But no one can fully understand how difficult teaching in America’s highest-need communities is until he or she personally experiences it. When I solved engineering problems, I had to use my brain. When I solve teaching problems, I use my entire being—everything I have. A typical engineering task involves sending an email to a colleague about a potential design solution. A typical teacher task involves explaining for the fourth time how to get the variable out…

Continuar leyendo: Teaching Isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Harder

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If you are like me and use Google Drive on a day to day basis then chances are you might be in need of a handy and practical way to easily access and search for drive files. Thankfully, I just found out through Peter Vogel about two ways to use to search Drive files from your Chrome or Firefox. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Easy Way to Search Google Drive Files from Your Browser

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“So, what are QR Codes, you ask? Well, you know what barcodes are, like when you buy something at the store and the clerk scans a code to enter the item and amount into the till? The QR (Quick Response) Code is kind of like that, except that it offers much more information. Quite often the QR Code will give you a link to a website, or a text message, image, etc. To read the QR…

Continuar leyendo: Teaching With QR Codes

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Aun cuando la prueba ENLACE para alumnos de primaria y secundaria fue cancelada por la SEP, después de aplicarse siete años, ésta podría ser reactivada en 2014.See it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

Continuar leyendo: Recomienda INEE reactivar la prueba ENLACE. | Profelandia

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We do a lot of sharing in the course of our work as teachers and educators. Web 2.0 technologies have deeply immersed us in a pervasive participatory and sharing culture. We constantly share links and URLs of web content with our students and colleagues; however sharing such links could sometimes prove tricky particularly when we have to copy and paste the URLs verbatim. The length of most URLs barring homepage URLs are moderately long making it …

Continuar leyendo: 5 Handy Web Shortening Tools to Use with Your Students

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El 3 de diciembre comenzaba a funcionar un nuevo portal web llamado EducaLAB, con la aspiración de convertirse en la plataforma de la educación y la innovación educativa en español y ser el lugar de referencia para los recursos educativos (informes, estudios, datos, contenidos, buenas prácticas, información). El Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte ha puesto en marcha esta iniciativa con la vocación de informar, difundir, producir, seleccionar y recomendar conocimiento, así como impulsar una red social docente (Procomún – …

Continuar leyendo: EducaLAB, nuevo portal web del Ministerio de Educación para docentes

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Quien haya jugado a alguno de los Need for Speed anteriores sabrá perfectamente qué va a encontrar en esta entrega. Como de costumbre, tenemos un mundo abierto que recorrer a nuestro antojo. A medida que nos movemos por el mapeado, nos llegan señales de nuevos retos y desafíos gracias a nuestro Autolog. A partir de aquí, debemos seleccionar nuestra ruta preferida y competir en una de las muchas carreras disponibles. NFS: Rivals es un gran juego de conducción arcade. …

Continuar leyendo: Velocidad sin límites

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Este es un ejercicio para potenciar la percepción visual y la atención en los niños de educación infantil y primarai y tambien para alumnos con TGD de 4 años. Actividades de estimulación de la inteligencia en niños en el que tendrán que realizar continuar las series dadas. Ficha de estimulación a la inteligencia Objetivos de la ficha Desarrollar la percepción visual Potenciar la capacidad de observación y atención visual. Reconocer el criterio que sigue una serie Desarrollar el pensamiento lógico Autoevaluar el resultado …

Continuar leyendo: Series lógicas NAVIDAD adaptadas para alumnos con TGD 2013

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Slides from ASTD presentation. The slides are based in my brand new book “The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Fieldbook–Theory into Practice.” Here are five things you need to think about when implementing gamification with your organization from a learning perspective.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Five Tips for Turning Gamification Theory into Practice

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One might argue you do not need folders if you use Google Drive. The search box at the top of drive searches not only the document title but also the body of the document (and does an OCR scan to search the images also!).If you are sharing a collection of documents with others though, folders are the way to go. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Sharing a Folder in Google Drive

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En Orientación Andújar puedes encontrar 11 guías para el aprendizaje de alumnos con NEE. Cada guía trata un tema o necesidad concreta y se pueden descargar gratuitamente desde su web.See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

Continuar leyendo: 11 Guias Útiles para docentes que trabajan con alumnos de NEE

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Word clouds are fun ways to get students thinking creatively about any topic. The problem is that it’s sometimes difficult to find the one that best meets your needs.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight:Word It Out TagCrowd Wordle ABCYa! Word Clouds TagulSee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: The 5 Best Free Word Cloud Creation Tools for Teachers

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What happens when you hit a bit of a rough patch and need a pick me up? Why, these TED Talks for teachers will get you back up and running!See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 3 TED Talks For Teachers In Need Of Inspiration

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As part of my doctoral studies I am finding myself writing papers that are multiple pages in length. I find I need to be at different parts of the document at the same time. Such as the section I am working on and the citations at the bottom. Rather than engaging in a significant amount of scrolling, I simply duplicate the tab and have the same document open in multiple tabs. This way I can be at the top of…

Continuar leyendo: Trick for Handling a Lengthy Google Doc

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Muvizu has everything you need to tell an animated story from drag and drop customizable characters and pre-built sets, to libraries of animations and automatic lip-synching.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Muvizu | Animation software

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Last week we looked at how to build an effective survey using Google Forms, and this week we’ll finish our Google Forms exploration by looking at 5 powerful ways to analyze the data you’ve collected. No need to be a statistics wiz – getting to the bottom of data is simple, as long as you know a few basic moves.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 5 Powerful Ways to Analyze Google Forms Data

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Sometimes in order to help your students learn, all you need to do is let them express their creativity.Gumersindo Fernández’s insight:Psyko Paint FlockDraw Sumopaint ABCya! Paint Kerpoof StudioSee it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: The 5 Best Free Drawing and Painting Tools for Teachers

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An armchair ride through our solar system, to the classical music overtures of the Zephyr Quartet. I put this compliation together using After effects, Element…See it on Scoop.it, via Recull diari

Continuar leyendo: I Need Some Space

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From time to time I find that I need to create a PDF to use as a flyer or to send information that can’t easily be edited. Most of the time I create my PDFs in Google Drive. It’s a simple process and the directions for doing it are provided in the screenshots below.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How to Quickly Create PDFs in Google Drive

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These are big issues that impose themselves persistently in this digitally focused culture. Students need to learn that it is not only because it is available online it can be used. There are rules and conventions at play for sharing and re-suing digital content. I invite you to watch and share with your colleagues.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Excellent Video Tutorials for Teachers and Students to Learn about Copyright and Common Sense

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