Tom Barrett and dozens of other educators are working on a terrific Google Doc that details some wonderful ways to use the iPad in school.
What the Post-PC Era Means for Education
It’s the future of education futurists have been looking toward for some time. “As an industry that traditionally was focused on centralised knowledge, the stable, fixed model of computing of the PC era was much easier to integrate than the …
Turning the Classroom Upside Down
Why not have lectures at home and ‘homework’ at school—and let students learn at their own pace?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704101604576248713420747884.html…
How Technology Influences the New American Family
A new Nielson report takes a look at how multicultural families across America are adapting to today’s digital landscape. This new report paints a revealing and colorful portrait of how technology influences our everyday lives.
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/13/how-technology-influences-the-new-american-family/…
Round-Up Of 20 Most Useful Open Source Software
Open source is a term which is a common knowledge of all, it’s cherished by few and most use it without knowing that they are using the open source. It has flourished so brightly that it has now the best …
How to Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools
Regardless of your school’s cell phone policy, the reality in most schools is that students have phones in their pockets, purses, or hoodies. Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil? …
100+ Google Tricks for Teachers
From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.
Thoughts on Connectivism
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Presentation of the Week
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Best Practices in Social Networking for Educators
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Free Online OCR: web app delivers editable text from scanned images or PDFs
Do you have PDF documents or images (e.g. JPG, PNG, TIFF) that were created using a scanner, and that you wish you could convert to editable text?
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy—Livebinder
Resources for understanding Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy & applications for classroom.
Snip.ly: Snip and Share the Best Parts of Pages
Snip.ly is a new service for clipping and sharing parts of websites. The idea is this; when you want to share just a portion of a webpage with someone you can now highlight the text you want and share it.…
70+ Google Forms for the Classroom
Here you’ll find 70 example forms created by Tom Barrett from Edte.ch. There is a link included so that you can get your own copy of the form – click on the appropriate link and it should open in your …
The Netflix Effect: When Software Suggests Students’ Courses
Austin Peay State University created an automated system which “considers each student’s planned major, past academic performance, and data on how similar students fared in that class. It crunches this information to arrive at a recommendation. An early test of …