What About Openness!

What about Openness!

We want our students to be the best, right? How do we do that and not make technology a key component in our day-to-day instruction! According to the Partnership for 21st  Century Skills P21 Framework (2009),  education today is more than Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. To adequately prepare our students for the 21^st Century, we have to integrate creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking into our core content areas.

Try Animoto for integrating creativity into a simple introductory activity. Here is one I created with a few pictures from my Facebook account:

Teachers and students from Kindergarten to high school can take advantage of this tool to support and improve learning. These quick little videos can be used to introduce, review, and wrap-up units in any subject area. Some educators have used Animoto to create videos for PSAs (Public Service Announcements), vocabulary building activities, history, and math presentations (almost every content area). It is simple enough to introduce to parents so that they can guide younger students in creating their own projects. Teachers and students can finally introduce themselves without using another poster board!

Technology can be SCARY! But it can be FUN! Just give it a try. How do you Animoto?

Reference: (2009). Framework for 21^st Century Learning. Retrieved  from

http://www.p21.org/overview