Much like the Jews 3000 years ago, I have been a wandering Jew. Not from school to school, but from classroom to classroom. I never had a room of my own and therefore never had wall space to decorate or the ability to set the chairs the way that I wanted. All of that changedRead more
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Dear Parents We are proud and excited to bring ‘My Menorah’ to your family. Our very talented team of educators and developers have blended educational principles with traditional values using 3D graphics to bring Chanukah alive. Here are some concepts that were built into the design of ‘My Menorah’: Color Recognition Identifying colors beforeRead more
Chaya Rubens is a JS teacher at Hasmonean Primary School in London, UK. She made great use of Popplet for teaching about the laws of Kashrut and the Shema. Chaya used these popplets as a starter for her lesson and the children could then use Popplet to make their own… Another great use of Popplet could be toRead more
Joshua Pomerance is the new education technology trainer at Jewish Interactive UK. He is also a teacher at Yavneh College. He has compiled a list of apps that can be used for the chagim by educators and families alike to bring the Jewish holidays to life for kids. Click here to download the Apps for Chagim Booklet PDF. [wptabs style=”wpui-blueRead more
We always ask our teachers and students to send in examples of their work. One teacher responded with a video clip he made using Morfo, which was used to introduce “Torah Personality Day” at his school. In Jewish Interactive’s Tu B’Shvat Newsletter, we suggested a digital activity using Morfo. We asked teachers to take aRead more
When setting up your iPads it’s a good idea to change your home screen to individual children’s photos so you can see at a glance to whom the device belongs. [quote]Top Tip…. To change your home page: go to settings – wallpaper – click on wallpaper and go to photo roll – then insert the photo.[/quote]Read more
The element of differentiated instruction within a classroom environment is possibly one of the most challenging areas in teaching today. Personalized learning is a necessary goal and ideal, if we had thirty teachers for thirty children in the classroom. But we don’t; teachers are the minority in the school environment. They are expected to plan,Read more
Tishrei is here! School is now in full flow and as someone who has been a mother, teacher, and head of Jewish Studies in a school, I annually marvel at how we get through Tishrei! Every year in September I feel as if I am strapped onto the Tishrei roller coaster ride and step offRead more
At the end of the past school year, I shared my experience “un-schooling” my classroom and giving a final on Twitter (You can read all about that here). Over the summer, I worked with my wonderful colleagues Rabbi Daniel Rosen and Mrs. Meryl Feldblum to create a project-based learning curriculum for The Frisch School‘s HonorsRead more
Blog by Rebecca Penina Simon Cross-posted with permission from Climbing the Ladder of Educational Technology. One of the fundamentals of 21st Century Learning is making the content relevant to the students. This entails that the learning having a connection to the real world and more specifically, to their own lives. At the same time, the contentRead more
