5 Productivity Skills Every Educator must have

In a national survey, we asked teachers, administrators and tech leaders to tell us what it takes to make a 21st century classroom run smoothly. Here’s what they said.

Educators literally have a “world of knowledge and resources” at their fingertips, as one director of curriculum and instructional technology declared in response to THE Journal’s national survey. “What better way to learn about the situation in Syria than tweeting #Syria and receiving a tweet from someone there?” But guiding your students in learning new concepts, gaining insights and building their skills requires you to be comfortable with the technologies that can make all of that happen.

Where do you start? We asked your colleagues that same question, and they responded in multitudes. Their recommendations covered the alphabetic gamut, from adaptivity and apps to wikis and a willingness to learn. Although the responses are ranked in order of popularity, you can begin your self-improvement plan anywhere on the list. No matter which one you decide to start with, these skills, sensibilities and products can help you run your classrooms more smoothly.

1) Acing Productivity Applications

Whether your school uses Google Apps for Education, Microsoft Office, Office 365 Education or something else, learn the fundamentals of word processing, spreadsheets and presentation applications and then go beyond the basics. Expertise in these staples will help you with communication and collaboration among students, colleagues and parents. Plus, they'll make you more effective.

As Joy Lopez, director of technology for Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton, CA, put it, "By modeling the use of these and incorporating them into their lessons, students will utilize them in their projects and daily lives." 

“Communication is crucial for keeping parents on board and informed,” added Amy Downs, instructional technology coach at Scottsdale Unified School District (AZ). “Students don't always share school information with their families, so let parents retrieve it at their convenience.”

MaryAnn Powell, instructional technology facilitator at Edgecombe County Public Schools in Tarboro, NC, concluded, “Whether [we're] working with a co-worker next door or around the world, whether [we're] getting together across a table or via a shared Google doc, it is essential that students learn to work together. We have placed way too much emphasis on ‘Eyes on your own paper — go!’ ”

2) Mastering Search, Research and Internet Literacy

You spend a lot of time on Google, Bing, Yahoo and other sites hunting down "good stuff" for your students, said Penny Pearson, coordinator at the Sacramento County Office of Education (CA). By learning “effective, fast and targeted searching strategies,” you'll save time and frustration. You can start, added Laura Lynch, technology director for Norfolk County Agricultural High School (VA), by studying the use of Boolean operators and symbols in your searches — such as using “-” before a keyword to tell the search engine to ignore that term.

If you can instill those search skills in students, all the better. “Being fluent in the world of digital resources allows teachers to open students’ eyes to more than Wikipedia," explained Scottsdale's Downs. “Teaching skills for the evaluation of sources is something that will have long-term effects on the child's learning.”

Wendy Johnson, director of library services and e-learning coordinator at River Parishes Community College (LA), agreed. “If there is one very common problem among students entering college from high school, it is the lack of information literacy skills, including proficiency in browser use, critical evaluation skills regarding resources and search skills to find resources as efficiently as possible.”

3) Connecting Through Social Media

Today’s students live on social media, whether it’s Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, Snapchat, Google+, YouTube or various blogs. As Bill Pratt, technology integration specialist for Clover School District (SC), put it, social media “permeates our students' lives. Therefore, teachers need to understand how it works and what is being done online. Social media is running the world right now.”

Fortunately, teachers are figuring out how to use social media to best advantage. Maria Elena Yepes, director for the learning assistance center at East Los Angeles College, suggested, "We should consider using social media as a vehicle for capturing the attention of those students who live glued to their mobile devices."

Marjorie Wagner, technology integrationist at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, AR, declared that social media has become the "communication tool of our time!" not only for reaching students but also their families.

Social media also helps instructors to "connect with other educators and share knowledge and resources," said Donna Teuber, the team leader for technology integration in Richland School District Two (SC).

When it comes to reaching beyond the school, said Chris Anderson, K-12 tech integrationist at Spencer Community School District (IA), blogging and microblogging can be effective ways to “allow teachers to contribute to their local communities as well as the greater educational community.” 

Besides, said Robin McCants, digital resource coach for Richland School District Two, “Teachers need to promote themselves, their schools, their students, and their students' work,” and social sites provide an “easy, ubiquitous and free” platform for doing that.

4) Finding and Sharing Files

“As teachers, we are natural-born creators,” declared Andrea Earl, math teacher and technology coordinator for Santa Ana Unified School District (CA). “Teachers need to know how to share resources with each other, including documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Teachers also need to understand about permissions when sharing documents. Many a teacher has lost an important document that has been dragged out of a Dropbox by another user.”

Moreover, added Sacramento County's Pearson, “If you can't find your stuff, you waste a lot of time. Using the 'search' option doesn't always solve the problem, especially with new cloud-based services.”

Jim Rose, director for career and college pathways at Oxnard Union High School District (CA), went one step further, suggesting that “an awareness and understanding of file formats and extensions” will help you assist students “in their manipulation of technology.”

On a similar note, Mark Lushenko, a teacher at Elk Grove Unified School District(CA), suggested that his colleagues should learn how to “find a file without knowing its name.” 

5) Managing Learning and Students

The learning management system has been around for a very long time in higher ed, but it's finally gaining a foothold in K-12. For example, Johnson said that River Parishes, which runs an early college program on campus, uses its LMS as a central spot for posting course materials, announcements, reminders, supplemental materials, links to library and Web resources, events and expectations. The advantage of going that route is that the LMS is a “secure and comparable choice,” which avoids “student privacy issues and/or school policies preventing use of social media.”

Whether the software is Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, Edmodo or something else, the advantages of the LMS don't stop there. Cameron Mount, an instructor of English for Brookdale Community College (NJ), noted, “Students can reference important documents even if hard copies are lost in the shuffle.” 

Richland's Teuber found that using an LMS “allows students the opportunity to have anytime-anywhere access to digital resources.”

Frank Kohler, student technology assistant for the division of student affairs atBowling Green State University (OH), agreed. The LMS, he said, is a great place to “create and deliver asynchronous or synchronous presentations and training sessions.”

4 Tech Skills Educators Don’t Need Anymore

Wondering how to make room in an already crammed schedule for skill-building and new practices? It's time to take inventory and decide what you can stop doing. Here are some suggestions.

1) Printing documents or worrying about disk space. As Donna Kline, IT director and instructor for Ocean View Christian Academy in San Diego, pointed out, “the ability to use those technologies needs to grow into an understanding of external drives and cloud space.”

2) Carrying flash drives or a day planner. “With Gmail you have storage for everything you need,” suggested Jennifer Rushing, a digital resource coach at Richland School District Two. Likewise, she added, you can stop “carrying around a day planner and writing every appointment in it.” Better to put those meetings and to-do's into a digital calendar and have reminders sent right to your phone.

3) Editing documents by e-mail. “Editing and sharing is a skill of the past and takes a lot of time,” declared Johnathan Clark, a director for DeKalb County Schools(GA). Adopt cloud computing, he said, so that students “can post work to a cloud solution, [then] teachers and peers can log in, review, edit on the fly [and] share.”

4) Signing in with multiple logins. Stop wasting time logging into online programs one by one, advised Laurie Wolfe, director of curriculum and assessment at Idaho Distance Education Academy. Use the single-sign-on tool provided by your district, and if IT doesn't provide one, ask for one. Even better, she said, choose an environment “that allows programs from different vendors to share data both ways, while protecting student data privacy.”

Source | http://thejournal.com/

9 Best Free Online Resources for College Students 

You don’t have to be Einstein to see that technology is flooding the world. Interconnectivity of peoples is at an all-time high and continues to soar.

Since the birth of the internet, people have been sharing ideas and concepts across continents and oceans. Amongst this exchange, some have sought to profit. Others instead seek a free sharing of information to all people simply for the betterment of the human mind.

For the most part, sharing information is not a free endeavor as any college student will attest, but there are some who want all learning free. What better place to start than with the internet? There’s an app for that and a website too.

Here are some of the best free online resources for college students.

1) Khan Academy. This massive teaching tool is the brainchild of Salman Khan who began making YouTube tutorials in math for his relatives and friends. Their popularity prompted him to make a career out of the institute. The website is entirely free and funded by donation.

A variety of teachers show how to do everything from algebra to post-modern literature to biology and the lessons have been translated into 23 different languages. Download the app today and get this awesome tool to help you stay on track with all of your school or to further your education.

2) Glass Door. College helps train students for professional life. One way to do that is through internships. Paid or otherwise, an internship is a way of getting experience in your chosen field. There are many out there. Some have massive competition while others go completely unfilled, but how do you know the job or internship is good for you?

Enter Glass Door. This website allows people to post anonymous ratings of positions and companies completely free. The site allows you to see what people have said about the internship before you ever even apply. It can also help you narrow your search for internships that help you get where you want to be.

3) Rate My Professor. Getting to know a professor is tough by any account, but sometimes it can help to know them before they know you. Ratemyprofessor.com is a useful tool to do just that.

The site allows students to post reviews of classes, professors, and even school as a whole. You can see exactly how hard the class will be, what to expect in terms of help, and which professors are more concerned about research than teaching.

4) The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Communication is key to everything. From relationships to work to schoolwork, communication is paramount to success. However, communicating ideas in writing is not easy as evident by the thousands of papers, books, apps, and websites dedicated to helping people write.

Many claim to be able to teach anyone to write, but few can compare in sheer detail and thoroughness as Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab. The website is free to the public and contains a complete style guide to the Modern Language Association including a perfect complete example paper.

5) Sparknotes. Reading is easy. Understanding is hard. When the professor drones on and on about the Biblical basis of the characters’ dilemma, the Faustian bargain he must make, or how the murder of a side character was actually a rape, some minds might wander.

Others will wonder what drugs the professor’s on to be pulling this stuff from thin air. That’s where Sparknotes comes in. This handy website allows you to get more than just a summary of a book’s chapters. It gives you an invaluable tool for understanding the intricacies of literature.

6) LiveMocha. Parlez-vous français? Sprechen sie Deutsch? Hablas español? It’s all Greek to me.

Learning new languages is certainly a difficult task and making a good grade while doing so is even harder. Here’s where LiveMocha can help. This site is a points-based learning site where experts and the community help each other learn 38 different languages.

This site also offers the experience of having peers review your work to help you learn better and faster.

7) Google Scholar. Google is synonymous with search engines, but for all its amazing power, it has its failings. The engine has been accused of being biased according to who’s paying the most or who’s most popular at the time. So when searching for sources or research, Google’s main engine doesn’t cut it.

Here’s where the scholar function comes in handy. It will search universities, libraries, archives, and repositories for “scholarly articles” or more reliable, more knowledgeable information on a given topic. That will give you some better material than a Google search on the Industrial Revolution.

8) BibMe. Need a bibliography for a paper now? Want to get some feedback on your styling? Don’t want to pay for it? Try BibMe.org. This amazing site has instant bibliography makers for MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian styles, feedback generators for essays, a title page generator, and a citation guide to help you make sure authors and artists get their due credit.

9) Project Gutenberg. How much did you spend on books last semester? Answer: too much, especially when you can get your books for free on Project Gutenberg.

This site offers an enormous library of books for free download. Available throughout the country, this site seeks to allow for the free flow of knowledge worldwide. Textbooks are sparse on the site, but for a novel or other book, why waste the money? Kindle, iPad, and plain text versions are available for download.

Have any ideas for other sites? Post them below or share them with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Source | http://www.uloop.com/

 

Six Android Apps Every World Traveller Needs

 

Travelling the world is a now seemingly ubiquitous pastime for everyone from students to pensioners.

With smartphones and tablets equally as ubiquitous, we thought we'd put the two together to come up with the definitive list of eight Android apps that every world traveller needs.

Before beginning, it's important to consider what are the essential bits of information that you need while travelling? Apps with offline capabilities are certainly preferred, you'll need currency data, a way to contact home, on-the-go translations, and a way to record all your wonderful memories. Let's see what the Google Play Store can offer.

PACKING AND ORGANISING -

Before you even leave for your trip you'll be faced with a growing to-do list.

Flight tickets, hotel bookings, and car hires all need to be logged, and you'll need to make sure you don't overlook anything while packing, especially if you're going for a long time.

The answer is the TripIt Travel Organiser. The app lets you create lists for packing and organising your holiday, but also gives you a way to forward any important email to the app and get it automatically added to your itinerary.Gmail users will even find that details from any emails sent to their inboxes will be automatically added to their TripIt schedule without any human input.

TRANSLATION -

There are two apps worth mentioning in this category: Google Translate and Word Lens.Google Translate is known by eve ryone. If you live in a foreign land, have foreign relatives, or travel with any degree of regularity, you're bound to have used it. Two Google Translate features stand out for a world-weary traveller: the ability to translate offline while travelling, and the ability to talk directly into the microphone and let the app give an on-screen translation. If you do plan to use the app offline, be aware that you need to download the language package.

Word Lens is an augmented real ity translation app. In practice that means that you open the app, point it at the text you want to translate, and see the translated text on your screen. It means no more typing in long and complex sentences ­ making it particularly useful for things like menus, signs, and labels. Like Google Translate, it is also available offline. Its number of languages is more limited though. Whereas Google Translate boasts 80 languages, Word Lens only has English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, German and Portuguese.

CURRENCY CONVERTOR -

There's only one app worth mentioning here: XE Currency.

The app lets you convert amounts between virtually any global currency, meaning you'll never give accidently give a taxi driver in Thailand Rs 500 instead of Rs 50.

Like the two translation apps, XE Currency works offline, meaning you'll never be caught out if you're without signal

CONTACTING HOME -

After a while on the road you might feel the need to contact loved ones.

There are no offline apps in this category. There are the apps such as the everpresent Skype and WhatsApp that should be on your phone regardless, but you should also consider Tango.

Tango is a Skype alternative that lets you make free video calls, voice calls, and texts.The app includes “channels“ that let you stay on top of news and sports, and you can even discover and share songs on Spotify. 

MEMORIES -

One of the best parts of travelling is recalling your memories once the trip itself is in the distant past. To do this, you'll need a great way to organise your thoughts, photos, and videos. Looking beyond standard apps such as Evernote and Facebook, you could consider trying the free Vacation & Travel Journal.

The app lets you track and document your journey by using images, video, audio recordings, and text, and it lets you sync all your data onto a Web site which can be shared with family and friends.

It has several cool features, including automatically logging the weather, longitude, lati tude, altitude, time, and date for each entry you make, logging your entire trip via GPS, and making shared trips so multiple people can upload memories to the same log.

Source | Mumbai Mirror | 27 November 2014

Teacher education, not training

Words can shape and limit our notions. They can also guide action and inaction. In education this is particularly important 

Many conversations where people want to know what we do go like this: “So you train government school teachers?” and I say, “We don’t train.” That leaves them puzzled: “If you are trying to help improve how teachers teach, what else do you do but train?” I often sidestep the real issue by asking them about their experience with training, which in almost all cases is unsatisfactory. It then becomes easier to communicate that we do many things that help develop capacities of teachers, but these things can’t be called training. 

The real issue is the word training. It implies a narrowness of purpose and a high degree of instrumentality. This makes training inadequate for capacities related to education, which are fundamental, complex and deep. Also, our common experiences have associated training with shallowness.

None of this makes training a bad word, but does make it inappropriate to use in the context of development of teachers. Since the connotations of the word training are commonly understood, its use often implies an implicit notion of teacher development, which is problematic. Given the actual complexity of the capacities and abilities expected from a teacher, education is more appropriate than training.

Such words that reflect notions or ideas about some complex matter are used commonly by all of us. When that matter is not in our area of work or expertise, we sometimes use such words without adequately examining our underlying notions, or sometimes not being conscious of the nuances of the notions.

Almost all of us are interested in education, either broadly about the system or specifically for our children, and so we talk a lot about it. We end up using many such words, which imply specific notions, but are perhaps unexamined by us. Let’s take a few examples.

The word impart is another such word. Imparting education is a commonly used phrase. It assumes that education is something that can be given because that is the connotation of impart. This is one of those traditional ideas of education, which survives despite advances in our understanding of the process of education and our substantially enhanced expectations from it.

Education involves the process of the child learning and developing on multiple dimensions, facilitated by the teacher, who is guided by a curriculum. This is not a process where the teacher is giving packets of knowledge to the child because that process is ineffective. Effective education is a process where the teacher, the children and the school is involved and participating actively. Or, at least that is how it should be. 

The use of the word impart is not only reflective of the giving-away-in-packets notion of education, it is unfortunately also reflective of the current pedagogic reality; it’s chalk-and-talk and rote that is most often practised in our classes. None of us want it this way anymore, but the moment we use the word impart, we implicitly endorse the very idea of education that we don’t want.

A closely associated word to impart is deliver. There is often talk of delivery of education, which is also reflective of a notion that education can be given. Though deliver goes further than impart, it is infused with a sensibility that arises from mechanistic systems and from economics. The use of the phrase delivery of education makes economics and mechanistic systems the default frame of thinking about education. Whereas education is much more than that and infinitely more complex than that. In reality education is a humanistic social endeavour, so the word delivery misleads us away from the essence of education. A related word similarly loaded with misleading directions is accountability. I wrote about this at length on 19 March.

Reform is another interesting word; it takes us to another dimension of this discussion. Its common meaning is improvement. However, it’s not possible to use the word without invoking deeper and associated meanings.

These days reform doesn’t invoke Luther setting the Christian world afire in 1517 with the Ninety-Five Theses or the socio-religious changes in Bengal in the early 19th century. What it invokes is economic reforms. Even more specifically it invokes changes in economic policies, moving towards more market-friendliness. Since in the common lexicon today, the word reform has got loaded with this connotation, the use of the word reform in education also somehow implies more market-friendly policies. This whole lexical situation conflates the actual meaning of reform, improvement, with the acquired connotation of reform, which is market-friendliness. This implies that market-friendliness in education is good and is the route to improving education. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Words reflect our notions. They can shape and limit our notions as well. They can also guide action and inaction. In education this is particularly important because even those of us who are not directly in education tend to get involved with the discourse. Examining our words and their underlying notions is one effective route.

Source | Mint – The Wall Street Journal | 27 November 2014

Free Online Learning Tools that will make you Smarter

Continue educating yourself in a range of subjects from science and math to history and humanities 

You have a degree in a subject of your choice and are pursuing the field you were always interested in. However, it's not enough to sit back and rest on your supposed laurels.The mark of a truly excellent individual is one who continues learning and updating himself, within and outside his field of work and interest. We let you in on some tools for self-education that you can use to do more, and live better. 

HARVARD OPENCOURSEWARE 

Always wanted to say you studied at Harvard? Well, you could do that now...almost! Harvard is one of the most respected college on the continent so whatever they have to teach is worth learning. The respected university offers a bunch of courses, free of charge to the general public. They come in a range of subjects from computer science to literature. 

MIT OPENCOURSEWARE 

It's one of the most powerful, fun, and free resources available for learning.MIT has courses available in over a dozen courses from technology to business. Enroll for free and access all the coursework for free. It's a great way to learn from one of the most distinguished colleges in the US. 

YOUTUBE 

Giving the DIY ethic a boost is videosharing website YouTube and the amazing array of free educational channels that increase your knowledge base and also show you how to get things do, visually . People and groups put up videos on everything from learning guitar for beginners and pros, to presentations on cloud computing. It has led to a whole new way of learning called the Maker Culture. 

UDEMY 

This is an online course-based website where you can buy and take individual courses. There is a truckload of subjects to choose from -languages to computer science, design to cooking, and many other things you've probably not even thought of. There is an option to also buy the course once and keep it with you for eternity. It comes with video and text lectures to show you how everything works. 

OXFORD MATHEMATICS OPENCOURSEWARE 

Love it or loathe it, math is a requirement in most careers. Brush up on your mathematic skills with the courses available here on subjects like algebra, math logic, and even computer math.Oxford is an internationally recognised learning institution, and a reputed place to learn. 

CODECADEMY 

This is an online resource that teaches you various programming languages. Available is JavaScript, CSSHTML, Python, PHP , Ruby. Log in via Twitter, Facebook or Google+ for easy access. It is great for entry level learning and, in some cases, intermediate levels of programming. 

YALE OPEN COURSES 

Not to be left out in the dark, Yale also offers open courses. Much like the others the subjects are vast and include things like literature, music, finances, business, and others. Like the others, it's a prestigious college with great professors. It's also free and that's good news. 

JOHNS HOPKINS OPENCOURSEWARE 

Continuing with the OpenCourseWare from various colleges is Johns Hopkins.It's a world renown medical school with a number of free courses available for those who are thinking of studying medicine or maybe for those who know medicine and need a quick brush up. It has courses on things like child development, nutrition, and even fundamentals on specialties like oncology. 

FREE COMPUTER BOOKS 

The website (http:www.freecomputer books.com) looks like it was designed in the stone age but the goods are great.

Using it you can get hundreds of free books about computer programming, mathematics, data logic, design, and other books. It's great for anyone look ing to get more into computers and it even includes books on Java (Android development), C++ (Windows develop ment).

LIFEWRITE 

If it's writing you need to brush up on, Lifewrite.com is a good place to go. It offers a free nine week course for free along with a number of free tips and exercises. Writing is one of the toughest things to do well and it takes a lot of work and practice to get it right. Why not start off the right way by learning from a professional? 

KHAN ACADEMY 

People use it to brush up on their basic math but it's also a good tool for advanced learning. You will find over a thousand instructional videos that cover everything from basic arithmetic to differential equations. It's free of cost. Signing up is easy since it has Facebook and Google+ support. 

PURDUE ONLINE WRITING LAB 

If you want a little more structure, look up Purdue University's online writing lab. It includes classes on grammar, writing styles, and even professional writing. It's a great free resource for any writer looking to brush up on the basics. There are even instructional videos to watch. 

DUOLINGO 

Duolingo is a free service that teaches you another language -Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and others. There are Android and iOS apps available which are also free. It was a huge hit last year and the courses really do work if you stick with them. It teaches you in the form of a game so it remains interesting even during the hard portions. 

WIKIVERSITY 

Wikipedia isn't the most trusted source out there but it is getting a better reputation all the time. Most of the stuff that's on there is at least mostly accurate and that makes it a pretty decent platform for learning. It uses Wiki's classic interface to link you to resources, courses, and labs to help you learn a bunch of stuff in a bunch of subjects. It's a great free resource. 

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA BOOK PAGE 

The last free book resource on the list is the University of Pennsylvania Book Page. Using this site you can gain access to an untold number of free books used by the students of the University of Pennsylvania. It's a very minimal site so you'll have to go back to getting used to white web pages with blue links everywhere but it's still a great resource for free information, essays, books, and other educational texts.People stick with favourites in sea of mobile apps. 

Source | Times of India | 28 August 2014

Podar International School to go digital from 2015, no more 

textbooks for students

Three years ago, Podar International Schools having Cambridge International Examination (CIE) and International Baccalaureate (IB) boards started teaching students via iPads. However, from the next academic year, 2015-16, the institute has decided to start complete digital learning, where there will be e-textbooks, e-workbooks, e-notes, etc.

From October this year, the school will begin a pilot project on digital learning, for six months. Dr Vandana Lulla, principal of Podar International School, said, "During our pilot project, we will see if we are facing any issue in going completely digital. We take precautions against students using any other sites. The most important thing is that they will not have to bring their bags with many textbooks."

The digital learning will be initiated for standards III to XII students. Abdul Chaohan, an expert from EssaAcademy in the UK, will train teachers. Once the students get the device in school, they have to register it with the school, to enable the WiFi connection.

Vijay Mukhi, an IT expert, said, "There are pros and cons in introducing digital learning. Having complete digital learning will benefit students as no company sends any letter on paper, but make use of emails in sending any message or appointments. But a major drawback is when students from economically backward families come to such schools, they may not be able to afford such devices, which cost over Rs30,000. The school introducing such technology will have to make sure that when students are making use of such technology at home, there should be someone to help them. There are chances that students can copy from each other, the projects or homework as there is no handwriting involved. On the other hand, if a school is sending any email which bounces back, and child could not get, it will be child's words against the school."

Source | Daily News Analysis | 26 August 2014

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