MOOCs, flipped classrooms and blended models are stirring up higher education.
Are Teachers of Tomorrow Prepared to Use Innovative Tech?
With a new generation of teachers coming into the work force, there’s a discrepancy between what principals expect of teachers-in-training and what they’re actually learning in school.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/02/are-teachers-of-tomorrow-prepared-to-use-innovative-tech/…
New app helps EMSB administrators manage students
The English Montreal School Board will be Quebec’s first education network to put the Hall Monitor App to work and the board believes that the technology will allow administrators to get better acquainted with its 34,000 students spread over 79 …
The Future of Higher Education and Cloud Computing
For 2013, cloud computing has become one of the most buzzed-about tech trends and solutions that improves IT and operational efficiency for businesses. From marketing strategies to technology-focused operations, the needs of educational institutions don’t differ too much from enterprises.…
NMC Horizon Report 2013 – Higher Education Edition
The tenth edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education.
http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed…
Presentation of the Week: 16 Learning Trends, We Simply CAN’T Ignore!
A Must Have Free Handbook for Learning Using Technology
Peeragogy handbook is now online and for free. If you and a group of other people want to use digital media and networks to co-learn together, this handbook is a practical tool for learning how to self-organize peer learning – …
Using technology in the classroom the right way
One of the things that I see happen far too often is people stressing over how they are going to create lessons around the new piece of technology they have in their classroom. It is this approach that is causing …
How To Know If You’re Correctly Integrating Technology
A common question that we hear from teachers about integrating technology into their classrooms is, “how do I know if I’m doing it right?” We feel that the Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) best addresses the question of “doing it right.”…
5 Ways to Improve Education Through Technology
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Presentation of the Week: 60 of the Best Websites and Apps for Teachers
The 5 Biggest Ways Students Actually Want To Use Technology
A fabulous new infographic spells out exactly how undergraduate students are using technology, what they prefer, and how they want teachers to use tech. In other words, this infographic is beyond useful and worth passing around to your colleagues.
Canadian EdTech Teacher Survey: Infograph
Canada’s first-ever teacher technology survey to better understand the emerging needs of classroom teachers across Canada.
http://mindsharelearning.ca/2012/11/07/canadian-edtech-teacher-survey-infograph/…
15 Free Learning Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Here we highlight just a few of these under-the-radar free learning sites, that run the gamut from providing full degree programs to simple job-skill training tools, offering a little something for every kind of learner.
http://www.teachthought.com/trends/elearning/15-free-learning-tools-youve-probably-never-heard-of/…
10 Ways To Use Technology To Teach Writing
Here, we offer just a few tech-focused ways to help students learn grammar, essay-writing, and, most importantly, why good writing is so important to their futures.
http://edudemic.com/2012/11/10-high-tech-ways-to-teach-writing/…