Facebook groups and Twitter chats have sprung up like wildfire among educators in the last few years. Educators are using these spaces to build off of more traditional face-to-face professional development events. Just search #edchat #scchat #escchat on Twitter and start connecting with other professionals today. Click on the image to read the article.
Category Archives: Educators
Tech Trends in Education
Please join me on Twitter #escchat to live chat about technology trends in education and what that means for counselors. The live chat starts at 2:00 PM HST for all my Maui peeps.
Hope you can join us tomorrow night for the #escchat on Tech Trends at 8EST/5PST/2HST:) #scchat #sccrowd #edchat pic.twitter.com/3AYMoGq74b
— Kekaula Campbell (@ALII_slide) March 12, 2014
#getconnected
This article has links to all the most popular social media tools. Click the link to check it out.
Social Media for Teachers: Guides, Resources and Ideas
Productive Failure???
While we try to foster resiliency and grit in our students/children do we create enough opportunity for them to learn from their mistakes? This article suggests that our students may benefit from experiences that allow them to fail, problem solve, and come up with their own solutions. Click on the link to check out the article.
Bigger Gains for Students Who Don’t Get Help Solving Problems | MindShift.
Student Interviews
Check out this video of our haumana talking about what skills they think are important in Middle School.
Students Learn Better with Engaged Parents
This article talks about the importance of parental involvement in education as our students approach and enter high school, but parental involvement is important at all levels of education. Check out the report done by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on how parental involvement in school correlates with higher grade point averages. Here is the link to the article.