Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Navigating copyright laws can be challenging for educators, especially when trying to create engaging and informative materials for their students. However, sometimes we might unknowingly violate copyright laws when using resources in the classroom. To avoid any legal trouble, it’s essential to understand common copyright pitfalls and how to navigate them. One critical aspect of copyright law that teachers should be familiar with is “fair use.” Here are ways teachers violate copyright:
How will schools handle the rapid shifts necessary to adapt to AI chatbots like ChatGPT? Adapt to ChatGPT with Art! Art makes learning more meaningful and personal. School should focus more on making great well balanced human being rather than competitors of technology.
Using ChatGPT effectively can not only save you time as a teacher but help you to innovate your classroom. Try these 100 Prompts for Teachers to Ask ChatGPT
Student centered learning is focusing on the needs and interests of the students. Student centered classrooms are harder than a traditional model. The advantage is helping students to truly have a passion for learning. Better relationship building can also be a biproduct.
Student centered learning is an approach to education that puts the student at the center of the learning process. Here are 8 Ways to Have a More Student Centered Classroom
If you are striving for a student centered classroom does your syllabus indicate that this is MY class or OUR class? Are students afraid to deviate from the directions? Do they think they can advocate for their own learning or are restricted to following the directions?
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Student centered classrooms require a lot of intentionality. Being flexible. Knowing the students you have and adapting the curriculum to fit their needs. Being willing to accept alternative assessment.
Be more student centered! Alice Keeler shares tips on how to use Google Classroom to be more student centered.
Lesson planning is hard. Sometimes we struggle with just learning the tools and fail at actually creating a meaningful learning experience for students.
Not all students best express their knowledge of a concept through writing or best learn a concept through strictly reading about it. Some students like to demonstrate their learning through pictures, some through demonstration, and others still through writing. All students are more engaged if you tie the learning to a real world problem, something that applies directly to them.
National Geographic for Teachers I Love Real Data!!! My typical joke is “Who is Bob and why is he carrying 40 watermelons?” As a math teacher pretty much the entire textbook is “who cares?” it’s hard to engage students with contrived word problems. However, I believe students DEEPLY CARE! They want to change the world…
ELA Lesson: Claim, Evidence, and Elaboration The art of the lesson plan is knowing your students and creating an engaging lesson for the students you actually teach. This is the problem with pre-made lessons from the publisher, they don’t know your students. An English teacher, after noticing his students were really into the television show…
National Geographic creates and shares so many amazing resources for educators it is mind boggling. I was privileged to participate in the National Geographic Educator Summit #NatGeoEdSummit where one of the many things shared was about their research at Mount Everest. The photos, storytelling and data were amazing but @NatGeoEducation takes it further to create…
What are you curious about? What questions do you have? A Guest Post by Marcia Carrillo Based on the work of @ramusallam These are the questions I was asked after watching a Verizon commercial, in which a bicyclist rides throughout San Francisco and his path is captured on his phone in the shape of a…
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