Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it’s not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So …
Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds
Research suggests that recall of plot after using an e-reader is poorer than with traditional books.
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Western Digital Adds Wi-Fi to New Portable Hard Drive
Western Digital’s new My Passport Wireless is designed to be a portable storage drive for all your devices, whether it’s a mobile smartphone or tablet, computer, and even a digital camera.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/offload-files-devices-western-digitals-portable-drive-wi-fi/…
A Flipped Classroom? Or Should It Be Sideways?
The traditional model of teach we’re familiar with is that of the teacher in front of the class, lecturing and assigning homework for students to do once they leave the classroom. The teacher has full control over their learning process. …
How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies
Being self-aware about what’s effective learning and how it happens, I think, gives you a real edge in making those choices.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/how-does-the-brain-learn-best-smart-studying-strategies/
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Q & A: Sir Ken Robinson
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Presentation of the Week: Navigating the Marvellous: Openness in Education
Surfmark for Education
Surfmark is an online research application that encourages critical thinking and helps students learn how to synthesize and integrate knowledge around topics. It is the most powerful research tool currently available on iPad that also teaches the process of doing …
38 Question Starters based on Bloom’s Taxonomy
This list moves through the 6 taxonomy levels with questions for each one. The first three levels are considered lower order questions; the final three levels are considered higher order. Higher order questions are for critical thinking and creative problem …
How Computer Technology Will Transform Schools Of The Future
In the 1800′s, students sat in a classroom, listened to a teacher and took tests. In 2014, students do exactly the same thing, with maybe the addition of a pocket calculator and some slides. Today, we’re going to be talking …
Five Good File Conversion Tools
Even though I create nearly all of my documents online and use cloud storage services that support a multitude of file formats, there are still a few occasions when someone sends me a file that I need to convert. Here …
Google releases Slides app for iPhone and iPad
Google is rounding out that suite of apps with the release of a Slides app for the iPhone and iPad, giving owners of those devices a direct way to edit their slideshow presentations on mobile — something that previously wasn’t …
How to make technology a successful partner in teaching
No matter how clever its functionality, a smart device is a tool like any other, and has to be applied and used skilfully to do the job well.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-to-make-technology-a-successful-partner-in-teaching-22-aug-2014
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30+ Resources for Students to Learn about Coding Languages
Learning coding is becoming a necessary skill that kids needs to master in order to thrive in tomorrow’s job market. To this end, I am sharing with you this list of excellent resources to help students learn about the 10 …
Award-winning teacher flips her classroom with VideoScribe
See how a teacher is flipping her classroom using VideoScribe, a web-based platform that allows you to create your own whiteboard-style animations with no design or technical know-how.
http://www.sparkol.com/blog/award-winning-teacher-flips-her-classroom-with-videoscribe/
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