Webova

“He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks inside, awakes.”

~ Carl Jung

Webova has been a little project that was concepted 7+ years ago and it’s just never really been nurtured into anything. If you know me personally, I have a hyperactive brain and struggle to get all my thoughts into a package. So now I’m taking a step and I hope it’s in the right direction! I love education, digital, safe spaces, learning, social emotional development. So this year among the various professional development avenues that I’ve pursued, becoming an accredited facilitator for Evergreen Parenting - Creative Christian Parenting has been something that I’ve achieved! My vision is that I will use this space to connect worlds. The education world, the parenting world, the digital world, and the psych-social world.

All human beings reflect this behaviour - young and old. We all need to be seen and heard.

Why AI is the future of Socratic learning methods

AI plays a unique role in helping to facilitate engaging learning methods that teach students through experience and critical thinking.

Why AI is the future of Socratic learning methods Ensuring that each learner is accommodated, supported, and engaged on a platform that is no longer a classroom with walls, or borders, or exclusivity, is the conundrum teachers are facing at this v…

“We need people who are good at asking the right questions. We need to develop the habit of asking probing, insightful questions that cause others to pause and think. We need to ask ourselves questions that invite reflection, interrogation and fan the flames of genuine curiosity.”
TomorrowToday

Dear Teachers,
Keep it simple with a core toolkit, tried & true strategies, & flexible resources to help you transition between learning environments.

8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom

8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom

8 Strategies to Improve Participation in Your Virtual Classroom Educators share their best synchronous and asynchronous strategies to boost student participation during online learning.

How the pandemic is driving a shift in student-directed learning

How the pandemic is driving a shift in student-directed learning.

How the pandemic is driving a shift in student-directed learning Project Tomorrow, a national, education nonprofit supporting the implementation of research-based learning experiences, and Blackboard, a leading EdTech software and solutions company, today releas…

Whatsapp: Communicating in Schools

Should we be using WhatsApp for Internal Communication in Schools? A very interesting read...

Whatsapp: Communicating in Schools Should we be using WhatApp for Internal Communication in Schools? This 9ine blog discusses the use of social media in schools and its effect on GDPR.

How an AI App That Detects COVID Carriers By Their Cough Could Help Reopen Schools

“Should something like this come to fruition, it would really be exciting.”

How an AI App That Detects COVID Carriers By Their Cough Could Help Reopen Schools Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, school districts and public health experts have sought to solve a key missing link for safe in-person learning: how to identify asymptomatic COVID-19 cases among students and staff. Asymptomatic carriers might come into school buildings and transmit the v...

The 2021 Workplace Learning Trends Report | Udemy for Business

What will 2021 bring? See how workplace learning pivoted in 2020 and what these changes mean for the future.

The 2021 Workplace Learning Trends Report | Udemy for Business Examine the learning behaviors from thousands of businesses and a survey of over 500 professionals to discover why the future of work matters now more than ever.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ~Albert Einstein

5 learning trends COVID-19 will bring to 2021

2020 was a rough and unpredictable year for students and teachers, to put it mildly--and the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted some interesting learning trends. Here’s 5 learning trends COVID-19 will bring to 2021.

5 learning trends COVID-19 will bring to 2021 This year, education systems throughout the world were flipped upside down due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing a massive shift in how students are learning and how educators are teaching. Now, mil…

Resources for Teachers

Looking for resources to support distance learning and online teaching? Check out these free webinars, articles, templates, and more which can help you partner with families, build your virtual classroom culture, and gain confidence with remote teaching.

https://wideopenschool.org/families-and-teachers/for-teachers/

Resources for Teachers Just in time for back-to-school: Support at-home learning for all students and families this school year with new customizable templates, updated daily plans, and more tools that make it easier to connect with families and to teach effectively in challenging times.

Cultivating Creativity | The Pacific Institute®

All of us are creative, in one manner or another. In order to realise our innate creativity, consider these six conditions that allow creativity to flourish:

Cultivating Creativity | The Pacific Institute® Specializing in creating high performance mindsets for individuals, teams, and organizations since 1971.

On behalf of millions of families and educators across the nation, educators are calling on government to connect all students and close the digital divide now.
Access to home broadband is critical for learning during school closures. Students and families from low-income backgrounds who lack devices and internet service at home are continuing to struggle to keep pace with their peers. It is imperative to provide essential tools and resources to all our students, closing the digital divide and increasing their chances for success. We need your help for the sake of future generations!
SACE WCED eLearning South Africa

Why Grit is More Important in Your Kids Than IQ (And One Simple Way to Teach It)

The best students have GRIT. It was defined by Dr. Duckworth as passion and perseverance towards long-term goals.

Why Grit is More Important in Your Kids Than IQ (And One Simple Way to Teach It) Studies have shown that having a high IQ doesn’t guarantee success in this world. In her TED talk, Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth explained that IQ was not what determined who were her best and worst students. She found that some of her best performers did NOT have genius-level IQs and her students with...

Audio (including music) has been added to google slides! Hooray!!!

Music often accompanies a beautiful presentation. Until now, there has not been a convenient way to add music to different Google slides. Today, we change that.

Why Practical Skills Will Matter More Than Your Degree In The New Economy

Practical Skills Will Matter More Than Your Degree In The New Economy. Given the passion with which some business and educational leaders talk about it, you might well imagine that we’re on the cusp of a major revolution!

Why Practical Skills Will Matter More Than Your Degree In The New Economy But the transition away from traditional credentials faces strong headwinds for now.

Book Creator for the High School Classroom

Book Creator in the High School Clever Classroom

Book Creator for the High School Classroom Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

Will Technology Make My Kid Fat, Dumb, and Mean?

Debunking the most common media myths and truths with real research and practical advice.

Will Technology Make My Kid Fat, Dumb, and Mean? Debunking the most common media myths and truths with real research and practical advice. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

Cultivating a Love of Reading in the Digital Age | Edutopia

Today’s readers are diving into text in ways we simply couldn’t imagine a decade or two ago. They navigate a new world of print and digital reading material, and our work as educators is to prepare them to grow and shine as readers.

Cultivating a Love of Reading in the Digital Age | Edutopia Four tips for taking advantage of apps and other tools to encourage students to read.

The trick with leadership is to understand not only where your team are, but the world around them, and what that means for where they have to go.

News-O-Matic - News-O-Matic is the daily newspaper for kids on iOS and Android, an exciting and engaging nonfiction experience, and a fantastic modern educational tool.

News-O-Matic is the daily newspaper just for kids on iOS or Android. It provides an exciting and engaging nonfiction experience for children, complete with valuable literacy tools for the classroom.
https://www.newsomatic.org

News-O-Matic - News-O-Matic is the daily newspaper for kids on iOS and Android, an exciting and engaging nonfiction experience, and a fantastic modern educational tool. News-O-Matic is the daily newspaper for kids on iOS and Android, an exciting and engaging nonfiction experience, and a fantastic modern educational tool.

School Library Makerspaces: the Bold, the Brave, and the Uninitiated

Incorporating learning within school services is an way to the library’s potential.

School Library Makerspaces: the Bold, the Brave, and the Uninitiated By Michelle Davis - The traditional “shush” space of the library may seem like an odd setting for a makerspace. Here's why it works.

6 Media Resolutions Every Family Should Make in 2018

If there's one thing nearly every parent wants to get better at, it's staying ahead of their kids when it comes to media and technology. Here’s some great tips:

6 Media Resolutions Every Family Should Make in 2018 Whether or not you're a "resolution person," approach the new year as an opportunity to bond, to be mindful, and to learn something new. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

To inspire meaningful change, you must make a connection to the heart before you can make a connection to the mind.

My aim as an educator and trainer is to make teachers understand their role as one who an environment for rather than one who individually develops every student. I loved this image inspired and created by EduWells

Tuesday's Tips The Flipped Classroom

Flip your classroom to make more time to assimilate content collaboratively

Tuesday's Tips The Flipped Classroom

Teachers do have a new role and it is to develop independent and collaborative learners!

Education that places pressure on each individual to produce ideal outputs they were not involved in devising, creates a negative environment for all involved:

All tend to engage in shallow thinking as they simply aim for the target outcome, pre-designed by the system.

The feels stress and full responsibility over how they could possibly be expected to manage catering for all 3 situations, ‘good’, ‘average’, and ‘bad’ students in one room.

The worry about their child’s grades, while knowing that the world outside school is completely different with teams of people working on output together.

The suffers from becoming an environment where the teacher is the sole target audience and ideas and opinions from peers have less value. This can have the effect of making the room less busy, as students feel less empowered to make decisions about what opportunities might exist.

See the full article: https://eduwells.com/2017/12/10/why-all-classrooms-need-designthinking/

No matter how much discussion takes place about the speed of world change in tech, population, and the environment, most schools continue the way they always have. The isolating of subject matter into ‘manageable chunks’ fails to address the skills required to merge things together in preparation for life outside the ‘factory’ school.

Read more at: https://eduwells.com/2017/12/11/stop-teaching-math/

Instead of thinking about whether you are a “glass-half-full” or “glass-half-empty” person, why not ask, “what’s in the glass?” Figure that out, work from there, and use it to your advantage. George Couros

Creating 21st Century School Libraries - Smithfiles

The new library model provides a forum for students to , enjoy , in healthy debate, and challenge , and and in a multitude of meaningful ways.

Creating 21st Century School Libraries - Smithfiles Here’s a sure fire way to put students to sleep. Have them take turns reading dictionary definitions for “library.” Case in point, Merriam-Webster says “a place where books, magazines, and other materials (such as videos and musical recordings) are available for people to use or borrow.” While respe...

800+ Fantastic Fonts for Google Projects

I’m also a typophile. Presentation is crucial for first impressions. This is a great article on how to use Google web fonts which is available in documents, slideshows, drawings, and spreadsheets AND it opens on all devices without switching to generic fonts.

800+ Fantastic Fonts for Google Projects I'll admin it. I am a typophile. That is, I love fonts. Even since I was a kid I have always been intrigued by the way different typefac...