In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.
http://www.edudemic.com/must-guide-twitter-manners/
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Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust – time to act
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Presentation of the Week: Technology and the future of education, learning, knowledge and universities
50 Things Replaced by Modern Technology
As modern technology evolves and pushes out the old, it’s fascinating to look back at what’s been replaced in the past few years thanks to tech advancements. The infographic below highlights just how far we’ve come over the years and …
12 Effective Ways To Use Google Drive In Education
Google Drive is a great tool for collaborative editing and file sharing. Learn 12 unique ways that teachers can incorporate Google Drive into their classroom instructional practices.
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/10/21/12-effective-ways-to-use-google-drive-in-education/
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How To Use Crowdsourcing In The Classroom
Crowdsourcing is an important information literacy skill. The idea of crowdsourcing will allow students to utilize personal learning networks to gain a diversity of opinions, find outside experts and use the wisdom of a network or crowd to find more …
10 MOOC websites to Start Your Free Online Education
Want to take courses from Harvard and MIT in the comfort of your home? Take part in distance learning with these Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) from websites to explore your boundaries and increase your knowledge. Quality education from the …
How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms
A survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization.
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teachers-and-technology.aspx
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How To Use Real-Time Technology In 1:1 Classrooms
Opportunity to learn is an old educational concept. Ubiquitous opportunity for the use of technology may bring us quite a few steps closer to realizing it each and every day.
http://www.edudemic.com/real-time-technology-in-11-classrooms/…
New Projects Test How Technology Can Boost Learning
An inner city primary is at the heart of a project to test how technology can be used to boost children’s learning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24761270
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Book Review: The App Generation
The fundamental question of education technology was posed by one of its seminal figures, Seymour Papert: will children program computers or be programed by them? In a new book, The App Generation, Katie Davis and Howard Gardner revisit that question …
Search Mind Cipher for Your Next Brainstorming Session Warm-up Activity
Mind Cipher is a collection of brain teasers, logic puzzles, and riddles submitted by members of the Mind Cipher community. All submissions placed into one of ten categories. The categories include mathematics, logic, lateral thinking, and physics. All submissions are …
Three Tools to Stop Companies Spying on your Web Browsing
Want to limit the ability of companies to track what sites you visit online? Check out these tools that shut down common ways used to track browsing habits.
http://www.zdnet.com/three-tools-to-stop-companies-spying-on-your-web-browsing-7000022774/…
3 Free Tools to Manage Who You Follow on Twitter
If the list of accounts you follow on Twitter has gotten a little unruly over the years, we can help. We’re highlighting three useful tools that will allow you to analyze and manage the accounts you follow to improve your …