Teaching methods on microblog

Twitter is a great website that we could share information on it. Especially for us teachers, there are 6 best twitter tips every teacher should know about , here is the image of the 6 tips:

 

Besides, there are a lot of new technologies used in our daily life, such as mobile, I-pad, nookbook and so on. From the Great free text messaging tools to use with your students , we know that mobile devices are ubiquitous among students. The majority of them use a cell phone of some sort to be a smart phone or just a plain one. While solid scientific research on the potential use of these tools in education is still lacking. On this article, there are some ways of mobile using in classroom the article propose us to use. One of them is Remind 101, it is a safe way for teachers to text message students and stay in touch with parents. And there also have CELLY, this is a private communication network that works with any mobile phone or device, members can join instantly with one text and exchange group message, polls, reminders,and web alerts. I think I could use these technologies in my future teaching.

"Critical Thinking" improved through "playing games"

The name of the post which I commented on is “Ten ipad apps to enhance critical thinking teachers should not miss” On the blog named “Educational Technology and Mobile learning”. The part of the post which really attracted me is that the Critical thinking, Critical thinking is an important skill in the 21st century learning. Education's overall goal is to produce students that will be able to think critically and not just take in things like a parrot.

In that post, the author provide us ten useful tools on ipad apps to enhance critical thinking for students, here I would like two introduce  two of them which are very interesting and useful:

 The first one is Math-lands:

 

Math Lands was designed by game lovers and teachers to remedy this problem. In this interactive app, kids will be asked to exercise logical and critical thinking but in the context of game play and puzzle-solving. The concept is called "learning through play" and it will change children's attitudes towards math.



 The second one is Simple physics :

 

Simple Physics lets you design complex structures for everything from tree houses to ferris wheels and then simulates your design with a sophisticated physics engine.

The third one is Ibrain food:

IBrain-Food Gives our mind a work out on our devious collection of puzzles. There are various puzzles, ranging from word games to logic problems to Crossword. Some are tricky. Some require innovation. All require thinking power.
These apps above are really useful to improve the Critical thinking among students, Nowadays most of the students are interested in the games on ipad apps, while through these games, they can improve their critical thinking through playing games without any pressure from homework.