The lessons that are remembered by students happen because of three reasons outlined by Kevin Allocca: tastemakers, participation, and unexpectedness.
http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/how-to-get-your-lessons-to-go-viral-with-students/
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Tagul: create gorgeous word/tag clouds
Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds (aka word clouds) that you can place on your webpage or share with friends. Tagul clouds have numerous advantages against ordinary text clouds like words inside words …
Advent of Google means we must rethink our approach to education
We have a romantic attachment to skills from the past which are no longer relevant on a curriculum for today’s children.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/schools-teaching-curriculum-education-google
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Should students be allowed to use the internet in exams?
Professor Sugata Mitra imagines an alternative education system with no need for memorisation or teaching to test.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jun/17/ipads-exams-teaching-test-schools
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100 Google Chrome Tips For Everyone
The 100 tips are organized into 10 categories. Each category contains 10 tips. Starting with tips you can use to set up Chrome after installation.
Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools
With school districts rushing to buy computers, tablets, digital white boards and other technology, a new report questions whether the investment is worth it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/education/study-gauges-value-of-technology-in-schools.html…
How to Use Twitter to Become an Expert on Any Topic
Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by creating a dedicated Twitter …
Create Multimedia Presentations & Quizzes in Edmodo
Soo Meta is a great tool for creating multimedia presentations and quizzes. So if you use Edmodo and you want to create multimedia presentations and quizzes or you want your students to create them, that can happen by using Edmodo …
5 Reasons To Use YouTube In The Classroom
If you like to bring multimedia into your lessons (and who doesn’t?) then you probably use YouTube in the classroom from time to time. But you should know how to do more with YouTube than just watch a video, comment, …
A Snapshot Of How Technology Is Used In Education
The infographic below details a lot of useful factoids regarding how technology is used in education by both teachers and students.
http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/how-technology-is-impacting-education/…
Online universities: it’s time for teachers to join the revolution
Moocs, the new model of university education, have no race, colour, sex or wealth barriers, and can be accessed at a click.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/university-education-online-mooc
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Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?
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Presentation of the Week: Social Learning: the changing face of workplace learning
13 Good Web Tools to Harness The Power of The Web
A list of some new web tools to use this summer to curate, bookmark, annotate, and clip your web pages.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/13-good-web-tools-to-harness-power-of.html
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10 Great Tools for Academic Research You Should Know about
From easy and unlimited access to journal articles to web tools that do the referencing and auto-syncing, everything has been digitized making it way easier for todays researchers to add to the body of the human knowledge than any time …