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Digital vs Digitized Learning
Just providing teachers with an organizational tool, such as an LMS, will not lead to transformative practices. Teachers need on-going support if they are to truly transform their classrooms into ecosystems for digital age learning.
http://byotnetwork.com/2015/09/08/digital-vs-digitized-learning/…
Stop Googling. Let’s Talk
How do you keep face-to-face conversation alive in your family and among your friends? What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many people say they would rather text than talk?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/opinion/sunday/stop-googling-lets-talk.html?_r=0…
8 Examples of Transforming Lessons Through the SAMR Cycle
Following are 8 examples of the SAMR process, each taking an example of a typical classroom exercise that does not use technology and walking it through each phase of SAMR.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2015/04/examples-of-transforming-lessons-through-samr/…
5 Great Ways to Use the Internet of Things
These examples demonstrate how networked sensors are already benefiting multiple industries.
http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2015/08/5-great-ways-use-internet-things…
Five Best USB 3.0 Flash Drives
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 …