4 Signs Your EdTech Program Isn’t Working by Margaret Brewster Running a successful edtech program is a bit like conducting an orchestra: each of the musicians needs to follow the score if they want to be invited back for a second performance. These days, teachers and technology come hand in hand with the high demand…
KPCB notes the re-imagining of education from classrooms, lecture, and reading materials to interactive, online, accessible by anyone anywhere anytime. “From learning by listening to learning by doing…education and learning will become as much fun as videogames,” said Bing Gordon. “We call it ‘full body learning’.” Meeker concludes, “The cycle of tech disruption is materially…
While the iPad is not the savior for learning–or even mobile learning for that matter, if you use one for five minutes it’s easy to see that it is an amazing piece of hardware. We’ve talked about how to use them in a PBL environment. And how to record ideas with them. And even separated ideas for…
21 Reasons To Use Tablets In The 21st Century Classroom contributed by Julie DeNeen, opencolleges.edu.au When I was a kid, I dreamt about our school desks as computer screens. How cool would it have been to be able to draw, write, and learn directly onto my own computer? As the years went on, people theorized…
The internet is fast becoming a place of spectacle. Early transition to the world wide web was marked by text-heavy prose while developers struggled for ways to “digitize” old media forms. Admittedly, this process is not entirely new. The benefits and allure (not always one and the same) of multimedia have been leveraged from the…
Minding The Test Without The Panic Editor’s Preface: As TeachThought grows, we are trying to include a consistently more diverse set of voices, authority, and expertise. This is what brought us to partner with Grant Wiggins to begin offering his personal thoughts on education–thoughts he shares on his personal blog. The following article is interesting,…
By Kimberly Tyson of learningunlimitedllc.com We’ve sung the praises of twitter in the classroom in the past–far and away our favorite social media tool of 2012. But while simple to use simply, it’s not the easiest tool to master. Thus this chart. Twitter for Educators Twitter, the popular social media platform, is continually picking up…
Here are a few of the schools that are leading the way for Pinterest to become another great social media tool for higher education.
9 Mistakes In Technology Integration In Education by Michael Trucano and Paul Glader was originally published under a different title on wiredacademic.com BERLIN — Michael Trucano approaches education technology from a refreshingly different perspective: The Pessimist. As senior ICT and education specialist at the World Bank in Washington D.C., Trucano advises many developing countries on…
Instructional templates can keep key design questions that get lost in typical planning at the center, prioritizing engagement over content.
4 Education Strategies For Sustained Community Improvement by Lisa Duty first appeared on gettingsmart.com By Lisa Duty, Ph.D., Senior Director of Innovation, KnowledgeWorks Annually, for more than 45 years, the city of Reynoldsburg, Ohio has celebrated the Tomato Festival– a nod to its heritage as the birthplace of the commercial tomato. This middle-America town also boasts…
China is the 10th biggest country in Coursera enrollment, with thousands of students already enjoying over 200 free courses on the site.
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