5 Tips For A Smoother BYOD Transition
In making a BYOD transition, consider defining policies, growing client densities, managing devices, and understanding impacts.
Getting Started With Linkedin Groups For Teachers
One of the ways to network is through LinkedIn Groups, a section that allows you to get to know and develop your reputation through the sit
5 Apps To Promote Student-Centered Learning
All teachers have access to a toolbelt of gadgets that lower anxiety while elevating students’ voices. I think of them as tech sedatives.
Generation Gap: 10 Things Children Today Will Never Need To Know
While there’s no denying that progress is a wonderful thing, the rate at which the world is changing is creating an environment in which objects that were commonplace to today’s parents will be virtually unheard of when their babies become adults. These are 10 simple things that Generations X and Y took for granted, but…
Four Reasons Why Apple Is In Trouble
Why Is Apple In Trouble? While it will be years before the long-term effects to its elegant product and billion-dollar brand are known, it’s clear that with the death of Steve Jobs, Apple lost its muse. In losing its muse, has Apple also lost its way? Jobs died on October 5, 2011, so it’ll be…
How To Use A Google Nexus 7
While Google entered iPad territory a while ago with their Android tablets, it was their recent Asus-manufactured Nexus 7 that was really a shot across the bow of Apple’s mobile market share. Running the stock, unaltered version of Android, the Nexus 7 isn’t filled with visual clutter or other bloatware that can burden non-Nexus devices….
Creating The 21st Century Brain For 21st Century Learning
The 21st Century Brain For 21st Century Learning In the video below, Judy Willis explores how we might create a “21st century brain” by with a little bit of neuroscience, specifically the “executive function of the brain. Willis offers up an analogy of this executive function as the brain’s CEO, and uses that as a…
Better Teaching: Why You Bore Students & What You Can Do About It
Why You Bore Students & What You Can Do About It Preface: You don’t mean to bore students. In fact, sometimes you’re downright interesting–the students are engaged, the buzz in the room is palpable, and even the hesitant students are asking questions. But the fact of the matter is, even the most charismatic and experienced…
7 Things Schools Of The Future Will Do Well
The ‘next generation’ of successful schools will focus on teaching students as individuals, not as members of a group.
Teacher Planning Doesn’t Have To Stifle Creativity In Schools
by Grant Wiggins, Authenticeducation A recent query via Twitter asked a question we often hear: isn’t UbD (or any planning process) antithetical to such approaches as project-based learning and inquiry-based learning, since you can’t and shouldn’t plan for an unknown serendipitous result? More generally, isn’t there something faintly oppressive and hampering of creativity in such…
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How Data Mining Can Work In Education [Infographic]
One of the most polarizing trends to emerge from the rapid growth in technology over the last decade or so is the concept of data. The easy part is its accessibility. When things are digital, they’re simple to save, share, analyze, and repackage. This can be either good or bad, depending on what data is…
14 Ways To Store And Share Files On The iPad
iPads are neat little devices that can pretty much do it all: play music, support interactive content, reshape how we think of textbooks, produce high-quality videos, and even take a step back and function as a good old-fashioned typewriter. The iPad does, however, have its share of flaws ranging from those hardware related (proprietary connections…
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