5 Reasons Mobile Learning Apps Fail
While an educational app may be “fun”, there’s a good chance that it is a net detriment to a student’s learning progress.
Author: TeachThought Staff
TeachThought’s mission is to promote critical thinking and innovation education.
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Check Out This Amazing Interactive Concept Map Of Over 350,000 Websites
As data becomes more abundant, and technology continues to evolve, how we consume that data will likely decide if we consume that data. We looked recently at the incredible future of data in education, and the following interactive website furthers on the theme of engaging, interactive visual data. It’s beautiful, and frightening. From infosthetics: “The Internet…
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15 Free Learning Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
It can be hard to keep up with the ever-growing list of free educational sites out there, much less distinguish which ones will best meet your needs and help you learn skills you really need without shelling out big bucks. New sites are always being launched and even those that have been on the scene…
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5 Big Ideas To Turn Standards Into Curriculum
Ideally, a curriculum works with selected academic standards to frame optimal learning experiences that result in student growth.
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How To Screencast Like The Khan Academy
Here’s a look at how Salman Khan screencasts, plus tools you can use to create your own educational videos to benefit you and your students.
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Badgestack Is An Open-Source Tool For Gamifying Learning
What Is Badgestack? Whether you call them microcredentials, trophies, or badges, the idea of documenting progress and making trends visible is becoming increasingly popular across increasingly diverse digital platforms. While this approach fits naturally into literal games, “gamifying” a system that isn’t first a game is a new approach that dovetails nicely into elements of…
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25 Twitter Tips For Teachers And Education Professionals
25 Twitter Tips For Teachers And Education Professionals contributed by onlinecollege.org and updated by TeachThought Staff Although LinkedIn gets a lot of love as a professional social media site, Twitter is a force (and a cognitively fertile stream as well) that can’t be ignored by up-and-coming young professionals. It’s a great place to get connected…
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8 Examples Of Augmented Reality In Education
Augmented reality is a medium through which the known world fuses with current tech to create a uniquely blended interactive experience.
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50 iPad Apps For Struggling Readers & Writers
Here, are a few amazing iPad apps for struggling readers and writers to help them see school as fun and engaging, not a struggle.
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18 Snapshots Of iPad Integration In Education
These recent studies show whether the iPad movement is the wave of the future of education, or a waste of valuable resources.
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The Typical Facebook Fight Humorously Deconstructed
Facebook is–based on number of users–the most popular social network on the planet. But it’s not for everyone. Its central functions are short updates, pictures and “likes” that, while similar twitter, somehow combine to form a formidable passive-aggressive mix that can often play out humorously, as the image below from college humor demonstrates. Image attribution…
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3 Key Factors That Makes Twitter The Single Best Social Media Tool
Why do we love twitter, the gargantuan social media tool that everyone loves but keeps their revenue models close to their vest?
