With the convenience of cloud storage, USB flash drives might seem like old news, but the best are portable, fast, near-indestructible, and offer tons of space—enough that they’re worth having. This week we’re looking at five of the best, …
What’s so great about Google Drive? And why should my students be using it?
This article will show you Google Drive’s awesomeness, and will convince you that you need to be using Google Drive and its tools not just for yourself, but with your students as well.
Some Excellent Web Tools to Give Students A Voice in Class
With the help of web technologies, you can use a wide variety of web tools with students to provide them with an outlet through which they can express their voices. Here are some examples to try :
Google Releases Video About Their Machine Learning Research
Instead of going in and writing programs that solve the problems, we write programs that learn to solve the problems from examples,” Mr. Olah says about machine learning and his research at Google.
http://observer.com/2015/09/google-releases-video-about-their-machine-learning-research/…
My First MOOC Experience
Having taken one week of the course and benefitted from conversations with a member of the production team, I wanted to share my learning: from my expectations for the class, to the unexpected and delightful experience I had as …
Top 15 Online Educational Resources to Use in 2016
Here are 15 educational resources and blogs that teachers and educators can use in the upcoming academic year to make their educational process much more productive and enjoyable. Each educational resource may offer something to different educators in various …
7 Tools for Adding Questions and Notes to Videos
Short videos from YouTube and other sources can be quite helpful in introducing topics to students and or reinforcing concepts that you have taught. The following tools allow you to add comments and questions to videos that you share …
Presentation of the Week: Beyond Education – Education needs a transition into the Simulated University
Transform Your Teaching Practice with Twitter: Develop a PLN
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Computers ‘do not improve’ pupil results, says OECD
Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils’ performance, says a global study from the OECD.
How Teachers Can Become Fluent in Classroom Technology
An educator shows how technological anxiety can be overcome by connecting with a device personally.
10 Sites for Creating Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers are used daily in education for any curriculum to help teach any subject (i.e. mind maps, brainstorms, etc.) These websites have made it easy to make beautiful-looking graphic organizers, great for visual learners. This list is in …
How to back up and share your book with Google Drive
Many schools use Google Drive as their method to back up and share files, and the free Google Drive app can be used on the iPad with Book Creator too.
How Google Impacts The Way Students Think
How do different cultures view humanity differently? Google it. Literally Google it. You see information differently–something that’s always accessible. And you see knowledge as searchable, even though that’s not how it works.
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/how-google-impacts-the-way-students-think/…
What is a Nanodegree, and Why Should You Earn One?
It is both curriculum and credential, and it is built in concert with the standard-bearing companies where you’ll be interviewing: Google, AT&T, Autodesk, Cloudera, Salesforce, Amazon, Facebook, GitHub, and more.
http://blog.udacity.com/2015/08/what-is-a-nanodegree-and-why-should-you-earn-one.html…