topic:8519522012-07-17T03:26:18.018ZAssoc. Prof Dr Vinod Kr Kanvariahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/VinodKumarKanvaria
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<p><strong>This 'Classroom 2.0: The Book' chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/100215720/Vinod-Kanvaria-ICT-for-Teachers">http://www.scribd.com/doc/100215720/Vinod-Kanvaria-ICT-for-Teachers</a>.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>The teaching-learning fraternity, since the time of inception of the concept of Web tools, is curious to explore:</strong></p>
<p><strong> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Whether Web tools can be used for assessment and evaluation…</span></strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>This 'Classroom 2.0: The Book' chapter can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/100215720/Vinod-Kanvaria-ICT-for-Teachers">http://www.scribd.com/doc/100215720/Vinod-Kanvaria-ICT-for-Teachers</a>.</strong></p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>The teaching-learning fraternity, since the time of inception of the concept of Web tools, is curious to explore:</strong></p>
<p><strong> <span style="color: #ff0000;">Whether Web tools can be used for assessment and evaluation purposes too, in teaching-learning process?</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> If yes, what sort of tools are available which can be effectively used for assessment and evaluation?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Here comes the solution.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>The current chapter draws a comprehensive picture of evaluation and ICT tools for evaluation, and in turn the technology in evaluation. Beginning from the concept of learning and evaluation, swimming through the conceptual understanding of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 tools, the document gives a comprehensive, yet brief, picture of web tools, especially Web 2.0 tools, with detail, which can easily be used for the teaching-learning assessment and evaluation.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Please download the document from the link:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/100215720/Vinod-Kanvaria-ICT-for-Teachers">http://www.scribd.com/doc/100215720/Vinod-Kanvaria-ICT-for-Teachers</a> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008080;"><strong>and please do feel free to share anything you feel like sharing. Your views are much more important than the original document.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366;"><strong>Hope, you will enjoy your stay with the document.... :)</strong></span></p> Tech Savvy Schools in Londontag:www.classroom20.com,2012-03-23:649749:Topic:8201362012-03-23T23:11:39.126ZJennifer Garciahttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/chelita27
<p>Hi I will be in London on the 2nd of April and would really like to visit a learning resources centre or school media centre if possible. I am hoping to see how other schools handle their digital resources, e-books, kindles and share some ideas on ICT teaching and learning at each of our schools. From what I can tell many schools will be closed for Easter but I have heard that some may actually be open. If you work at such a school or know of one in the London area could you please reply…</p>
<p>Hi I will be in London on the 2nd of April and would really like to visit a learning resources centre or school media centre if possible. I am hoping to see how other schools handle their digital resources, e-books, kindles and share some ideas on ICT teaching and learning at each of our schools. From what I can tell many schools will be closed for Easter but I have heard that some may actually be open. If you work at such a school or know of one in the London area could you please reply to this discussion?</p>
<p>Thanks everyone,</p>
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<p>Jen</p>
<p></p> Priniciples of Creative Teachingtag:www.classroom20.com,2011-06-21:649749:Topic:6589042011-06-21T18:33:32.415ZAbdelouahed OULGOUThttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/AbdelouahedOULGOUT
<div class="content clearfix"><div><div align="justify">Much talk runs, among the community of teachers, around learner’s needs to master a foreign language; yet to be creative in teaching, I believe, is the most required quality a language learner would need to construct his learning. What is it meant by Creative Teaching? On what principles it is founded? And how does a Creative Teacher differ from his traditional fellows? <br></br><br></br>Teaching creatively resembles teaching effectively.…</div>
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<div class="content clearfix"><div><div align="justify">Much talk runs, among the community of teachers, around learner’s needs to master a foreign language; yet to be creative in teaching, I believe, is the most required quality a language learner would need to construct his learning. What is it meant by Creative Teaching? On what principles it is founded? And how does a Creative Teacher differ from his traditional fellows? <br/><br/>Teaching creatively resembles teaching effectively. Effectiveness is the number one standard distinguishing Creative Teaching from any other mode of instruction. No teaching is creative without being effective, and no teaching is effective without being simultaneously creative. Creativity and effectiveness to a modal language teacher are as twins to their mother. When learners are able to turn the knowledge they are taught into actual outcomes, authentically and appropriately, one can simply judge teaching to be effective and creative.<br/><br/>CT is so creative because of its variety and openness. To be a Creative Teacher, you ought to take off your fashionable black glasses and put on up-to-date colorful ones. You ought to open up new horizons for new ideas and expectations. Teaching is no longer that predictable; everything is possible to happen in a way you have never expected. Think about nothing and everything and think up open and varied plans for anything you might imagine or intend to do. Never have one mode of thinking and doing things because the people you are addressing cannot be resumed into one stereotypical category; each leaner has got his own profile- style, preferences, mode, temper, experiences, and even DNA- and should be dealt with accordingly.<br/><br/>A Creative Teacher is a successful thinker, producer and investor. He is not that man who pursues his fellow teachersto consume their plans and thoughts only to fill in the gaps and kill the time; he is rather an effective thinker who spends most of his time to produce something new and reform others’ thoughts and plans by adding his personal touches and leaving his impact and impressions on everything traditional. This is one of the highest ways of modernizing teaching: the personalization of teaching. When a Creative Teacher sits down to plan a lesson his mind works hard, bringing into mind everything that can affect teaching: the audience, the environment, the teaching tools, techniques, process; and any mental, affective, and behavioral action that might affect both teaching and learning. Until his teaching is productive, a teacher will never be successful.</div>
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</div> Seeking input for PD strategiestag:www.classroom20.com,2011-02-14:649749:Topic:6006962011-02-14T01:41:17.472ZWan Fareedhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/WanFareed
<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I would like to get inputs on 2 areas. They are:</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>1st point</strong></span></p>
<p>I am involved in professional development works for teachers in the area of educational technology. What I found to be a common issue (from practice and the literature) is that after workshop or training, teachers claimed that although the sessions were informative and good, they were not able to translate what…</p>
<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I would like to get inputs on 2 areas. They are:</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>1st point</strong></span></p>
<p>I am involved in professional development works for teachers in the area of educational technology. What I found to be a common issue (from practice and the literature) is that after workshop or training, teachers claimed that although the sessions were informative and good, they were not able to translate what they have learnt into practice. Often I get 'How do I use it for my subject (i.e English or Maths or Science, etc). Point is, as I am not the content expert, I am not able to hold any workshop or training that is subject specific. Also, as educational tools are only tools, every educators will have differing strategies (even in teaching the same topic). I would appreciate if anyone could share on the followings:</p>
<ol>
<li>How could I conduct a PD (workshops/trainings) on any ICT tools that teachers will find its relevance uses in their practice?</li>
<li>I like to try another method. I thought that even if I have some agendas with regards to the workshops/trainings that I will be delivering, I'd like to start with asking teachers on how they want the sessions to be conducted (i.e how best should the session be conducted so that they will benefit most out of it). Anyone tried this before? Do you think this will be a better approach?</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>2nd point</strong></span></p>
<p>Have anyone used the interactive whiteboard before? Pls share on how you have used it (and also if there are any issues).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thank you much in anticipation!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Rgds</p>
<p>Fareed</p> igoogle in Educationtag:www.classroom20.com,2011-01-13:649749:Topic:5809582011-01-13T00:25:33.417ZMed Kharbachhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/MedKharbach
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">You might be using igoogle in your personal navigation online , but have you ever taught of the educative significance of this service ? we , as teachers and educators, can do a tremendous job using igoogle . read my article…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span xml:lang="EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">You might be using igoogle in your personal navigation online , but have you ever taught of the educative significance of this service ? we , as teachers and educators, can do a tremendous job using igoogle . read my article <a href="http://educationaltech-med.blogspot.com/2011/01/igoogle-in-classroom.html" target="_blank">igoogle in education</a> to learn more .</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">Google buzz is one of the best social networking services provided by google .It amazes me what teachers and educators can really do with this service . I have dedicated a detailed post in my blog <a href="http://educationaltech-med.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Educational Technology</a> to Google Buzz<span> </span> in an article entitled…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">Google buzz is one of the best social networking services provided by google .It amazes me what teachers and educators can really do with this service . I have dedicated a detailed post in my blog <a href="http://educationaltech-med.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Educational Technology</a> to Google Buzz<span> </span> in an article entitled <a href="http://educationaltech-med.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-buzz-in-education.html?utm_source=BP_recent" target="_blank">Google Buzz in Education</a> read it to lear more .</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">Google docs is a free web-based service provided by google for its account holders . As teachers and educators we can do a lot with google docs , read my step by step tutorial on how we can use <a href="http://educationaltech-med.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-documents-in-education.html?utm_source=BP_recent" target="_blank">google docs in our classrooms</a> with our students .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB">Google docs is a free web-based service provided by google for its account holders . As teachers and educators we can do a lot with google docs , read my step by step tutorial on how we can use <a href="http://educationaltech-med.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-documents-in-education.html?utm_source=BP_recent" target="_blank">google docs in our classrooms</a> with our students .</span></p>