You’re a lurker—love social media, but more the media than the social, so you stay in the background—looking, skimming, saving, and skimming and looking some more, but always quietly, and always just out of sight. You spend…
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How I Combined Technology & Tomato Plants To Agitate Student Thinking
by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies & Educational Technology Teacher I fed them edamame. We were having a contest to wrap up the end of unit on Japan. One student informed me he didn’t like vegetables. Was I…
15 Presentation Tools for Teachers From edshelf
by edshelf: Reviews & recommendations of tools for education Chris Beyerle, a math and engineering teacher from South Carolina, has put together a no-nonsense collection of software for creating digital presentations. You’ll find these staples in many…
5 Less-Known iPad Apps For The Flipped Classroom
Nothing can replace the physical presence of a teacher. But with so much technology available these days, some teachers and professors are choosing a different way to structure their classes by flipping them. A flipped…
The Impact Of Technology Reading List: Is Tumblr Art?
An aggregated reading list of the best, in-depth thinking from around the web on the impact of technology and social media, curated by Nathan Jurgenson and Cyborgology. “Paul Miller was never more aware of the internet than when he…
What Happens When You Turn Your Back In A 21st Century Classroom
What happens when you turn your back in a 21st century classroom? The sage is no longer on stage, but rather in the hands of the students. BYOT, indeed.
8 Helpful Assistive Technology Tools For Your Classroom
One of the most remarkable aspects of modern education is the great diversity of today’s classroom. Thanks to mainstreaming and inclusion policies, students of all abilities study in all classrooms from kindergarten through college, even…
Student Argues Against “Packets” & The Appearance Of Teacher Apathy
Student Argues Against “Packets” & The Appearance Of Teacher Apathy If you haven’t seen the viral video by now, above you’ll find Jeff Bliss, a Texas high school student, get thrown out of class–and this…
7 Animations That Reflect Rapid Environmental Change
Google recently released artifacts from a project that helps demonstrate changes to the Earth’s surface–both man-made and natural–over time. Details from their blog post: “Today, we’re making it possible for you to go back in time…
WizIQ Updates Platform, Video Streaming
Chandigarh, India– WizIQ recently rolled out improvement in live video streaming by introducing High Definition (HD) quality of videos. The release also introduced security token for secure video sharing with students. This optimization enables teachers and students to…
7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology
In most ways, teachers that use technology in the classroom aren’t much different than those that don’t. Any teacher worth their salt assesses, and then revises planned instruction based on data from those assessments. They…
How To Create A Custom Search Engine For Your Students
While many teachers embrace the chaos of digital research (it is the “real world,” after all), for others setting students loose on Google is a recipe for a research project chock-full of Yahoo! Answers and…
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