Some students, especially older students, find it difficult to talk openly with their teachers. If you suspect that some of your students have a lot going on behind their mute facades, here are a few examples of what they may …
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have
A list with the 10 most Important Tech Skills Students should have.
http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2012/01/10-tech-skills-every-student-should.html?m=1…
Twenty Everyday Ways to Model Technology Use for Students
Narrate your decisions and your rationale and you will be teaching your students how to make good decisions online and off. Good behavior online is trickle down, after all. Model it, live it, talk about it. It’s all “using” technology.…
iPads Make Better Readers, Writers
In a research paper titled “Unlocking Literacy with iPad,” Ohio English teacher James Harmon found that state-compiled statistics indicate that those students with iPad access in the year leading up to the Ohio Graduation Test had a 6-percent greater chance …
48 iPad Apps That College Students Love
Among these great apps, students will find help with everything from keeping homework organized to finding the perfect first date spot — and just about everything in between.
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/08/23/48-ipad-apps-that-college-students-love/…
Students Expect More Technology in School, Survey Says
Each day, students use phones and computers to find information and communicate. And now, they want to use more technology in school, according to an online survey of 1,000 high school students and faculty as well as district IT professionals …
Can Students be Curators of their own Information?
In a continuing pedagogical experiment we have had our students design and then construct their own textbooks. We collaboratively design and construct the e-texts for each group that comes through. See the results of this experiment:
http://edtechtoolbox.blogspot.com/2011/06/can-students-be-curators-of-their-own.html…
6 Ways Technology Can Help Tuned-Out Students Tune In
When it comes to learning, many educators know banning is the easy way out, but there are a number of reasons why students are not paying attention. If you’re a student or you have a child in a school that …
20 Free Web Apps for the 2.0 Student
Productivity has to be priority number one when you’re a student. Between class, study time, and extracurricular activities, there just aren’t enough hours in the day.
That’s why free web apps exist. These no-cost products are specifically designed to make
Classroom Tech: What to Do When Students Know More Than Teachers?
In a day and age where students know more than their teachers about different forms of technology — whether it be iPhones, computers or video games – schools are making every effort to get their teachers talking tech.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/27/classroom-tech-students-know-teachers/
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Students have always faced distractions and time-wasters. But computers and cellphones, and the constant stream of stimuli they offer, pose a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.
How Technology is Distracting Students
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Platforms for Interactively Sharing Student Work
We’ve been living in the 21st century for a decade now, and it’s time more of our classrooms looked like it. The good news is that process is not only easier than ever, it’s also easier to receive support as
Japan to Pilot Digital Textbooks in Classrooms
Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of “digital natives” born in the wired age.
Harvard Study Finds Teens Online Lack Ethics
In their research, the team has found that most young people are devoid of ethical thinking or consideration for others when using the web.
http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/ethical-consideration-online/