Integrated Ideas To Teach Financial Literacy
What if you tied financial literacy to your content area through a PBL unit about design, social media or the effects of World War II?
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A Second Look At Questioning In The eLearning Environment
Questioning In The eLearning Environment by Rosa Fattahi, WizIQ As discussed in A Primer in Effective Questioning, Part I, it is important that traditional and eLearning teachers employ a variety of question types that address a range of intellectual skills. Questions should not only be used to assess student comprehension of the material, but also…
Resources & Expectations For Creating A Smarter MOOC
At their core, MOOCs can speak to the best, altruistic nature of educators by allowing them to share their knowledge freely with the world.
45 Design Thinking Resources For Educators
45 Design Thinking Resources For Educators contributed by opencolleges.edu.au Imagine a world where digital learning platforms help adult learners succeed through college completion. Where a network of schools offers international-quality education, affordable tuition, and serves hundreds of thousands of children in economically disadvantaged countries; where we engage parents in understanding national trends and topics in…
Is It Time For Google Play In Education?
Long gone are the days when Google was simply an Internet search engine–in the space of just a few years, it has become a purveyor of every kind of tech product across all categories: Android, Chrome, Maps, Google+, Hangouts. Now students and teachers in K-12 schools may be joining the long list of gaga Google…
4 Sources Of Low Cost Textbooks And Educational Resources
This contributed post was written by a bookboon employee 4 Sources Of Low Cost Online Textbooks And Educational Resources Online education and eTextbooks are becoming increasingly popular amongst students, teachers and professors all over the world. According to a 2012 survey conducted by The Digital Reader, 43.7% of US students are currently using digital textbooks….
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An Administrator’s Guide To Selecting Blending Learning Tools [Infographic]
Selecting Blending Learning Tools: An Administrator’s Guide Selecting the right eLearning platform, learning management system, or related digital content for your classroom–or even your school, district, or university–cannot be a case of monkey see, monkey do. What works there, may not be the best fit here. So Education Elements has reminded us of 3 simple…
Examining Blended Learning Models: Student To Community Interaction
Student To Community Interaction In Blended Learning Models In part 1 of this 6-part series, Thomas Stanley looked at an overview of blended learning, specifically the critical interactions of a blended learning model. In part 2, he looked specifically at student-to-student interaction, and the reality of synchronous and asynchronous access, and in part 3 he looked at student-to-teacher…
5 Basic Tips To Reduce Student Test Anxiety
How To Reduce Student Testing Anxiety Tests aren’t going away anytime soon, and as the stakes increase, when the time for tests rolls around everybody in the classroom can get a little edgy. Teachers need all the help they can find to prepare students to take tests seriously without making them anxious or overwrought. Here…
5 Tips For Better Managing iPad Memory
With some careful management, it’s possible to optimize iPad memory for the classroom without sacrificing performance.
4 Examples Of The Emerging Edtech Ecosystem
Tarun Mitra, CEO & Co-Founder of LurnQ “Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary” – Thomas Friedman, NY Times Three big Stanford classes demonstrated a breakthrough in late 2011. There was a need for education and learning to undergo a transformation and this was now possible through the open…
The 5 Defining Characteristics Of Google+
by Kay Bisaillon, TeachThought Intern A few weeks ago, I joined a Google+ community at the request of a colleague. Honestly, I knew very little about Google+ . Although, I am always willing to try something new. I enjoy challenging myself and happily began learning. Confession-I did not get it. It was confusing to me….
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