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Additions to the EdTech Archive 8 - Many Pebbles, One Pond
Additions to the Edtech Archive: educational web resources for students, teachers, parents, and other education workers.See it on Scoop.it, via Education Technologies and Emerging Media
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Tests Don’t Build Skills, Teachers Do: Remembering the Role of Technology
"We are risking driving a generation of students away from using the device in their pockets to learn, instead becoming disheartened and bored by what it means to “use the computer.” In an era of...
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Top 10 Tips for Close Reading Activities
Top 10 Tips for Close Reading Activitiesonline4ed's insight:Love these tips!See it on Scoop.it, via Education Technologies and Emerging Media
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The LinkedIn Effect: Why Social Media Is Now Mandatory for Success
Call it the “LinkedIn Effect.” Social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook have changed the nature of human interaction forever. Certainly, social media is now pervasive among young and old alike for...
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Today's 5 biggest ed-tech conversations | eSchool News | eSchool News
From Google and Apple to gaming, educators are buzzing with five major ed-tech topics.See it on Scoop.it, via Education Technologies and Emerging Media
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Who is Leading the Digital Leap?
"Despite the fact that technology use is part of daily life, on balance, schools’ use of technology remains far from ubiquitous. There is no question that some teachers, principals, and district...
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The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology Integration
The Difference Between Technology Use And Technology IntegrationSee it on Scoop.it, via Education Technologies and Emerging Media
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The Benefits of Students Teaching Students Through Online Video
"Videos have already become an important part of modern education, whether through well-known education platforms like Khan Academy or content created by teachers for their students’ use. Video...
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Massachusetts' First Virtual High School on Probation
"The Massachusetts Virtual Academy at Greenfield Commonwealth Virtual School has been put on probation by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education."See it on Scoop.it, via Education...
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The Benefits of Students Teaching Students Through Online Video
"Videos have already become an important part of modern education, whether through well-known education platforms like Khan Academy or content created by teachers for their students’ use. Video...
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Can Playing Video Games Give Girls an Edge In Math?
"Girls should play more video games. That’s one of the unexpected lessons I take away from a rash of recent studies on the importance of—and the malleability of—spatial skills."See it on Scoop.it, via...
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eLearning - Are We Missing The Point?
"I want to start this off by asking one simple question…does eLearning really work? Unfortunately though there is no simple way to answer that question. There are many arguments both for and against...
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SUNY Google Glass experiment begins
"State University of New York Cobleskill has started its pilot project using Google Glass and other video and mobile-device technologies, dubbed Project WAVE-ExSEL.Initially, the project is helping...
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Kentucky Districts to go Virtual for Online Snow Days
"A virtual learning plan approved by the state of Kentucky will allow snow days — a welcome refuge for school-weary students — to become learning days."online4ed's insight:This has been coming for...
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20 Ways to Provide Effective Feedback to Your Students ~ Educational...
20 Ways to Provide Effective Feedback to Your Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning http://t.co/vKRsQHSpFV via @medkh9online4ed's insight:A wonderful list to consider and use for...
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elearn Magazine: The Significance of Educationa...
What impacts learning are changes in instructional design and pedagogical practices supported by the introduction of new technologies, not the technology itself. We still have a lot to learn about...
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Students pioneer the iPad frontier - The Buffalo News
In the long history of technology innovation, the iPad is an infant. But since its unveiling three years ago, the skinny, 10-inch wonder device has been transforming education at every level.See it on...
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Heutagogy: designing for self-directed learners
While acknowledging that the whole concept of self-determination – or ‘Google learning’ as it has been called, pejoratively, in certain circles – is fraught with the potential for missing the point,...
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Heutagogy: designing for self-directed learners
While acknowledging that the whole concept of self-determination – or ‘Google learning’ as it has been called, pejoratively, in certain circles – is fraught with the potential for missing the point,...
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Addressing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs with Technology
Technology is way too often given a bad rap by administrators and educators as a distraction or a hazard for students. When technology is integrated intentionally with foresight and with intention of...
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Free Technology for Teachers: Reminder - Apps Don't Have To Be Isolated
online4ed's insight:Always interested in FREE technology! :)See it on Scoop.it, via Education Technologies and Emerging Media
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Why Infographics are Good for ELearning
"Graphics can often make or beak an online course. Rarely today do you see a course that doesn’t contain any relevant images – although I have unfortunately come across some. Luckily most elearning...
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7 Brainy Ways to Boost Knowledge Retention in eLearning
As instructional designers, you have to create courses that are easy to remember and difficult to forget. Here's how:online4ed's insight:Working with students this week on the use of infographics in...
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Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach
A mountain of evidence indicates that educators have been painfully slow to use technology to change and improve the ways they teach.online4ed's insight:How are you making your classes more...
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How flipped learning works in (and out of) the classroom
Flipped learning is more than just having students do homework during the school day. It’s more than just putting the onus on students to teach themselves. In fact, it’s neither of those things. Don’t...
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Can Digital Badges Help Encourage Professors to Take Teaching Workshops?
"A few colleges are trying a new incentive to get professors to participate in professional-development workshops: digital badges."See it on Scoop.it, via Education Technologies and Emerging Media
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5 Things You Need to Know About 21st Century Learning
"Through my various roles in the education space over the past three decades, I have talked to educators around the world and had the privilege of watching kids get excited about learning when taking...
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How is Technology Transforming Education? Sir Ken Robinson Video Series from...
Technology is changing the world rapidly, impacting the way students learn and opening new possibilities for educators. Take a look what Sir Ken Robinso Technology is changing the world rapidly,...
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Faculty Alert: You Can't Put the Mobile Genie Back in the Bottle -- Campus...
Recent Educause research indicates that faculty are not adopting mobile as fast as students are demanding it.online4ed's insight:We talk often in our teacher ed courses about m-learning. But, how do...
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The 2016 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs
Gurus, communities, leaders and all-stars highlight this year’s latest batch of the top K-12 blogs. online4ed's insight:I will certainly share this with the teachers and faculty I work with!See it on...
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