Edutopia’s 10 Big Ideas to Improve Public Education
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Personalising Learning in Teacher Education through the use of Technology (Article)
The meaningful integration of technology in teaching and learning is consistently called for in all sectors of education. Recently it has appeared as a key tenet for achieving what has been termed as personalising learning.
80 Educational Alternatives to Youtube
Educational video are possibly one of the most effective learning tools. But are there any alternatives to Youtube? Yes there are more eighty alternatives to YouTube that you can use with your students. These video resources are among the best …
Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons worth sharing
TED-Ed’s mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.
Teachers embrace social media in class
As social media become nearly inescapable on college campuses, a pair of recently published studies supports what many professors already have concluded: Students using Facebook or text messaging during a lecture tend to do worse when quizzed later.
Presentation of the Week: The End of Teaching as We Know it
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The Internet of Things and Education
With the Internet connecting us to many things (media, photos, information, etc.) can it also connect us to physical objects? Can we launch applications on our computer by just touching a physical object? Can one physical object talk to another …
Ten reasons why game based learning works in education
A great list to get hands-on with game based learning techniques across the curriculum.
http://www.connectededucation.com/2012/02/ten-reasons-why-game-based-learning-works-in-education/…
3 Ways the Internet Is Changing Education Right Now
The Internet has had a massive effect on all aspects of human life and interactions since its inception. The world has shrunk considerably and the speed of life has increased dramatically. But one specific aspect that the internet has had …
Nicholas Negroponte on learning by themselves
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Noam Chomsky – The Purpose of Education
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Google Launches Redesigned Education Site
Google has revamped its site for educators, creating a redesigned repository for all its educational tools and resources for teachers, schools, and students.
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2012/01/google-launches-new-education-site/…
A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
This is the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, one of around 160 Waldorf schools in the country that subscribe to a teaching philosophy focused on physical activity and learning through creative, hands-on tasks. Those who endorse this approach say computers …
My Teacher Is an App
More kids than ever before are attending school from their living rooms, bedrooms and kitchens. The result: A radical rethinking of how education works.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204358004577030600066250144.html…
25 Free Resources from Discovery Education
Discovery Education is a great resource for educators, with assessment tools, streaming videos, TechBooks (online, interactive “textbooks”) and much more. This is a list of 25 (and some bonus) free resources for educators from Discovery Education.
http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=3305…