World Before Social Media

Sometimes it is hard to imagine how we functioned without our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices. Whenever I head out to explore a new city, I hit up Yelp or Chow-hound to figure out where to eat. I use my GPS to navigate unfamiliar places. I don’t remember very many phone numbers anymore, because I have them all close at hand in my phone. When I want to read a book, I can download it. When I need to research something, I don’t need to head to the library. 

We’ve come a long way, and the cute graphic below shows us what social media looked like before it was actually social media. Think of it as ‘vintage’ social media. This is how we learned and connected in the days before the world was at our fingertips. Enjoy!

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State Of Girls’ Education

Ensuring access to quality education for girls is always a story, if you live in the education realm like we do. For many, though, especially if you live in a first world country with easy access to education, equal education for both sexes usually isn’t an issue at the forefront of our minds. Lately though, with the big story of the girls kidnapped from their school in Nigeria, brings the issue into the eye of the global media. The girls were kidnapped while at school by Boko Haram, the terrorist group whose name means “western education is forbidden”. While this is obviously an extreme example of education disparities between genders and different areas of the world, access to education – especially for girls, and especially in STEM subjects in ALL locations – is an ongoing issue in global education. 

The handy infographic below takes a look at girls’ education in 2013 – and tracks some of the progress that has been made since about 1990. Keep reading to learn more.

An Update On Girls’ Education

• The gap between boys and girls literacy has closed since 1990
• As of 2013, the global literacy rate for females 15-24 was 87%
• In 1990, that number was 79%
• For males, those numbers are 92% (2013) and 88% (1990)
• The largest gender discrepancies are found in Sub-saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa
• Girls have nearly caught up to boys in primary enrollment – a marked change since 1990
• Sub-saharan Africa and South Asia are the main areas where large discrepancies still exist
• Eritrea has the lowest % of girls enrolled in primary school, followed by Mali, Nigeria, and Pakistan
• Secondary enrollment still suffers compared with primary enrollment, but is now nearly equal to that of males – the current rates are 49% for girls and 54% for boys
• There are nearly 31 million out of school primary aged girls
• There are nearly 34 million of secondary age
• Nigeria, Pakistan, and Ethiopia are home to about 1/3 of the world’s out of school girls
• Worldwide, more females are enrolled in higher education than males, though the reverse is true in low and middle income countries

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Stages of Learning

The idea that different students may learn differently (otherwise known as ‘learning styles) is a pretty hot-button issue. In fact, I don’t think any other topic has garnered us such a large amount of hate-mail, even though we’ve tried to approach the topic from both sides of the argument.

That said, regardless of how you feel about whether different learning styles exist or not, there are many things that teachers have tried out over the years to see what works best for them and for their students.

Call it trial and error, or experiential research, perhaps. The handy infographic below talks about the stages of learning, and how to approach teaching in a way to best help students learn. Specifically geared towards reading assignments, the ideas in the graphic can be extrapolated and used for almost any subject or type of project/learning material! Keep reading to learn more!

Teach Towards Learning

Getting students in the best frame of mind to learn efficiently can be achieved with a few strategic steps. For a reading assigment:

Before Reading: 

1. Offer a preview
2. Let them ask questions/ask them questions
3. Have them make predictions

During Reading:

1. Clarify for them as necessary
2. Let them ask questions/ask them questions
3. Work on vocabulary

After Reading:

1. Encourage (require!) reflection
2. Let them ask questions/ask them questions
3. Have them summarize

Stages of Learning

1. Declarative
2. Procedural
3. Conditional
4. Metacognitive

Students Will Be Able To:

1. Name learning strategies
2. Know how to use learning strategies
3. Know when to use learning strategies
4. Know why they are using learning strategies

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Feedback on Student Writing

Providing timely and effective feedback on student work is a critical component to any classroom. As students increasingly operate and create in a digital environment, emerging tools provide unique new opportunities for teachers to provide feedback on both written work and video projects.

Feedback on Written Work

With the increased adoption of Google Apps for Education, student writing often occurs within Google Docs. While teachers can provide feedback in the form of typed comments, media-rich options exist. By incorporating audio and video feedback, teachers have even more opportunities to connect with their students as they can choose the modality to best support their learning preferences.

If students are in a 1:1 iPad classroom, and are using Google Drive to create and share writing assignments, along with the capacity to insert text comments into the body of the paper or in the margins, classroom teachers can use a combination of Google Drive and Explain Everything to provide video and audio feedback. The process allows a teacher to export a student writing assignment directly from Google Drive to Explain Everything.

Once in Explain Everything, the teacher can press record, ink on the document (which imports as a PDF), and even insert front facing video while providing feedback. In order to give the student access to the video feedback, the Explain Everything Project (XPL file) or video file can be uploaded directly back to Google Drive and placed into a student folder. It is important to recognize that XPL project files will upload quickly to Drive, but students then need Explain Everything to view the feedback. Meanwhile, a video file will take some time to export and upload, but once in Google Drive, students can watch the video feedback on any device.

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Classroom Design Affect Student Learning

As a teacher, you can do a lot of different things in your classroom to help your students succeed. You can offer extra help, implement technology, use personalized learning resources, etc, etc. But something that is often overlooked is the actual physical classroom space. When we think of how our physical classrooms impact students, we most often think of desk or table arrangement andseating charts.

The handy infographic below takes a look at how classroom design affects student learning in ways you might never think about. Have you made any classroom changes or implemented design elements in your classroom to aid student learning? What were they? Weigh in by leaving a comment below, mentioning @Edudemic on Twitter or leaving your thoughts on our Facebook page.

How Does Classroom Design Affect Student Learning?

• Classroom design can improve students’ performance by about 25%
  Positive effects include:
• Enhanced concentration
• Helps support learning
• Inspires students
• Improves behavior
• Better results
• Reduce fidgeting
• Increase attention span
• Encourage healthy posture
• Better communication between students and between teacher and students
• Items to consider are:
• Furniture
• Layout
• Color
• Temperature
• Acoustics
• Lighting

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Benefits of Learning a New Language

Learning a new language is scientifically proved to have positive impact on the way your brain grows and on the cognitive skills associated with processing information. For instance, bilinguals have denser gray matter in their language centers than monolinguals. Bilinguals can more easily focus on two tasks at once. They think more analytically. Parts of their brain devoted to memory, reasoning, and planning are larger than those of monolinguals (source:  How Bilingualism Boost Your Brain).

Besides these cognitive skills , learning a new language does also have some social gains such as getting to communicate with people from other countries, learning about different cultures, and even helping you understand your own native language. This social aspect of learning a new language is essential for raising bilingual or multilingual kids that tolerate and respect cultural and ethnic differences and value and look at linguistic diversity as an asset and not a difference.

This handy graphic outlines another 5 benefits of being a multilingual (and  bilingual ). Have a look and share with you students.

Here is a brief overview of these 5 benefits:

 1-More job opportunities:

The ability to communicate with people in more than one language could just help you acquire gainful employment.

2- Improved Intellect

Exposing yourself to foreign language can change the way you look at the world and create comprehensive avenues that would otherwise be unavailable.

3- Increased understanding of language

Learning another language can help you to gain a better understanding of your native tongue. It can also make it easier to learn other languages that are in the same vein.

4- Globalization

The interconnectedness of world cultures has brought people closer together. Learning other languages can help you to close the gap even further and take advantage of this globalization.

5- International travel benefits

Learning multiple languages can male all aspects of travel easier, from getting through customs to finding your way around foreign locales to haggling with local merchants

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Know about innovative teachers

Not too long ago, PBS Learning Media announced the latest round of educators selected for the 2014 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators program. We’ve talked about it in past years, but if you’re not familiar, the program rewards tech-savvy K-12 educators from across the country who are serving as leaders in the education technology space and incorporating digital media in classrooms to promote student engagement and achievement through year-long hands-on and virtual professional development opportunities.

100 educators were selected for the program, and 16 of these were designated as as “Lead PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators”. So what makes a leading digital innovator? You can read about all 100 of these awesome teachers here. We’ll give you a quick snapshot of the “Lead” folks below. To read their entire bio and to see the entire list, see the link above.

If you’re interested in applying to become one of these digital innovators, check back to their website for details for the next application period. The This year’s folks receive year-long professional development opportunities that include virtual trainings, access to premium and exclusive resources, and invitations to special events. In addition, the top 16 “Lead Innovators” will serve as leads of the program and will receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington, DC, to participate in a two-day digital education summit where participants will engage in hands-on learning, collaborate with peers and hear from digital technology thought leaders.

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Math or Reading?

When it comes to determining how our students are collectively progressing on their educational paths, standardized testing is still the primary method of measuring. We focus a lot on how ourmath scores compare with other countries around the world, how many science and engineering degrees are awarded compared with other countries, or how many people are or aren’t learning to code. And while ‘math and reading’ are collectively referenced quite often as the metrics by which we measure our students, we often gloss over the reading portion – because we’re a first world country – everyone can read – right?

Well, not quite. The handy infographic below takes a look at just how poorly our students (and adults) are doing with reading. The graphic uses Troy Prep Middle School in Albany, NY as an example of a fairly ‘typical’ public school (at least by the numbers. It is a charter school with mainly low income students. Take a look at the statistics , and tell us what you think. Do these statistics ring true from your personal experiences in the classroom? Weigh in by leaving a comment below, mentioning @Edudemic on Twitter or leaving your thoughts on our Facebook page.

Math is Hard But Reading is Harder

• In 2012, 100% of 7th graders had proficient or advanced scores in math
• But only 50% had met the same standards in reading
• Similar results were found in other schools in the district: 86% of students were proficient or advanced in math, but only 66% in reading
• Deficits start at a very young age
• By age 4, children from low income families have heard 32 million fewer words than children from high income families
• Over 10 million US students are from households where English is ot the primary language
• 78% of these 10 million speak no English at home
• In 2012, Reading SAT scores reached a four decade low, though math scores remain largely unchanged
• Teachers are required to teach within the limits of the lower level students, so many are not advancing at a reasonable pace

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