Vicki A. Davis's Blog, page 153
March 14, 2015
Who Will Win the $1 Million Teacher Prize? #gesf
Vicki and her student reporters will be covering the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai this week. You can see the live stream on the GESF website and follow the #gesf hashtag on Twitter. You’ll be seeing her students write their opinion on the future of education right here on this blog.
The $1 Million Dollar Global Teacher Prize to be announced Sunday Ten finalists have been named in the Global Teacher Prize contest, having been voted as the best by teachers around the world. This c...
March 6, 2015
The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner: The Best Scanner I Have Ever Used
I received a demo unit of the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Scanner. Honestly, I thought it was going to be just another scanner, and I haven’t had much luck with them. I have to scan so many things for the school website; it was worth trying it out. (The scanner on our copier always breaks.) Plus, now I’m using Haiku Learning and scan many of the things I used to hand out.
As I was unpackaging it, I had a great sign. The CEO of the IT company that we hire to do our contract computer repair was in my...
March 5, 2015
QUESTIONS: What is Wrong with Education
We know that when students are tested in environments similar to those they learn in, that they recall the information better. (This makes us wonder why students are taken out of the classroom and put in a gym or computer lab and expected to recall the material.) We also know that chewing gum or even certain smells can improve test scores. (Anyone starting to see the preposterousness of this?)We work hard to differentiate in the classroom but we don’t differentiate our test giving at all — no...
March 3, 2015
Jon Bergmann: Preparing Your Students for Flipped Learning #flipclass
Jon Bergmann talks with Vicki about flipped learning by which he means moving direct instruction to the individual space so the classroom space can be freed up for collaborative projects. Listen now to find out more about this pedagogical method.
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March 2, 2015
How to Relax Your Mind: A 2-minute Stress Busting Technique
This time of year, the pace picks up at school. There are times my shoulders are neck feel so tight that if you put you hand on them, they’d crack like thin ice on the top of a frozen lake. It is easy to get overwhelmed with all you have to do. Can you come to grips with the fact that you are not a robot? You can’t schedule every single moment and drive yourself until you get it done. We’re all tired sometimes.
How to Relax Your Mind
This one simple practice helps me get it back together when I...
February 27, 2015
Bob Greenberg and Brainwaves: Capturing the Best Teaching Practices and Leaving a Legacy
Bob Greenberg, a veteran educator, inspires other educators through his Brainwaves channel. Bob hosts exciting guests in education .Bob passionately says “Students are our legacy.” Bob GreenbergPowered By the Tweet This PluginTweet This Bob hasn’t retired, he has sent himself into overdrive as he records and shares a snapshot of history and educational thought at this moment on his YouTube Channel. What a great story!
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February 25, 2015
Free Webinar: Empower students with collaborative writing tools — Feb 26, 2015
Vicki will present a FREE Webinar entitled, “Empower students with collaborative writing tools” February 26, 2015 at 4:00 pm EST / 9:00 pm UTC on the WizIQ platform as part of the Featured Teachers Webinar Series. The host for this event is Jason R. Levine @FluencyMC, the rapping educator who blogs at “It’s FLUENCY MC!”
Who should attend? All writing teachers grades 4 and up, curriculum directors, and school long-term planning and policymakers.
The Webinar is free and you can join at ->
February 19, 2015
Let the Caged Birds Sing! Giving Special Needs Kids a Voice
What will be the most significant classroom innovation in the next 10 years?
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
― Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ”
The story is well known now that Stephen Hawking, who many consider the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Albert Einstein, has been able to continue his illustrious career despite a debilitating diagn...
3 Ways to Be a Better You
“Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience,” says Atticus Finch, the stalwart character inTo Kill a Mockingbird. Today, I reflect upon three decisions that have made my life — and can make yours — more epic. (This is an extension of3 Steps to Make 2015 Epic, I dedicate this to a dear person in my life working to find herself.)
As leadership author John Maxwell says in his book How Successful Peo...
February 18, 2015
Serious Games: Rethinking Gamification in Education with Cat Flippen
Cat Flippentalks with Vicki Davis about her dissertation on gamification creating community. She is an ISTE Emerging Leader 2014. Cat argues that game like environments can occur anywhere, not just face- to face, or online, or virtual. Listen now to find out how Cat believes games are a great addition to education.
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