Sheikha Moza bint Nasser says that quality universal primary education must be one of the SDGs’ top priorities.See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

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Google Voice is a great communicational utility with huge educational potential. As a teacher, you can use Google Voice to obtain a phone number to use when communicating with students and parents without you revealing your personal phone number. You can connect your Google Voice number with multiple phone numbers (e.g landline number, mobile number, work number) and have incoming calls routed to all of these numbers simultaneously. You can also select a single number to…

Continuar leyendo: Teachers’ Guide to The Use of Google Voice in Education

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Problem-based learning (PBL) was first introduced to the field of education in the 1960s by medical education specialist Howard Barrows, who argued that the teaching of medicine at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada should be organized in a way that emulated the reasoning of a skilled practitioner.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Blogging has come a long way– once a strange new buzzword, it’s now an important tool for business, education, and personal development. Having a blog doesn’t just mean putting personal diary entries out on the web for the world to see – it can be a way to learn more about yourself and any subject you choose to explore. Blogging is one of the easiest ways to create something meaningful with mixed media.That makes it …

Continuar leyendo: How (and Why) To Use Student Blogs

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If you’re confused about homework, you’re forgiven. In a single day, you might hear a story about how U.S. education lacks rigor and another about how students are overburdened and stressed. Some children are taking admittance tests for preschools, and others are being “unschooled” by their parents. Clearly, the importance of homework is an ongoing debate.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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What encourages students to do well in school? Often, it comes down to grades. Many students will work harder in order to earn a higher grade. Colleges want to see good grades. Parents want to see good grades. Grades are good, right? Of course they are, but the grades should not be the only goal. Learning for the sake of it should be a goal, including what they learned, how long they remembered it, and how they applied it to…

Continuar leyendo: The Teacher’s Guide To Badges In Education

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The founder of ThingLink, Ulla Engeström, has a goal to build a free library of interactive resources for all teachers, students and parents. She has launched a crowdfunding campaign, Women Who Tech, to gain support for education and women tech entrepreneurs. #WomenWhoTechSee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Building a Free Library of Interactive Resources

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According to the Office of Research Consumer Guide, portfolios are “a collection of student work representing a selection of performance.” While artists have kept them for hundreds of years, portfolios emerged in modern education (PDF) from college writing courses in the 1980s. Electronic portfolios are online versions of this tool.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Following the post we shared a few days ago featuring some powerful Chrome apps for taking screenshots, today we are sharing with you two great tools you can use on your Chrome to record screencasts.These web based apps will provide you with an easy way to create educational tutorials and step by step guides to share with your students.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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So while Facebook is dead and buried for the cool kids, and the likes of Snapchat don’t really work for an institution, Instagram still has kudos as well as scale. If you want to be reasonably sure that the people you want are on board, then Instagram it is.So should a school use it? Should a school start to use the fastest growing, and already one of the biggest, social media platforms in the world…

Continuar leyendo: Why, and how, schools should be using Instagram

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I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong.I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. It certainly identifies the different levels of complexity. But its organizing framework is dead wrong. Here’s why.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC &

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When it comes to creating a classroom website or blog, the first thing you would have to consider is the technical features supported by the hosting platform. Are they student-friendly? Are they simple enough so those with no advanced technological skill can operate them? is the platform web-based or does it require software installation? Does it allow the integration of multimedia materials such videos, audio files, pictures…etc? Does it provide any interactive features so visitors can …

Continuar leyendo: Some Very Good Tools to Help You Create A Website or Blog for Your Class

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En esta infografía, que no precisa demasiadas traducciones, tenéis un resumen excelente elaborado por McGraw Hill Education sobre el tema. Es de gran interés para profesores y padres, pues nos pone en la pista de las diversas modalidades y funciones de la evaluación, elemento esencial para conocer y comprobar el progreso de nuestros alumnos y el logro de las expectativas que tengamos sobre cada uno. ¿O esperamos lo mismo de todos?See it …

Continuar leyendo: El panorama de la evaluación educativa

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El Global Education and Skills Forum que se celebra anualmente en Dubai ha debatido en su última edición acerca de las competencias clave que realmente necesitarán los alumnos del siglo XXI. Una de las razones por las que el debate giró entorno a esta cuestión, fueron las conclusiones del World Economic Forum que subrayaban la necesidad de un educación orientada a formar ciudadanos capaces de desenvolverse en un mundo tecnológico que …

Continuar leyendo: 16 competencias clave para los alumnos del siglo XXI

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Bloom’s Taxonomy is one of the major themes here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. We have been extensively sharing resources on it and we have a separate section where you can access and check all the resources we have posted so far.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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I taught high school math for 14 years. My last years I went paperless. There are many digital tools that support teaching math and Google Docs is one of them. If your school has Google Apps for Education (GAfE) here are 5 ways to have students use Google Docs in math:See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Featured this amazing image on the ThingLink Blog here thinglinkblog.com You Consider putting your name and social media contact on tags on this image for proper credit.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Los Open Educational Resources (OER), concepto originalmente acuñado en 2002 durante un Foro de UNESCO sobre Open Courseware (OCW), tienen como propósito la provisión, a través de Internet, de recursos educativos para consulta, uso y adaptación de forma libre y abierta. Esto se ha convertido en asunto de interés de instituciones educativas que han emprendido diferentes iniciativas de acceso abierto potenciadas con el uso de tecnologías emergentes de Web social, Web semá…

Continuar leyendo: 7 directorios internacionales de recursos educativos abiertos #REA #OER

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Hola: Compartimos un eBook sobre “Facebook – Una Guía para Enseñar y Aprender”. Un gran saludo. Elaboración: The Education Foundation | Facebook | edusocial.info Puede descargar la Guía para…See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

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Canva is a nice tool for designing infographics, collages, flyers, and slides in your web browser or on your iPad. I’ve been a fan of the service since it launched. In fact, I like it so much that I became an unpaid advisor to them when they started thinking about developing resources specifically for teachers.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Canva for Education – Lesson Plans Incorporating Visuals Across the Curriculum

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