Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled a site called ‘Teachers Know Best‘ which features the results of a survey of teachers and students. They tried to identify the top 10 edtech products preferred by students and teachers. See the …
Presentation of the Week: Why Open Education? Three Arguments
How to create engaging courses to better engage the learner
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Actively Learn: Create, Distribute, Assess Reading Activities
Actively Learn provides teachers with a platform through which they can create, distribute, and assess reading activities.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/actively-learn-create-distribute-assess.html…
New Google Course: Computational Thinking for Educators
Our new online course, Computational Thinking for Educators, is free and is intended for educators who are interested in enhancing their teaching with creative thinking and problem solving.
http://googleforeducation.blogspot.ca/2015/07/computational-thinking-for-educators.html…
Microsoft launches site for teachers taking Minecraft into the classroom
Minecraft in Education portal aims to get educators sharing tips on how Mojang’s popular game can be used to teach children.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/02/microsoft-teachers-minecraft-classroom-education…
15 Apps to Help You Stay Organized
Here is the list of awesome tools that people suggested (descriptions from their websites) via Twitter:
http://instructionaltechtalk.com/15-apps-to-help-you-stay-organized/…
It’s time to vote for Top 100 Tools for Learning 2015
All you need to do is submit your favourite 10 Tools for Learning. A tool for learning is any software or online tool or service that you use either for your own personal/ professional learning and/or for teaching/training others.…
Top 25 Tech Tools for Teachers for 2015
All of the tech tools featured in this post are free, user friendly, and (likely) will be available on your school’s network.
http://www.edutechchick.com/teachers-tech-tool-kit-top-picks-for-2015/…
Citelighter- An Indispensable Tool for Academics and Student Researchers
Cite lighter is a very good web tool for student researchers, teachers and academics. It combines both the features of an academic search engine and an organizational framework for helping students with their research papers writing. Citeligther allows you to …
A New Tool for Turning Webpages Into Whiteboards
Whiteboards is a Chrome app that enables you to draw on top of webpages using things such as a stylus, trackpad, mouse…etc. The app is particularly useful for annotating and illustrating content on a webpage.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/07/a-new-tool-for-turning-webpages-into-whiteboards.html…
23 Tools For Students To Publish What They Learn
Students now have a well of opportunity to express their thoughts and ideas with the added chance of getting global feedback on those insights. Here is a list of some of the best online publication tools that students can …
What Wearable Tech Could Mean for the Classroom
The 2015 Horizon Report agrees, predicting the widespread use of wearables throughout the entire spectrum of modern education. Still, considering our senses are already overloaded with 1s and 0s, reluctance to embrace yet another digital medium is understandable. However, …
How to Create a Moderated Classroom Backchannel
81Dash is a free service for creating moderated classroom backchannels as well as shared task lists.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/07/how-to-create-moderated-classroom.html…