Ways To Use Google Sites With Your Students

Google Sites is one of the best website creation software I have been recommending for teachers. There are a wide variety of reasons why Google Sites is an ideal platform to host your class website and here are some of them:

• Google Sites is easy to use and has a student friendly interface.
• You can set up your website within minutes without the need for any HMTL or CSS knowledge.
• It provides highly customizable themes that you can easily apply to your site.
• It is integrated with some other Google serves like Google Calendar.
• Google Sites has a wonderful web-based editor that allows you to easily  create, edit and share you content.
• It provides a set of collaborative features including multiple editors and commenting.
• Inserting images, videos, and other multimedia materials is ridiculously easy.
• It provides a modest cloud storage capacity for you to upload documents, files, attachments, and PDFs.
• And it is FREE.

Here is a comprehensive guide to help you learn more about how to create a website using Google Sites.

Below are some of the tips and ideas on how you can use Google Sites with your students in class:

• Create a website for your class where you can share learning materials with your students.
• Use the file cabinet option to upload documents and PDFs that your students can access anytime they want.
• Create a blog inside your Google Sites using the Announcements template and start sharing updates about your class with your students.
• Encourage students to use Google Sites to create digital portfolios displaying their best work.
• Enhance collaborative and group work by inviting students to contribute to the Google Site  or blog you created for your class. You can do this by adding your students as either owners (they can create new pages) or  editors ( they can only edit existing pages).
• Use it in group projects by assigning students to create their own pages and share them with each other.
• Encourage peer review and peer editing by allowing students to post comments and feedback on each others pages.
• If you use Google Calendar then you can have your calendar featured in your class website.
• Embed videos, audio, presentations, and images that students can use when working on their projects andassignments.
• Use it as a wiki where students can edit, comment, and add to each others work.

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What Do Americans Really Think About U.S. Education?

By Katie Lepi

There’s always chatter about how schools in the US are failing or succeeding. About how test scores are too low compared to other students around the globe. About how standardized testingis right or wrong, good or bad for our students. About how schooling (or unschooling) should really work. But what we talk about less often is how we feel about individual subjects that are taught in school. 

The handy infographic below takes a look at how Americans rate the importance and usefulness of certain school subjects in their current lives. It ranks the subjects from most to least useful, then breaks down the answers by education level and gender. Did algebra really ever help you? Or science?Keep reading to learn more.

Evaluating School Subjects

Which subject has been most valuable in your life?

• Math – (34%)
• English/Literature/Reading (21% – down 3% since 2002)
• Science – (12% – up from 4% in 2002)
• History – (8%)
• Business/Finance/Accounting – (4%)
• Geography and Psychology  - (3%)
• Economics,  Art/Music/Theater, and ‘other’- (2%)
• Foreign Languages/Language Arts, Home Economics, Theology/Religion, and all – (1%)
• The expressed value of Math declines with each additional level of schooling
• Conversely, English and Science’s perceived value increased with additional schooling
• Men tend to value math more than women
• Women value English and psychology more than men

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Effective Ways To Build Your School Tribe

By Holly Clark

It’s a crisp fall Monday morning, and freshly dressed school children are being dropped off by their parents – who by this time have gotten used to the current homework load and the personality of the new teacher. But this year, there is something different in the air; an angst that is causing mothers throughout the 4th grade to call each other and fuel the creation of new urban myths about iPads that their children are using in school.

The phone calls sound something like this…

It used to be so easy to help with a worksheet or two at night. I don’t really know how to help my child learn and organize? And why isn’t my 4th grader writing in cursive? How are these kids expected to type effectively on that iPad keyboard? What are we doing to this generation of kids? When are they going to learn to read, and how will they ever learn to read on the iPad?  My child needs books, like I used, and a organization planner. How do I know they are not just playing games when they are on that thing?

These questions echo from cell phone to cell phone, and car window to car window as parents voice their concerns to each other. This starts an almost frenzy-like atmosphere of distaste for the new 1:1 iPads. Why does this type of agitation happen? In most cases, it is a spurred by two factors: a big school-wide change to the status quo, and a lack of effective communication from the school.

Unfortunately, this is what can happen if you try to change the direction of a school without involving the parents. This is a semi-fictional account of something that happened at my own school, so when it happened I turned to one of the most brilliant business mind: Seth Godin

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It’s Important To Take Risks While Learning

By Katie Lepi on April 8, 2014

Sometimes the process of learning something in order to be able to do it seems daunting. You know you want to get from point A to point B so that you can do C, but you really just want to be able to do C without a long wait. As teachers, you want your students to get there quickly and efficiently, too. While patience is a virtue, sometimes patience will get you nowhere fast. 

The handy infographic below looks at the idea of how to learn fast. It uses the idea of travel time to support the concept of learning by doing – arguably one of the quickest methods of learning something. Instead of taking the time to stop at every learning opportunity, do background research, and file yourself through all of the traditional methods, sometimes just jumping in will help you learn faster. How can you apply these concepts in your classroom or in your own professional development? Get involved in the conversation by leaving a note in the comments!

How Fast Can You Learn?

• The graphic below compares the speed of learning to speed of travel from San Francisco, CA to London, UK.
• Learning by reading: 3mph – Chances of getting there: low
• Learning through school: 15mph - Chances of getting there: low
• Learning with a mentor:  65mph - Chances of getting there: 50/50
• Learning by doing: 500mph - Chances of getting there: high
• Learning by taking big risks: 10,000mph  - Chances of getting there: high

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Internet Is Changing Education

How Is The Internet Changing Education?

By Katie Lepi

The internet has brought many wonders to our lives. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t get lost much anymore (thanks to my Google Maps app), I never have to look up hot spots for meals ahead of time when I travel (thanks, Yelp), and when I want to know more about something, I can take my phone out and find the information I’m looking for.

The internet has brought great things to education, too. Research is easier, for sure. And online learning is bringing education options in varying ranges of affordability to a much wider audience. The handy infographic below takes a look at how educational power is shifting away from the hands of the institutions and more into the hands of students. Keep reading to learn about some of the milestones of e-learning, the current state of the internet and education, and what changes the internet is making happen.

How Is The Internet Changing Education?

• In 1971, The Open University in England begins broadcasting lectures on TV
• The now well known Univ. of Phoenix opens in 1989
• The term e-learning was coined in 1999
• Online education is currently a $34 billion industry
• The Open University is now the UK’s largest with 250,000 students
• The University of Phoenix is the largest in the US, with more than 500,000
• Khan Academy has over 41 million views on its courses
• Online learning can offer more personalized learning options
• Students can learn at their own pace, taking as many or as few classes at a time as they choose
• There are fewer one size fits all lecture based courses
• The London School of Business and Finance offered an MBA delivered entirely through a Facebook app

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Education Is A 7 Trillion Dollar Industry

By Katie Lepi 

Education is a huge industry. It touches nearly everyone out there, so it should be. But often times when we think of ‘big industries’ we think of things like banking, cars, or consumer electronics. Well did you know exactly how big of an industry education is? And just how rapidly and how much the industry is changing because of new technologies?

The handy infographic below, from Knewton and Column Five Media takes a look at some of these questions and more. Learn how digital education is poised to transform the way teachers teach and how students learn.

The State of Digital Education

• Education is a 7 trillion dollar industry
• That is 570 times the size of the online advertising market
• That is equal to 7 times the global mobile industry
• It is more than the GDP of Italy, France, and the UK combined
• Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and Netflix have brought easy access to information for students and teachers
• 30% of students in the US fail out of high school
• 33% of students in the US higher education system require remediation
• 46% of US college students do not graduate
• 1 student drops out of high school every 26 seconds
• Technology enables customized education solutions for more students
• Digital textbooks have been growing in popularity and are predicted to continue to grow over the next decade
• Mass distribution of content from online learning is enabling more students to have access to education
• Online learning enrollment is growing at a rate 14 times faster than regular higher education enrollment
• 95% of teachers believe that online tools help engage students
• Cost savings from going digital is about 40%
• It is expected that about 98% of learning will be in a blended learning model by 2020

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Things To Know About Education Around The World

By Katie Lepi 

Education is a concern to most people around the globe. Whether you’re pursuing your own education, worrying about the education of your child, or educating others, education really is a pretty universal concern. Those concerns, however, vary widely depending on where you are in the world and the background you come from. Students from wealthier nations worry about what college they’re going to go to or if they can afford to go to private vs public school while students from less developed, poorer nations wonder if they’ll have access to any or enough education at all. We know that there are still a lot of out of school children around the world, 

The last thirty years or so have seen great increases in educational opportunities, participation in education, and the quality of education. But what are the numbers really looking like? Where has the most improvement happened? Or the least improvement? What about the gender gap? Thehandy infographic below (From CourseHero) takes a look at these questions and more. Keep reading to learn more.

Education Around The World

1. Access to education doubled between 1970 and 2008
2. Global access to post-secondary education has increased by 600 times during that same period
3. Globally, literacy rates have been climbing as education systems have improved
4. Women still maintain a lower literacy rate than men
5. The average number of years a student spends in school has increased over the last decade
6. The most dramatic improvements have happened in Central and Eastern Europe, and South and West Asia
7. Primary education has suffered the most participation loss  (for both girls and boys) over the last 30 years
8. Secondary education has experienced growth in 7 out of 8 major global regions
9. Women now outnumber men as post secondary graduates in 78.3% of the world
10. Out of 34 countries, the US places 14th in reading 17th in science, and 25th in math

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