In an exclusive extract from his new book, Sir Ken Robinson argues that our approach to teaching is wrong – and hundreds of years out of date.
The World’s First $9 Computer Coming to Kickstarter
C.H.I.P. is a computer. It’s tiny and easy to use. C.H.I.P. does computer things. Work in LibreOffice and save your documents to C.H.I.P.’s onboard storage. Surf the web and check your email over wifi. Play games with a bluetooth controller. …
How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.…
10 Edtech Tools Teachers Can Use Tomorrow (Literally)
When recommending digital tools to teachers, I often lean towards those which can be integrated almost immediately. Educators want to focus on pedagogy and student learning, very few wish to spend time teaching the technology.
https://jennscheffer.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/10-edtech-tools-teachers-can-use-tomorrow-literally/…
New McGraw-Hill Education Research Finds More than 80 Percent of Students Use Mobile Technology to Study
Company’s second annual report on digital study trends in higher education finds that college students’ use of mobile use for studying has jumped 40 percent since 2013.
How do you measure the ‘success’ of a MOOC?
Here’s a few thoughts I’ve had based on my experiences as a learner on MOOCs and as part of a team developing and delivering 4 FutureLearn MOOCs now.
http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/how-do-you-measure-the-success-of-a-mooc/…
12 Easy to Follow Tips for Moodle Quiz Creation
Quiz is one of the most popular – and powerful activities in Moodle. Alongside its many standard features, there are over 80 Quiz plugins allowing you to customise it to your needs.
http://moodle.com/12-easy-follow-tips-moodle-quiz-creation/…
Stanford Study Shows Dramatic Math Improvement From Playing Video Games Just 10 Minutes Per Day
Third graders played for just 10 minutes per day, 3 days a week, for four weeks. The comparison group’s class received the same materials and the same instruction, but didn’t play the game. The result of playing was a …
The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn
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Presentation of the Week: Facebook in Education and Teacher Training
How to find the perfect app: The Great App Checklist
Our checklist is the result of a meta-analysis, based on several popular app checklists, as well as our own contributions, completed through research and extensive conversations with educators.
http://blogs.sas.com/content/sascp/2015/03/05/the-great-app-checklist/…
The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms
Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as …
5 Online Quizmaker Tools for Creating Quizzes and Polls
The quizmaker tools that we will go through for creating online quizzes and polls are all free and are very easy to use. There’s no need for any sort of training. Most of these quizmaker tools are point and …
AlternativeTo: A New Approach to Finding Good Software
A tool that helps you find the right software for your computer, mobile phone or tablet. It gives you alternatives to software you already know and want to replace.
6 Ways Social Media Can Change Your Classroom
Instead of being seen as a possible distraction, the use of social media in the classroom is now a vehicle for driving engagement and learning. What’s more, by implementing the use of social media as an acceptable form of …