Below is an infographic looking at Google Apps within the SAMR (Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition) framework.
Capturing, Sharing, and Resolving Perplexity
Presentation of the Week: Digital Learning Environments: A multidisciplinary focus on 21st century learning
George Siemens: ‘Students need to take ownership of their learning’
He talks how data is providing opportunities that teachers and educators can’t, why his latest ‘new-look’ MOOC has its critics and where he sees e-learning headed in the future.
http://www.online-educa.com/OEB_Newsportal/george-siemens-moocs-elearning-online-educa-berlin/
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7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom
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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Easy Way to Add Subtitles to Videos in Google Drive
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 …
10 Best TED Talks of 2014 for Educators
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 …
The Benefits of Students Teaching Students Through Online Video
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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The 100 Greatest Innovations Of The Year
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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A New Tool to Search for Images Licensed for School Use
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 …
If Freire Made a MOOC: Open Education as Resistance
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 …
8 tools to help you manage projects at work and at home
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 iOS App Transforms Your iPhone Into An External Hard Drive
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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Editor’s Choice: The Best Educational Apps For iPad In 2014
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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How Technology Trends Have Influenced the Classroom
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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