Technology

The iPad has become well established as a great tool for education, for both school and home classrooms. An amazingly flexible device that can assist in teaching from infancy through collegeand beyond, homeschooling families can…

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…

Tablets--iPads, Nexus 7s, Kindles, and even Intel's Studybook--can be powerful learning tools, offering: 1. Alternative to print books  2. Mobile learning actuators 3. Interactive media displays 4. Potential for…

Social media has taken on a life of its own in 2012. Once an interesting distraction, any progressive digital platform worth its salt is now fully social and omni-aware. But social media is a powerful tool for more than like-contests…

Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with…

By its very design, the iPad promotes consumption. Essentially an interactive mobile screen, the combination of physical form and supporting software-based user interface on Apple's wunder-tablet suggests watching and listening,…

How Game-Based And Traditional Learning Are Different by TeachThought Staff There are several big movements underway that are worthy of debate and possible consideration as we look to help education become the 21st…

BYOD is a trend that, while vague in definition--could be among the most powerful recent movements to disrupt education. Disruption is about, among other ideas, shifting power and eroding existing systems. Last week we looked at 25…

25 Ways To Use The iPad In The Classroom By Complexity by TeachThought Staff iPad use in formal learning environments, by all accounts, is soaring. Due to the almost magical ways it promotes interaction, that makes sense. But when…

The advent of computers and their incredible processing power has meant little to improved comprehension of prose-based text, especially in terms of syntax, semantics, tone, structure, and so on. It certainly has improved the way those…

Apps may be the new textbook. And mobile devices such as Android smartphones, iPhones, and iPads are the ultimate app actuators. The following infographic from OnlineColleges.net delves into some interesting statistics about apps and…

Everything You Need To Know About Social Media In One Picture by Terry Heick If you're a TeachThought user, chances are you have no trouble differentiating Twitter, facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Last FM, and…

5 Problems With Technology In Classrooms by TeachThought Staff The main argument for technology in the classroom is that emerging students should be able to apply classroom concepts to daily life, and a large part of daily life…

A tool we've been playing around with recently at TeachThought is called Learnist. Learnist organizes information Into "socially-driven lessons." Reminiscent of MentorMob, Pinterest, and Grockit, Learnist is the latest in a line of…

With budgets tight, many schools are hoping to bring technology into the classroom without having to shell out for a device for each student. A solution for many has been to make classes BYOD (short for "bring your own device"), which…

25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Complexity by TeachThought Staff The following spectrum takes a new approach for using twitter in the classroom. While other posts offer a list of ideas, the following spectrum is…

A Completely Updated Social Media Cheat-Sheet For Teachers by TeachThought Staff What can social media do for you in your classroom? A lot, actually. The use of social media in formal learning environments is an exciting…

How Blogging, Texting, And Twitter Can Help Students Learn by Heather Edick Back in June, I read an article on the Oxford University Press English Language Teaching blog entitled “Using Technology to Improve Writing Activities”…

If you've seen Vanilla Sky, The Matrix, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or any other number of modern films that explore the difference between virtual and physical worlds, you may enjoy this video. The concept of cognitive…

Gone is the time when PowerPoint was the most impressive communication technology in the lecture hall. These days, students and professors enjoy the power of Twitter, a tool that allows for digital discussions to supplement and even guide…

6 Video Games You Can Teach With Tomorrow by Terry Heick  Realistically, a “with it” teacher can teach almost anything using almost anything. I've been taught trigonometry using a paper clip, and expository structure using paint.…