Design Thinking for Educators

Link: Design Thinking for Educators

Use this tool kit to create meaningful, project based learning opportunities for your students. 

How to design breakthrough inventions

Link: How to design breakthrough inventions

David Kelly of IDEO talks about the necessity of human-centered design. After taking a course at Stanford on using design thinking in teaching, this video re-inspired me to remember the importance of delving into this style of thinking with our kids. 

Freshwater 101 Interactive - National Geographic

Link: Freshwater 101 Interactive - National Geographic

Great video to use with teaching about water usage around the world and the importance of conservation. 

Presentation at KORCOS on essay correction

Link: Presentation at KORCOS on essay correction

This past Friday I presented at KORCOS, a conference near Seoul for international schools. Here are my slides that explain the use of using screencasting with essay correction to enhance student engagement. 

Screencasting essays with Educreations

Link: Screencasting essays with Educreations

Do you feel like your students fail to fully engage and build upon the red lines, scribbles and notes that you jot down on their essays? In this session, Use video to provide active feedback on writing by combining visual and auditory learning with video essay feedback. This session will consist of two parts. 1) How to .. 2) The purpose behind the technique.

Participants will view digitized videos of feedback on writing and compare them to hand written comments or even to electronic feedback, assessing the pros and the cons of each. 

Experiment with technologies like EduCreations and Quicktime screencasts as tools to creating real time video feedback. This will be a hands-on workshop and all participants are encouraged to bring computers and/or iPads and stylus. By the conclusion of the session participants will have the basic skills to create their own video feedback sessions for their students and will understand the fundamental benefits that can be derived from this process. See here for an example using educreations, and here using quicktime.

Class Website

Link: Class Website

Website for my grade 5 class at Korea International School in Pangyo.