You teach, which means you need to know what students do and don’t understand. Which means you need to assess. You teach in the 21st century, which means you use the internet and digital tools…
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A Surprising Infographic On Technology In Education
When someone sent me this infographic earlier this week, I took a glance at it, then set it aside in a rush of meetings, research, and, well, daily stuff. But when I took a second…
Dissolving Barriers To Adopting Technology In The Classroom
Dissolving Barriers To Adopting Technology In The Classroom How the Other Half Lives: A Report from the 2013 Highlander Institute Blended Learning Conference by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies & Educational Technology Last weekend, the Second…
Examining Blended Learning Models: Student To Teacher Interactions
In part 1 of this 6-part series, Thomas Stanley looked at an overview of blended learning, specifically the critical interactions of a blended learning model. In part 2, he looked specifically at student-to-student interaction, and the reality…
25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools For Visual Learning
Concept-mapping–or mind-mapping, idea-mapping, or some other variation that makes sense to you–is the practice of demonstrating the relationship between ideas in a map-like form. Concept-mapping allows creators to articulate nuance, context, and interdependence between ideas…
The Impact Of Technology Reading List: Identity & Media Consumption
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. “On the whole, academia is quite anti-popular writing” “Mainstream sociology & history…
80 Interesting Ways To Use Google Forms In The Classroom
When you think of innovative, edgy, compelling uses of technology, Google Forms isn’t exactly the first thing that leaps to mind. While you’d probably prefer a piece of hardware that’s affordable, easy to use, and…
A Glimpse At The BYOD Device Of The Future
BYOD has changed how the barriers of tech adoption are seen. First and foremost, they’re now visible (the barriers). Many schools and districts are finding that in the current organizational context, BYOD is not as…
The Honest-To-Goodness Beginner’s Guide To Twitter For Teachers
So you’ve heard a lot about this twitter thing, but you’re not sure if it’s worth your time. Or are you suspect it might be, but aren’t sure where to dive in, or how to…
Learning Is Not About The Technology
You have an expert Skype or Google Hangout into your classroom. Students discover a career they want to pursue. It’s not about the technology. It is about the learning. Your students are creating deep reflections…
10 Benefits Of Blended Learning For Teachers [Infographic]
Blended learning–the mixing of eLearning and face-to-face learning–is a natural response to the growing accessibility of eLearning, and the continued need for a human component, and the existing infrastructure of countless brick-mortal educational institutions. In…
4 Stages: The Integration Of Technology In Learning
Technology can be used in the learning process in a variety of ways. Some are supplementary, serving the original design of the classroom and usually automate some previously by-human task or process–grading multiple choice assessments,…
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