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This is a website that I found to be really interesting. The concept is teaching the students through gaming. This fit very well with Judy Willis' belief that gaming can be valuable for education. With this program, students are able to progress through the learning material at their own pace, the teacher is able to personalize the learning experience, and students can work towards real-life rewards within the classroom. The possibilities with this application are amazing.

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HMH Classcraft pairs ELA and math content with research-based lesson plans resulting in reduced educator planning time and increased student engagement.

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Canva is a brilliant online tool that students can use for assessments - creating their own images, videos, posters, mindmaps, etc. In other words, Canva is a brilliant online tool for both individual and collaborative online and creative education.

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I recently came across this resource when in my History course. My lecturer used this application for class members to provide anonymous feedback on the work of our peers. However, the website also allows the teacher to create interactive quizzes, online classrooms, discussion assignments, and more. This was a really nice software to be using as a student, so I would like to use it in my future classrooms.

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FeedbackFruits | Digital Teaching Tools for Higher Ed

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Enhance student engagement, collaboration, and feedback in both asynchronous and synchronous learning with FeedbackFruits LMS-integrated teaching tools.

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Kahoot! is a great online quiz platform, which allows a person to create their own quiz. This is a great little website to use as a 'refresher' for the students at the start of a lesson, or a nice way for the teacher to evaluate the understanding of students. Furthermore, the website could be put to use by the students, in which they create their own interactive quiz.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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I used this app in one of my blogs for assessment one. I really enjoyed using this and creating an interactive image that students could use to learn. The ability to embed so much knowledge onto one image is amazing. I believe that this webpage is valuable for gaining knowledge, however, paired with a link to a see, think, feel activity would make for a brilliant lesson that both educates and assesses the knowledge gained by the students.

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Genially, the platform for interactive animated content

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Engage your audience with clickable, gamified, media-rich experiences. Create your interactive content now!

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The SAMR model is a guide for using technology in the classroom in a way in which redefines education rather than acting as a placeholder for a book. This model has the ability to transform the way in which a teacher educates their students for the better and will definitely be used in my classroom.

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The AITSL Teacher Standards was the first set in stone expectations of a teacher that I was ever met with. I feel that these standards form much of what I feel obligated to be as I continue through this degree.

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Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers help you understand and develop your teaching practice and expertise across 4 career stages. By demonstrating the Standards you can have maximum impact on all learners.

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Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

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This document highlights what the expectations of a teacher are. As a teacher, the values that underpin the job are: Integrity, respect, dignity, care, justice, and responsibility.

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Approved teachers are expected to understand and apply the key principles in the code of ethics for teachers in Queensland: integrity, dignity, responsibility, respect, justice and care.

Teachers are encouraged to use the code, along with codes/policies established by schools and employers, to guide their professional conduct and behaviour.

Code of ethics for teachers in Queensland (PDF, 265KB).

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Approved teachers are expected to understand and apply the key principles in the code of ethics for teachers in Queensland: integrity, dignity, responsibility, respect, justice and care. Teachers are encouraged to use the code, along with codes/policies established by schools and employers, to guide their professional conduct and behaviour.

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The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration

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The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration

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Not only does this declaration highlight how a teacher should conduct themselves, it sets the expectations of a safe learning space for the students. This has been something that has stuck with me, particularly as I continue with my degree and I learn more about the effects of stress on the brain.

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Department of Education, Skills and Employment

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The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration

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The Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration.

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A site that provides examples of how to use the SAMR model within the classroom. It is a great tool that can act as an inspiration for how to use the model.

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What is the SAMR model?

The SAMR model is a framework that orders strategies for classroom technology implementation into four stages:

In each stage of the SAMR model, the use of educational technology (EdTech) becomes increasingly sophisticated.

Substitution and augmentation strategies use EdTech to enhance learning and add value, whereas modification and redefinition stages harness EdTech to transform learning and make new things possible.
The effectiveness of any of these four strategies depends on when and how it is used.
Here's how you can harness each stage for more powerful classroom learning:

Substitution

This is the simplest stage, where EdTech is used as a direct substitute for traditional practices.

Substitution strategies can save you time and space by cutting back on laborious pen and paper tasks. Instead of printing out twenty-plus paper resources that clog the cupboard, you can use technology to manage resources with just a few clicks.

Substitution also provides a much more accessible introduction to technological soft skills than modification and redefinition. It's the perfect opportunity for students to get comfortable with new technology before you start to transform their learning.

Examples of substitution

having students type their work instead of handwriting it

using online quizzes and programs instead of pen and paper

uploading a worksheet in PDF for student access, as opposed to photocopying

using a digital interactive whiteboard as opposed to a traditional whiteboard and saving the results as a document.

Remember: Substitution strategies do not change the learning process or outcome. Ask yourself what you and your students will gain from the technology before implementing it. If it adds nothing but hassle, stick to pen and paper.

Augmentation

At the augmentation stage, technology adds something to the learning process beyond just convenience. It might give your students a clearer understanding of a complex topic or making it engaging in a way that traditional methods can't.

It also allows for the introduction of more independent and student-centric learning. By using technology as a source of information, students can start actively learning without requiring constant teacher-led instruction.

Examples of augmentation

Students give more informative and engaging oral presentations accompanied by a PowerPoint or Prezi containing multimedia elements.

Students use the internet to independently research a topic, as opposed to relying on teacher input.

Students use an EdTech program that gamifies curriculum content for student engagement and allows students to track progress in an accessible way.

Teacher instruction is supplemented with a video that clarifies a particularly hard to explain concept.

Modification

At the modification stage, technology is used to design interactive and dynamic tasks that go beyond the limitations of a traditional classroom.

For example, students can collaborate on shared documents, or work in large groups, allowing for seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing. This peer-to-peer work nurtures a more cooperative and dynamic class culture.

Technologically modified tasks also allow students to generate inspired and innovative work that isn't confined to paper. Some students will jump at the opportunity to get in front of a camera, while others will do anything to make it onto the global Mathletics leaderboard.

Examples of modification

Students produce podcasts summarising a topic, which can then be accessed by other students as a revision resource.

Students create an informative video presentation in place of a standard oral presentation. They can use their voice alongside a broader variety of creative multimodal components.

Students use a technological tool that makes an abstract concept visible in a hands-on, responsive way (e.g. voyaging on Google Earth to better understand measurement and geography).

Redefinition

The most sophisticated stage of SAMR, redefinition sees you using technology to make entirely new learning opportunities possible.

Redefining learning has the potential to connect learning with the real world and produce authentic outcomes. It also gives students strong technological soft skills such as digital collaboration, communication, technological literacy, and the ability to adapt to new systems and processes.

Most importantly, using technology to redefine learning in your classroom translates to vibrant and engaged students who embrace a growth mindset.

Examples of redefinition

connecting your students with other people around the world as part of the learning journey

having students publish their work online where it can be viewed by peers and the broader community

recording students as they deliver a presentation or practice a physical skill, then using this recording to prompt student reflection

experimenting with tasks that use extensive multimodal elements (e.g. producing documentaries or short films, webpages, print documents with creative layouts).

Remember, redefinition isn't the same as 'high tech'. A learning experience is redefined when it integrates technology seamlessly and meaningfully to open new doors for student learning - regardless of how sophisticated that technology might be.

In an English classroom, this might involve learning how to critically assess online media during web-based research. In mathematics, students might look at data represented through amazing visuals and get inspired to create their own.

Find your purpose

Starting with a purpose avoids the 'technology for technology's sake' that sometimes infiltrates the classroom.

Ask yourself:

What am I hoping to achieve by using this technology?

How will it make a difference to my students' learning?

Why is it preferable to not using technology?

How equipped are my students and I to use this technology?

How much time do I have to invest in making it work?

These simple questions can make it simpler to determine which stage of the SAMR model suits your needs. Remember that you don't always have to redefine your students' learning. A few simple technological additions to an already effective teaching strategy might be all you need to make a difference.

Using technology in the classroom sends a clear message to students. It shows them that you're connecting learning to the rapidly changing world outside the classroom walls, and you aren't afraid to adapt to a new challenge. Get creative with technology and you'll inspire as well as teach.

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The SAMR Model Explained (With 15 Practical Examples)

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What is the SAMR model and how does it apply to learning? Here's how you can harness each stage for more powerful classroom learning.

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This is a great place to go to find examples of how to implement pedagogies within the classroom. It is also a great resource to find ideas for classroom activities.

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Communicating with parents about their child's progress within the classroom is extremely important. This app simplifies the communication process with parents, with the ability to send photos, videos, and assessment reminders to parents in one easy step. Furthermore, it helps ESL (English as a Second Language) parents with translate options within the app.

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Adoption and usage

Simple, effective, and surprisingly easy to use

With nearly 30 million users in 80% of US schools, the numbers speak for themselves: students, families, and educators love using Remind.

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Remind | Communication Platform for Education

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Remind is a communication platform that reaches students and families where they are and supports learning wherever it happens. Millions of educators, students, and parents use Remind to connect with the people and resources that help them teach and learn.

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This is a good resource for lesson plans, activities, and worksheets. I like to view scroll through these resources and combine aspects to create my own lesson plans etc. Overall, it is a good place to begin brainstorming for lesson ideas.

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World's most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

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A website that has a plethora of teaching resources for purchase. However, I prefer to use these websites as a method of brain-storming for lesson plans and activities.

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Tes - Education Jobs, Teaching Resources, School Software & Magazine

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Tes is dedicated to supporting the world's teachers. Our mission is to enable great teaching by helping educators to find the tools and technology they need to excel and by supporting them throughout their career and professional development.

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Virtual museums are a fun and creative way for students to present their knowledge of a culture, era, or event.

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This publishment is the last post of virtual museums in this blog. I would like to say good bye and thank you to every classmate who has shared their experiences and put comments in this blog. For this post, I found another useful blog which suggests how to create virtual museums from PowerPoint. The author is Dr. Christy Keeler, a pedagogy scholar from Clark County School District's Teaching American History Grant. I found it is interesting because the blog contains samples of student-made and teacher-made virtual museums, tips to build the rooms and to put pictures (tips available in video), ready-made museum templates, as well as benefits of using virtual museums.

Teachers in any subject can assign the virtual museum project and I believe that students will definitely be engaged in the task when they get a chance to build their own virtual museums. This is another challenging way for students to present their knowledge!
Educational Virtual Museums Developed Using PowerPoint My Reflection on Blogging

By doing this blog assignment, students teach each other. We take the role of both teachers and students. To post the information onto the blog, we have to search for appropriate information before making the decision of what we should present to friends. The students need to be very responsible to the audiences who will read the information and especially when it is online where anyone can read. During the process of searching for information, students gain more knowledge about the topic because we have to go through a lot of information about the selected tools. Also, students have to maintain a blog by answering questions or commenting on ideas posted by friends. These are the roles of teachers to facilitate learning. As students, we read the post and comment on the information on others' blogs. To make a meaningful comment, we have to understand the post. Subsequently, we know more about various tools from other people's blogs and get some ideas to apply in education. From this task, most information posted by friends is updated. I am not a person who keeps abreast of technology so the information has made my world wider.

The blog assignment is a good activity for the class. Every student is required to take part. However, it is necessary that everyone participates actively in the activity - posting every week as required, commenting on the information and maintaining the blog. There is a sense of teamwork underlying this task even though it is individual work. If it happens that many students do not cooperate, the activity cannot move forward. Discipline is a big word for this way of learning. I think if this blogging is used with children, teachers will have to intervene quite a lot by helping to either pose or answer the questions. This is to make clearer views of knowledge because younger students may not be able to explain it well to their friends.

Surfing through existing weblogs, I found that many educators share their experience about teaching in their blogs. Weblogs are generous places where people exchange personal experience causing sharing in an educational online community. The visitors can also interact with the authors by using the comment features. If we want more information, we have a means to contact with the author. Educators learn from other teachers' experience from any place in the world. Even though some information is personal, as educators I believe that we can analyze and adapt whatever is appropriate to suit our situations. Blogs then are good resources for teachers as they can help teachers generate some ideas to make their classroom more effective.

In this assignment I have presented 2 technological tools: Flickr and Virtual Museum. I studied many projects about Flickr and virtual museum related to classroom activities but I haven't tried them myself. If I have a chance in the future I will try to make use of these tools in the classroom or in training. However, what I have already done is that I have sent a sample of a virtual museum created by a student to the teachers in my school along with the useful sites for virtual museum creation. I hope that the project will be a suitable replacement for some traditional assessments like a paper report or an ordinary PowerPoint presentation.

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Presentation of Knowledge through Virtual Museum

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Google Blogger (and other blogging webpages), are a great tool for students to learn at their own pace and interact with their peers in a respectful and constructive manner.

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Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.

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Publish your passions your way. Whether you'd like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.

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It is important that students are conduct themselves in a safe, legal, and ethical manner when online. It is important that the teacher leads by example and educates their students about their online obligations.

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Northwest Missouri State University Online

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Ethics for Technology Use in the Classroom

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Technology brings ethical issues to the forefront long before students learn how to handle real-life situations from an ethical standpoint.

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These TED Talks are hosted by a variety of professionals from every field, making it a great educational resource. These could also be a great assessment point, in which students have a presentation as though they were hosting a TED Talk. Furthermore, videos about education are a great professional development tool for teachers.

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I really appreciated this website when I was in school. I found that when my teachers were not able to properly explain a (usually maths) concept, I would turn to Kahn academy. The teachers on this website provide brilliant and easy-to-understand explanations on just about all subjects covered in schools.

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I love this learning tool, I have used it throughout my education experience. It is a brilliant resource to correct mistakes within your writing because sometimes you miss things when you proofread.

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Is a great learning resource that allows the teacher to imbed questions within videos. This allows the teacher to check on the knowledge that students are gaining as the video progresses. Furthermore, this technique helps keep the students engaged during in-class videos, as sometimes they can fall asleep.

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Video discussion board. I believe that this is a great tool to be used as a homework activity that will get students adjusted to presentations and classroom discussions.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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An interactive presentation format. This is a great application to spice up the classroom and allow the students to remain engaged if a teacher is standing in front of a class presenting information.

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