My AI Education

One of the people I follow on Twitter is teacher Caitlin Tucker who has a great library of what is meant by blended learning and how a teacher can implement it in the classroom.  Above is one on creating a flipped classroom. Here is a summary of all the videos. 

When we work with students we have to remember that as hard as we try, we will still have biases or at least use some.  Maps come with lots of choices.  Short of using a globe, we are going to distort the land or ocean masses.  This short video is excellent in his visual display of the different maps.   If you teach world history or like to see the world a bit differently, this will be useful video for your class. One thing to make this relevant is that Google uses the Mercator map with its maps.  So every day we are seeing a bias that most people are unaware about. 

My county is moving to one to one, but has been clear that it is not meant as a way to just digitize paper.  So this video does a nice job of explaining the differences between technology integration and what is known as blended learning, which, in part, allows for collaboration between students to reach mastery. 

I am sharing some items with our teachers on our network drive. If you ever needed to know  how to do it, it is above. 

You will probably have a time when you will need to stockpile YouTube videos to either share with others or so you can easily find them later to remind yourself how to do something. Above is a video explaining how to make such a playlist.

Another question at the in-service was how to embed Remind texts (use to text one way reminders to students) into the announcement section of Blackboard.  Above is a short video showing this.  Have at it!

I just did a couple of classes for teachers.  One of the questions was how do you sign up students for Remind .  Above is a video detailing how this is done. Remind is used to text students and parents about homework, tests, and all kinds of information you would want to send your pupils. The video below shows how you use Remind to create texts.