Google announced last week a “new kind of computer” and a new program aimed at schools: Chromebooks for Education. These new devices look like laptops, but they run on Google’s new operating system Chrome OS and are truly Web-based and …
Presentation of the Week: Widgets and Mashups for Personal and Institutional Technologies
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Teaching with The Cloud: Five Tips to Differentiating Tech Instruction
I think just about any teacher worth her or his salt is likely to do a lot of differentiation of instruction. Heck, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that some of the better teachers in your …
QR Code Classroom Implementation Guide
This blog post is divided into three parts. First, you have to be ready to use QR Codes, then you have to teach the students. Finally, we learn seven ways QR codes are being used in the classroom riht now.…
Augmented Reality and Web 3.0
What will Web 3.0 be like? Almost as soon as people started describing various sites as Web 2.0 others started speculating about Web 3.0 and what it would be. This article gives an overview on Web 3.0 and Augmented Reality.…
7 Solutions for Educators Who Want 21st Century Students to Tune In
Rather than taking away student rights and the freedom to use the tools they want, we must address the root of the issue that is causing the problem.
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/04/6-solutions-for-educators-who-want-21st.html…
3 Keys to a Flipped Classroom
The idea of a flipped classroom is that students receive their instruction (readings, lectures, etc) at home, and do their homework (assignments, groupwork, etc) in the classroom. Classrooms become laboratories or studios, and yet content delivery is preserved.
http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/three-keys-to-a-flipped-classroom/…
How Technology Will Disrupt Learning for a Lifetime, Not Just in the Classroom
Much of the buzz around the educational benefits of Internet technology has focused on the potential for the classroom. It’s also a huge boom for “lifelong learners,” those students — students of any age — that are pursuing educational opportunities …
21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020
Inspired by Sandy Speicher’s vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day. How close are we to this? The post was written in December 2009, and Blake-Plock says …