FOUR VIRTUAL ICE BREAKERS FOR REMOTE TEAMS OR LEARNERS
WHY ICE BREAKERS?
If you are leading a remote team or teaching/facilitating a remote group of learners through digital platforms, engagement becomes a real issue. You need to keep your people focused and motivated. Especially when a new team member or a learner joins the group or the whole group is already new to each other, ice breakers help…
Education professionals, teachers, trainers and consultants – simply anyone who is involved in learning contexts – are increasingly tempted to integrate technology into their practices. Whether it is a one-hour learning session or a whole training curriculum to…
No doubt generation Z wants more engagement and involvement in the classrooms, and it is just amazing how technology can help educators create opportunities for more active and engaging learning. We just need to realise how technology can transform the way we teach in the…
Creativity, role-play, team-work and active involvement of students… You will find all these in this guest post that Gokce Uluscu, an EFL teacher and an EdTech enthusiast, sent us. She tells how her students wrote their own scripts and created their own video to…
Padlet for Group Work
18 February 2019
Padlet has become very popular among teachers as it allows for a variety of creative uses in the classroom. Padlet is an online bulletin board where learners can share notes with others in the form of text, images, videos or links. Julyet Koronel, owner of this EdTech…
Promoting Active Learning Using QR Codes
31 January 2019
QR Code apps have been around for quite a while and educators use them for educational purposes as they can considerably increase learner engagement in the classroom if used well. Before we move on with how to use it in your lessons, here is a little tutorial about QR codes…
7568 EdTech Tools You Should Know(!)
19 January 2019
If you expect to see a list of 7568 EdTech tools in this post, I am afraid I will disappoint you because I will not be sharing such a list and I will explain why.In fact, I could have done that and it would have been easy to make such a big compilation of tools and apps…
Personalised Learning in the Age of Algorithms
12 January 2019
Everything we do online – from clicks to likes, from shares to the online purchases we make – is tracked, recorded and turned into big data. The new digital economy is based on this. We as users of the Internet are part of the huge data sets that come in an…
6 Guiding Principles for the Digital Age Educators
9 January 2019
We are tasked with educating a generation whose lives are heavily influenced by digital technologies. Dynamics in education are changing because learner behaviors are also changing. Educators need some guiding principles to keep themselves on the right track when dealing…