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4 Educational podcasts for curious teachers

28 de fevereiro de 2023

The ones who interact with me know what a podcast freak I am for more than a decade now, when it was still a hustle to transfer a podcast to my mp3 player. All of it to bring new and fresh learning experiences to my students. Even when I didn’t have connection, it worked. When...Read More

Educational Technology, Resources, Teacher Development, Technology

digital education, digital resources, EdTech, edtechtools, podcast, teacherdevelopment, teachers

Podcasts as a Learning Activator for Educators

28 de abril de 2019

by Carla Arena

Have you ever considered the good side of waiting in line, being stuck in a traffic jam, waiting at the doctor’s office? Well, you might feel mad, impatient, or even cranky. But wait? Is there a way to change all these negative feelings into the opposite spectrum, like feeling energized, inspired and wanting to change...Read More

Educational Technology, Teacher Development, Technology

english teacher, Listening, PD, podcasts, professionaldeveloment, teacher

Educators: Be the Agent of Your Professional Development

28 de março de 2019

by Carla Arena

Dear educator, You may think that your institution owe you something, like offering you proper professional development opportunities, but this is rarely the case. In fact, educational institutions have so much in their plates that they can barely scratch the surface of designing consistent, powerful PD development programs for their Academic and Admin staff. Considering...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

agency, PD, professionaldevelopment

8 Tips for Not Turning your Makerspace into the Next Computer Lab

28 de outubro de 2018

by Carla Arena

Though the maker movement has been around for a long time now, and if we consider Dewey, Papert, among other educators, we’d say it’s been around for decades! If we go event further and look at makerspace as those garages where kids used to work with their parents on projects, fix things and solve...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education

amplifica, creativity, EdTech, edutrends, maker, maker movement, makered, makeredu, trends in education

Educators Going Digital: Don’t Let Fear Get in the Way

28 de fevereiro de 2018

by Carla Arena

It’s been some years already that we’ve been talking about m-learning and its promises, but with not much consistent use of mobile devices as a learning tool with extremely high computational capabilities, sometimes even bigger than our own desktops (certainly this is my case!). There are simply countless ways to deepen the experiences and learning...Read More

Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Technology

digital, digital classroom, EdTech, elt, how-to-plan-a-lesson, learning, learning strategy, lesson idea, lesson planning, puentedura, samr

Power Up your Classes with Youtube Videos

28 de outubro de 2017

by Carla Arena

There´s nothing new on the use of Youtube for learning, but how often do you use its features beyond watching the videos? I´d like to suggest three ways to enhance the use of Youtube videos in the classroom. First, encourage your group to create a collaborative playlist about the topic they are studying. By doing...Read More

Educational Technology, Technology

classroom, classroom activity, EdTech, elt, Google, RSA, TED-ED, video, video in the classroom, Youtube

Rethinking Education

28 de setembro de 2017

by Carla Arena

There’s no need to remind you that technology is pervasive in our lives. It’s everywhere. However, my main paradox is that I see my kids going to school and having very little use of it as a tool for development, personal growth and inquiry. It is a huge paradox because for the past decade I’ve...Read More

Educational Technology, Teacher Development

EdTech, education, Google, learning, playlist, rethinking_education, Youtube

The Art of Storytelling as Curriculum

19 de fevereiro de 2017

by Carla Arena

Our humanity is expressed through our stories. More than ever before educators are in the look for different ways to engage their students by telling their own pieces of stories each class they meet their students, but they are also aiming to help their learners to tell their own stories. By doing that, a transformative...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Technology

classroom, cogdog, digital education, digital resources, digitalstorytelling, npr, storycorps, storytelling

Educators: A Plea for Auditing your Digital Literacies

25 de outubro de 2016

by Carla Arena

It´s been a while that educational communities talk about digital literacies. This has been a topic of my interest for a decade now. Still, what we see is a group of educators who follow exactly the curve of innovation in which we have the early adopters way ahead, investing in the development of their digital...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development, Technology

content curation, digital literacy, EdTech, professional development, professional image

#PocketPD: Digital Literacy in Small Doses for Educators

29 de outubro de 2015

by Carla Arena

I still remember when I considered productive having a big room full of teachers for a training session on computer skills. It is still vivid in my mind the beginning of Google in which I’d have trainings with teachers on “How to effectively use Google Search”. Were you there when Geocities was around? That was...Read More

Educational Technology, Teacher Development, Technology

bitly, digital literacy, pocket PD, professional development

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