What is innovation, exactly? Teacher of French and Japanese Rory Gallagher discusses how teachers and companies affect education-innovation.
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Tablets really are the new PCs; nobody needs to buy them any more
The low-hanging fruit of easy incremental improvements seems to be tapped out. Short of an unpredictable revolutionary new feature, our staff felt that they’d stick with their tablets until they broke, their batteries became useless, or they ceased to receive …
5 Unusual Ways To Use Google Presentations
Google Presentations is a handy tool for doing some great projects with your students that have nothing to do with public speaking. Here are some fun exercises you can try in your classes.
http://www.edudemic.com/5-ways-google-presentations-presentations/
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How Technology Is Rewiring Your Brain
As technology becomes more integrated into our lives, we are seeing dramatic changes in the way primary and high school students are taught, and the role of the teacher changing.
http://www.edudemic.com/rewiring-your-brain/
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Are You A Tech-Savvy Teacher, This Infographic Will Tell You
Are you a tech savvy teacher? A strong indicator would be that you’re even reading this article here! Check on the infographic below:
http://www.techfaster.com/ed-tech-infographic-techsavvy-teacher/
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10 Ways to Use Instagram in the Classroom
Here are 10 awesome ways you can use Instagram in the classroom.
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Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers
With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive …
Visually Explore Current Events 100 Images at a Time
Every hour the top 100 news stories from around the world are linked to images on a ten by ten grid. The stories are ranked according to traffic to the articles. Clicking on an image will provide you with more …
Mohiomap Turns Evernote, Google Drive, And Dropbox Accounts Into Mind Maps
Mohiomap is a web app that turns your Evernote into mind maps. Mohiomap also recently added support for Google Drive and Dropbox accounts.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/03/mohiomap/
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Skype For Learning: The Taxonomy Of A Technology-Based Conversation
A helpful taxonomy to guide teachers on how to plan, evaluate, and execute a Skype conversation for learning. It starts off at the bottom with forced, awkward conversations, and eventually grades to the top, where authentic, free-flowing conversations occur.
How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)
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Presentation of the Week: Digital Curation: Definitions, Tools, and Strategies
MultCloud Provides a Single Dashboard for All of Your Cloud Storage Accounts
If you’re like me you probably have accounts on more than one cloud storage service. I have accounts on Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, and SugarSync that I use regularly. MultCloud is a service that allows me to tie them all …
4 Innovative New Tools to Try Next Year
Here are a few of the new products that stood out at the ISTE 2014 Conference:
http://www.graphite.org/blog/4-innovative-new-tools-to-try-next-year
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8 Ideas That Will Permanently Break Education As We Know It
Below are 8 ideas that will permanently “break” education as we know it–in the best possible way.
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/disrupting-education-8-ideas-will-break/
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