Create And Curate: Mindful 21st Century Learning
The concept of creation and curation over pure academics can be a powerful lesson for teachers, English-Language Arts and beyond.
10 Things The iPhone 5 Tells Us About The Mobile Future
Swiping, pinching, zooming, and other ‘non-typing’ interactions are emerging, moving us closer to a ‘touchless’ future of hardware.
30 Of The Best Elementary Education Games For iPad
Parents can download these iPad education games to help elementary students build brilliant brains that will go on to win Nobel Prizes.
18 Ways Universities Are Using Video Games To Learn
From simulations to role-playing, here are just a few of the ways universities are using video games to learn.
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 behavior. We put together this chart as a way to visualize the differences in the five most popular media consumption…
The Basic Audience And Benefits Of Online Learning
The search for employment in a difficult economy leads many people to pursue alternative careers or seek out ways to improve and broaden the scope of their job skills, with a view to making themselves more employable. In the past, getting new job skills meant attending a college or university in pursuit of a diploma…
4 Benefits Of Blended Learning
Often there seems to be an “either/or” approach to taking online and face-to-face (F2F) classes. Some students may want the full campus experience of pursuing a degree at a traditional brick and mortar institution, while others want the convenience and flexibility of eLearning. Some programs also offer a blended format in which classes are a…
The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags In Education
Twitter Hashtags In Education: The Complete Guide What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that…
5 Big Ideas Of The Google Chromebook
Google is taking this a step further with Chromebooks, a bold experiment that will test the strength of their gravity on the internet.
Solving The Riddle Of iPads In Education: Part 2
The statistics, news stories, and press releases continue to tell the tale: Educators, like consumers, are interested in tablet computing. And just as importantly – for better or worse – the powers that be with their hands on the purse-strings of educational spending are interested in tablets, too. Whether digital slates will ever truly replace…
50 Recreational Apps Learning
Here are 50 recreational apps to sharpen the mind, particularly after the school years wrap, and to fight off the encroach of stagnation.
(At Least) 15 Ways Twitter Is Digital Poison
The Problem Twitter used to be a simple micro-blogging service to allow brief messaging, content sharing and aggregation through hashtags, and social conversations. But with its incredible success comes a price: everything. Literally everything. According the infographic from cabletv.com/#blametwitter, there are more than 233 million tweets per day. A little math will tell you that…
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