Gone are the days when you had to enroll in expensive computer training classes as now exist a plethora of web-based courses that will help you learn programming at your own pace in the comfort of your web browser.
5 Ways to Help Your Students Become Better Questioners
Here are some suggestions (based on input from question-friendly teachers, schools, programs, and organizations) on how to encourage more questioning in the classroom and hopefully, beyond it.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/help-students-become-better-questioners-warren-berger…
Udemy Launches Free Computer Tech Courses for Teachers
Udemy has launched the Teacher Tech Initiative, a program designed to make computer technology courses available to K-12 teachers in the United States for free and at reduced cost.
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Blended Study: 10 Ways to Use Tech While You Learn
We hear a lot about blended learning from an instructor’s perspective, but what about from a student’s perspective? In what ways can students use technology to support learning inside and outside their course sessions?
http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/blended-study/
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Schools in Finland will no longer teach ‘subjects’
Finland is about to embark on one of the most radical education reform programmes ever undertaken by a nation state – scrapping traditional “teaching by subject” in favour of “teaching by topic”.
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10 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers
Here are some very useful educational web tools we have curated over the last few weeks. We only feature the recent trending tools which we think would be a valued addition to teachers technology toolkit.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/03/10-new-educational-tools-for-teachers.html
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Five Best Online Presentation Creation Tools
You don’t have to download an office suite to build great-looking presentations for work, a talk, or school. There are plenty of online options that work well from any computer with a web browser, whether it’s your desktop, a PC …
SignEasy’s iOS extension lets you sign documents without switching between apps
If you deal with paperwork often, you’ll love this: SignEasy just launched an extension for iOS that lets you sign documents and send them out without having to switch between apps.
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How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures
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Presentation of the Week: Enhancing Your Ed Tech Superpowers
How to Avoid Malware When Viewing Videos on YouTube
Just because a site is reputable doesn’t mean you’re completely safe on it – and YouTube is no exception. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, a staggering statistic. Combine this with the over one million advertisers …
How the iPad is changing the way we learn
Can issuing students with iPads instead of textbooks make a difference to their education? Rhiannon Williams visits the Danish institutions looking to the future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11470850/How-the-iPad-is-changing-the-way-we-learn.html
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How To Organise Your Entire Life With Trello
Trello is an awesome project management tool that makes collaboration easy and, dare I say, even fun. But this visual list tool can do so much more, whether you’re organising work projects, family chores, travel plans or just about anything …
Get your copy of the Book Creator Teacher Guide
The book contains 47 pages of lesson ideas for using Book Creator for iPad, divided into 8 subject categories.
http://www.redjumper.net/blog/2015/03/get-your-copy-of-the-book-creator-teacher-guide/
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7 Awesome Website Tools for Students
The following 7 online website builders are my favourite picks, in no particular order. As you may expect, they are advertised predominantly with business owners in mind, but they will all work superbly as immersive classroom applications.
https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/7-awesome-website-tools-for-students
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