World History
Any good teacher will tell you that students learn best when connecting items together rather than when learning one after the other. Thus studying vocab words by themselves is less effective than using them (as do my 4th grade daughters) to tell a story. Well Doug Kerner, one of my now former teacher-students, sent me a link for Visuwords which lets you input a word and then builds a word cloud. But it goes further than that. When you click on each word cloud, it then gives you a meaning. All it needs is a picture and it would be the complete learning tool. Above, for example, is part of what came up for World War II.
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- Meaningful Learning
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World History
Learning Through Spatial Organization
- Education Week Post
Way back in August Larry Ferlazzo asked me to respond to one of his reader's queries which was posted today. The post looks at "interactives" which allow students to work in class on "problem sets" where the teacher can walk around the...
- Howjsay To Pronounce Words
A number of my students are either currently ESOL students or were in the program in the last year or two. So one of the resources we use is Howjsay.com where you can input a word and it says it for you. The other day for example, we were...
- Tweeting Your Class Warmup
As our students leave Facebook, more and more are using Twitter, among other social media. One of our new hires, Doug Zywiol, is using Twitter as a warm-up for his students. Most of our students have phones that can text, but for those who do not,...
- Reading Comprehension & Learning Styles
At my school we are working on Tier 1, 2 and 3 learning which essentially asks the teacher to differentiate learning with your students who are not meeting all of your objectives. Two main items that we are looking at are learning styles and reading comprehension....
- Meaningful Learning
Brought to you by: Online Colleges I have long had a rule that my students must "touch" our learning at least five times before their final exam. To add to this I strive, as much as possible, to have my students learn through interacting with the...