7 Simple Tools for New Teachers to Learn - EdTechReview™ (ETR)

7 Simple Tools for New Teachers to Learn - EdTechReview™ (ETR): 7 Simple Tools for New Teachers to Learn

Jessica Sanders
19 November 2015
http://tinyurl.com/q5zcfrz 7 Simple Tools for New Teachers to Learn
In fact, many are very simple to use, making them easy to learn and implement in your classroom.

These seven tools, ranging from video creating platforms to online reading logs, are not only simple, but engage your students and motivate them to learn more while having fun.
FunBrain

If you’re looking to use a new website or game during activity-station time, this is a great option. FunBrain offers a wide variety of online games that help students learn while having fun. Subjects covered include reading and math, with games like Tic Tac Toe Squares—“The classic game with a math twist!”—and The Grammar Gorillas—“Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech.”
Popplet

This tool can only be used on the iPad, making it best for teachers in an iPad classroom or school, 1:1 or otherwise. However, with an iPad in hand, this simple tool allows you and your students to reimagine the way they brainstorm, study and take notes via mind maps.

With Popplet, you and your students start with a single phrase or image in the middle of the map, adding ideas, facts and important information as branches. The branches can be color coded and labeled. For example, students can label their specific branches when working in groups, so you can see who contributed what.
Whooo’s Reading

This simple tool is all you need to motivate students to read more. Students log their reading, answer CCSS-aligned comprehension questions, and comment on their peers’ responses to earn Wisdom Coins. These Coins can be “spent” on virtual accessories in the Owl Shop. You’ll be amazed at how motivating this is for students.

As an educator, it’s easy to implement—simply add your student roster. Once students start logging reading, you’ll be able to see reading and comprehension progress via Lexile measures, along with average minutes read, average responses scored and written, and more.

This data makes it easy to follow the progress of your students and offer personalized recommendations for reading and improving.
PollEverywhere

Use this fun tool to get to know your students, throw a pop quiz or simply check on understanding during long lectures. Simply write a question, share it to your class, and watch the responses in real-time. Students can answer your question via Twitter, a web browse or their mobile phone, making this a simple and accessible school to teachers in a variety of settings.
Animoto

Animoto is a fun and simple platform that you and your students can use to make awesome videos without any video editing knowledge. Once you choose your style and song (options are built into the platform), you can customize with text, videos and photos, produce your final product and share.
Edublogs

If you want to start a class blog, or help your students start their own blogs, WordPress may seem a bit overwhelming. Edublogs, the largest education blogging platform on the web, is the perfect option, making it simple to create, maintain and share yours and your students’ blogs.

This education blogging tool is free and comes with a variety of built-in safety and security features, such as privacy control, moderated content and activity reports, so you and your students’ parents can rest easy.
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Author: Jessica SandersWebsite: http://www.learn2earn.org

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Below  are 5 amazing collaboration tools that you must be using by now for uninterrupted collaboration!

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Things that had to be communicated across the school were sent as a circular and even more pressing information was sent out using SMS.

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 ThingLink is a well-known platform for making interactive images,
videos for educational channels, web, social, and advertising. Its
interactive images provide an opportunity for students to enhance their
learning and develop 21st century skills.

Students can create, collaborate and communicate and engage in
critical thinking and problem solving. It is an amazing tool that is
transforming teaching and learning.

• It’s a tool for annotating images and defining through multimedia.
• Create multiple ‘hot spots’ to annotate images with text, pictures, video, audio and hyperlinks to web content.
• Mobile apps for iOS and Android to quickly capture life’s moments with wifi.
• Help students develop 21st century skills.

Knowledge worker one who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace

Knowledge worker

The term was first coined by Peter Drucker ca. 1959, as one who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace.

 “Knowledge networks” are collections of individuals and teams who come together across organizational, spatial and disciplinary boundaries to invent and share a body of knowledge. The focus of such networks is usually on developing, distributing and applying knowledge.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Knowledge workers are workers whose main capital is knowledge. Typical examples may include software engineers, doctors, architects, engineers, scientists, public accountants, lawyers, and teachers, because they "think for a living".[1]

What differentiates knowledge work from other forms of work is its primary task of "non-routine" problem solving that requires a combination of convergent, divergent, and creative thinking.[2] Also, despite the amount of research and literature on knowledge work there is yet to be a succinct definition of the term.[3]

The issue of who knowledge workers are, and what knowledge work entails, however, is still debated. Mosco and McKercher (2007) outline various viewpoints on the matter. They first point to the most narrow and defined definition of knowledge work, such as Florida’s view of it as specifically, "the direct manipulation of symbols to create an original knowledge product, or to add obvious value to an existing one", which limits the definition of knowledge work to mainly creative work. They then contrast this view of knowledge work with the notably broader view which includes the handling and distribution of information, arguing that workers who play a role in the handling and distribution of information add real value to the field, despite not necessarily contributing a creative element. Thirdly, one might consider a definition of knowledge work which includes, "all workers involved in the chain of producing and distributing knowledge products", which allows for an incredibly broad and inclusive categorization of knowledge workers. It should thus be acknowledged that the term "knowledge worker" can be quite broad in its meaning, and is not always definitive in who it refers to.[4]

Knowledge workers spend 38% of their time searching for information. They are also often displaced from their bosses, working in various departments and time zones or from remote sites such as home offices and airport lounges.[5]

Knowledge workers are employees who have a deep background in education and experience and are considered people who "think for a living." They include software developers, doctors, lawyers, inventors, teachers, nurses, financial analysts and architects.[6] As businesses increase their dependence on information technology, the number of fields in which knowledge workers must operate has expanded dramatically.

Even though they sometimes are called "gold collars",[7] because of their high salaries, as well as because of their relative independence in controlling the process of their own work,[8] current research shows that they are also more prone to burnout, and very close normative control from organizations they work for, unlike regular workers.[9]

Managing knowledge workers can be a difficult task. Most knowledge workers prefer some level of autonomy, and do not like being overseen or managed. Those who manage knowledge workers are often knowledge workers themselves, or have been in the past. Projects must be carefully considered before assigning to a knowledge worker, as their interest and goals will affect the quality of the completed project. Knowledge workers must be treated as individuals. "Managing Knowledge Workers: Getting the Most From Them". MindTools.com. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

Weiss (1960)[full citation needed] said that knowledge grows like organisms, with data serving as food to be assimilated rather than merely stored. Popper (1963)[full citation needed] stated there is always an increasing need for knowledge to grow and progress continually, whether tacit (Polanyi, 1976)[full citation needed] or explicit.

Toffler (1990)[full citation needed] observed that typical knowledge workers (especially R&D scientists and engineers) in the age of knowledge economy must have some system at their disposal to create, process and enhance their own knowledge. In some cases they would also need to manage the knowledge of their co-workers.

Nonaka (1991)[full citation needed] described knowledge as the fuel for innovation, but was concerned that many managers failed to understand how knowledge could be leveraged. Companies are more like living organisms than machines, he argued, and most viewed knowledge as a static input to the corporate machine. Nonaka advocated a view of knowledge as renewable and changing, and that knowledge workers were the agents for that change. Knowledge-creating companies, he believed, should be focused primarily on the task of innovation.

This laid the foundation for the new practice of knowledge management, or "KM", which evolved in the 1990s to support knowledge workers with standard tools and processes.

Savage (1995) describes a knowledge-focus as the third wave of human socio-economic development. The first wave was the Agricultural Age with wealth defined as ownership of land. In the second wave, the Industrial Age, wealth was based on ownership of Capital, i.e. factories. In the Knowledge Age, wealth is based upon the ownership of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge to create or improve goods and services. Product improvements include cost, durability, suitability, timeliness of delivery, and security. Using data,[citation needed] in the Knowledge Age, 2% of the working population will work on the land, 10% will work in Industry and the rest will be knowledge workers.[

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code | Talk Video | TED.com

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Educational Resources - at University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup | Edutopia

Open Repositories, Collections, and Tools

• Curriki
• OER Commons
• EDSITEment
• FREE: Federal Registry for Educational Excellence
• Gooru
• myOER.org
• OpenEd
• PBS LearningMedia
• ShareMyLesson
• TED-Ed
• The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
• WatchKnowLearn

Open Books and Textbooks

• CK-12 Foundation
• Project Gutenberg

Open Courses and Learning Modules

• Big History Project
• HippoCampus.org from National Repository of Online Courses
• Khan Academy
• MIT Open CourseWare: Highlights for High School
• Saylor.org

Blogs, Articles and Other Resources

• Power Up! Open Educational Resources: On the Web and Free, Doug Johnson, ASCD’s Educational Leadership (2014)
• A 7-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Open Educational Resources, by Julie Willcott, Edsurge (2014)
• Open Educational Resources: Designing for All Learners, Andrew Hashey & Skip Stahl, National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials (2014)
• Tips for Sharing Great Open Educational Content, Ian Quillen, KQED’s MindShift (2013)
• The Obstacles to OER, Audrey Watters, Hack Education (2012)
• Creating and Using Open Content, The Regents of the University of Michigan (2011)
• Education Program at Creative Commons

Understanding the Power of Open Educational Resources (OER)

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