All Blog Posts Tagged 'Education' (32)

In the next few months, most teachers will be finding out which classes/grades they'll be teaching for the following year.  I wanted to share some thoughts.  Please share your opi…

I recently viewed a colleague giving a lesson in a flipped model. He made a video of himself reading and explaining the Gemara. He then had a worksheet that the students needed to complete on the topic which was also done on computer. This was given first at home as homework and then reinforced the next day in class.

The lesson was absolutely remarkable and I thought the teacher did a masterful job. I have to say that I have never seen such diligence on the part of the students to…

Can an online diary change the way people learn or talk about education? Can teachers engage their students through words, pictures and links instead of classroom discussion? Can a teacher's words have a greater impact and create a discussion between a student and his/her parents when posted online?

Seems rather funny that my first blogging assignment for my ed-tech class is to blog about blogging. Anyway, I thought that I would take the opportunity to reflect on a part of the reading for the class. In our reading for this week, it mentions the use of blogging as a tool for facilitating a professional development community. I never really thought about the use of a blog to be a running PD dialogue for a school community. I know that it also discusses the ability to go beyond your…

Last night at around 6:30PST and 9:30EST something unique and exciting happened. I had the opportunity to lead a PD session with a cohort of Religious School educators from area congregational schools in San Francisco. You may be asking yourself "did he really fly all the way to the West Coast just to turn around and fly back in time to deliver finals to his classes in South Florida 9 hours later?" Not exactly. But with a little pre-thought and pre-planning, tools like …

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I wonder if you have seen this example of Problem Based Jewish Education.



http://jewishedd.blogspot.com/2011/11/project-based-learning-and-big-flip.html?spref=tw Note this YouTube on Mishna Zevachim 14:6 :…

After a month of paperless classes, learning was going strong. Here are 5 of my most meaningful observations:



1- Students with organizational issues were excelling using their 'digital backpacks' and were championing their time management. (Ironically those same students weren't necessarily excelling in their other subjects.) Two students who I spoke with mentioned they enjoyed learning with a computer and they felt good about themselves because they were staying organized with…

After recently finishing a most fabulous program on Ed. Tech. through Yeshiva University-IUSP and the generosity of the Jim Joseph Foundation I was ready to roll up my sleeves and showcase some of my new found abilities; I wanted to teach a paperless digital class. To a lot of people the idea of a paperless digital class is not realistic. Not all students have laptops or mobile…

Flash Back:

Technology is not meant to be the end, but to be the means. Technology is a tool to engage our students. Web 2.0 has introduced us to new ways of creating and defining community. Just as the chalk board created new ways to create relationships between the student and the teacher and the nature of education itself, the digital universe we are entering is opening up new doors that will lead to a different learning and teaching…

 An entire universe of knowledge has been opened for me. Frankly I may have known it existed and just didn’t see the value in it. Now I don’t understand how students can learn to their full potential without technology. I constantly find myself thinking about web 2.0 tools, blogs and wikis and how I can apply them or help educators apply them to their classrooms and beyond. I see how the world has changed through technology and how schools are changing as…

My religious school  5^th grade teacher and I met the other day.  We are exploring how to revamp our t’filla curriculum using digital technology.  There are a lot of cool tools out there. Our challenge is to find one that appropriately meets our goals.  We want our students to be able to decode t’fillot fluently and to understand what they are all about – to be able to articulate what the kavannah is in their own words. When we looked at…

I’ve been on vacation for the past week. While we basked in the sun and surf of Florida’s west coast, I was reading a biography of the musician, Jerry Garcia. Every few pages I would come upon a reference to a song or concert and would immediately grab my smartphone to go online and look for any recordings or, even better, video of early concerts…

For generation ‘X’ educators teaching students of the net generation, visual learning has a very different connotation. Granted visual learning has been around since the stone age. From caveman using sticks to draw pictures in the sand to good old-fashioned 20th century (21st century?) chalk and blackboard. But visual learning has changed. Wikipedia defines visual literacy in education as “a student’s ability to comprehend, make meaning of, and communicate through visual means, usually in…

I love VoiceThread. It’s a great platform that allows students to collaborate and create something akin to a pod/video cast. I learned about it this past fall and began utilizing it first with my congregational school’s 5^th grade class. Our first foray was into tweeting t’fillot -    rewriting Ahavat Olam.  Each student typed a personal 140-character interpretation and then recorded it on the VoiceThread platform. Then all the…