Should we allow digital devices in the classroom? Now that they’re here, how can we prevent digital devices from becoming a distraction?” Let’s take a look.
http://www.edudemic.com/7-ways-deal-digital-distractions/
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Should we allow digital devices in the classroom? Now that they’re here, how can we prevent digital devices from becoming a distraction?” Let’s take a look.
http://www.edudemic.com/7-ways-deal-digital-distractions/
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The tip is about adding subtitles to videos in Google Drive.This time it is not an extension or third party tool to add to your Drive but simply a short text file that you will have to tweak a bit …
TED Talks are a major source of inspiration for educators who need a morale boost, a discussion starter, or a new perspective. The year 2014 brought some of the best TED Talks for educators. Their messages are invaluable for educators …
Video tutorials can help students with questions on homework or test preparation. However, students are finding the value in creating tutorial videos themselves for other students.
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Each year, Popular Science picks the 100 greatest new innovations in technology to feature in our Best Of What’s New issue. Discover the most exciting developments in consumer gadgets, sustainability, medicine, automobiles and more.
http://www.popsci.com/popular-sciences-best-whats-new-gallery
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Photos for Class is a very good web tool that you and your students can use to search for and download Creative Common licensed images. The search engine of Photos for Class uses Flickr safe search to return results that …
Critical Pedagogy is, according to Freire, “made and remade.” And, “Critical reflection is also action.” This means that educators and students will need to return again and again to their fundamental assumptions about education, about open education, about MOOCs, about …
Keeping projects organized, whether at home or in the office, used to require a whole lot of ink. In Below is a list of eight project management hacks, both for the home and for the workplace; absolutely no BICs or …
Pocket Drive comes supplied with a handy built-in zip archiver and file downloader that makes storing data inside the application extremely easy even whilst you are away from a desktop computer or similar.
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So 2014 is almost over, and it’s time to start looking back at what’s happened in the last year. Today, we do that in the form of the best educational apps for iPad in 2014.
http://www.teachthought.com/apps-2/30-best-educational-apps-ipad-2014/
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Let’s examine which features of society (and media) have changed and then consider what we can do in education to use it as an advantage for learning.
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The web tools are all listed (and clickable!) in the below presentation. Be sure to click on the above-right chart to get a sense of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy a bit more as well. Always useful for a refresher!
http://www.edudemic.com/70-web-tools-organized-for-blooms-digital-taxonomy/
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Facebook is working on extending its network beyond the social realm and into the professional world, according to the Financial Times, citing anonymous sources.
http://mashable.com/2014/11/16/facebook-at-work-2/
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