Would you like your students to become bloggers but you have concerns about student safety, the learning curve, or finding a reliable free blogging service? Worry no more! Use a Safe Blogging Service Designed for Schools TechnoBlog has the blogging resources you need to transform your students into responsible bloggers using the service Kidblog. Designed
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BYOD creates new challenges for classroom management. Here are some helpful tips! Read them and find the ones that are right for you. 1. BYOD Signs Get In the Zone Signs: Post signs around the school to let students know if they can use their device in that space. For areas such as bathrooms and
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Having different devices can present a challenge when planning lessons, designing activities, and assessing learning. At some point, a teacher needs consistency. Web apps allow everyone to use a different device to access the same online application. There are many web apps to choose. Some web apps are free, whereas others have user fees. Some
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Are you teaching a blogging unit? Commenting is a new social skill. Often people make mistakes because they do not know the rules or etiquette for how to communicate. Have your students be good digital citizens. Here is some advice on “how to comment” that you can pass onto students:
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TechnoKids Inc. is excited to introduce a great new feature included in our technology projects – individual digital workbooks for students. Instead of printing workbooks for students to read and follow TechnoKids’ step-by-step instructions to complete projects, these new files allow students to open and read the instructions on their computers as they work. And
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Why will BYOD transform teaching practice? Can teachers not just keep doing what they are already doing? Yes, teachers will be able to continue to do much of what they have already done in the past. However, in some cases there will be a need for change. Now that a student can bring his or
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Students having their own device throughout the school day enhances the learning environment. This is because it allows teachers to incorporate new teaching practices, instructional materials, activities, assessment tools, and communication methods. With BYOD, teachers can: develop inquiry-based learning opportunities design innovative learning opportunities increase access to information provide timely feedback adjust instruction using flexible
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Do you need materials to create a bulletin board in your computer lab or classroom about digital citizenship? To help your students take responsibility for their actions and encourage them to think before they act, TechnoKids created a set of digital footprints. Each print has the name of a use of technology, such as blog,
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Students having their own computing device throughout the school day transforms learning. With BYOD in place a teacher can incorporate new teaching practices, instructional materials, activities, assessment tools, and communication methods that were previously not possible. This change has the capacity to alter dramatically student experiences. Discover the educational value of BYOD and the ways
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Should you teach programming skills to middle and high school students? Yes! Top 6 Reasons to Teach Programming to Your Students Learn Computational Thinking Skills: Programming makes a student think logically by using algorithms – step-by-step instructions to perform a function. If any of the steps are incorrect or inaccurate, the result has an error.
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