David Thornburg on the Evolving Classroom
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How Blogs, Social Media, and Video Games Improve Education
“Up until now, ‘technology’ has been an authority delivering the lecture which [students] memorized. If there is discussion, it’s mostly about performing for the teacher. Is it possible to make that more of a peer-to-peer activity? Blogs and forums and …
Growing Up Google: How Cloud Computing Is Changing a Generation
With kids as young as five and six immersed in Google’s product suite, which provider do you think they’ll choose when creating personal email accounts later on in life?
http://mashable.com/2012/04/30/generation-growing-up-google/…
Cloud Technology Can Lift the Fog Over Higher Education
We are now more than a decade into the 21st century. However, for all the innovations that new technologies have brought to consumer affairs, business, entertainment, and government, one sector of society—education—remains stubbornly planted in the 20th century.
http://chronicle.com/article/Cloud-Technology-Can-Lift-the/131673/…
Free Tools to Easily Record and Share Audio Messages with your Students
Sharing audio messages with your students on your blog or classroom website is an effective way to maintain communication with them and their parents. Here is a list of some awesome tools that can allow you to easily record a …
Coursera: The Latest Education Hero?
Previous heroic massive open online course (MOOC) efforts such as Khan Academy, MITx, and Udacity have been limited by their inability to embrace a full range of the types of courses offered on a traditional campus. Coursera is attempting to …
Taking Advantage of “Disruptive Technology” in the Classroom
While you will never prevent all interruptions in your classroom, a more subtle solution is to embrace this disruptive technology and incorporate it into your teaching. Here’s how.
Education Learning Management System Trends
Many in the education market are still in love with open source systems, such as Moodle. However, they often do not realize – until it is too late, that “free” isn’t really free because customization has to constantly exist, support, …
How to Choose Between Cloud Storage Services like Google Drive and Dropbox
With so many options on cloud storage services available, which ones should you choose? Here’s a rundown of the best cloud storage services, and why you should consider using them.
Quick guide to using iPads for learning
A starting guide for teachers who want to use iPad in their classrooms.
http://learningwithipads.blogspot.ca/2012/04/quick-guide-to-using-ipads-for-learning.html…
Web Tools for Teachers by Type
A great resource of web tools for teachers divided by categories.
Flip Any YouTube Video into a Lesson with TED-Ed Tools
The folks at TED talks recently launched TED-Ed to serve the mission “of capturing and amplifying the voice of the world’s greatest teachers.” In addition to developing a library of instructional videos, they’ve just added a free set of tools …
Presentation of the Week: Facebook for Facilitating
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Professor Anant Agarwal on MITx
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After School: 5 Apps Your Students Are Using When You’re Not Looking
Students these days are discovering their own applications and tools to enhance their learning online. Not only do these applications reveal to us that students are discovering ways to use social media and web tools for more than entertainment, but …