Flipboard, the newsreading app that has amassed 50 million monthly users on mobile devices, arrives on the web. On the bigger screen, Flipboard is big, beautiful, and responsive. In moving to the desktop, Flipboard hopes to open up a big …
The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Education
From inspiring life-long learning to empowering teachers, these organizations are taking the education business to school.
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Wikipedia should be ‘better integrated’ into teaching
Wikipedia is now an embedded feature of most students’ study and universities must do more to help them to utilise the user-generated encyclopaedia.
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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology
Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large.
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/learning-models-learning-theories-index/
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Five Google Chrome Extensions that Will Get Your Teachers Hooked!
This screencast will introduce you to five amazing Google Chrome extensions. Extensions make Chrome even better!
http://hightechfriday.blogspot.ca/2015/02/five-google-chrome-extensions-that-will.html
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12 Apps and Websites for Sharpening Study Skills
Studying: fundamental, but not usually fun. Nevertheless, sometimes students just have to roll up their sleeves and memorize information. Luckily, apps and websites can make this task a whole lot easier and — dare we say it — even fun!…
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Presentation of the Week: The MOOC Workshop
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Literacies for the digital age: Data literacy
This article will provide you with some ideas on how to infuse data literacy skills into the curriculum.
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2015/02/01/dataliteracy/
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Tablets and smartphones may affect social and emotional development, scientists speculate
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine found that use of interactive screen time under 30 months could also impair a child’s development of the skills needed for maths and .
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Google Earth Pro Is Now Available For Free
Google has announced that Google Earth Pro is now available for free. Google Earth Pro used to cost $399 per year. Google Earth is a geospatial software application that displays a virtual globe, which offers the ability to analyze and …
Guide to Google Apps for the iPad
A great list of Google Apps divided by category.
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/2621468-google-apps-for-the-ipad
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What do the new Facebook privacy changes mean for me?
Last November, Facebook sent a message to users notifying them about privacy policy changes that would be introduced on January 30, 2015. The changes have now come into force, and simply by logging into Facebook you are accepting the new …
What a Classroom Looks Like for Teachers and Students After Flipping
So what are a couple of teachers doing with the increased class time they have due to their flipped instruction? The examples below are taken from direct interviews.
http://blog.educanon.com/flipped-classroom/in-class
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Technology in schools: Future changes in classrooms
Technology has the power to transform how people learn – but walk into some classrooms and you could be forgiven for thinking you were entering a time warp.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30814302
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