Kategori: Teaching

Blog­posts about teach­ing in general

Historyteacher

Timelines in OneNote

Written by Lektoren

- How can we help our stu­dents to con­nect the top­ics we teach? 1: Time­lines as dif­fer­ent tables on the can­vas This exer­cise uti­lizes 3 cool fea­tures of OneNote: I sim­ply cre­at­ed a page with 6 con­tent box­es con­tain­ing a time­line each of a his­to­ry course, and then dis­trib­uted the page to the indi­vid­ual stu­dent sec­tions. … Con­tin­ue read­ing “Time­lines in OneNote”

Historyteacher

Be aware and exercise your #Google #criticism

Written by Lars Henriksen

This is an idea for a his­to­ry les­son on “search machine-crit­i­cism”: Home­work: Watch this video [arve url=“https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=en#t‑177480” title=“Google bub­bles” /]   In class; Test the assertions/claims in the video by chang­ing loca­tion and Google accounts: Google the same key­word from dif­fer­ent IP adress­es: at home, in school or at work and take screen­shots of the results. Ask … Con­tin­ue read­ing “Be aware and exer­cise your #Google #crit­i­cism”

Teaching

2: Collaboration Project with @CenterStreet86 and her class

Written by Lektoren

My school par­tic­i­pat­ed in a region­al project with 6 oth­er schools try­ing to come up with ideas to bring the world into the class­room oth­er than embark­ing on expen­sive study trips. Inspired by this, I blogged 5 ideas to for a con­nect­ed K12 edu­ca­tor class­room , and luck­i­ly Lau­ra Hansen, Seat­tle respond­ed to this: All sound awe­some!! … Con­tin­ue read­ing “2: Col­lab­o­ra­tion Project with @CenterStreet86 and her class”

Teaching

1: Classroom discussion in a Sharepoint newsfeed

Written by Lars Henriksen

Although I don’t like to be used as a pawn in the big EdtechGame of Thrones between Google and Microsoft, I am vain enough to fall for tricks like being accept­ed in ye olde knight­hood of Microsofts Inno­vate Edu­ca­tors and OneNote super­hero capes 🙂 In order to become a Microsoft Inno­v­a­tive Edu­ca­tor you have to brag pub­licly … Con­tin­ue read­ing “1: Class­room dis­cus­sion in a Share­point newsfeed”

Historyteacher

Digital tools in the #history classroom

Written by Lektoren

Pre­sen­ta­tion for ple­nary ses­sion on Coun­cil of Europe Bel­grade sem­i­nar, 29/10 2015 This is my first vis­it to Bel­grade so I hope there will be time to see the city. My name is Lars Hen­rik­sen and I have been teach­ing his­to­ry in upper sec­ondary school for 15 years. Over this peri­od of time, my use of text­books … Con­tin­ue read­ing “Dig­i­tal tools in the #his­to­ry classroom”

Teaching

5 ideas for a #connected humanities #k12 classroom

Written by Lektoren

I would like to con­nect my stu­dents with stu­dents in anoth­er coun­try. Maybe it does­n’t have to be very time-con­­sum­ing, if you start with very small assign­­ments- and then see what hap­pens. First, one should ask the stu­dents, what online social ice­break­er activ­i­ties to start with, when you meet new peo­ple online — maybe there should be … Con­tin­ue read­ing “5 ideas for a #con­nect­ed human­i­ties #k12 classroom”