1. Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
I mentioned last week that I’m a facilitator for the Canvas Certified Educator (CCE) program and my goodness do the participants in my latest class have some great edtech tools to share! This week another participant shared a project from students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where they created an online database about edtech tools called Online Tools for Teaching & Learning. They conducted in-depth research reviewing each tool for ease of use, accessibility, learning theory alignment, the SAMR framework, and other information, then categorized them by assessment tools, community tools, knowledge tools, and learner-centered tools.
2. Adobe Education Exchange Resources
If you’re familiar with Adobe Creative Cloud Express, it’s good to know that Adobe does even more through its Education Exchange. Educators can create a free account to collaborate with an entire teaching community, learn about monthly creative challenges to participate in with their classes, and sign up for professional development workshops that are offered as self-paced courses, live virtual learning, or in-person learning and receive recertification points.
Educators can also access teaching resources such as this lesson plan on how to create a video about design and the scientific method, which includes an editable template. Even if your school doesn’t use the Creative Cloud tool, you can still use the lesson and the sample video with other video tools and for modeling purposes.
3. Before and After
I LOVE a good before and after! Especially when it comes to redesigning a text-heavy lesson activity. It’s one of the reasons I am so devoted to sharing the principles of design with educators. It makes a difference when you see a page full of text compared to a page with headings, colors, images, and chunked, yet organized information as in the example below.
What a huge difference! Effective page design invokes a sense of professionalism, clarity, and engagement. It helps students to scan a page for important information and makes it easier to read and comprehend. If you’re interested in learning more, I recommend this article about page design.
4. AI in the Primary Classroom
While I’ve seen a lot about AI and how educators are using it in the classroom, I haven’t seen a ton of resources on how to use it with our littles. So of course, I had to save this tweet from Nadine Gilkison.
5. Phoneme Substitution Cups
I may be out of my element on this one, (I’ve only taught secondary) but I saw the below video on Instagram and thought it was a really cool idea for students learning to read! And bonus: check out the comments as a lot of educators saw this and made connections to their content too, including high school chemistry!
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