Deanna Jump, a kindergarten teacher from Georgia, has made $700,000 selling her lesson plans on Teachers Pay Teachers, an ecommerce startup where teachers offer their lesson plans to fellow educators.
Is professorial ego driving opposition to flipped learning?
Some in higher education haven’t accepted the flipped model, even as it gains student support.
http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/is-professorial-ego-driving-opposition-to-flipped-learning/…
Are Today’s Students Truly ‘Tech Savvy’?
It is difficult to prove that the Generation Y and young people today are not more technologically adapted than their older counterparts. A new study conducted by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) explored this question in an attempt …
A Portrait of the Technological Skills and Habits of Today’s Cegep Students
Bruno Poellhuber, professor in the département de psychopédagogie et d’andragogie at l’Université de Montréal, discusses results from a survey conducted among Cegep students on their IT attitudes and skills as well as the advantages concerning information technology within an academic …
The Massive Open Online Professor
Scalable education on the web is increasingly possible, largely through the use of commodity software that is easy to use and available freely or at low cost to anyone.
http://www.academicmatters.ca/2012/05/the-massive-open-online-professor/…
Top 12 Education Technology Blogs
The top twelve education technology blogs are packed full of thoughts from educators, health professionals, and technology experts dedicated to sharing information. These must-read blogs contain valuable insight into the tools and processes for technology in education.
A Plan for Technology Integration
Here are many approaches to adopting new technologies (or any educational tools, for that matter). Thinking about these approaches inspired me to create a possible plan for investing in and integrating new technologies.
http://www.schoolcio.com/article/a-plan-for-technology-integration/52492…
MIT and Harvard announce edX
Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement-050212.html…
7 Ways To Keep Students Focused While Using Technology
Here are seven ways that teachers can use to help students pay more attention when using technology.
http://edudemic.com/2012/05/7-ways-to-keep-students-focused-while-using-technology/…
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 …
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.
Several online tools are helpful in teaching
How do I use the computer and Internet in my classroom? Engrade, ImTranslator, Brain Pop, Google Earth and Khan Academy — these are some of the tools I use as a teacher.
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20120416/OPINION02/204160317…
10 Ed Tech Rights for Students
The following are what I believe are the rights of all student to have with regards to using technology as an educational tool, written as a student to their teacher:
http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/teaching_learning/10_ed_tech_rights_students…
Five Future Technologies That Will Shape Our Classrooms
Here are five future technologies that will completely change the learning space and revolutionize the techniques we use within it.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/five-future-education-technologies-nick-grantham…
Presentation of the Week: The Future Friendly Campus
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