21st Century Teaching & Learning

A survey of 7,000 high school students by Zinch reveals almost two-thirds of students are turning to social media when deciding which college or university to attend.

This is an overview of Hoot.Me

With finals coming, we wanted to share the lastest features and show you how they can help:

1. See what's going on at your school: Hoot is now based on your school, so study sessions in your feed are personalized for you.

2. Better questions and answers: tag your questions and receive notifications when they are answered.

3. Record videos: create video clips to elaborate on your questions and answers; you no longer have to be live to share face-to-face thoughts...

"In short, my most important reading is social. If I had been reading on my tablet, I would have highlighted the passage and shared it and the link to the story on either my Facebook or Twitter accounts, or both. But, as it was, I kept reading, and I didn't share the story. This meant I did not have a record of the link or the interesting passage, nor did I have any enlightening discussions with my friends and followers about the story. No record, no notes, no conversation: it was pleasure reading at its most basic, simply killing time until we hit 10,000 feet and I could get back to work.

Of course, most of us first experience reading as a social activity. Whether having stories read to us as children or the collective reading that characterizes early reading instruction, reading begins as a social experience. It is only as we grow older that reading becomes a private, individual activity, one often divorced from contact with others. There are certainly many avenues of social reading that exist prior to digital networking—book clubs come immediately to mind—but the pervasive nature of digital technologies has the potential to transform all of our reading into a social experience."

A Google-Maps/Amazon mash-up for finding books that take place where you're traveling. Search the map and make your next destination come alive!

This site has the potential to merge geography and social studies education with English and literature studies. This site, Novels on Location let's you search for book titles using Google Maps to scroll through the collection. However, there are very few geo-coded titles at the moment, but with some help, this could be a fantastic resource.

Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool. 

Which of the 60 listed ways do you use twitter?  Other ways no mentioned? 

"What I want to talk about today is the people who are using Pinterest to share ideas about education, or more specifically – THE CLASSROOM!" 

Scoop.it is still my preferred way to share educational material, because of the magazine layout, but for sharing with a large community (especially sharing pictures) pinterest certainly does have some value for educators since it can socially archive all of your favorite resources and materials. 

WebQuests have always been good instructional tools for structuring students’ research and inquiry using online information sources.

This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Virtual Community and Social Media, Virtual Community/Social Media Course raises issues of Collective Action, Virtual Community/Social Media Course raises issues of Social ...

Use multi-media to design student-driven learning experiences that are fueled by standards-based Essential Questions and facilitated by digital tools to provide students with flexible learning paths.

ePals is the social network optimized for K-12 learning. Over half a million classrooms in 200 countries and territories have joined the ePals Global Community to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas.