The virtual teacher has arrived —thanks to digital media like video-on-demand broadcasts, or VODcasts, lectures that students would normally receive in the classroom are migrating outside of brick and mortar schools.
A Personal Assistant Mines Your Life to Help Out
Cue feeds on e-mail and social-networking accounts to highlight important events and update contacts automatically.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428321/a-personal-assistant-mines-your-life-to-help-out/…
Game-Based Learning to Teach and Assess 21st Century Skills
Let’s take a look at what many consider the top three 21st century skills and how games can teach and assess them.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/game-learning-21st-century-skills-andrew-miller…
Six Lingering Obstacles to Using Technology in Schools
Though educators are finding smart ways to integrate technology and learning, the road has been and continues to be challenging on multiple fronts.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/six-lingering-obstacles-to-using-technology-in-schools/…
8 Resources for Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism
A great list of resources to prevent and detect plagiarism.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/06/8-resources-for-preventing-and.html…
Which Of These 3 Private Social Networks Is Right For You?
There are boatloads of tools out there that can give you a private social network. From Edmodo to the upcoming Facebook Groups For Schools, there’s plenty of options. Most are free, but some are better than others. So we decided …
Evaluating Technology Use in the Classroom
Evaluating the use of technology in a classroom environment is not something most administrators are trained to do. It is easy to walk into a classroom and see that every student is using a computer, but how do you really …
Photo Management: Which Tool Is Right for You?
There are a number of great photo management apps for Mac and PC that make the process of organizing, sharing and processing your digital images a snap. figuring out what photo management tool is right for you can be a …
15 Habits For Learning In The 21st Century
Defining 21st century skills is an editorial matter. There is even debate as to whether they are truly necessary, the idea being that learning habits and priorities are timeless, and do not change because the world itself changes. But the …
181 Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School [Updated]
The list has made it all the way to 181 different tricks. Explore our collection of tricks to find new, faster ways to search, read email, manage your time, and more.
Presentation of the Week: When Educators Become Curator
Teaching in the 21st Century
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Presentation of the Week: How Social Networks and Openness are Transforming Teaching and Learning
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The Ultimate Guide to The Use of Facebook in Education
Our responsibility as teachers and educators is to help students better leverage this medium and benefit from it educationally and not shun them away from it.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/ultimate-guide-to-use-of-facebook-in.html…
30 Online Multimedia Resources for PBL and Flipped Classrooms
In this post you’ll find some multimedia mega-sites found on the web that can be used in the PBL classroom and the Flipped Classroom.
http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=4327…