The Lookstein Center is sponsoring an online seven-week web-conferencing course for Jewish history teachers, “How to Teach Integrated Jewish/World History,” with Avi Berkowitz. The courses will be held on Thursdays 12:30-1:30 pm ET running from February 15 until March 29. The cost of the course is $250 per school ($200 for members). Registration is limited [...]
The Lookstein Center continues to offer online professional development for Jewish educators. These programs are real-time, interactive courses delivered over the Internet. Upcoming web conferences include: How to Teach Chumash by Devora SteinmetzJanuary 22 & 29, 200712:30 -1:30 pm ET Introducing Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence into the Tanach Classroom by Semadar GoldsteinFebruary 13 & [...]
The 32nd annual CAJE conference and the Early Childhood Conference at CAJE will be held Sunday, August 5 – Thursday, August 9, 2007 at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s theme is especially relevant: “Engaging 21st Century Jewish Learners: New ideas for how we live and learn now.” The conference will focus on understanding [...]
NECC, the National Educational Computing Conference sponsored by ISTE, is an annual event for K-12 and teacher education. The conference offers something for everyone, beginner and veteran alike – workshops, concurrent sessions, how-tos, research, and “the largest educational technology exhibit in the world.” This year, NECC will be held Sunday, June 24 – Wednesday, June [...]
Check out schmoozeED, a blog hosted by the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora. The site focuses on issues related to Jewish education. They recently published the article, “Expanding Horizons through Virtual Cases of Teaching” by Sharon Feiman-Nemser and Jon A. Levisohn (posted Tuesday, November 7, 2006). In it, the authors describe the [...]
To play with a new idea or tool or resource is to understand it in a different way. It is a means of becoming familiar with it from the outside in and the inside out and to imagine new ways of working with it. How, then, do we encourage educators to play with digital resources? [...]
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