Massive Open Online Courses might seem like best way to use the Internet to open up education, but you’re thinking too small. Technology can turn our entire lives into learning experiences.
How to Create Your Own Search Engine
One of the reasons that some teachers like to create their custom search engines is so that they can control which websites appear when their students search. You can also control how many sites appear in a search result by …
Can Technology Disrupt Education?
Technology won’t solve all of the problems of education. But in the hands of creative, talented and caring teachers and learners, it can help.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-magid/can-technology-disrupt-ed_b_2793028.html…
The Best Sites for Collaborative Online Studying
Students like to study together. Thanks to the Web, they don’t have to be in the same room to work together. Let’s take a look at some platforms that help students connect for online study sessions.
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/05/k-12/the-best-sites-for-collaborative-online-studying/…
Why Tablets Will Kill Smart Boards In Classrooms
Tablet computing opens a whole new world to faculty and students, a world that’s within reach financially.
http://www.informationweek.com/education/mobility/why-tablets-will-kill-smart-boards-in-cl/240145886…
Khan Academy Launches First State-Wide Pilot In Idaho
Online tutorial site will work with 47 schools and educational programs to make Khan videos a routine part of K-12 learning.
20 Reasons Why you Should Use Google Plus
Just like other social networking websites, Google Plus has a growing potential in education. More and more educators and teachers are using it to connect and learn from each other.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/20-reasons-why-you-should-use-google.html…
How Teachers Can Start Curating Information for Professional Development
This infographic focuses on curation and identifies ways educators can start curating content in order to harness information and become lifelong learners in the digital age.
Presentation of the Week: Digital Fluency
Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud (TED 2013)
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30 Innovative Ways To Use Google In Education
So below are 30 innovative ways to use Google search in the classroom. And rather than gimmicks, or general ways by typical content areas, the intended outcome here is the student’s sustained ability to self-direct and manage the search process …
Blubbr- Great Tool to Create Quizzes from YouTube Videos
Blubbr is a cool web tool that allows users to create quizzes around YouTube videos. These are basically interactive video quizzes ( called Trivs ) that you can create for your students and which they can answer while they watch …
How are MOOCs organized?
A real-time chronicle of a seasoned professor who is about to give his second massively open online course (MOOC).
If students designed their own school… it would look like this
It’s crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth there is no voice from the youth at all.” That’s the opening line in a video called “If students designed their own schools,” about The …
A Printable Guide to Social Media
Tips and tricks to keep in mind when using the latest online tools in school.
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/02/printable-guide-social-media-infographic
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