Many educators are experimenting with a “flip model” instructional approach. It requires students to watch online lessons and lectures at night so that they can spend class time going in depth with lab work, discussions, projects, and other activities.
Why Smartboards are a Dumb Initiative
Don’t get me wrong, Smartboards are cool. They are just the least cost-effective way to improve learning I’ve ever seen. (Except for building new physical plant, that’s worse.)
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-smartboards-are-dumb-initiative.html…
25 Free Resources from Discovery Education
Discovery Education is a great resource for educators, with assessment tools, streaming videos, TechBooks (online, interactive “textbooks”) and much more. This is a list of 25 (and some bonus) free resources for educators from Discovery Education.
http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=3305…
How to use mobile devices in the classroom
The use of mobile phones in the classroom doesn’t have to be limited to under the table texts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2011/oct/26/mobile-devices-classroom?CMP=twt_gu…
How to Edit Video on the Cheap
Great high-definition camcorders are expensive, but excellent video-editing software doesn’t have to be. Here’s how to use free software to give your videos a professional look.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/241855/how_to_edit_video_on_the_cheap.html#tk.nl_hox_h_cbstories…
iPads in schools: ‘The last generation with backpacks’?
In survey, 16% of school tech directors expect to have 1 tablet per student within 5 years.
Picslikethat: Search Images By Picture Similarity
When you search for images online, often a wide variety of results are displayed. This makes finding the image you want more difficult. Here to help you simplify matters is a web service called PicsLikeThat.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/picslikethat-narrow-image-searches-finding-pictures-similar/…
The Benefit and Danger of Education Technology
The rapid changes in technology over the last 75 years have created enormous opportunities for education. But the ways in which rapid advances in technology are adopted have both positive and negative implications for schools and for broader society in …
Social media savvy: The new digital divide?
Those without strong online social networks will be left out of the digital conversation, educator and consultant Angela Maiers argues.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/10/27/social-media-savvy-the-new-digital-divide/…
Social Media Policy
…
Presentation of the Week: Social Network Technologies for Learning
…
Teacher Wall is the Social Network Teachers Have Been Waiting For
The Teacher Wall is a virtual town hall that gives teachers an opportunity to talk about the things that are most important to them–from challenges to “A-ha! moments.”
http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/get_in_the_fracas/2011/10/teacher-wall.html…
Wordle Works Wonders!
One of the challenges facing Patricia Murphy, a Dawson College teacher, is how to make student feedback explicit – both to herself and amongst her students. Wordle struck her as a great tool to capture the collective voice of students …
Classrooms of the Future Are Here, But Results are Not
An analysis on the implementation of technology in the classrooms.
http://spotlight.macfound.org/blog/entry/classrooms-of-the-future-are-here-but-results-are-not/…
Watch Informative Documentaries On Current Topics
Video documentaries are a wonderfully informative way to learn about topics you are unfamiliar with. While numerous websites offer free documentaries, very few offer free legal documentaries that are relevant to current global topics. Documentary.Net is one of these few …