Latest Articles on Teaching Strategies and the Use of Technology:
Using an online learning platform is sometimes intimidating for teachers but we often assume that students are ready for technology. We hear that students of today are the technological generation and excel at the use of technology. But, the reality is that the extent of technology use by many students may be social media, texting friends and online gaming. In this article, I take a look at some teaching strategies we need to use to prepare our students to correctly use the technology available to them while maintaining a student-centered environment that we all desire in our classroom. [read article]
The use of technology is everywhere in society today and yet there is often a resistance to using technology in the classroom on a day to day basis. Research shows that technology used correctly is an effective way to increase student learning and that students tend to be more engaged when technology is included as part of our classroom teaching strategy. Here are some ways that we can include technology in our classroom that make teachers more effective as well as facilitate better student learning. [read article]
Moving to an online learning platform can be intimidating and disconcerting but by applying a few simple guidelines, can be made much less unsettling. Many of the things that make a good online lesson are the same things that make a lesson in the classroom effective. Just like all learning, online learning must remain student centered. Here are some ideas that can make moving to an online platform less daunting while continuing to center on effective student learning. [read article]
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Latest Articles on Teaching Strategies and the Use of Technology:
Using an online learning platform is sometimes intimidating for teachers but we often assume that students are ready for technology. We hear that students of today are the technological generation and excel at the use of technology. But, the reality is that the extent of technology use by many students may be social media, texting friends and online gaming. In this article, I take a look at some teaching strategies we need to use to prepare our students to correctly use the technology available to them while maintaining a student-centered environment that we all desire in our classroom. [read article]
The use of technology is everywhere in society today and yet there is often a resistance to using technology in the classroom on a day to day basis. Research shows that technology used correctly is an effective way to increase student learning and that students tend to be more engaged when technology is included as part of our classroom teaching strategy. Here are some ways that we can include technology in our classroom that make teachers more effective as well as facilitate better student learning. [read article]
Moving to an online learning platform can be intimidating and disconcerting but by applying a few simple guidelines, can be made much less unsettling. Many of the things that make a good online lesson are the same things that make a lesson in the classroom effective. Just like all learning, online learning must remain student centered. Here are some ideas that can make moving to an online platform less daunting while continuing to center on effective student learning. [read article]
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Looking for articles about online instruction?
Several of our recent articles have focused on teaching strategies for preparation and delivery of online instruction. Take a look at the following articles: Preparing Students for Online Classrooms, Build Your Own Website with WordPress, Using Technology in the Classroom to Facilitate Student Learning, and Creating Effective Online Lessons to get strategies and ideas for your online classroom.
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Are you ready to take your online presence to a new level? Then it may be time to build your own educational website with WordPress as your platform. Creating your own website gives you the flexibility to organize your content in a way that you want and in a way that will make the most sense to your users. Your website can start simple with basic content and expand to become as complex with as many features as you would like when and if you are ready. Is a website something that anyone with minimal computer skills can create themselves without programming skills? With the ease of use of WordPress and the thousands of available plugins–absolutely! Let’s take a look at the process required to create your own website…[continue reading]
As an educator of 30+ years, I have found that there are certain teaching strategies, tips and techniques that most effective teachers have in common. Educators who do most of the things in this list tend to reach more students, have better results on standardized tests, have better knowledge retention among former students and tend to be those teachers that former students rate as most effective. While the list is not comprehensive and is not a “cure all” for first-time teachers, it is an effective starting place in seeking to better educate today’s students…[continue reading]
As an educator of 30+ years, I have found that there are certain teaching strategies, tips and techniques that most effective teachers have in common. Educators who do most of the things in this list tend to reach more students, have better results on standardized tests, have better knowledge retention among former students and tend to be those teachers that former students rate as most effective. While the list is not comprehensive and is not a “cure all” for first-time teachers, it is an effective starting place in seeking to better educate today’s students…[continue reading]