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by Steve Quatrani "Don’t waste any more hours in Microsoft Excel doing things manually. There are many ways to use Excel formulas to decrease the amount of time you spend in Excel and increase the accuracy of your data and your reports."
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by Mike Reading "Apart from the ability to collaborate in real time, my favourite tool inside Google Docs is the ability to conduct research without having to leave the document I am working in.
"Not only does the research feature save you time, but allows you to easily collate a bibliography of sites that you have visited and used. This is perfect for students doing a major assignment, where research and quoting secondary sources is a major focus.
"The research tool can also be used by younger students to start the research process. I encourage students when starting to research a topic to find all the information they might need to gain a general understanding of their topic. Once they have a number of sources and understand the topic in general, they can then easily go back through their research doc and find relevant information which will allow them to understand the topic in more depth."
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by David Pogue Lenovo’s new Horizon has a 27-inch touch screen and can be used upright or as a tabletop entertainment hub. " Lenovo deserves great credit for transforming the tablet into something that’s fresh and interesting, something that serves a purpose no other machine quite fills. There really is something new in the Horizon."
by Brandon Busteed "The best type of curriculum for preparing students for the workforce is one that focuses on real-world problem-solving. It sounds simple, but for the first time, we have clearly established a link between students learning 21st century skills and future work success.
"The results of a Gallup/Microsoft Partners in Learning/Pearson Foundation study show that young workers in the U.S. who reported learning 21st century skills in their last year of school are more likely to say they have higher work quality. In fact, those reporting high levels of 21st century skill development in school are twice as likely to have higher work quality compared with their peers who had low 21st century skill development. "In the study, the 21st century skills include knowledge construction, real-world problem-solving, collaboration, self-regulation, skilled communication, technology, and global awareness. Of all these,real-world problem-solving is the most important factor of higher work quality. Positive responses to the following two items have the strongest link to work quality: “Worked on a long-term project that took several classes to complete”“Used what you were learning about to develop solutions to real-world problems in your community or in the world”
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Here’s a list of blogs that feed my teaching soul, hunger for knowledge, and need for deeper insights into teaching, learning and writing. There are so many wonderful blogs that it’s impossible to list them all here, so I’m listing the ones that have been most relevant to my own professional development. As such, they should be relevant to any teacher who wants to turn online teaching and/or publishing into a fully-fledged career.
Via Nik Peachey, Константин, michel verstrepen
If you need some powerful software right now and don't have time or money to waste, these open source tools are perfect for you.
Via Bonnie Bracey Sutton, seilts
by Med Kharbach "Wondering about the latest releases in the world of educational technology? Well I have compiled my usual bi-weekly round-up of the major web tools you might need to know about. The websites below, besides being new here inEducational Technology and Mobile Learning, they also have some educational potential that you, teachers and educators, might capitalize on.
"As you know by now, the titles I include in these lists are all web tools that I have come across in my daily online meandering. Each time I stumble upon a good tool that one of my fellow bloggers reviewed, I add it to my bookrmaking list till I end up having a "meaty" collection for you. You can also check the previous posts I have featured here before inthis page."
Via Stacey Py Flynn, Jim Lerman
Three Ring is a fantastic, free service for digitizing and organizing your students' physical work. With the free app installed on your iPad or iPhone you can take a picture of a student's assignme...
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Tips for using formative assessments to help you differentiate instruction and improve student achievement by Judith Dodge
Read full Robin Good's insight below. "OpenTopic is a news curation service which allows you to aggregate, monitor and filter any number of sources and to publish and share your selected ones to you selected outlets: from your WordPress site, to your social media channels and to your email newsletter engine..."
Request an invite here: http://www.opentopic.com
Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello
Why teachers should ask students to explain their answers Teachers can help students learn by asking them to explain their work -- rather than memorize and repeat answers -- researchers...
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Frederick Baker III has started a Google Drive list of public use datasets and people have been busily adding to the resource. Please visit and use the information and contribute if you can.
Established leaders have an obligation to pass the baton and help develop leadership in others. This article discusses 4 critical components to effectively mentor young professionals and inspire future leaders.
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Conference was held May 6-May 10, 2013. This page houses all the presentations that were archived. Some speakers include Yong Zhao, Steven Anderson, Andy Hargreaves, Pasi Sahlberg, Michael Fullan, Walter McKenzie, and many others.
Internet education giant Khan Academy is venturing into new territory: Interactive, graphics-based online programming courses available for web and mobile. The new Khan Academy Computer Science courses, which are launching today, brings Khan Academy into direct competition with established free learn-to-code sites such as Codecademy and Programr. Khan Academy’s programming courses are aimed at absolute beginners, and teach users how to make simple drawings and artwork via code. Online education giant Khan Academy is offering a fully immersive e-learning system for JavaScript and basic programming. The new Khan Academy Computer Science school teaches coding through art and picture-drawing exercises, and is a direct competitor to other popular learn-to-code organizations...
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Many educators are explicitly teaching online research skills, such as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines.
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How To : Visually Record Ideas Using an iPad Visual recording is similar to audio recording: they both use the same concept that is : recording. One uses voice and the other uses visual cues like diagrams, charts, lines, arrows...etc. Think about visual recording as visual mind mapping. This is Visual Recording and NOT (in this case) Visual Facilitation
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We builds tools for kids to code. We're working on a visual programming language for the iPad that uses modular drag-and-drop methods to let kids easily create their own computer programs and apps.
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