Hook ‘em – Using Visuals and Multimedia to Engage Students
A hook or activating strategy is intended to engage students and help them access and apply prior knowledge to the current concept, lesson or unit of study. Auseubel (1978), recognizes that the activation of prior knowledge helps to deepen learning by bridging between what was known and new material. Creating just the right motivator or […]
Using Google Earth in the Classroom
Here are a few articles to give you some ideas on how Google Earth might impact your history classroom. History Today Teaching History – A Digital Classroom Using Google Earth in History https://sites.google.com/site/googclass/
Tech integration in your Math classroom
Tech integration in math class is more than bringing a graphing calculator to class nowadays. With a wealth of digital resources on the web, math class can benefit from activating strategies that bring in familiar technologies and real world problems. With technology doing the bulk of calculations and solving formulas, tech integration in education opens […]
Resource Evaluation and curation
Learning to access resources from various modalities, evaluate them based on a set of clear criteria and curate them using a personal digital library can aid students and teachers in conducting inquiry or simply preparing for class! Below, you will find a pdf file of a presentation we developed to support an inquiry based unit […]