Let’s play word association for a moment. When you read the word teacher, what’s the first image that pops in your head? How about school? What about technology? For me, technology is all about change. (I know that’s not really…
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20 Useful Google Search Tips You Probably Don’t Know
Google search tips aren’t uncommon–but useful search tips are another thing entirely. Add in useful tips that you’ve probably never heard of and–well, you just got better at Googleing didn’t you? (Googling? Should I Google…
How To Use A Google Nexus 7
While Google entered iPad territory a while ago with their Android tablets, it was their recent Asus-manufactured Nexus 7 that was really a shot across the bow of Apple’s mobile market share. Running the stock,…
44 Better Ways To Use Smartphones In The Classroom
44 Better Ways To Use Smartphones In The Classroom by John Hardison first appeared on gettingsmart.com This week an online article grabbed my attention. Its title read “94 Percent of High School Students Using Cellphones…
Five Ways Students Use Technology In The Classroom
The term “technology” is vague. In the right context, an arrowhead on the edge of a spear is technology. How learners view technology is often very different than how educators see it–the former often seeing…
Choosing The Right Mobile Device For Your Classroom
Though we haven’t written about it much just yet, something that’s of enormous interest to us here at TeachThought is media–its creators, forms, themes, design elements, consumption patterns, and ultimate impact on thinking and human…
50 Apps For Recreational Learning
“There’s an app for that” might seem something of a cliche now, but it’s managed to swell into quite the digital age truism. Critics may dismiss mobile entertainment, education, and organization as The End Of…
A Quick Guide To Evaluating Tablet PCs
Tablet PCs are not for everyone. Most people are perfectly capable of making it through the day checking email, reading, and watching videos on their smartphone until they can make it home to their laptop….
50 Google+ Circles for Cutting-Edge Educators
Google+ may still be finding its own footing among the Twitters and Facebooks of cyberspace, but nevertheless hosts a cornucopia of networking opportunities spanning numerous subjects. Education subject matter in particular seems to flourish on the service,…
50 Android Learning Apps By Category
Toddlers Kids Numbers and Math Lite: Educational game maker Intellijoy offers this free game to effectively teach preschoolers numbers, addition, subtraction, and more without sensory overload. AniWorld: We had animal See ‘n Say games as…
50 Back-to-School Smartphone Apps Arranged By Category
Considering how easy smartphones so often render daily life, even cash-strapped students and families might consider them a valuable investment this back-to-school season. Especially when one looks at the number of applications available to better…
The 50 Best Smartphone Apps For Teachers Arranged By Category
Mobile phones managed to mostly kick their classroom stigma once the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and other PDA-cellular hybrids (also known as “smartphones,” but you knew that already) popped onto the scene. Thanks to the veritable…















