Below are some great web tools that you can use to create interactive lessons and presentations. These tools allow you to breathe life into your teachable content through the use of images, videos, links to web pages and many more. Some of them even enable you to gather instant feedback from students through synchronous polls or text messaging.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 5 Good Web Tools to Create Interactive Lessons and Presentations

Fuente: Tic&Educación

To help you better teach your students about Creative Commons and how it works, here is a handy graphic that visually captures the main important things students need to know about Creative commons. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: A Must See Graphic on Creative Commons for Students

Fuente: Tic&Educación

Sean McComb of Maryland talks about students’ challenges, charter schools, Teach For America, and more.See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: 2014 National Teacher of the Year: Let’s stop scapegoating teachers

Fuente: Aprender y Educar

See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Por qué tuitear varias veces el mismo contenido

Fuente: Tic&Educación

A word cloud is a visual representation of textual data. Word clouds highlight words that are repeatedly used in a given portion of text through making them look larger in the generated graphic. There are several ways you can use word clouds ( also called tag cloud) with your students. Here are some of them.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Tips and Tools to Teach Using Word Clouds

Fuente: Tic&Educación

As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that exists around them. We teach them how to read, write, and calculate. Then, of course, there are the less tangible skills we teach; such as how to work in a team, think critically, and be curious about the things they encounter each day.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: How To Prepare Students For 21st Century Survival

Fuente: Tic&Educación

Sometimes complicated information is hard to understand and requires a visual illustration. Graphs and charts are ideal for visually communicating complex data. As teachers, we often have recourse to these visual aids to improve our students comprehension. There are actually a wide variety of web tools that you can use to easily create graphs and charts, below are some of my favourite.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 5 Good Tools to Create Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams for Your Class

Fuente: Tic&Educación

See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 27 Ways Teachers Can Facilitate Learning in Today’s Classrooms

Fuente: Tic&Educación

Technology and teaching pedagogy are engaged in a symbiotic relationship and developments in the earlier are reflected in the form of changes in the latter. One instance of this symbiotic relationship is the new conceptualization of the roles taken up by today’s teacher and students . For centuries ago, teachers were viewed as the centre of knowledge with an authoritative and teacher centred style while students were looked at as passive recipients of knowledge, buckets to be filled.See it on …

Continuar leyendo: 13 Great Resources for Finding Free Public Domain Books

Fuente: Tic&Educación

Annie nació en una tira cómica de la mano de Harold Gray, en 1924. La primera versión cinematográfica llegó en 1932 y el primer musical teatral en 1976, pero tanto en el cine como en el teatro las versiones y giras han sido múltiples y han llegado a los niños de medio mundo. En esta ocasión, el clásico musical de Broadway regresa a la pantalla grande con una adaptación dirigida por Will Gluck y protagonizada por Quvenzhané Wallis, la pequeña que en 2013 se convirtió en…

Continuar leyendo: Así será la nueva película de la pequeña huérfana Annie

Fuente: Taconline.net

Educación; Pedagogía; Recursos y materiales didácticos para docentesSee it on Scoop.it, via Educacion, ecologia y TIC

Continuar leyendo: Enseñanza & Teaching

Fuente: Educación y Ecología

A la gran pantalla se han llevado films que tratan diferentes aspectos de la educación y donde también se refleja la figura del profesor. Hemos seleccionado diez de estas películas. Estaremos encantados de que nos dejéis más títulos interesantes en los comentarios. ¡Gracias y a disfrutar? 1. El club de los poetas muertos: Con un reparto encabezado por Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard y Ethan Hawke, esta cinta se estrenó en 1989. Ambientada en la exclusiva Academia Walton de Nueva Inglaterra, la llegada …

Continuar leyendo: 10 películas basadas en la figura del profesor

Fuente: Educaciontrespuntocero.com

Maite SF’s insight:La motivación respecto a cualquier actividad, no es algo que podamos crear de forma mágica cuando la queremos canalizar hacia algo concreto sino que hay que construirla paso a paso. Ante esta realidad, el montaje de una obra de teatro musical se convierte en un medio idóneo para llegar a nuestro objetivo.See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: Método ANGAR, aprendizaje cooperativo

Fuente: Aprender y Educar

Getting learners to remember what we teach them is a challenge for instructional designers. We look at philosophies of learning retention.See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: Popular Myths in Learning Retention – Learning Solutions Blog

Fuente: Aprender y Educar

Maite SF’s insight:If you are teaching with one, a few, or a class set of iPads, finding the right apps and project ideas for your students can be a challenging task. We’ve organized some of the best resources from Edutopia and beyond to help you figure out what tools are best for your early elementary school students. Explore different ways to integrate technology into your instruction!See it on Scoop.it, via Aprender y educar

Continuar leyendo: Resources for Using iPads in Grades K-2

Fuente: Aprender y Educar

Las presentaciones son excelentes herramientas de apoyo si se necesita realizar un planteamiento de ideas en forma clara, breve y ordenada.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 20 herramientas para crear presentaciones

Fuente: Tic&Educación

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation just released a report detailing the results of 3,100 teacher surveys and 1,250 student surveys on the kinds of digital instruction tools that are useful and effective. The foundation has asked teachers and students what they need when it comes to digital instruction, aiming to close the communication gap between commercial developers and schools.One of the biggest takeaways is that most teachers — 54 percent — don’t find many of the digital tools they…

Continuar leyendo: Are existing tech tools effective for teachers and students?

Fuente: Educación y Ecología

Using TED Talks to convey an important message or spark creativity might be more effective in teaching students than an individual agenda or preconceived notion of what should be said. Furthermore, TED Talks challenges educators everywhere to think differently and encourage the same in their students.These are the best TED Talks for any educator because they make us laugh, warm our hearts, break down barriers, and always inspire us to dig a little deeper …

Continuar leyendo: 50 Inspiring TED Talks For Teachers: An Updated List For 2014

Fuente: Tic&Educación

Some of you are still probably not sure about the difference between what constitutes a copyright infringement and fair use. Well the post I have for you today might help illuminate the key differences between the two concepts.This post is based on a two days work reading a wide variety of resources pertaining to copyright and . Please check the references below to learn more about my sources.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: For Teachers: The Difference between Fair Use and Copyright

Fuente: Tic&Educación

Un interesante artículo en The New York Times, “U.S. promotes network to foil digital spying“, replantea el viejo tema de las redes mesh al hilo de la evolución de la red.De las redes mesh, o mesh networking, basadas en topologías en las que todos los nodos colaboran en la distribución de datos, se lleva hablando muchísimos años, generalmente como respuesta a problemas de interconexión de determinadas áreas …

Continuar leyendo: Replanteando la red

Fuente: Educación y Ecología