Useful websites for an Educator

For me, the best 2 useful websites for teaching are the following:

1. http://www.edutopia.org

• A good website for all educators because I can merely see the vision of powerful teaching and learning. It's actually applying an innovate teaching to students wherein they are visualizing the real world in education with the use of technology.It empowered education to change for the better in a high tech form of teaching. Looking at the overview, there are 6 core concepts that will help students to be more motivated to learn, and reach the level of high learning and for the teachers, it helps them to be more energized and assertive to teach.Through the core concepts, it will help students to increase their capacity to learn online.It helps the students to gain knowledge in a truly interdisciplinary fashion; explore real world problems and challenges; they re more likely to stay engaged and on task, reducing behavioral problems in the classroom; develop the skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflict nonviolently, and make responsible decisions. Thus, this kind of tool will bring both the teachers and students into a better learning compared the traditional form of teaching. It is a student-centered activity. All the works, projects and activities are done by the students instead by the teachers. Students learn more through exploration like the way they are doing their project wherein they have the knowledge and skill to create a project with the use of their different multiple intelligences. At the same time, teachers are becoming effective to use this kind of tool that will help them to expand the boundaries of their creativity and the students' creativity, beyond the walls of the classroom.
• Therefore, this website helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun, and ultimately move them toward greater and higher learning.

2. http://www.iknowthat.com/com

• This is a good website for kids because you will find here full of fun and interesting learning activities in different subjects. As a Grade school teacher, I would encourage my co-teachers to supplement their lesson plans with activities and games from this website or use this tool in their teaching because it helps students to be more attentive, excited, interested and motivated. They would understand the concepts/lessons clearly if it is presented to them in a way of game activity because they interact and learn together. It is somewhat a game but students learn a lot through interacting in a certain game. This will be a good tool for grade school students to develop a mastery skill in a certain subject.