Everyday Planning with Evernote!
Evernote is a meeting organization, scheduling, and sharing tool teachers can use. It is listed under workflow & scheduling category in The Global Educator: Leveraging Technology for Collaborative Learning & Teaching. I have personally used Evernote and it is user friendly, simple to navigate, and edit scheduling effortlessly.
Evernote can be used for more than just scheduling. In a classroom teachers and students can utilize Evernote for; notes, web clippings, daily to-do lists, news articles and anything a person traveling from office to office, room to room, or even country to country, would need to remember and keep a record of travel arrangements and all global connections. Students can take notes in ways that suites them as a learner and make studying easier. They can also share notes with other students and the teacher.
“global education necessitates a firm grasp of contemporary issues, stemming from self-education and civic engagement. My global ed course is constantly in flux as a result of changing resources, but this practice makes the course incredibly relevant and dynamic” (Stephanie Wujcik, @StephWuj45). (Lindsay, 2016,p.26)
One of the greatest functions of Evernote for teachers, is the ability to create lesson plans. The Nerdy Teacher blog post: Use @Evernote for all of your lesson planning needs #EdChat gives a detailed use of the app for creating lesson plans. There are some great tips and hints in the post as well. Evernote for lesson plans is a winner for any teacher with multiple classes to keep things organized, and easily modify and share their plans. Teachers both new and old to Evernote lesson planning found the article an informative read.
Free Speech Can Be Costly
In today’s society everyone is online. Teachers, school officials, and students are online networking on social media platforms. It is very easy to go home and get behind your screen and have a mental block that anything you post has no effect on your 9-5 life, but it does.
Teachers have to realize social media isn’t “private” as long as there are other people online to see their posts. Posting pictures of private parties and situations that show teachers drunk and partying too hard has serious consequences leading to termination.
For the teachers that decide to accept friend request from students, or seek out student profiles, they have to be very careful with their wording. When in doubt if you wouldn’t say something to a student at school then you shouldn’t write a post, and tag the student. Teachers have gotten serious backlash for sharing a status calling a student an inappropriate name or speaking ill of a student.
Another thing that can get teachers fired is speaking ill of their supervisors, principals, or any other administration. Even with other teachers participating in a conversation, it still doesn’t make it right. Social media ranting could lead to teachers getting fired for not being respectful.
Global Citizenship in the Classroom
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I was going back and forth on choosing a article for my first blog. Here I have outlined what I believe is a great opening to my blog and to set the mood for future posts. #globaleducation
This is an article that introduces a new idea of how to teach students in an isolated area about other places, cultures, and more. The author is Michelle E. Carton, and her idea is to bring to the classroom bits and pieces of the world that students don’t get to see first-hand. http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol15/num01/global-citizenship-education-for-every-classroom.aspx
Michelle dives right into ways teachers can add GCE to their classrooms and how they can work GCE into their lesson plans.
There are multiple platforms students can utilize to become global citizens and learn about and with other students in a different country, county, or city!
Students that are global citizens have the opportunity to see the world through someone else’s eyes, become more empathetic, and learn ways to make our world last longer by learning from others.
Check out this short clip to get an idea of the benefits of global citizenship education.
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