Adventist Teacher Connect (ATC)
The Adventist Learning Community is pleased to announce that Adventist Teacher Connect is now live. ATC will provide a central connecting point for Adventist teachers and schools in the NAD and around the world.
The Adventist Learning Community is pleased to announce that Adventist Teacher Connect is now live. ATC will provide a central connecting point for Adventist teachers and schools in the NAD and around the world.
Every year, there are dozens of educational conferences and expos in the US that bring educators together to discuss best practices, test new tools, and make connections with fellow educators. One look at a calendar of all of the year’s upcoming conferences might just seem like a jumble of strange acronyms. With so many different conferences to choose from, it can be hard to decide which conferences you should attend.
The new Hour of Code Facilitator Guide from Apple can help you introduce coding to your students with iPad.
Lake City Academy teaches students to fly racing drones!
The Sky is the Limit when teaching a class on racing drones.
If you are like most teachers across the NAD, you have just started the work of preparing your classroom for the new school year. As you report for duty, you may have started thinking about how you can add something new and exciting to your curriculum. I would like to suggest that you look into teaching some basic programing or coding in your school. You might say “I barely know how to turn the computers on in my classroom. Learning code is very difficult.” Luckily, Apple & Google have come up with some great tools that teach coding in a fun way
Loma Linda University hosted about 40 educational administrators and university professors from around the country for a three-day conference for its Excellence in STEM Experiential Education (EXSEED), an innovative and collaborative program established to enhance integrated Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in K-12 Adventist schools.
CS Unplugged is very much based on a constructivist approach: students are given challenges based on a few simple rules, and in the process of solving those challenges they uncover powerful ideas on their own.
As more and more Seventh-day Adventist schools look to deploy and manage iPads, having a basic understanding of the management options is helpful to relieve concerns and fears and to know that the classroom teachers can remain in control of the devices without much effort.
While a tremendous number of options exist for school security, wireless networking and content filtering, there are very few that seem to be well-suited for a Seventh-day Adventist Small School environment.
TPACK is composed of three interlocking components of teacher’s knowledge: content knowledge (CK), pedagogical knowledge (PK), and technological knowledge (TK).