Digital Videos and Service Projects
Would you like your students make a video highlighting an area charity? This project will enable students to practice outreach and professional communication, copyright and citation, video editing and revision, while creating a product to share with the world. Rushton Hurley created NextVista.org, a video library and host of a “Service Via Video” contest for […]
Tips to Transform Teaching with Technology
Consider how we use technology in the classroom. Does it provide a substitution such as taking notes online rather than taking notes on paper? Or does it create new possibilities, such as creating a classroom set of notes where all students collaborate and have access to the insights of each other in an efficient, transformed […]
Making Learning Visual Through Coding
This morning I attended Kyle Christian Steele’s “Learn to Code: Scratch Program” where he explained the basics of coding and demonstrated how coding can be applied to many classroom concepts. Steele defines coding as “step by step instructions that tell a computer what to do,” and advocates students practice critical thinking, collaboration, visualization and perseverance […]
Learning, By Design
Christian Long, Vice President of Cannon Design and David Jakes started their presentation “Learning, By Design,” with three declarations: 1. We believe that learning is made possible by curiosity and wonder. 2. We believe that the future of learning is waiting to be designed. 3. And we believe that searching for wonder in learning is […]
