Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This 120-minute professional development focuses on understanding how virtual reality (VR) can take teaching and learning to a higher level through real-world connections, 21st-century skills, and critical thinking. Participants will explore VR, and then use VR resources to create a lesson or classroom... Read more »
Created by: Mandy Green
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
Memes can be powerful classroom tools, involving students' creativity and communication skills to relay a message or show understanding of a topic. This strategy asks students to create a visually engaging image with text to explain a concept. The meme can be used to communicate rules, define new vocabulary... Read more »
Created by: Mandy Green
June 12th, 2023
This strategy invites each student to associate their own ideas with the words in an old book or similar source. Each student blacks out all lines on a page, excepting the words they choose in association with a topic. When only these words are visible, a new story is created. This strategy examines... Read more »
Created by: Mandy Green
November 30th, 2021
This professional development session focuses on the "Four C's" (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity) and how to integrate them into the classroom. In this interactive session, participants also will explore various iPad applications and develop a lesson or activity with... Read more »
Created by: Mandy Green
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
