Google Plus is an application that our school district has enabled for staff only. One teacher stated, I made time for it (Google Plus) because teachers were posting so many great resources and conversation." Why would you want to use it?
Professional Learning Network
Meetings
Hangouts-Video Conference Calls (Up To Ten People)
Sharing Your Screen For Tech Help
Learning From Educators From Around The World
Study Group With Students (If students have personal Google Accounts)
Give Me This In A Picture
How Do I Get There?
What Are Circles?
I would like to know more!
Really, I haven't had enough Google Plus! Please Give Me The Complete Guide! HERE IT IS!
Instead of the traditional format of lecturing the content by the teacher, Lindsey Wilcox & Heather McCumber created a menu of learning for their students. Hear and see how iPads or computers plus a menu of options for learning allow the students to "take charge of their learning".
I asked each of our students the following question,
"What was your best learning experience of the year?"
I created the entire movie on an iPad with iMovie and can't be more thrilled with the result. Not only by their answers, but by the quality of the video.
Some students gave detailed answers, some shortened them up. Either way, I am thankful I took the time to ask! My advice would be Vicki's advice, "Take one day to LISTEN to your students talk about their best learning experience in your classroom this year."
Teaching percent of discount from our book can be BORING! The text book gives us all the information and students regurgitate the steps to solve.
In our class, we had a small discussion about the two different ways to find the percent discount. Students can either subtract at the beginning or subtract at the end. After some direct instruction of about 5 minutes, students reflected on the process through a blog post.
After that, students were introduce to the great resource of Amazon.com. This is a useful site in that they give you "the original price" lined out and the "discounted price" in red. We viewed two different items and had students find the discount in percent.
After students had two problems with their partners to work on, it was their time to shop.
We did not complete the process, as students still need to take a picture of their item and reflect on the process in their blog. Tomorrow, we will finish!
Next time you have mathematical problems, consider making it as real to students as you can. Helping less and making the students think is a great tool that the iPad can facilitate!
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