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Podcasting in Education: What Are the Benefits?
Many learning institutions which have incorporated podcasting in their education system, have reported really positive results. This can be attributed to the ease of creating and consuming podcasts as well as the various ways in which education podcasts enhance the students' learning experience. There are a lot of advantages of podcasting in education. Let's take a look!
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How to Use Podcasts in the Classroom
Students’ attention spans are famously short, and there are more distractions competing for their attention today than ever before. How do podcasts cut through the noise?
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8 Simple Podcasting Projects That You Can Do With Your Students
Podcasts are now a BIG THING and with more and more companies, brands, and institutions getting turning to podcasts to tell their story, so are schools, classrooms, and students. In this post, we are going to look at 8 pretty awesome, and pretty simple Educational Podcasting Projects that you can bring into your classrooms.
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28 Student-Centered Instructional Strategies
Student-centered teaching is teaching designed for the student. This means that planning often begins with the student in mind as opposed to a school policy or curriculum artifact, for example. Done well, it can disarm some of the more intimidating parts of academia, while also shortening the distance between the student and understanding.
This infographic provides additional tools (in the form of strategies) that can help create a learning environment that can, depending on the context, more approachable, friendly, or familiar to students in your classroom.
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Practical Ideas to Make Your Online Lessons More Student-Centered
This video demonstrates some practical ideas about making online lessons more student-centered. It suggests two great tools that combine really effectively with Zoom or Google Meet and can help to take pressure off the teacher and can lead into breakout room activities.
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How to Teach More Student-Centered Lessons
Students don’t come to English classes to learn how to speak English in classrooms. They want language they can use in their lives. Teaching student-centered lessons can help your students be engaged in your class and use English. How can you teach student-centered lessons? Here are 5 ways.
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Classroom Activities for Multiple Intelligences
Different children learn differently, which is why you need classroom activities for multiple intelligences. Students who don't learn traditionally may be left behind by regular classwork. By engaging students in multiple intelligence activities that teach to each of the eight different types of intelligences, you will be able to help all of your students succeed.
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How to Engage the 7 Types of Learners in your Classroom
It’s generally accepted that there are seven different learning styles. While most of us fall across the spectrum of each of these styles, facilitating lessons that are engaging on all levels will give your students the best chance of success.
Here we discuss strategies to improve engagement for students of each learning style.
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Teaching Different Learning Styles
Although students may have a preference of learning style, it doesn’t mean we need to separate our students into groups and teach our lessons 4 different ways! Teaching in only one style may even be a disservice to students. Many students are multi-modal and have several preferences for learning styles. Some students can be visual learners in some situations, but auditory in others.
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8 Augmented Reality Ideas for Learners of All Ages
Augmented reality (AR) has been slowly but surely following its predecessor virtual reality in changing the education sector — digitizing classroom learning, and making training more diverse and interactive.
In this article, Ainars shares about the AR contents that can add value to education.
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3 Ways to Use AR in Education and Training
The newest generation is already familiar with various technologies, which is why schools and companies may have invested in high-quality tablets and computers to enhance learning. Augmented Reality (AR) is seeing more prominent utilization.
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10 Fun Augmented Reality Apps for Teachers to Use in the Classroom
In this blog post, Lucie shows some astonishing augmented reality apps for education. She also gives some lesson ideas with augmented reality, so teachers can get started right away.
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Best Augmented Reality Apps for Kids - AR Games
Educational AR apps furthermore provide opportunities for educators to create their own AR content and lesson plans, or even for those who would like to engage students in doing the same.
Here are the best augmented reality apps for kids that you can download today on Android or iOS devices.
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How to Use Jamboard in the Classroom: 20+ Tips and Ideas
Jamboard is a collaborative online whiteboard. It gives students lots of creative work space. How do you use Google Jamboard in the classroom? Check out these ideas!
If you like the ideas, then click the ""Get this template!"" button and make a copy of a template you can use right away with students!
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20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom
Google Drawings is a hidden treasure for teachers and students, but many have yet to discover its benefits.
If you have never used Google Drawings, challenge yourself to give it a try!
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How to Make an Interactive Drag & Drop Worksheet (Sorting Activity)
In this tutorial, for teachers, you will learn how to make an interactive worksheet that allows students to sort pictures into categories. Students can drag and drop the images and then turn it in Google Classroom. Use it for coins, shapes, and so much more! It is a fun activity and you can change the content for different age groups.
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First Week of School Activities: Create Memorable Moments Together
At the start of every school year, It’s a good idea to have some lessons and activities that make the first few weeks back extra special. As the kids are adjusting, getting acquainted, and learning the new demands of a new grade, it’s nice to offer them fun and memorable opportunities to connect.
Check out these 7 lessons and activities to make the start of school memorable!
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5 Activities You Shouldn't Skip the First Week of Kindergarten
These are things that will help you work towards building fine motor skills, get your first class book created and teach good versus poor choices.
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Set the Tone for a Positive School Year
This is your first and best opportunity to set the tone for the entirety of the school year. It’s extremely important to get the tone right on the first day if you expect a positive school year. You will never have another opportunity to start fresh with this class of eager learners.
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Create Your Classroom Rules WITH Your Students for a Powerful Start to the Year
Allowing students to take ownership over their environment shows them you value their thoughts. Here are 3 ways and benefits to create shared classroom expectations with your students.
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15 Fun School Holidays Activities for Students - The Bucket List
This post isn’t about giving your students homework, it’s about giving your students challenges and fun activities they can do during the school holidays. Keep them busy and motivated. Some of the activities they can do with friends or family, others they can so alone.
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5 Kahoot! Activities to Make Studying During Holidays Awesome for Your Learners
Looking for ways to engage your students with content review or exam prep during holidays? These 5 Kahoot! activities will make it FUN and safely social.
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40 Productive Things to Do During The School Holidays
Teachers can share this list of 40 meaningful things with students for them to do during the school holidays.
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20 Teacher-Approved Educational YouTube Channels
Check out these YouTube Channels which students can watch and learn during the school holidays. Don't forget to share this with your students and parents too!
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Wimpy Kid Club
Millions of kids are readers because of these books, so take Wimpy Kid into your classroom with these specially created resources for teachers, designed to help you lead fun, focused and curriculum-linked lessons.
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Free Resources from Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is providing free access to 200+ digital versions of our Student Books for you to access whilst schools are affected by the coronavirus.
Please note, the temporary free access to these resources will be ending on 30 September 2020. Please do continue to make use of them until then.
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Pre-School Activity Library
StoryPlace came about to provide children with the virtual experience of going to the Library and participating in the same types of activities the Library offers at its physical locations.
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Make Educational Game with Baamboozle
Open Baamboozle in your class and jump straight into a game. It's perfect as a warmer, concept checker, review lesson, you name it.
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Useful Tips and Ideas to Keep Students Attentions on Lesson
When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation.
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Using chunking as a way to teach : Conduct section by part
This technique helps teachers to increase attention in the lessons by chunking each lesson.
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Using cold call as a way to teach: Advantages and Ways to use cold call
Cold Call is a question technique. It ensures that all students get to respond to questions and therefore increase attentions, learning outcomes and a sense of community.
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Icebreakers that Rock
We’re coming up fast on the beginning of another school year. That means a new batch of students to get to know, students who need to be made comfortable in your classroom, and who need to get to know each other. It’s essential to start building relationships with your students right from the start.
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Encouraging Class Participation
Class participation is a great way to learn as it encourages cooperative learning. However, what are the tips and tricks to encourage students to participate.
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Top 10 Ways to Increase Your Students’ Interest in a Subject
Making your students interested in a subject can be a real challenge. There are so many variables that can affect their engagement.
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Project Based Learning in Kindergarten
Is project based learning sounds too complicated, in-depth, and overwhelming to you? Here are some tips and ideas to begin and implement PBL in your own classroom.
- Tiffany Brosig -
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29 Awesome Character Building Activities
In this article, we have character education building games and activities for every age. Each activity tells you what character trait will be learned and/or enforced. Consider the age and personality of those you are serving when you choose your activity or game.
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EdTech Toolbox by Craig Kemp
This toolbox is designed to promote ideas that are department specific to enhance student learning through the integration of Educational Technology. The tools found in this toolbox are suggestion of possible digital technologies that can be used to create, share, collaborate and learn within your units.
This is a live document that will be regularly updated, so please offer suggestions of tools that can be added for all staff to use and improve student learning.
- Craig Kemp -
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Shake Up Learning
Shake Up Learning provides educators with pratical resources using today's technology.
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