Our classrooms are becoming increasingly digitized...which is extremely exciting!At the same time, many of our students, especially at the secondary level, have been taught a specific way to take notes...an activity we can agree is essential to student success.However, with many classrooms becoming "flipped" or "blended" learning environments, the way our students have been taught to take notes ... Read More about Note-Taking with Technology
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Classroom Collaboration
Encouraging students to collaborate with one another is extremely important and beneficial. If you are lucky enough to have technology rich classroom environment, encouraging student collaboration can be fun and easy! Below are some tools to use to encourage online, real time collaboration with your students. Enjoy!PadletThis is BY FAR my favorite tool for collaboration, brainstorming, questions, ... Read More about Classroom Collaboration
Current Events: So Important, and So Little Time to Devote to Discussion
As a Social Studies teacher, I constantly find myself torn between teaching content which will be on the standardized test (ahhh a teacher's favorite topic) and discussing current events with my students. There are tons of great topics we could discuss that would be relevant to our curriculum, and would be extremely interesting to my students. However, I just don't feel like there is enough time ... Read More about Current Events: So Important, and So Little Time to Devote to Discussion
Blended Learning Environments
Many practicing teachers today have had at least a little experience with blended courses, at some point in their education. Personally, I had one course that was truly "blended" in my undergraduate studies, in which some of the class was "face to face" and other parts were "online."The blended learning environment I experienced is vastly different than the blended courses students are now ... Read More about Blended Learning Environments
Professional Development through Sophia
Are you looking for new ideas and tools to use in your classroom? Check out Sophia's professional development options for teachers!We teach in an ever growing and changing digital age. In our undergraduate training, many of us weren't adequately trained on using technology in our classrooms, other than a personal computer. I remember being "trained" on using the SmartBoard...training which focused ... Read More about Professional Development through Sophia
